Nikki Giovanni, black arts icon and literary legend, dies at 81
Nikki Giovanni was a celebrated poet, activist, and leading voice of the Black Arts Movement. Her powerful works explored race, gender, and social justice.
Nikki Giovanni was a celebrated poet, activist, and leading voice of the Black Arts Movement. Her powerful works explored race, gender, and social justice.
Bollywood star Ananya Panday charms fans with a nostalgic childhood video reciting a cute poem on Instagram.
Jashn-e-Rekhta, the renowned Urdu cultural festival, ventures abroad with its international debut in London, promoting the richness of the Urdu language and culture.
In a sense, in an arid desert where we went astray, Neruda's poetry embraces us like a fountain of love and sprinkles its pious water all over our afflicted hearts.
The tableau, unveiled in 2007 by the Lok Sabha Speaker Somnath Chatterji and conceptualised by Jaswant Singh, the leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha, captured the spirit of those turbulent times and presented to our world this team of extraordinary men, each of whom was a leader unto himself, icons that have remained alive in public memory, literature, and history like few others
"I wanted to write a book that is easy to read but influential, that combines art and words to help anyone who reads it.
Most creative writing courses will include advice on how to write fiction, non-fiction and poetry.
The list includes four novels, seven poetry books, two plays, five short stories, an epic poetry and a memoir in twenty Indian languages.
"The Pahari painters rarely inscribed their works," he explained of his research into the book, adding: "We have only sketchy information about the lives and working process of Pahari painters; hence attempts to describe their careers remain uncertain."
Gluck's poems centre on relationships, they centre on responses to the non-human world; the empirical and the epistemic are fused seamlessly in her poems, so protagonists from the Greek classics blend in with the contemporary American landscape and soulscape, braided with a sense of universal humanism and deep empathy for sentient life-forms
