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Some flowers are red; some flowers are blue. We have funny roses-are-red poems to share with your entire crew. Roses are red, violets are blue; we love us some funny poems, how about you?
Almir Agić, a 22-year-old Roma man from Ilijaš, near Sarajevo, fights prejudice with poetry and art, giving a voice to those who are invisible in society. In his poetry collection “Kaktus u polju ...
Poets & Writers announced Monday that Cyrus Cassells is this year’s winner of the Jackson Poetry Prize, which was established in 2007 and has been previously awarded to Joy Harjo, Sonia Sanchez ...
The draft sex education material drawn up by the council's domestic abuse service, Assia, included references to asking for consent before choking a sexual partner. The matter became so widely ...
Dea Kulumbegashvili’s sprawling meditation on gynaecological morality, which literal-minded distributors really have held back until TS Eliot’s “cruellest month”, is quite unlike anything ...
The third annual National Baseball Poetry Festival will take place May 2-4, and will feature events at venues including Polar Park, Electric Haze and the JMAC. Worcester's deep connection to baseball ...
There’s also the Chicago Poetry Festival Downtown, the Chicago Electronic Music Conference, a boozy Sunday tea service, a vintage market, a rum festival and more. Expo Chicago returns this weekend to ...
My encounter with Spanish-Latin American poetry began entirely by chance. In 1959, I was admitted to the Department of Chinese Language and literature at Peking University (PKU) but was redirected ...
She is the editor, most recently, of the anthology “Super Gay Poems: LGBTQIA+ Poetry After Stonewall.” Books of lyric poems work like museums: We enter, we wander, we investigate, we marvel at ...
The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “I have slept in many places, for years on mattresses that entered,” by Diane Seuss, and his own poem “This Is a Test of the Federal Emergency ...
April is National Poetry Month — a time set aside each year to celebrate the written and spoken word in all its richness. Established by the Academy of American Poets in 1996, this national ...
These poems, along with countless others, serve as beacons of hope and inspiration, reminding us that we all have a role to play in creating a sustainable future. By embracing the messages ...