Poetry
Good fiction, says prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook, is about creating that one character without whom your world mcan no longer exist, a person indispensable to your imagination. That's what he tried to do in 'Artemisia's Wolf,'
06:05 Apr 26, 2011
National Poetry Month offers a moment to ask ourselves whether we're also celebrating dangerous, subversive, ball-breaking poetry. Or are we just celebrating safe, anecdotal, 'accessible' poetry?
08:20 Apr 17, 2011
Frida Kahlo painted with a unique brush. Now British poet Pascale Petit gives the great Mexican painter a unique voice in 52 poems that eerily resonate with Kahlo's vivid way of painting.
13:52 Apr 15, 2011
Powerful, sometimes subtle emotions, Leo's images strike sparks into the imagination, and wonder leaves us yearning to see more. Beautiful things we are or wish to become, freedom in bronze, crystal, silver and oil paint, you may rise lightly, read
20:33 Apr 14, 2011
Poetry isn't about recognition and the praise of readers, it's about saying one thing so essential that the world can no longer be imagined in its absence.Here are two poets whose work illustrates the point: Environmental scientist Paul Clemente a
16:12 Apr 4, 2011
To reflect its global perspective, the Montreal Prize has assembled an editorial board of accomplished poets from Australia, Canada, England, Guyana, India, Jamaica, Malawi, Nigeria, Northern Ireland and the US.
07:11 Mar 25, 2011
Her collections of poetry, plays, essays and recitations during 'mushairas' are among of the list of her achievements. It will take a while before we begin to fathom the extent of her understanding and vastness of her vision.
06:18 Feb 28, 2011
'I just don't trust the authorized version of anything,' he says, and reading the wrong way strips out whatever sanctimony there is in a piece of writing.
12:32 Feb 24, 2011
Why does a poet do what he does, and how does he do it? These questions are explored. No self-respecting library should be without 'Poetry In Person,' edited by Alexander Neubauer.
08:20 Feb 12, 2011
The Fifth New York Nepali Poetry Festival of N & J Entertainment Inc. USA's main attraction was the book launch of the Artiste Mr. Alex Gargilis.
17:04 Feb 1, 2011
I was still in high school when I noticed, or thought I noticed, a similarity between photographs of the Parisian poet and the Ohio soldier.
13:14 Jan 19, 2011
Ever since 15, Isiah has been writing poetry in his journal. With no intention of sharing them. Some of the poems are painful, but most of them are things. That he felt needed to be touched on.
18:42 Jan 16, 2011
For the non-competitor poets and poetesses, we request to read the poem which respects the languages, literatures and the festivals of Nepal. The reading of the poem must be in Nepali Language.
11:52 Jan 5, 2011
We don't read about the insidious terrorist activities in China. How has that populous country avoided the Muslim Jihad?
05:52 Dec 31, 2010
Prize-winning poet Djelloul Marbrook here offers a prayer for invisibility on the eve of an approaching East Coast blizzard. In his prayer the poet asks if invisibility would help us pay more attention to others and less to ourselves.
05:09 Dec 28, 2010
'My work is my prayer,' the poet says, 'and that is as true of the cabinetmaker as it is of me.' Tom Holmes, writing in 'The Line Break,' says Marbrook's poems in 'Brushstrokes and Glances' ought to be hung in museums next to the paintings
08:17 Dec 21, 2010
My subject matter is as vast as humanities actions, nature's beauty and the cosmic size of wonderment. Unfortunately, too many people fear the truth more than they fear their God, so they hide behind man-made Gods and will ignore my works. Many aca
06:39 Dec 17, 2010
Poetry often tells us more about ourselves and the world we live in than the news, and it is a failing of our educational system that we are not aware of this.
05:28 Dec 15, 2010
Wright's 19th C. vision... has currency today. ...Tell anyone who will listen that, while the playing field is not yet level, African-American people can play the game, win it, and even change the rules to make them fairer.
06:48 Dec 9, 2010
Sometimes I become so involved in the poem, especially the longer poems like 'Basquiat' and 'Manhattan reef,' that I enter a type of dream world where there is no text and only images.
06:12 Dec 6, 2010
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