#Poetry

When I went to jail I lost me, I lost my identity and everything I am. I gave up and thought my life was over. I was beaten, assaulted, abused
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1/ Im devoted to the works of Paulette Jiles--*News of the World* is as fine a novel as has been written in the last decade--and am enjoying reading her poetry
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1/24 Today, I will examine the notion of "iltizam" (Arabic for commitment/adherence). I will show that iltizam is a clichéd historical narrative, often employed by historians and literary scholars to
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I have to go to a meeting soon but just wanted to dump a thought on the angst over the humanities, which is a reflection on my life and much
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Loose thread on craft in poems:1. Your intentions are just another literary device that is open to revision. Perhaps no revision can happen if those aren't on the table. No
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‘Creation> Consumption’ is bad advice./A Thread\ It’s better to create than consume.This is true as far as it goes.But as a piece of advice this completely lacks nuance and probably
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I was reading Susan Sontag’s essays Against Interpretation (1964) and On Style (1965) (as you do), and it got me thinking about Georgette Heyer (nearly everything does) so I thought
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Punjabi language descended from Apbhramsa during 10th century. Credit goes to poetry of Hindu Nath SaintsGurmukhi script which is used to write Punjabi has roots in Sharda script (prevalent during
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What in the fresh hell is this response? Look, y'all tried to do a positive thing but are showing, yet again, that what readers and contributors have been asking for
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no look i don’t mean to get on my high horse here but what really annoys me is that the media spent YEARS tearing down a successful talented YOUNG ADULT
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SPD has annual fees, listing fees, doesn't label paid adverts (the handpicked section costs publishers $), gives higher royalties to presses who make > $10k, undercuts presses (intentionally or not)
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Okay, a rant: The second part of this, the part where she explains that astronomy is an ancient science, is REALLY important. This falls under the myth category of “people
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President Oaks statement that many of us don’t know the Plan, should shake us awake. I’ve always been surprised how many people don’t know the scriptures. Change that. Start today
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Even before I became a sabb, .@ExeterGuild played such an important role in my life. The societies that I joined really enriched my student life and made me the rounded
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Me reading my translation of Jules Boissière's "The Buddha" in Occitan (specifically literary Rhodanian or "Mistralian" Occitan), and in English translation. Boissière wrote in French and Occitan, but IMO his
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To indicate a woman’s overt sexuality in early Irish literature she would be given an epithet which translates to “With gorse (coloured) pubic hair”Just the colour not the texture (one
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