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Skeins o Geese
Kathleen Jamie
(May 13th 1962 — )
Jamie was born in Renfrewshire in Scotland. She received an Eric Gregory award when she was just 18 and has since published four collections of poetry, including the highly acclaimed The Queen of Sheba (1994) and Jizzen (1999). Her Selected poems. Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994 was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2002.
— May 14, 2026 04:50PM
Kathleen Jamie
(May 13th 1962 — )
Jamie was born in Renfrewshire in Scotland. She received an Eric Gregory award when she was just 18 and has since published four collections of poetry, including the highly acclaimed The Queen of Sheba (1994) and Jizzen (1999). Her Selected poems. Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead: Poems 1980-1994 was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2002.
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Poliotics
In our time the destiny of man presents
its meaning in political terms —
Thomas Mann
W.B. Yeats
(June 13th 1865 — January 28th 1939)
...Pablo Neruda, who organized a writers' conference in Madrid when the city was besieged by the Falangists in 1937, recollected in his memoirs that Yeats, by then too old to travel to the bomb-blasted city, nonetheless "rallied to the defence of the Spanish Republic".
— 4 hours, 11 min ago
In our time the destiny of man presents
its meaning in political terms —
Thomas Mann
W.B. Yeats
(June 13th 1865 — January 28th 1939)
...Pablo Neruda, who organized a writers' conference in Madrid when the city was besieged by the Falangists in 1937, recollected in his memoirs that Yeats, by then too old to travel to the bomb-blasted city, nonetheless "rallied to the defence of the Spanish Republic".
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I, Too
Langston Hughes
(February 1st 1902 — May 22nd 1967)
...Upon leaving for Africa, Hughes discarded all his books except for Leaves of Grass: "I had no intention of throwing that one away", he said.
Hughes' death was caused by prolonged heart and kidney trouble. He never married, nor had any children.
— May 24, 2026 06:40AM
Langston Hughes
(February 1st 1902 — May 22nd 1967)
...Upon leaving for Africa, Hughes discarded all his books except for Leaves of Grass: "I had no intention of throwing that one away", he said.
Hughes' death was caused by prolonged heart and kidney trouble. He never married, nor had any children.
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The Rain
Robert Creeley
(May 21st 1926 — )
Creeley taught at Black Mountain College in the 1950s and now teaches at Brown University. His art has no impulse to enclose itself in the literary solely, or to move apart from the common terms of the given world.
— May 22, 2026 10:13AM
Robert Creeley
(May 21st 1926 — )
Creeley taught at Black Mountain College in the 1950s and now teaches at Brown University. His art has no impulse to enclose itself in the literary solely, or to move apart from the common terms of the given world.
Judi
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Thomas Wyatt,imprisoned in the Tower of London along with five other suspected lovers of Anne Boleyn, watched her execution on May 19th 1536. He was later released and rusticated.
— May 20, 2026 04:03PM
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From The Buráiyát of Omar Khayyám
of Naishapur
Edward Fitzgerald
(March 31st 1809 — June 14th 1883)
Edward Fitzgerald was introduced to Omar Khayyám's poetry by his friend Edward Cowell in May 19857, and set about translating 75 of the quatrains that summer. The first edition of his version of the Rubáiyaát was published in March 1859.
— May 19, 2026 04:25PM
of Naishapur
Edward Fitzgerald
(March 31st 1809 — June 14th 1883)
Edward Fitzgerald was introduced to Omar Khayyám's poetry by his friend Edward Cowell in May 19857, and set about translating 75 of the quatrains that summer. The first edition of his version of the Rubáiyaát was published in March 1859.
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Why Brownlee left
Paul Muldoon
(June 20th 1951 — )
... His latest collection is Moy Sand and Gravel. Muldon moved to the United States in 1983 and is currently Howard Clark Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, where he lives with his wife and two children.
— May 18, 2026 05:11PM
Paul Muldoon
(June 20th 1951 — )
... His latest collection is Moy Sand and Gravel. Muldon moved to the United States in 1983 and is currently Howard Clark Professor of Humanities at Princeton University, where he lives with his wife and two children.
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Song
Adrienne Rich
(May 16th 1929 — )
In her introduction to the anthology, Best American Poetry (1996), Rich writes that she wants "poems good enough to eat, to crunch between the teeth, to feel their juices bursting under the tongue, unmicrowavable poems".
— May 18, 2026 06:03AM
Adrienne Rich
(May 16th 1929 — )
In her introduction to the anthology, Best American Poetry (1996), Rich writes that she wants "poems good enough to eat, to crunch between the teeth, to feel their juices bursting under the tongue, unmicrowavable poems".
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Alexis Kagame, Rwandan poet and Roman Catholic Priest, born May 15th 1`912.
— May 16, 2026 07:03AM
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Thankyou Note
Dannie Abse
(September 22nd 1923 — )
Dannie Abse writes: "The years have proved that the best and most decisive thing I have ever done was to choose Joan Mercer (as she as known then) to be mh wife. so it's hardly surprising that ion the evening road I would write a thankyou note addressed to her. I do hope the poem is less soppy than the above confession."
— May 15, 2026 04:31AM
Dannie Abse
(September 22nd 1923 — )
Dannie Abse writes: "The years have proved that the best and most decisive thing I have ever done was to choose Joan Mercer (as she as known then) to be mh wife. so it's hardly surprising that ion the evening road I would write a thankyou note addressed to her. I do hope the poem is less soppy than the above confession."
