Our final poetry news of the week looks at the Google Doodle dedicated to Audre Lorde. Google Doodle Celebrates Black History Month A part of their celebrations to mark Black History Month the current Google Doodle in the US is dedicated to the poet Audre Lorde. Lorde was an activist and acclaimed Black lesbian poet whose work was inspired by her hatred towards sexual ...
Today on My Poetic Side we take a look at the Turkish Presidents launch of the 700th-anniversary celebrations for Yunus Emre, a hotel with poetry connections and poetry for fuel. Turkish President Calls for Turkish Language to be Preserved On Tuesday Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish President called for all citizens of the country to help protect and preserve the Turkish Language. He was talking ...
Today’s poetry news round-up brings you articles about the sad death of Joan Margarit, the Notre Dame event that Joy Harjo will be taking part in and the Bronzino portrait of a poet that is going on display. Joan Margarit, Award-Winning Spanish Poet Dies Aged 82 The Spanish poet Joan Margarit, who was the 2019 winner of the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, has passed ...
Today we bring you an article about the death of a prominent Palestinian poet. Leading Palestinian Poet Dies Aged 77 Mourid Barghouti, a leading Palestinian poet has died at the age of 77. His death was announced by the poet’s son, the Arab poet Tamin Barghouti, who announced that his father had passed away on Sunday at his home in Amman, the capital of ...
Our first poetry news round-up of the week looks at the winner of the Roger Kowalski Award and the Papyrus linked to Sappho. 2021 Roger Kowalski Award Winner Announced One of the most prominent Moroccan Francophone poets has been named as the winner of this year's Roger Kowalski Awards for Poetry. Abdellatif Laabi has won the award for “Presque riens”, his latest book, which ...
