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Jamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant wins T.S. Eliot prize for second poetry collection
Euronews via Yahoo News· 4 months agoJamaican poet Jason Allen-Paisant won the coveted T.S. Eliot Prize for his second collection of...
Rock Island library to host awesome April
WHBF Davenport via Yahoo News· 1 month agoDespite what T.S. Eliot wrote, April is not the cruelest month, at least not at Rock Island Public Library starting next week. The month will include...
Benjamin Zephaniah: trailblazing writer who 'took poetry everywhere'
The Week via Yahoo News· 5 months agoA portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah. Benjamin Zephaniah, who has died of a brain tumour aged 65, was...
The best poetry books of 2023
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 months agoTroublant, phasmid, gadje, plumbous, filsket, caravel, birl… Fran Lock must swallow dictionaries the way her alter ego does meat in Hyena! (Poetry Bus,...
The Poetry in Our Lives
Springfield News-Leader via Yahoo News· 9 months agoLittle kids don’t know a poem is a poem. Their brains are busy tracking clues about their rapidly expanding young universe. Most of the words they know...
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...
State Historical Society celebrates centennial of T.S. Eliot's 'The Waste Land'
Columbia Daily Tribune via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA century ago, 34-year-old T.S. Eliot — having already published his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and a variety of prose pieces — introduced his latest work with these lines: April ...
Two New Movies Find Poetry in the Worst Form of Recorded Music
Slate via Yahoo News· 8 months agoScenes from Perfect Days and Flipside. Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Toronto International...
Poetry from Daily Life: A poem about a tick or termite? Sure can, if the rhyme is right
Springfield News-Leader via Yahoo News· 5 months agoI hope you are enjoying our Sunday column, “Poetry from Daily Life,” which provides each week the wit, wisdom, and experiences of poets and authorities on poetry. By offering such a rich mix ...
Theater review: 'August: Osage County' is worth the commitment of actors and audience
The Gainesville Sun via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“Life...,” Beverly Weston muses between interminable sips of whiskey, ‘…is long.” The opening line...
