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Playwrights' Studio, Scotland

Pwrightsstudio

Great to see some of Scotland's playwrights involved 2020 Edinburgh International Book Festival online (@edbookfest)!Here's some that we spotted Suzanne Bonnar & Joy Harjo with Jackie KayJoin Jackie Kay

Steven Leyva

sdleyva

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

Anne Applebaum

anneapplebaum

You Who WrongedBY CZESLAW MILOSZYou who wronged a simple manBursting into laughter at the crime,And kept a pack of fools around youTo mix good and evil, to blur the line,

Eileen Chong 张奕霖

eileenchongpoet

When I spoke up about this to #VerityLa, the editor did not see the problem with the piece. It had been already been published & distributed in newsletter. I caught

Shikha_phoenix

Shikha_phoenix

#SaraswatiPujaIn the Shrimad Bhagwat Gita,Lord Shri Krishna has described himself as spring season.A well-adorned woman looks gorgeous like a queen.Similarly nature also appears very beautiful during springtime – the queen

Mike Sacks

MikeSacksEsq

Biden's fond of quoting two John Milton sonnets penned later in the poet's life, but if Biden wins in November, the more apt sonnet for him would be one Milton

CollectiveEncounters

CollEnc

THREAD:#PrideMonth might be over for another year, but the fight for LGBTQ+ rights continues. This week, we released Queer Letters by Anthony Scott, which draws attention to the past, present

Karl Knights

Inadarkwood

So, I pulled out of this reading, which isn't something I do lightly. Let me tell you why. https://twitter.com/NeptunesGHouse/status/1334920377244540929 There are no captions for this reading series. One thing you

mirrorball.

LoganFebruary

personally i don't see why we need $1000 for a single poem if such resources are so scarce…i would rather see four poets awarded $250 or something along that line.

Canadian Nomad

NomadCanadian

The poetry chain " Raid" a.k.a Guba.The most influential series of poems in Somali politics. The poems by themselves are not particularly unique in their versification, wisdom or style. What

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madeenxh

What some well known figures have said about the prophet Muhammad ﷺ [Thread] Lamartine the famous historian asks: If greatness of purpose, smallness of means and outstanding results are criteria

Major Good Vibes

MikePerryavatar

I'm not frustrated at the topic of conversation here, I'm frustrated because I don't have my own interpreter that day and I'm using the guy that the USAID people brought.https://twitter.com/MikePerryavatar/status/12819129121

ChronHib ✍⌨

ChronHib

Ogura Hyakunin Isshu 16Ariwara no Yukihira a.k.a. Middle Counselor Yukihira (818–6.9.893)Parting, separatingto Mount Inaba’s peak where pines grow.On hearing “pines!”I shall return at once./1 Ariwara no Yukihira a.k.a. Chūnagon Yuk

Sasha Dugdale

SashaDugdale

Lots of excellent poetry books went unsung in 2020. Here are a few I think you might enjoy. Some of these were more 'seen' than others, but I am sure

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

This piece is hilarious. As the white author contorts herself to discredit a young Black poet's style, she also repeatedly reveals she has no knowledge of poetry, basic grammatical rules,

True Indology

TIinExile

A short thread on Sanskrit and regional languages in South India. (1) The great Vijayanagara emperor Shri Krishnadevaraya was a great poet of Telugu. He called himself "Andhra Bhoja" and

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