Before the card At night I feel at homewith those hills. They lie beside me like cattlein the dirt they are in. I call them in the dark and they movelike cattle,Sanga cows, or Highland cows, like kine, like kin. I know I am not the only one.Secretly at night they settle down near...
Read MoreBy Arshia Simkin, via the Orange County Arts Commission On October 15 and 16, the City of Carrboro hosted its annual free West End Poetry Festival, a two-day event that celebrates all things poetry. With a workshop and poetry readings, the festival was a vibrant celebration of the ways in which poetry enriches a...
Read MoreOn October 22, a webinar “A New Kind of Dictionary:” A Syntactic Dictionary of Russian Poetry “was organized by the editorial board of the journal” The Russian Language in Schools “as part of the seminar” Real Problems study and teaching the Russian language in the modern world ”, working in 2021 under the auspices...
Read MoreTo share Tweeter To share To share E-mail These are the times of sudden death and heartbreaking distress experienced by almost everyone in society in the context of the coronavirus pandemic. How will humanity adapt to this situation and be resilient, is a big question. Bishnupada Sethi, a well-known civil servant and poet, who...
Read MoreJENNY MITCHELL’s new book, Map of a Plantation (Indigo Dreams, £ 11) is an extremely ambitious exploration of traumatic historical memory, a powerful and painful attempt to imagine life on a plantation of slaves in Jamaica – slaves and slave owners, masters and mistresses. Mitchell describes the systemic brutality and systematic cruelty of the...
Read MoreLast summer a lady drove into Mullen’s yard, Laurel Park in Bray, with a car trunk full of books. Auctioneer Stuart Purcell was in the process of consigning for his collection auction. He walked out to the car and examined them, quickly realizing that they were not suitable for auction. “No,” he said, “there...
Read MoreCaptured using the Kodachrome 64 movie simulation recipe on a Fujifilm X100V. In 1973, Paul Simon put in song, Kodachrome They give us these beautiful bright colors They give us the greens of summer Makes you think the whole world is a sunny day Kodachrome is possibly the most iconic photographic film ever made....
Read MoreThe first HOWLoween Wolf Awareness Week event, “The Beats Within: Comparing AI & Human Adaptations of ‘Yell,‘Took place on Zoom this Monday. Hosted by Stanford Libraries, the presentation explored different interpretations of Allen Ginsberg’s iconic poem “Howl” by foreign language translators and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. “It’s an incredibly difficult poem to translate. He...
Read MoreNot so long ago there was a time when many could name only one, maybe two poets. Often times these are long-lived white men named William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, and Walt Whitman. However, changes have taken place in recent years. Amanda Gorman signed a modeling contract and was invited to the Met Gala after...
Read MoreAbandoned, hollowed-out, dilapidated and abandoned houses stand in a strange solitude amidst vast empty landscapes, resembling the only vestiges of civilization for miles. In his new series “Thin Places”, the photographer Brendon Burton captures modern American ruins exuding a sense of seclusion in their rural setting. Each hints at their own sad story of...
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