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Salman Rushdie Reads Indian Poetry of Adornment

admin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:18:29 +0000

Novelist Salman Rushdie reads a passage of romantic poetry from Mir Hasan’s 18th century ‘Enchanting Story’. Michael C. Carlos Museum, March 1, 2010 The poetry of India is filled with sensual images of jewelry and adornment. See more at http://www.carlos.emory.edu and http://www.emory.edu/rushdie Duration : 0:6:48 [youtube xfp9_cUxs6s]

Lunch Poems – Diane di Prima

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 03:18:04 +0000

World-renowned poet Diane di Prima, one of the preeminent writers to emerge from the Beat generation, wrote in Manhattan for many years before relocating to San Francisco, where she has been for nearly four decades. In addition to raising five children, di Prima has studied photography, collage, Zen and Tibetan Buddhism, Sanskrit, and alchemy, all of which inform her intensely lyrical writing. Her 43 books of poetry and prose have been translated into over twenty languages.

http://www.lunchpoems.berkeley.edu

Duration : 0:42:53

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Salman Rushdie Reads Indian Poetry of Adornment

admin — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 13:37:31 +0000

Rhinoceros among Giraffes: Keats and the Elgin Marbles

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:15:15 +0000

Nicholas Roe, University of St. Andrews in Scotland, presents, “Rhinoceros among Giraffes: Keats and the Elgin Marbles.” Roe is an internationally renowned expert on Keats and on Romantic poetry, culture and politics. The talk is sponsored by the University of New Mexico’s Department of English, English Graduate Student Association, Foreign Languages and Literatures Department, and [...]

Lunch Poems – Ilya Kaminsky

admin — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 10:38:19 +0000

Born in Odessa, Ilya Kaminsky immigrated to the United States in 1993 when his family was granted asylum by the American government. Polish poet Adam Zagajewski says of Kaminsky, “He grafts the gifts of the Russian newer literary tradition on the American tree of poetry and forgetting.” Kaminsky teaches comparative literature, poetry and literary translation [...]