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Hundreds of millions of poetic words have been written throughout history. Navigate your way into this beautiful art form ...
Heart Barabad, a Grade 12 student at KEC, took home second place honours at the Centre Theatre for Performing Arts in ...
Sophie Butler, 40, lost her mam, Rita Oxman, to bowel cancer in 2021 and has since written a book of poems in her honour ...
I am happy Ruth is getting the credit she most certainly deserves. There are so many people still around that loved her, and ...
The conversation then shifts to how Elahee got involved in her current role on the support staff at Silence the Shame, a local nonprofit focused on combating the stigma of mental illness, spreading ...
Filmmaker Aparna Sen, whose journey has been chronicled in a recent documentary, speaks about translating Bengali poets, ...
How Bohemians Became Hippies and Created the Sixties,” a new book by Dennis McNally, explores the roots of counterculture ...
The world and much of its art at the moment is consumed with the crisis masculinity finds itself in. The loudest voices want to frame the problem in terms of binaries – good and bad, masculine and ...
John Lennon wrote a poem using the N-word before he became famous. The former Beatle penned a racist verse during the band’s Hamburg residency in 1961. In the short poem, he uses the term several ...
A third was about an old woman in a village up the Amazon ... without an agenda to change the world. Poets love to quote Billy Collins’ poem, “Introduction to Poetry,” about those who ...
composing a poem spontaneously on each celebration day. One describes a young woman who greeted her at the counter of a Taco Bell on a particularly rough day with unexpected kindness. (These are ...
But her poetry, she says, is her private voice – and this time, Maria Shiver's cause is herself. "Life hasn't turned out exactly the way I thought," she said. "But I sit here today in love with ...