Jean Blewett was a Canadian poet, novelist and newspaper editor. She also used the name Katherine Kent in some of her work. She was born Jean McKishnie on the 4th November 1862 in the town of Scotia which lies in Kent County, Ontario. Her parents had emigrated from Scotland. She went to a local public school and then studied at St. Thomas Collegiate, showing ...
A very varied new round up today, with a comparison between entrepreneurs and poets, a proposed anthology of poetry for the late Liu Xiaobo and a mystery poem in a small town in Carmarthen. Why Potential Entrepreneurs Should Turn to Poetry You could be forgiven for thinking that there is little correlation between the world of business and poetry but in fact there are more than a few similarities. Both the poet ...
Janet Loxley Lewis was a 20th century American poet; the last survivor of an incredible generation of poets who began to publish works in the 1920’s, and one of the most influential women writers of her generation. During her highly successful career, which spanned over 70 years, she published over five volumes of poetry. Her writing was not however limited to poetry, ...
Jean Garrigue was the pseudonym used by a 20th century American poet who won honours and awards for her writing including the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1961. Besides her writing she was a newspaper editor and lecturer in English Literature at a number of colleges across the United States, serving as poet in residence at some of these establishments. She was born Gertrude Louise Garrigus ...
From Mongolia to America; todays poetry news brings you details of the 37th World Congress of Poets, a lifetime achievement award and what many perceived as at attack on an iconic sonnet that symbolises America. 37th World Congress of Poets Yesterday saw the end of the 37th World Congress of Poets which this year was held in Ulan Bator, Mongolia. The event which was titled “The Mind of Nature of the Human ...
Jean Hans Arp was a German-French poet who was, perhaps, better known as a sculptor and abstract artist who used a variety of materials to create his art. There seems to have been some confusion over his nationality at first. When speaking in French he liked to be called Jean. When speaking in German he was Hans. He would eventually formally take ...
Today news articles bring us a meeting between two poets that changed the course of literary history and we see how science and religion are working together to uncover some long-lost poetry. When Owen Met Sassoon – One Hundred Years Ago In Edinburgh, just over 100 years ago Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, both English poets and decorated war heroes met for the first time. They had both been invalided ...
Jean Starr Untermeyer was a US born poet, college lecturer and translator of works by Hermann Broch, an Austrian author with whom she collaborated. She published at least six collections of her own poetry and wrote a memoir later in life. She was born Jean Starr on the 13th March 1886 in Zanesville, Ohio. Her well-to-do Jewish parents had family roots in Germany and ...
We begin this week by looking at an article on the Chinese poet who rose to fame via a few lines published on a blog and a new book which asks the interesting question “Why Poetry?”. From Isolated Poet to Celebrity In 2014, Chinese poet Yu Xiuhua created a sensation when she published a few lines from her poem “Crossing More Than Half of China to Sleep with You” on her blog, ...
Jeanne Robert Foster was the pen named used by the American poet, fashion model, teacher, social reformer and journalist. She spent much of her life in the north eastern area of the United States having originated from the Adirondack Mountains region of upstate New York and she wrote at length about life in the mountains. She was born Julia Elizabeth Oliver on the 10th March 1879 in Johnsburg, ...
