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The contestants scampered down the runway, bleating at their admirers. Poets sang their praises in verse as the male-only audience appraised the competitors’ physical beauty, right down to the length of their necks.
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AP, Morristown
These are times when there aren’t enough dimes for those who rhyme.
made popular Jan 16 2009
AP, New York
Poets & Writers, a nonprofit literary organization, has received a $2 million donation to support its Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award founded in 2007 for...
made popular Dec 16 2008
If tomorrow starts without me,
And I’m not there to see,
If the sun should rise and find your eyes
All filled with tears for me;
I wish so much you wouldn’t...
made popular Nov 25 2008
AP, Amman
Jordanian police arrested a local writer Tuesday for incorporating verses of the Quran, the Muslim holy book, into his love poetry, a judicial official said.
made popular Oct 21 2008
AP, New York
Former U.S. poet laureate Louise Glueck has been awarded the Wallace Stevens Award, a $100,000 prize for “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of...
made popular Sep 3 2008
A Poem by Harish Shanthikumar
When the road ends and mind unfolds,
The same tune echoes the stories untold,
You followed the Pied Piper blinded,
Wake up, you lost thy...
made popular Sep 1 2008
By Vincent Van Ross
We talk of the Sun; we talk of the Moon; we talk of our solar system; we talk of outer space; we talk of Unidentified Flying Objects. But, is there...
made popular Aug 20 2008
PATHOS OF A PEERLESS UNION
ARVIND K. PANDEY
She is as rea1 as last words before death
Thoughts of her-like a smile after pain
Interwoven in my life as...
made popular Aug 13 2008
Tappa, or Landey, is a Pashto poem which is a composition of two unequal meters, in which the first line consists of nine syllables and the second consists of thirteen...
made popular Aug 7 2008
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Do whatever you may.
Sing and dance and take a...
made popular Aug 4 2008
Part One
On a different level, I have the vain reason why I write. It is what I called the Shakespearean complex. I want to assume that four hundred years from now,...
made popular Aug 2 2008
If one does not forget the Guru who is like the key, the lock within would be open in a very short time. Hence, the devotee should catch hold of the key, i.e. the Guru...
made popular Jul 25 2008
Following the amazing comments to this morning’s posting, I have kindly been given permission by my very good friend Duane Udd in the USA to publish his poem...
made popular Jul 21 2008
Some sketches of people living their lives late at night and under the self-inflicted weary eye of some indefinable inner alienation. Hollow people in a hollow world. ...
made popular Jul 21 2008
AP, New York
A poetry professor at the University of Houston has been chosen as the second winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, an award for writers of great talent, but less...
made popular Apr 4 2008
The most salient symptom of the age of electronic communication in popular culture and communications is the incessant compression of the message. From instant...
made popular Mar 17 2008
AP, Buenos Aires
Thousands of dissidents silenced under Argentina’s military dictatorship _ tortured, executed and made to “disappear” in the so-called Dirty War...
made popular Dec 27 2007
Once we were lost, and now are found.
We met at a moment when,
You were not you, and I not I.
We journeyed together to the cliff at the top of the world,
And from there...
made popular Aug 14 2007
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AP, Washington
Poets don’t typically write to order.
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AP, New York
Poets & Writers, a nonprofit literary organization, has received a $2 million donation to support its Jackson Poetry Prize, a $50,000 award founded in 2007 for...
made popular Dec 16 2008
The Library of congress has named, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic as the new U.S. poet laureate. Simic was given the place of Donald Hall, another poet. The...
made popular Sep 7 2008
The well known English poet and journalist James Fenton has been honored with the 2007 Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
Fenton, 57, is a former professor of poetry...
made popular Apr 25 2007
William Wordsworth (April 7, 1770 - April 23, 1850) who is well known for his poetry launched the romantic age in English Literature. The Prelude, an autobiographical...
made popular Apr 13 2007
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Students head to class at New England College in Henniker, N.H., Friday, Dec. 5, 2008. New England College is suing poet Anne Marie Macari, the former director of its low-residency Master’s of Fine Arts in Poetry program, and Drew University, the New...
