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Poet Michael Dechane explores loneliness and transformation in his debut collection
In his debut collection, The Long Invisible, poet Michael Dechane examines broken relationship and starting anew. Many of the works are set in Florida, where Dechane grew up, as well as Western North ...
5 'transformative' books that shaped Zoe Whittall's life and work
The Prince Edward County, Ont. writer and CBC Nonfiction Prize judge shared with Antonio Michael Downing a few books that ...
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The Aeneid, a 2,000-year-old poem that reads like a playbook for U.S. politics today
But there's a problem: "pius" Aeneas, as he's called in the poem (meaning dutiful and, for lack of a better term, job-oriented), has his eyes on his mission to found a new city for his people ...
I researched poetry written during COVID – five years on, here’s how people say it helped them
The American scholar of 20th-century literature and culture Elizabeth Outka has argued that works such as The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats (1919) and The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot (1922) can be read ...
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ISRO's POEM-4 marks major achievement, completes 1,000 orbits
ISRO announced on Friday that the fourth edition of the PSLV Orbital platform Experiment Module (POEM-4), which is the repurposed spent upper stage of the PSLV vehicle used for a space docking ...
New Statesman23d
The Chancellor has taken another big gamble
By Bethany Elliott A Western diplomat in Russia tells me that he has never been so lonely. With relations between his government and the Kremlin even cooler than the sub-zero temperatures outside, he ...
San Diego Reader24d
Gonzo Report: Theory of a Dead Man and the cold facts of a lonely Valentine's Day
Valentine’s Day came and went ... A far cry from a dozen roses and and a clumsily rhymed poem for your pretty one. But judging from what I heard at a recent Theory of a Deadman show at The ...
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Not Time’s Fool: A Rare Version of a Shakespeare Sonnet Is Discovered
An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, its meaning might have been very different. By Amelia Nierenberg ...
Reader's Digest26d
15 Great Poetry Books, Recommended by Poets
As a poet myself now, that fascination with the written word remains, although it has evolved from limericks to sonnets and free-verse love poems as well. I often hear from peers and students that ...
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‘It’s lonely!’: Sentinels’ Marvel Rivals star Aramori wants more women to compete with and against
“I don’t think that’s something to be proud of. It’s sad. It’s lonely! It’s all of the pressure in the world and it’s being held under the world’s strongest microscope. Every ...
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Feeling lonely? Utah's working on a plan for that
Last year, Axios indicated that at least 42.5% of Utahns report feeling lonely at least sometimes — compared to the national average of about 40.3%. A new resolution from Sen. Brady Brammer at ...