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Books 3 years ago

Pandemic puts Chilean poet Pablo Neruda's legacy at risk

"The pandemic devastated all visitors. We are in a critical situation," said Fernando Saez, executive director of the Neruda Foundation, in a meeting with foreign correspondents at the poet's house in Santiago.

Lifestyle 4 years ago

Poems, online: Indonesia’s rising industry of “poetry influencers”

Indonesia is seeing a rise of social media influencers who create encouraging poems with one common characteristic — minimal poetry or prose with equally minimalist artwork as its background.

People 4 years ago

Myanmar poets square off against junta's war on words

Before he was killed, Khet Thi's poems railed eloquently against Myanmar's sudden coup, joining a deluge of protest verse celebrating democracy demonstrators and defying the military's brutal war on words.

SE Asia 4 years ago

Myanmar poet dies after being detained, his family says

A spokesman for the junta did not answer calls to request comment on the death of Khat Thi, who had penned the line "They shoot in the head, but they don't know the revolution is in the heart." Myanmar Now news service said he was 44.

Art & Culture 5 years ago

America captivated by young Black poet after inaugural reading

Gorman, 22, recited "The Hill We Climb" at the inaugural, a poem inspired by the US Capitol attack touching on how democracy "can never be permanently defeated."

Art & Culture 5 years ago

Macron rejects petition to move Rimbaud to French Pantheon

A petition campaign last year backed by a host of celebrities as well as French Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot called for Rimbaud to be re-buried alongside his lover and fellow poet Paul Verlaine at the monument in central Paris.

Art & Culture 5 years ago

American poet Louise Gluck wins Nobel Literature Prize

Gluck, 77, was honored "for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal," the Academy said.

Books 5 years ago

Mapuche poet wins top Chile literature prize

Mapuche poet Elicura Chihuailaf has won Chile's highest literature award for helping to bring the southern indigenous people's oral tradition to a wider public, the country's culture minister announced Tuesday.