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Jessie Redmon Fauset was an African American writer, literary editor and teacher. During the 1920s she was one of the first to present a true record of African American history through her poetry and essays, introducing characters who were of the professional class. Writers before her, and sometimes since, had focused on the downtrodden, the disadvantaged, the enslaved. Along with others of ...
Haiku conquering continents! For today’s poetry news round-up we bring you a tie-in with recent posts on India’s burgeoning poetry scene and the growing popularity of Haiku as a competitive activity. HaikuJam is poetry that is bringing together the poets and poetry lovers of India and Pakistan, and in the light of this year being the 70th anniversary of the partition of that great continent ...
Jean Antoine de Baïf was a translator of Roman and Greek and poet in classics16th century France.He was a member of the small group of French Renaissance poets who called themselves La Pléiade, other leading members being Joachim du Bellay and Pierre de Ronsard. He was born on the 19th February 1532 in Venice, the son of the French Ambassador at that ...
Today’s news round-up comes from Erie County in the US and from India, as we review the most recent poetry news from around the world. Picture this in Erie County Imagine a picture of a woman dancing with a hula hoop with flames coming from it. Then try to write a poem inspired by this particular image. A project called Picture This which is ...
James Devaney was an Australian poet and novelist. He was an occasional journalist over a twenty-year period from 1924, writing a nature column for the Brisbane Courier and also served as a teacher in both Australia and New Zealand. He was born James Martin Devaney on the 31st May 1890 in the Victorian town of Bendigo, the son of Irish immigrants. While attending the Catholic boarding ...
Today, we bring you news from Wales and Denver USA, as we continue our search for poetry news across the globe. Neil Hilborn wows them in Wales Today we bring you news of an exciting poet who is causing a sensation with his current 32 date British tour which finishes on September 9th. Houston born Slam Poet Neil Hilborn recently blew away the crowds ...
James Edwin Campbell was a 19th century African-American poet whose life was tragically cut short by pneumonia. His output of poetry only ran to two volumes but it was said that the second collection, called Echoes from the Cabin and Elsewhere, contained some of the best poems written in the Gullah dialect to be found anywhere in the 19th century. He also ...
Today’s poetry news round-up celebrates the winners of the inaugural Wordsworth Trust Single Poem prize and the top three entrants chosen by members of the public, are all from Poetry Society members. The Wordsworth Trust is a memorial to the works of celebrated poet William Wordsworth and offers, and maintains, contemporary visual art and poetry readings as well as Wordsworth’s historical ...
James Hebblethwaite was an English-born Australian poet, church man and teacher. He was born on the 22nd September 1857 in Preston, Lancashire, the son of a corn miller. The family had fallen on hard times and James had to take responsibility for his own education, gaining scholarships where he could. He ended up at St John's College in Battersea, South London where he studied between 1877-1878 to become ...
Today’s poetry news looks at the issue of whether learning poetry by heart is relevant in the modern world and if so, what can it teach us? Columnist Fleda Brown this week wrote a column discussing this possibility and it made very interesting reading. Most of us will remember being at school and having to learn everything by heart, from times tables ...
