Poetry from Daily Life: Reading and writing about pain and loss in small, manageable doses
Writer Ken Slesarik turned to poetry, both reading it and writing it, after the death of his son. He explains how poetry has ...
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The Desperate Housewife Whose Face Launched a Thousand Ships
In “Helen of Troy, 1993,” the poet Maria Zoccola relocates a figure from Greek mythology into small-town Tennessee. By Karl Kirchwey Karl Kirchwey’s eighth book of poems, “Good Apothecary ...
Interview With The Poet And author Arun Kamal
Arun Kamal is presently immersed in the writing of five distinct upcoming literary works. These encompass a compilation of his poetry book, a collection of insightful literary essays, a series of ...
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Phoenix's Thems queer art collective provides spaces for self-expression
Thems founder Francisco Diaz says the group's events are "showing to people outside the community that we are here and we are ...
A quick history of how Madras became Chennai in a new book about Tamil life and culture
Yathees Kumar, the archaeologist, suggests that even though the continuity of human settlement in the area is not recorded, ...
Book Review | The Tamils: A Portrait of a Community by Nirmala Lakshman
In The Tamils, author Nirmala Lakshman draws from a wealth of historical information, original research, and her own keen ...
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Don’t Be Afraid of Poetry
I grew up listening to AM radio in Boston in the 1960s; every day I heard the widest variety of popular songs from three ...
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Why I found it hard to write about Gaza this week
WE do injustice to Gaza when we look for its poems, so let us not disfigure Gaza’s beauty,” says the Palestinian poet Mahmoud ...