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Named after Father James A. Ryder S.J, the 20th President of Georgetown University, James Ryder Randall was a 19th century poet. He was also an American newspaper editor and correspondent as well as doing short stint as a teacher. He is best remembered for Maryland, My Maryland; the poem he wrote which eventually became the war hymn for the Confederacy. Born in Baltimore, ...
Today’s news post brings you a round-up of the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival and looks at Blackout poetry. Edinburgh Fringe Festival This year saw the celebration of the 70th year of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; the largest celebration of the arts in the world. With Monday 28th August marking the final day of the 2017 festival, organisers were proud to announce that this year ...
James Smetham was a follower of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and an English engraver and painter of the Pre-Raphaelite era. His career as a portrait painter had slow to take off due to photography developing at the time; something that had an impact on other artists during this period. This led to him being forced to take up a position as a ...
This week we begin our news round up with a look at a young poet who could well have a big future ahead of her, the unlikely combination of poetry and boxing and an annual limerick competition. Young Poet in the making Last week saw pupils across the UK collecting the results of their GCSE’s and Matilda Houston-Brown, who spent a year serving as the youngest poet laureate in Staffordshire, was amongst ...
Today’s poetry round up brings you poetry news from New Zealand where they are celebrating National Poetry Day. Here at My Poetic Side we have rounded up just a few of the articles that discuss the many ways in which New Zealanders are celebrating the 20th Annual celebration of poetry. Giant Paper Origami Boat Visitors to the National Library during National Poetry Day will ...
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 ...
