Benjamin Zephaniah: how the poet’s linguistic anarchy and abolitionist politics impacted education – and me: Like so many others who work in education, I was devastated to hear the news of Benjamin Zephaniah’s death. His work has profoundly shaped our understandings of race, language and education – and his work continues to have enormous influence …
St David’s Day: how the sixth century monk inspired centuries of devoted followers and poets: The man we know as St David, or Dewi Sant in Welsh, lived in the sixth century in the west of the island of Britain. He founded a monastic community on the site of what is now St Davids Cathedral …
Valentine’s Day’s connection with love was probably invented by Chaucer and other 14th-century poets: As an undergraduate, on a tour of Europe, I happened to step into the church where Saint Valentine’s head was kept. The tour guide told us a (likely fictitious) story about Saint Valentine performing forbidden marriages for persecuted Christians under the …
60 years since Sylvia Plath’s death: why modern poets can’t help but write ‘after Sylvia’: This year marks the 60th anniversary of Sylvia Plath’s death. Had Plath enjoyed the longevity of her poetry, she would have turned 90 in October 2022. So significant was Plath’s contribution to modern poetry (her most recent biographer, Heather Clark, …
Hadraawi: the most famed poet in Somalia, the land of the poets: Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame, known as Hadraawi, in 2013. Screengrab/YouTube Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame Said, widely known by his childhood nickname Hadraawi, was one of the greatest Somali poets of all time. He was certainly the most famed Somali poet since the mid 1900s. He …
How a lost manuscript revealed the first poets of Italian literature: Six Tuscan Poets by Giorgio Vasari, 1544. Dante Alighieri, Giovanni Boccaccio, Petrarch, Cino da Pistoia, Guittone d'Arezzo and Guido Cavalcanti are depicted in the oil painting. Wikimedia/MIA Imagine a world where we knew the name of Homer, but the poetry of The Odyssey was …
Durham County Poets – a Music interest event taking place on 2020-10-24 19:30:00 in United States at The Music Hall 41 Lake St # 2 Oswego United States – Add your South African Event here. Have you tried: Diving with Sharks?
South Africa in the news: Book shines light on Dennis Brutus, one of South Africa’s most underrated poets: Brutus is one of the most underrated poets of South Africa. Among this reviewer’s treasured books are two collections, inscribed and autographed in his incredibly neat calligraphy. That none of his …: “South Africa” – BingNews Liquid …
Book shines light on Dennis Brutus, one of South Africa’s most underrated poets: A younger Dennis Brutus, president of the South African Non-Racial Olympic Committee in Montreal, Canada in 1976. Neil Leifer /Sports Illustrated via Getty Images Fortunately for the rest of us South Africans, the apartheid police state often shot itself in the foot. …
Poets’ Corner Open Mic – a Culture interest event taking place on 2020-04-12 15:00:00 in United States Monthly Open Mic for writers and readers of spoken word of all types every 2nd Sunday (except for some holidays). The featured poet or writer will read, then we open the mic to everyone else. at Tompkins Corners …
Poets and lovers: the two women who were Michael Field: Two women, one poet: Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper. “Let no man think he can put asunder what God has joined”. So wrote the poet Katharine Bradley in a letter of 1886. She was explaining her relationship with her niece Edith Cooper, using the words …
Coyote Poets Of The Universe – a Music interest event taking place on 2018-12-14 20:00:00 in United States The Coyote Poets of the Universe will be celebrating the release of their epic two CD set “Strange Lullaby” with a concert at Swallow Hill Music. The Coyote Poets of the Universe is a wide sweeping blend …
BANDITS & HEROES, POETS & SAINTS Opening Reception – a Africa interest event taking place on 2017-04-06 17:00:00 in United States Exhibit The UNE Art Gallery, Portland Campus, is pleased to announce a new exhibition, BANDITS & HEROES, POETS & SAINTS, Popular Art of the Northeast of Brazil, mounted from April 6 through May 25, …
Poets & Passion – A Caribbean Literary Lime – a Culture interest event taking place on 2016-01-21 17:30:00 in United States Flatbush Library Caribbean Cultural Theatre, Inc., Poets & Passion – A Caribbean Literary Lime. Please visit the BPL website for latest event info: http://bklynlib.org/1PFWrJx at Brooklyn Public Library–Flatbush Library 22 Linden Blvd. at Flatbush …
Poets & Passion – A Caribbean Literary Lime – a Culture interest event taking place on 2016-02-25 17:30:00 in United States Flatbush Library Caribbean Cultural Theatre. Inc., Poets & Passion – A Caribbean Literary Lime. Please visit the BPL website for latest event info: http://bklynlib.org/1XBY8Oe at Brooklyn Public Library–Flatbush Library 22 Linden Blvd. at Flatbush …
Poets & Passion – A Caribbean Literary Lime – a Culture interest event taking place on 2016-02-18 17:30:00 in United States Flatbush Library Caribbean Cultural Theatre. Inc., Poets & Passion – A Caribbean Literary Lime. Please visit the BPL website for latest event info: http://bklynlib.org/1PFWVPF at Brooklyn Public Library–Flatbush Library 22 Linden Blvd. at Flatbush …