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Michael Alexander, poet and broadcaster whose Anglo-Saxon translations were used in Kenneth Clark’s...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMichael Alexander, who has died aged 82, was a translator, poet, academic and broadcaster whose...
Gerald Stern, prize-winning and lyrical poet, dies at 97
The Independent via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGerald Stern, one of the country’s most loved and respected poets who wrote with spirited melancholy...
The Irrepressible Freshness of Robert Frost
The Dispatch via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRobert Frost. (Picture via Getty Images) When readers think of modernist poetry, chances are that T.S. Eliot’s masterpiece “The Waste Land” comes to...
Poet and playwright Bernard Kops dies aged 97
Press Association News via AOL· 2 months agoPoet and playwright Bernard Kops has died “peacefully” surrounded by his loved ones at the age of 97, his family has announced. Throughout his career, he...
Famous birthdays for Oct. 30: Ashley Graham, Nastia Liukin
United Press International via Yahoo News· 6 months agoAshley Graham attends the premiere of "Barbie" at the Shrine Auditorium on July 9. The model turns...
What was it like to dive into the poetry pool? My time as guest editor of Poetry Magazine
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 months agoCHICAGO -- What is a poet? This is a question that I have been asking most of my life, since...
Imelda May interview: 'I don’t think women have support within the arts'
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months ago‘I love listening to men’s voices,” declares Imelda May, with mischievous enthusiasm. “But, let’s be...
With this Christmas classic, the audiobook was born
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSometimes it's the afterthought — not the thought — that counts. The Gettysburg Address? A two-minute addendum, by Lincoln, to someone else's lengthy...
Today in History: October 30, Muhammad Ali knocks out George Foreman in ‘Rumble in the Jungle’
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 6 months agoToday in History Today is Monday, Oct. 30, the 303rd day of 2023. There are 62 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Oct. 30, 1974, Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman ...
Bernard Kops, ‘barrow-boy’ playwright whose work illuminated the Jewish experience in Britain –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoBernard Kops, who has died aged 97, was an East End-born playwright, poet and novelist whose first...