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Carolyn Forché Comes to Loveland
For Immediate Release Kathleen Willard 970-481-3864 kathleen.d.willard@gmail.com March 26, 2024 Award-Winning Poet & Human Rights Advocate Carolyn Forché Reads at the Rialto Theatre to Celebrate National Poetry Month “It is my feeling that the twentieth-century human condition demands a poetry of witness.” asserts poet Carolyn Forché. The Loveland Poet Laureate Committee is hosting three events with award-winning poet and dedicated human rights activist. In addition to her five books of poetry, she has written non-fiction and translated poetry. Her memoir What You Have Heard is True was a finalist for the National Book Award.Read More
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Spacious Poetry from Ada Limón
Read the Time article here: https://time.com/collection/women-of-the-year/6694507/ada-limon/ Read More
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“Thirteen Maqams” from Fady Joudah (a Palestinian lament)
I’m linking to this extraordinary rage-meditation before it gets taken down for whatever “national security” reason: A Palestinian Meditation in a Time of Annihilation: Thirteen Maqams for an Afterlife, by the magnificent Palestinian-American poet/translator and physician Fady Joudah. Thanks to LitHub for making it available, and thanks to Louise Glück, wherever she’s traveling these days, for choosing Joudah’s first book for the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 2007. For anyone interested in the title of Joudah’s lament, here’s a good place to start exploring maqam.Read More
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Adios, Louise Glück
THE MOUNTAIN by Louise Glück My students look at me expectantly. I explain to them that the life of art is a life of endless labor. Their expressions hardly change; they need to know a little more about endless labor So I tell them the story of Sisyphus, how he was doomed to push a rock up a mountain, knowing nothing would come of this effort but that he would repeat it indefinitely.Read More
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Mann & Sexton Wednesday, Nov. 8: Don’t Miss It!
TRANSLATE with x English Arabic Hebrew Polish Bulgarian Hindi Portuguese Catalan Hmong Daw Romanian Chinese Simplified Hungarian Russian Chinese Traditional Indonesian Slovak Czech Italian Slovenian Danish Japanese Spanish Dutch Klingon Swedish English Korean Thai Estonian Latvian Turkish Finnish Lithuanian Ukrainian French Malay Urdu German Maltese Vietnamese Greek Norwegian Welsh Haitian Creole Persian var LanguageMenu; var LanguageMenu_keys=[“ar”,”bg”,”ca”,”zh-CHS”,”zh-CHT”,”cs”,”da”,”nl”,”en”,”et”,”fi”,”fr”,”de”,”el”,”ht”,”he”,”hi”,”mww”,”hu”,”id”,”it”,”ja”,”tlh”,”ko”,”lv”,”lt”,”ms”,”mt”,”no”,”fa”,”pl”,”pt”,”ro”,”ru”,”sk”,”sl”,”es”,”sv”,”th”,”tr”,”uk”,”ur”,”vi”,”cy”]; var LanguageMenu_values=[“Arabic”,”Bulgarian”,”Catalan”,”Chinese Simplified”,”Chinese Traditional”,”Czech”,”Danish”,”Dutch”,”English”,”Estonian”,”Finnish”,”French”,”German”,”Greek”,”Haitian Creole”,”Hebrew”,”Hindi”,”Hmong Daw”,”Hungarian”,”Indonesian”,”Italian”,”Japanese”,”Klingon”,”Korean”,”Latvian”,”Lithuanian”,”Malay”,”Maltese”,”Norwegian”,”Persian”,”Polish”,”Portuguese”,”Romanian”,”Russian”,”Slovak”,”Slovenian”,”Spanish”,”Swedish”,”Thai”,”Turkish”,”Ukrainian”,”Urdu”,”Vietnamese”,”Welsh”]; var LanguageMenu_callback=function(){ }; var LanguageMenu_popupid=’__LanguageMenu_popup’; TRANSLATE with COPY THE URL BELOW Back EMBED THE SNIPPET BELOW IN YOUR SITE Enable collaborative features and customize widget: Bing Webmaster Portal Back var intervalId = setInterval(function () { if (MtPopUpList)…Read More
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Yuyutsu RD Sharma Reads from ANNAPURNA POEMS
Internationally known Nepalese poet Yuyutsu RD Sharma reads from his book Annapurna Poems at The Bookies Bookstore in Denver, Colorado, on Saturday, August 26, 2023.Read More
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Yuyutsu RD Sharma & Lisa Zimmerman @ Wolverine Farm
All you poetry lovers in the north country of Colorado take note! The “Poet of the Himalayas,” Yuyutsu RD Sharma, will be reading his work at Wolverine Farm in Fort Collins. He will be joined by Lisa Zimmerman, who is one of a dozen Colorado poets featured in the new issue of PRATIK, the international literary journal that Mr. Sharma edits. The reading kicks off at 4:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 2nd.Read More
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Against Witless Orthodoxy
For more, visit the Shakespeare Oxford Fellowship. And watch Cheryl Eagan-Donovan‘s fine documentary, Nothing Is Truer than Truth, currently streaming for free.Read More
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Join Us for a PRATIK Launch Reading
I’m excited to be joining Yuyutsu RD Sharma, poet of the Himalayas, for the launch of the hot-off-the-press issue of PRATIK. I hope you’ll join us! Yuyutsu is a renowned poet from Nepal who has performed his work for audiences around the world. He is also the editor of PRATIK, a literary journal that has featured poets from dozens of countries, including Ireland, Austria, Germany, Slovenia, Italy, and of course Nepal. Poets representing more discrete communities—from Los Angeles and Ottowa to the Basque region of Spain—have also appeared in its pages.Read More
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Waiting for the Barbarians: A Sequel
This poem is an updated and repurposed version of “Waiting for the Barbarians,” by C. P. Cavafy, translated by Edmund Keeley. Read it here.Read More