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War poet Wilfred Owen's birthplace to be sold
Peter Daborn said it was a "poignant" time to market the house in Oswestry The birthplace of war poet Wilfred Owen has gone ...
What is a poet laureate and why does it matter?
Dallas has named its second poet laureate Mag Gabbert, but some North Texans may not understand what the role entails. Here's ...
She was just named Toronto’s first youth poet laureate. Here’s why Shahaddah Jack can’t just sit back and observe
Last month, Shahaddah Jack was appointed the city’s inaugural youth poet laureate. Over a two-year term, the 20-year-old ...
JM Coetzee: Is this the greatest European poet of the 20th Century?
The Nobel Prize-winning novelist celebrates Zbigniew Herbert, whose defiant work proved that even the darkest times call for ...
Jefferson Holland appointed as Annapolis Poet Laureate
Jefferson Holland, a poet, singer, songwriter and outdoor columnist for the Capital Gazette, will be Annapolis’ next poet ...
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John McCrae: The solider, surgeon and poet whose words inspired the Poppy Appeal
John McCrae's beautiful words written amid the horrifying bloodshed of the First World War linked the poppy and remembrance ...
Searching inside ‘The Letters of Seamus Heaney’ for the poet (and myself)
The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson was ...
MSNBC on MSN1d
'It can still be ok if we fight for it': Poet Caroline Randall Williams reacts to 2024 election
Caroline Randall Williams, Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University, joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss the outcome of ...
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B.L. Kennedy dead at 70: The provocative poet helped pioneer Sacramento’s poetry scene
Poet B.L. Kennedy poses with poetry journals in his Sacramento apartment in 2005 in front of a huge canvas painting that he ...
E! News on MSN1d
Taylor Swift’s Historic 2025 Grammy Nominations Prove She’s Anything But a Tortured Poet
Taylor Swift and her album The Tortured Poets Department made Grammys history once again with her 2025 nominations. See what record she just set.
Oregon poet Manya Yana Campos puts ‘grit and grace together’ in her work and in her teaching
The self-described “feisty mermaid” was born in Santa Cruz, “between the redwoods and the beach” and also grew up in India, ...
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Letter from London: The Poet, the Leader, the Bishop, and the Post-Punk Maker
An early love of poetry kicked in after listening to Bob Dylan and reading Wilfred Owen. But there was always the Penguin ...