At My Poetic Side, we like to bring you a variety of news articles and today"s selection brings you a new collection of poetry to honour Martin Luther King, a poets brain donated to science to help Alzheimer’s research and the Instagram rise of Rupi Kaur. Martin Luther King to be Honoured in New Poetry Collection A book of powerful poetry, inspired mainly ...
John Gneisenau Neihardt was a US poet whose historical fascination with the period in his country’s history when the frontiersmen were coming to the end of their mass settlement of the great plains made him an ethnographer. His specific area of interest was the effect on the indigenous people who were often displaced by white settlers. His famous book Black Elk Speaks, ...
We begin this week’s news roundup with stories that include a new book of poetry by Leonard Cohen, a play to mark the anniversary of the death of Vernon Watkins and haikus for senators in the US. New Leonard Cohen Poetry Book to be Published To many people, Leonard Cohen was a genius singer, songwriter and musician known for a lengthy career in ...
Joseph Blanco White was a Spanish-born, English poet, magazine editor and theologian whose strong religious faith was tested on many occasions, leading him to change his religion at different times. He was born on the 11th July 1775 in the southern Spanish city of Seville. His ancestors were Irish and he took the name “Blanco White” from his father, an English diplomat who ...
We bring the week of news roundups to a close with another shocking revelation of an accusation of plagiarism in the literary world, this time the work in question is “Poetry Will Save Your Life” by Jill Bialosky. Another Poet Accused of Plagiarism The poetry world has once again been shocked by accusations of plagiarism levelled against one of its own. Jill Bialosky, who is ...
John Henry Boner was an American poet, editor and government employee who would eventually become known as "North Carolina"s First Man of Letters". He was born on the 31st January 1845 in the Moravian community of Salem. He had a rudimentary education and went to work for the local newspaper at the age of 13. This fuelled his journalistic ambitions and, by the age of ...
Today on My Poetic Side we have searched the news to bring you a round-up that includes an article on a school’s poetry program in collaboration with local football stars, the shortlist of the final five hopefuls for the poetry category of the National Book Awards and poems about plastic bottles. Football Stars Return to School for Poetry Class A poetry contest, which is ...
Joseph Furphy was an Australian poet and novelist who often wrote under the pseudonym “Tom Collins”. His work was so well regarded that he became known as the "Father of the Australian novel" with his title Such Is Life, published in 1903, becoming a classic of Australian literature. He was born on the 26th September 1843 at Yering Station, Victoria, the son of ...
Today we bring you poetry for austerity, Poetweet; the website that turns tweets into poetry and Latvian coins commemorating a poet. We Shall Overcome This weekend in and around Nottingham a group of musicians and poets will be joining forces for a full 4 days of charity gigs in aid of the anti-austerity movement. We Shall Overcomes, aims to bring a varied selection of ...
Joseph Hall was an English satirical poet and clergyman who rose to the rank of Bishop despite being a controversial character throughout his life. Many saw his work as being a direct attack on the establishment during the latter years of the Elizabethan age but, in truth, he was not alone in producing such barbed material and it did not cost him ...
