#Poets

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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

C. Ní Chléirigh📚🖌

CClearych

Reminding myself that not all the news of the past few weeks has been gloomy: e.g. the Book of Lismore returned to Cork! Of course, we have been fortunate enough

Mx. Faylita Hicks

FaylitaHicks

I hate subtweets—but I want young poets to know that during this pandemic, a lot of editors are having a rough time. I got COVID and then two of my

Himanish Ganjoo

hganjoo153

1/ Thread on Mirza Asadullah Khan "Ghalib": a blurb on his life and times. Poet, prose writer, Old Dilliwalla. Perhaps the greatest exponent of Urdu poetry ever. It seems like

Omar Sakr

OmarjSakr

Half an hour after receiving the PMLA prize for poetry, I was on the phone to a journalist. "No one likes to talk about the money side of things because

Dr. Elizabeth Sacha Baroness Cohen

alixabeth

Many academics (US?) grant automatic respect to poets, painters, musicians, and other artists but think nothing of casually insulting a sport or athletics in general. Has someone made a good

Mustafa Akyol

AkyolinEnglish

Many #Muslims want to see (even enforce) a world without any #blasphemy against Islam, any offense.But that is NOT going to happen - as the #Quran tells us in 3:186.

Garry Cox

GarryPCox

1/7So, was gonna wait till the solstice, but here we go, my READS OF THE YEAR (just to note, very few were published 2020)In order, my favourite:- Re-read- Books- Story/Short

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ErnestOgunyemi

I've heard people say that it was the Soyinka, Clark - and later, the Funso Aiyejina and Odia Ofeimun - generation that wrote very political poetry. Naija poets today are

Anamika ಅનાमिକା

inc09nita

Did you know that counting using fingers has idiosyncratic variations with the culture?In Bhārata, for instance, we always count starting with the little finger (कनिष्ठिका) ending the fifth count with

Camonghne “Stokely Carmichael in Designer” Felix

CAMONGHNE

Want to take a second to mourn & honor the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. It is nothing like it was a decade ago, or two decades ago. We are reminded today

Gwen C. Katz

gwenckatz

In light of the "catfishing author" incident, a thread on pen names, their history, conventions, and courtesy.This is my personal perspective. Other people may disagree, but from my perspective this

Faisal Al Yafai

FaisalAlYafai

Was Abu Nuwas an Arab? / A Thread. So this week @newlinesmag we published @alexjrowell's unsurprisingly popular essay about the love early Arab poets had for wine. (Unsurprising because it

The Telugu Project

TeluguProject

కాకతీయుల కాలంలో తెలుగు భాషా సాహిత్యం అభివృద్ధి శరవేగంగా సాగింది. తిక్కన, పాల్కురికి సోమన

Moshe

LiberteEquality

Kancha Ilaiah on Telugu Nationalism-Brahmanical Teluguness is not essentially Telugu in nature. For instance, the Brahman consciousness in the Telugu country thrives basically on the pan-Indian Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavata and

Ada Hoffmann

xasymptote

"Climbing Lightly Through Forests" is out!https://www.amazon.com/Climbing-Lightly-Through-Forests-Anthology/dp/1619761971It's a tribute anthology in honor of Ursula K. LeGuin, and the poems are by an incredible collection of s

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