Poetry & Poets in Rags

2013-07-23

live in the outlying provinces--Khost, Paktia, Maidan Wardak, Kunduz, Kandahar, Herat, and Farah--where the group functions in secret. Many who cannot...

2013-07-23

intensive care unit earlier on Wednesday. The 59-year-old poet has been on a hunger strike for 22 days now. "I was the one who forced him to enter the...

2013-07-23

"Freedom to Publish Turkey" including right violations between June 2012 and 2013. "At least 27 authors, poets, translators, publishers are imprisoned...

2013-07-23

of poems just before her death. A selection of these poems was published posthumously in the collection Kantelson ("Toppling Sun"). She then witnesses...

2013-07-23

[Jane] Varley said, that draws people to art. "Art is an endeavor to try to make sense of chaos," she said, "and in the case of Hugh Martin, to make...

2013-07-23

as "opaque" and "inscrutable"--the same Anne Carson who became a hit when her compulsively readable, gay coming-of-age "novel in verse" Autobiography...

2013-07-23

with multi-colored plugs,  and answering the siren call of cell phones. I always tell my students--for the most part 18 to 20 year olds, that they...

2013-07-23

the disconnect between the rigorous approach to learning the classics, and the often lascivious or emotional subject matter of the poetry. He singles...

2013-07-23

or replicate, Dante's trick of ending each book with the word "stelle"--stars--but then if he'd done so he would have lost the impressive couplet with...

2013-07-23

attempt to transcribe, so I stuck to image making. [Les] Murray has a distinctive reading style, breathless and wheezy, rat-a-tat with emphases on rhymes...