Our final poetry news roundup of the week looks at the award for Emirati women poets, the poet who is to get a headstone after 124 years and the burial fabrics of a poet that are to be preserved by the Smithsonian. Award Launched to Celebrate Emirati Women Poets Coinciding with Women’s Day in the ...
Today’s poetry news round-up takes a look at the Nasimi Festival, the Emily Dickinson Lecture and the 400-year-old-tree that is in danger of collapsing. 2019 Nasimi Festival The Nasimi Festival of Poetry, Arts and Spirituality, a four-day long cultural extravaganza, is being set up in Azerbaijan. The festival is being planned to ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take a look at the archives of a mostly forgotten poet that have been gifted to the archive of the Cambridge University Library. Forgotten Poems to be Archived by Cambridge University Cambridge University archivists are to step forward and save a rare collection of handwritten poems by James Withers, ...
Today, our poetry news round up takes a look at the donation of literary works gifted to the University of Limerick. We also have an article about the memorial of the International Day of the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and he 43rd death anniversary of the poet Kazi Nazrul Islam. Library at University of Limerick Receives Donated ...
We begin the week here on My Poetic Side with a look at the poet who has been jailed, the anniversary of the first enslaved Africans in the US marked by a poet and Simon Armitage’s first couple of months as poet laureate. Poet handed jail sentence Rita Wong, an associate professor and award-winning poet has been ...
