#Poet

RajiAiyer

RajeAiyer

This is about #Secularism Not about #ARRahmanHe is poet "Piraisoodan" In his Interview he told that ARR's mother asked him not to wear Vibhuthi & Kumkum wen visting their But

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chenchenwrites

i like poets' origin stories but oooooof if your conclusion is just "and this is how i became a great poet; i was destined to become one" along with "oh

Richard Capener

RichardCapener3

It's easy to sound sales-y or self-aggrandising when a poet bigs up an anthology they're in (as if there's anything wrong with that. I mean really! Criticise me when I

Erin L. Thompson

artcrimeprof

Thread: how does a major auction house sell a forgery? This is just one of the many fascinating questions in @writersdesks' The Poet and the Murderer. It’s a page turner

Jacques

WollieKat

Every Mongolian woman living today is guilty for what Genghis Khan did to the world.Every German teenager today is guilty for what Hitler did to Jews.Every Hutu 5 year old

Deth Veggie

DethVeggie

Going through old pics of street art over the last couple days. So much goodness from around the world. RIP Elvis ChristMy favorite literal sidewalk poet. The world's a less

jean

scriptlett

Some thoughts I have as a new screenwriter:Be kind to yourself. You're probably not good at this yet. That's normal. There are people here who've been doing this for decades.

Kathryn O’Driscoll 🎄 Kate

PoetryOD

Thread: When John Betjeman rhymed scones with stones in ‘How to get on in society’ (in a poem about the mistakes that identify people as not Upper Class when they

Maria ⏳

ml_1maria

A revised and expanded version of Putin Ain’t Such a Bad Guy (a Draft Colloquy on CIA) by the esteemed and indefatigable poet and political philosopher Carlo Parcelli:

LRB Bookshop

LRBbookshop

would anyone like to hear my poet laureate conspiracy theory it's about former poet laureate sir andrew motion, and his claims about how the laureateship affected his own writing. motion

Ahl-e-junoon

DuneKhaal

Thread on Muslim Contribution to Bengali Language.Some Bengali Sanghis are trying to say that Bengali culture is Hindu culture and Muslim culture is invading culture. This thread is to establish

Phillip B. Williams

PBW_Poet

Poetry Ramblings: Maybe all poems are...1. love poems: for what words can do, for a reader to whom trust is given that the poet's vulnerability will not be shrugged off.

Joyce Carol Oates

JoyceCarolOates

In 1988 Salman Rushdie published "The Satanic Verses," unleashing a storm of condemnation & threats agains this life; without hesitation, fellow writers gave readings from the novel to support him.

AAPD

AAPD

From the Pledge of Allegiance being signed & spoken simultaneously to the presence of the powerful Amanda Gorman to the President himself, both people with speech disabilities, disability was represented

Osmium Penguin, Certified Generalist

osmie

Home at last, Brevityman — everyone’s succinctest 19th-century superhero! — took off his supersuit, tousled his perfect hair, and once again became long-winded poet Walt Whitman. Nobody had ever suspected

Tanji Reed Marshall, PhD

Remarsh76

What Amanda Gorman showed the world was everything BUT magic. The brilliance of a Black Harvard educated young woman may seem like a magical thing, but it IS NOT! She

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