This intimate memoir of grief is a lifeline to others dealing with loss
But is there truly room for another memoir in this field? What else can be said about widowhood and the tragic absence of a ...
‘All writing has equal valency’: Hoshang Merchant on editing India’s first anthology of gay writing
You have edited Yaraana, India’s first anthology of gay writing. What was the experience like? Hoshang Merchant: I will take ...
Global Voices Online1d
Jamaican poet Velma Pollard, whose melodious writing paid homage to the Patwa language, passes on
"Pollard’s readings [demonstrate] the diversity of her work [...] At its most characteristic, her writing assumes a ...
Greek Reporter4d
Nostalgia: One of Ancient Greece’s Enduring Concepts
Nostalgia has become a defining trait for Millennials and Gen Z-ers. However, this concept has roots beyond the present to ancient Greece.
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Reading Femi Osofisan’s well-languaged mind – Part 1
Let me begin this essay with an open confession – by “open confession” I mean my saying it loud here about writing or speaking about ...
The New Yorker4d
A Song on Porcelain
Czesław Miłosz lost his homeland to a Stalinist regime. What have we Americans valued in our own cultural past that might now ...
London Review of Books4d
Defending Mr Jefferies
Much of what was great about Chris Jefferies was used to attack him and destroy his reputation when the media, ...
Texarkana Gazette5d
Myra Sklarew, meditative poet and writing teacher, dies at 90
Myra Sklarew, a poet and teacher who found inspiration for her graceful, meditative verses in the natural world, her Jewish heritage and her early years working with rhesus monkeys at a research lab, ...
Pick Up The Phone And Listen In On Artist Beatie Wolfe’s Brain
Imprinting,” a sonic self-portrait of Anglo-American artist and composer Beatie Wolfe's brain, opens at the Museum of Science ...
Smithsonian Magazine5d
Discover Why ‘The Raven,’ Edgar Allan Poe’s Narrative Poem About a Distraught Lover and a Talking Bird, Remains an American Classic
Published on this day in 1845, the work used alliteration, internal rhyme and repetition to draw in readers, lending it a ...
The Sentinel-Record5d
One-man Delta Blues band to perform at Wednesday Night Poetry
Hot Springs one-man Delta Blues band Greg "Big Papa" Binns will be the featured performer at Wednesday Night Poetry at ...
Cleveland Jewish News7d
Remembering Clinton Bailey, an Israeli scholar who preserved Bedouin culture
Over the years I have received notes and cards from my partner with lines from ancient Bedouin love poetry. I always enjoy the soulful stanzas, the emotions conveyed and the ...