A poetry magazine launched by Vanna Bonta gets an award from space professionals proving beauty is part of equations and efficiency is pointless without humanity.
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From nursery rhymes to Shakespearian sonnets, alliterations have always been an important aspect of poetry whether as an interesting aesthetic touch or just as something fun to read. But a recent study suggests that this literary technique is useful not only for poetry but also for memory.
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Members of the public are invited to attend an evening of poetry and music at Queen’s University later this week in honour of Anestis Evangelou, one of the most important Greek poets of the late 20th century.
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Traditional-style Bedouin poetry distributed hand-to-hand by unofficial means provides an outlet for popular political dissent in the Arab world, according to new research at Oxford University.
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Yves Bonnefoy, the best French poet, has received a prestigious Czech literary prize in Prague on Tuesday. An international jury that included prominent German literary critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki and British publisher John Calder selected Bonnefoy in March to win the annual Franz Kafka Prize awarded by the Prague-based Franz Kafka Society.
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What happens to poetry in the Digital Age? In one of the first academic works in the field, Swedish researcher Maria Engberg has studied how the ability of the computer to combine words, images, movement, and sounds is impacting both writing and reading.
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A Bill Gates scholarship will allow a University of Sydney student to complete a PhD at Cambridge University in communist poetry.
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Top book publisher and distributor, Lightning Source Inc has taken up the publishing and distribution of "Scarlet Tears of London" the thought-provoking collection of poems on love, sex, lesbianism, Islamic terrorism and polemics. The worldwide demand for "Scarlet Tears of London" has made it one of the most widely circulated books of contemporary poetry by a new poet.
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When the Nigerian poet Orikinla Osinachi wrote the "Veiled Assassin"Â, he never knew that his fictional story was actually similar to how the male suspect in the major anti-terrorist investigation in London also escaped capture disguising himself as a Muslim woman dressed in a burqa. Was is it a coincidence or a prophetic foresight?
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Following in the footsteps of the highly successful Poetry Slam @ The Max series, presented by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and sponsored by Starbucks Coffee, the DSO has announced a special Youth Poetry Slam @ The Max. The one-night-only event will be held on Thursday, February 22 at 8 p.m. in Allesee Hall at the Max M. Fisher Music Center. Also sponsored by Starbucks Coffee, the Youth Poetry Slam is open to teens ages 13 to 18.
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The next Poetry Slam @ The Max will "up the ante" when the 2006 Individual World Poetry Slam Champion Mike McGee performs Thursday, January 11 at 8 p.m. Also a 2003 Indie National Poetry Slam Champion and the 2003 West Coast Slam Champion, McGee has appeared on Def Poetry Jam's 2005 season.
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