#Poet

Wyvern of Herzegovina

Zvari72

If you watched Biden's inauguration (my condolences), you've probably noticed that this black girl's bloviating ''poem'' was one of the highlights. Amanda Gorman is the inaugural holder of the title

Sunny McSunnyface

sunnyright

Reminder while you watch "It's a Wonderful Life" that Jimmy Stewart, playing the guy who didn't go off to war, was in real life a real damn war hero. He

Robert P. George

McCormickProf

1/ In 1834, the German poet Heinrich Heine, whose books would later be burned by the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage, made a prophecy. A great insight is at

Krishnan Ram-Prasad

KrishnanRP

This is a thread on Vedic ""racial"" terminology, specifically the terms "dāsa" and "varṇa".I recently returned to teach a text (ii.12) where the phrase "dā́saṃ várṇam" turned up,

Faisal Al Yafai

FaisalAlYafai

Was Abu Nuwas an Arab? / A Thread. So this week @newlinesmag we published @alexjrowell's unsurprisingly popular essay about the love early Arab poets had for wine. (Unsurprising because it

Sophie Crane

sophiemckibben

This is a very, very tiny thing in the scope of All The Things today — but in reading about the incredible poet @TheAmandaGorman I learned that she and I

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

thellpsx

Not all of us made it. But, as June Jordan wrote in 2001, "Some of us did not die... Some of you, of us, remain, despite that hatred that violence

Carl Zha

CarlZha

.@TheWarNerd asked me if famous Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai was really born in Suyab, Kyrgyzstan. I thought I had an easy answer. Then I quickly went down the rabbit

Adrian Harewood

CBCAdrianH

It’s hard to believe it has been 5 years since the #BookofNegroes miniseries based on #LawrenceHill’s best-selling novel aired for the first time on CBC. It became the highest rated

Marras 🖤

WeftOfSoul

My village also had one gay man. He moved away quite young, became a chef and a poet in the capital city. No room for gay in a dogmatic religious

🖋Forest of Symbols♎️

AldousAsterion

Edgar Allan Poe's death was as mysterious and fascinating as one of his own stories. He died young, aged 40. To this day we do not know why. Wikipedia: "Theories

Mona Eltahawy

monaeltahawy

The chapter on Profanity in my latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls explains all of this Also: Fuck is a Feminist word“When the fascist fucks in

Raquel Salas Rivera

rugamarspr

buenos días. for absolutely no reason other than being a grumpy capricorn, i'm going to cover all the things i hate ppl (primarily in the u.s.) doing re my poetry.

Gaurav Pradhan 🇮🇳

OfficeOfDGP

1Like I said many times, my every tweet have a reason & purpose or a messageThe quoted tweet, u thought is self-praising or pampering myselfFACT is, it was about YOU

Anurag Shukla

Anuraag_Shukla

A thread on the life and work of Aimé Césaire:Aimé Césaire was an #anticolonialist poet and politician, who helped found the journal #Black Student in Paris in the 1930s, which

Jericho Brown

jerichobrown

Let’s see if I can teach this in a thread before my 5:30 appointment. Every metaphor is made up of two parts: the tenor & the vehicle, as in “the

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