Poetry News for November 9, 2007
Poetry News:
- — More than 60 years after it was written, George Orwell’s “Politics and the English Language” remains the classic essay on the relationship between words, truth, propaganda and politics —
- — ‘Lyrical Terrorist’ found guilty in British court and ‘Lyrical Terrorist led double life’ and ‘Lyrical terrorist’ convicted for jihad poems —
- — Here is another photo from St. Petersburg: taken from the bench where KGB agents would sit everyday in the 40’s and 50’s to watch one the land’s great poets, Anna Akhmatova —
- — Penguin Wins U.S. Decision in Dorothy Parker Copyright Trial —
- — Creativity, innovation and ‘coolness’ often emerge from the grungier areas of a city —
- — “poets cannot be coddled and nurtured in universities - that depletes their minds from having relationships with poetry” —
- — The artwork of two local artists, sculptor Lisa Scheer and poet E. Ethelbert Miller, was recently installed at the east entrance —
- — Nobel laureate to explain connection between arts, sciences —
- — The rhythm of the poem is the rhythm of the train; it scans beautifully and is irresistible as a result —
- — Gertrude Stein, fearless and flushed —
- — Hardy’s poem was printed in the TLS of September 10, 1914 —
- — WHY NOT ABOLISH POETS? ANYBODY WRITES POETRY NOW; Bards Are No Longer Picturesque But Look Prosaic and Wear Everyday Clothes and Cut Their Hair and Drink Milk Shakes and ;- Oh, It’s Simply Awful! —
Have you heard of The Soulforce Institute for Nonviolent Change? I haven’t and I’m right here in the city with the Southern Baptist HQ.
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Erik France responds:
Posted: November 9th, 2007 at 9:27 am →
Excellent! Orwell’s observations are as valid as ever. The overuse of the word “terrorist” to justify anything and everything makes me sick.
Pakistan — literally on this very day — is rife with such language butchery.
free samina malik responds:
Posted: November 16th, 2007 at 8:16 pm →
This is not fair, samina is but a kid, she was convicted by the racist act not terrorist act, what if samina was a white christian girl writing about her desire to turn to a vampire drinking blood and eating children for instance? of course her defence would have convinced the jury that she is a silly young girl who is trying to act revolutionary “we all did when we were at her age”! u know what? she would have never been arrested even.
what a racist verdict
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