![]() This year, on the first day of StAnza, an explosion claimed 11 more lives in Baghdad, a reminder that the occupation continues. The invasion formed an uncomfortable backdrop to the festival that year – sitting listening to poetry felt like fiddling while Rome burned. ![]() ![]() The Academy of American Poets has announced the launch of a mobile poetry archive which provides free and direct access to the entire collection of over 2,500 poems on, as well as hundreds of biographies and essays, all in the palm of a hand.įrom Wireless and Mobile News: 1st Mobile Poetry Archive Launched for National Poetry Month & Beyondįive years ago, on the same day that British and American troops marched into Iraq, poets convened in St Andrews for the first day of the StAnza Poetry Festival. It's good to encourage people who otherwise wouldn't read older poems to take a little Hart Crane with their Mark Doty, but it's odd to leverage a few old names merely to inflate the value of the new ones. Auden's "The Platonic Blow," which Chiasson can only call "is the dirtiest verse written since Rochester-I can't even talk about it here."įrom New York Magazine: How Dirty Is That Auden Poem That Was Too Dirty for the 'Times Book Review'?Ĭan it be that William Wadsworth's or Paul Violi's best erotic poems are better than Frank O'Hara's second or 10th or 50th best? I'd like to see someone make that case. When he is not at his cottage in Donegal composing poetry or attending literary functions in Dublin, O'Searchaigh spends a good deal of his time in Nepal where he has raised money for charities over the past ten years and adopted a son.īut his preference for sex with younger men has placed him at the centre of a public storm in Ireland, with calls for his poetry to be taken off the syllabus.įrom The Guardian: Film sparks storm over Irish poetīut Chiasson teases us with his description of the dirtiest poem in the anthology, W.H. Safe houses are nice places to keep safe from species like a "Muslim woman writer with a big mouth."įrom Sify News: Goodbye Taslima, Welcome India without slogans Taslima is finally leaving India for Europe, unable to cope up with life in solitary confinement in the dungeons of "safe house"- or should we call it gulags for cultural offences? - that exists in free India. "They did not even allow me to go back to Kolkata to collect my things, you guys are there, take care of those." "I can't take it anymore like this, I am leaving finally," Taslima said. ![]() The worst thing was throwing the old writer into solitary confinement in such a cage for two decades.įrom Asian Tribune: Burma's Longest Serving Prisoner of Conscience Must Be Free He was intentionally barred from breathing fresh air, tasting nourishing food and drinking a drop of fresh water. He could not see the sun, the moon or the stars. Sleeping, eating, walking and cleaning the bowels were done in the very same place. There was only a bamboo mat on the concrete floor. The junta increased U Win Tin's sentence by 10 more years. Such as 'Ithaca':įrom London Review of Books: Some Sort of a Solution Every time I'm struck with admiration for the poetic qualities of Haviaras's translation (he even manages to reproduce the rhymes of some of the early poems), I recall a poem Sachperoglou has done exceedingly well. A reader in love with Cavafy has no choice but to own several, since it often happens that where one translator comes up short, the other does better.
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