"How it makes of your face a stonethat aches to weep, of your heart a fist,clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tonguean iron latch with no door. How it makes of your right handa gauntlet, a glove-puppet of the left, of your laugha dry leaf blowing in the wind, of...
I founded a poetry site in 2000, the Pagan Poetry Pages, to provide a space for poets whose influences and interests were non-conformist. With a loose brief of "poetry reflecting our interest in spiritual and...
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The funeral of reality tv star Jade Goody took place today, with thousands of people attending and watching on tv as she was laid to rest at St. John's Church in Buckhurst Hill, Essex. The funeral procession also...
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London Grip, the online international cultural magazine, has appointed its new Poetry Editor for 2009, Robert Vas Dias.Vas Dias is the author of eight collections, most recently Leaping Down to Earth (2008) with images by Stephen Chambers and Tom Hammick. His work has...
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A Japanese group has introduced 'poems in the loo', with the intent to cut down on toilet paper being used in excess, to help cut down on global warming. By posting a 'toilet poem' at eye level inside the cubicle,...
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[TamilNet, Tuesday, 03 February 2009, 13:48 GMT] A Tamil academic and folklorist S. Jeyasankar aptly brings out the plight of Eezham Tamils in a recent verse of him in English. The poem found in his website is reproduced by TamilNet. The Pawns of States and Super StatesHow...
Elizabeth Alexander read a poem she had composed for Barack Obama and his Inauguration Day today. It's called 'Praise Song For The Day'. 'Praise Song for the Day' - Full Text " Each day we go about our business,...
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President-elect Barack Obama often alludes to his time at the Harvard Law Review. However, it took the Library of Congress and its study of presidents as poets to unearth Sen. Obama's poetic side."When...
"Here we are viewing the land: waves of grave and grain. That slight tremor? A house settling. A violent past walking through. And over there, the burning deck. The political machine. The inanimate come to life. The conventional flag wave." "Cormorants on pitched roofs watch...
New Mandingo Trio’s maxi single. The new Mandingo Trio’s maxi single due to be released on 7th June in Oslo, Norway, is another milestone in contemporary African music. With three solid tracks, Mandingo Trio,...
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The Poem, written by Myself: The chorus of the Cicadas, at ‘rest’ for seventeen years, now joins, blending, rising, falling… with the evening breezes, shifting the staccato patterns of leaf and blade, mixing with the rain & living waters, the heartbeats and...
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An interesting compilation by a fellow flickr photographer and friend who goes by Fiction Dreamer" ~ PARTITION - 14 August 1947, over 10 million people were uprooted from their homeland and travelled on foot,...
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Eli Khamarov once said " Poets are soldiers that liberate words from steadfast possession of definition" while Yolanda Giovanni Jr described the best poet is when he captures a reader ...."Ever...
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Wendy Cope is the poet that many feel could be should be the UK's first woman poet laureate - that's if she'd accept it of course. She knows a bit about radio as she is one of the few poets heard on the radio on a...