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poetry
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Healing Verse Poetry Hotline
Read more: Healing Verse Poetry HotlinePhiladelphia poet laureate Trapeta B. Mayson launched the Healing Verse Philly Poetry Line (1-855-763-6792), a toll-free telephone line that offers callers a 90-second poem by a Philadelphia-connected poet. A new poem will be featured each Monday throughout 2021. In the…
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The Universe in Verse
Read more: The Universe in Verse“The real wealth of the Nation,” marine biologist and author Rachel Carson wrote in her courageous 1953 protest letter, “lies in the resources of the earth — soil, water, forests, minerals, and wildlife… Their administration is not properly, and cannot…
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A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the US
Read more: A Haunting Artistic Tribute to Garment Workers Killed in Bangladesh and the USNORTHFIELD, Minn. — Exactly 1,281 white garments hang from the ceiling of the Perlman Teaching Museum’s Braucher Gallery. The collared shirts, knit sweaters, tights, and other items of clothing glow with an eerie luminosity. The 1,281 garments represent the number…
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A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender
Read more: A powerful poem about what it feels like to be transgender“I was the mystery of an anatomy, a question asked but not answered,” says poet Lee Mokobe, a TED Fellow, in this gripping and poetic exploration of identity and transition. It’s a thoughtful reflection on bodies, and the meanings poured…
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Transient Typewrite Project
Read more: Transient Typewrite ProjectFounded by Bobby Gordon and Nayeli Adorador Knudsen, The Melrose Poetry Bureau is a public intervention involving a whole lot of typewriters, a public space, and the chaos that ensues. Once a location is picked for an intervention, Bobby and…
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Faiz
Read more: FaizFaiz | Hum Dekhenge | BolFaiz Ahmed Faiz, born 13 February 1911 – 20 November 1984, was an influential left-wing intellectual, revolutionary poet, and one of the most regarded poets of the Urdu language, being considered four times for the Nobel Prize in poetry. A notable member of the Progressive…
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Dark Matter
Read more: Dark MatterDark Matter is a trans South Asian performance art duo comprised of Alok Vaid-Menon and Janani Balasubramanian, a prominent pair of voices operating at the intersection of the arts and activism. The work of Dark Matter is complicated, much like…
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Paco Ibáñez (Valencia, November 20th, 1934)
Read more: Paco Ibáñez (Valencia, November 20th, 1934)Francisco Ibáñez Gorostidi (known as “Paco Ibáñez”) is a spanish singer that has dedicated almost all his career to turning poems by classical and contemporary spanish and latin american authors into songs. Paco Ibáñez was born in Valencia, but he…
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Acción Poética
Read more: Acción PoéticaThe Acción Poética movement is a literary phenomenon that began in Monterrey, Mexico in 1996. It was founded by Mexican poet Armando Alanis Pulido and involves painting and intervening abandoned walls in cities with fragments of poetry. The content is…
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“Las sinsombrero”: Bare heads against the tyranny of being respectable.
Read more: “Las sinsombrero”: Bare heads against the tyranny of being respectable.“Las sinsombrero” (“without hat”) were a group of spanish women formed by the artists Maruja Mallo, Margarita Manso, Concha Méndez and the socialist activist Margarita Nelken. During the 20s they were part of Madrid’s artistic and intellectual scene, and they…