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Category: Poetry and Poets
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Ukrainian Poet and Rock Star Fights Near Front and Performs Behind It
Serhiy Zhadan, 50, is a beloved Ukrainian poet as well as a novelist, lyricist and rock star. Furious over the invasion, he enlisted to fight even as his band still plays and his readings fill halls.
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Photos: NYC Poetry Festival Takes Over Governors Island
Thousands of poetry fans and practitioners took the ferry out over the weekend to absorb one another’s work at the annual New York City Poetry Festival.
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Was Shakespeare Really Born in This Stratford-upon-Avon House?
Every year, millions flock to Stratford-upon-Avon, England, to visit the house known as Shakespeare’s Birthplace. But was he really born there? A whole industry depends on it.
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Harvard’s Taylor Swift Scholars Have Thoughts on ‘The Tortured Poets Department’
The students taking Harvard University’s class on the singer are studying up. Their final papers are due at the end of the month.
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7 Songs That Reference Tortured Poets
Taylor Swift said she channeled them; Patti Smith, Lana Del Rey, the Smiths and others cited them.
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Taylor Swift Lyrics: Who’s Mentioned on ‘Tortured Poets Department?
Ex-boyfriends may be alluded to. Travis Kelce, too, fans believe. And some actual poets.
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Jorie Graham’s Poetry of the Earth and Humanity, Set to Music
The composer Matthew Aucoin, Graham’s former student, and the director Peter Sellars have adapted her poems into the operatic “Music for New Bodies.”
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The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
The Dinner Party That Started the Harlem Renaissance
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Gylan Kain, a Founder of the Last Poets and a Progenitor of Rap, Dies at 81
He spun gripping portraits of the Black experience starting in the 1960s with the seminal Harlem spoken-word collective, lay a foundation for what was to come.