A newly listed Chapel Hill home offers a piece of UNC history with a $2.4-million price tag. The house at 111 Battle Lane was built in 1922 for Louis Graves, the university’s first professor of journalism. Over his lifetime, he worked as a New York Times reporter and founded the Chapel Hill Weekly, with his […]
American artist and sculptor Richard Serra has died at his home in Long Island, New York, at the age of 85. Considered one of his generation’s greatest sculptors, the San Francisco native originally studied painting at Yale University but turned to sculpting in the 1960s, inspired by trips to Europe. Serra was known for turning […]
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — A lonely man jailed for criticizing the government on his ham radio. A poet assaulted by police after he recited a poem objecting to Russia’s war in Ukraine. A low-profile woman committed to a psychiatric facility for condemning the invasion on social media. President Vladimir Putin’s 24 years in power are […]
The death of Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda days after Chile’s 1973 military coup should be reinvestigated, an appeals court has ruled, saying new steps could help clarify what killed the poet. Last December, a judge rejected a request by Mr Neruda’s nephew to reopen the case to look for causes other than cancer, which was […]
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — An appeals court in Chile’s capital on Tuesday ruled that the case of Chilean poet and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda‘s death be reopened, saying the investigation has not been exhausted and new steps could help clarify the cause of his death. Last December, a judge rejected a request by Neruda’s […]
As she was named Kansas City’s first poet laureate on Thursday, Melissa Ferrer Civil explained how, as a Black woman, poetry transformed her life. “Poetry helped me to find my voice and my agency,” Ferrer Civil told a gathering at City Hall. “To be accountable, to be responsible, to be me and to be free.” […]
Imagine the tears at George Floyd Square;imagine the prayers. imagine the meditations,this was all for you brother George — wishingyour spirit deep peace and salutation. An excerpt from “At George Floyd Square: Imagine,” a poem by Rockford native Christopher Sims Local poet and wordsmith Christopher Sims recently returned to Rockford to resume doing what he […]
Dec. 30—The Lafayette poet laureate program, designed to help promote literacy, poetry and artistry in the community, is mounting a search for the next person to carry on its mission Z, whose stage name is ZBass Speaks and uses they/them pronouns, is wrapping up their two-year term as the Lafayette’s poet laureate — but wants […]
A Russian poet has been given a seven-year prison sentence for reciting verses against Russia’s war in Ukraine, as part of a relentless Kremlin crackdown on dissent. Artyom Kamardin was convicted at Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court on charges of making calls undermining national security and inciting hatred, which related to him reading his anti-war poems […]
A Russian poet was given a 7-year prison sentence Thursday for reciting verses against Russia’s war in Ukraine, a tough punishment that comes during a relentless Kremlin crackdown on dissent. Moscow’s Tverskoi District Court convicted Artyom Kamardin on charges of making calls undermining national security and inciting hatred, which related to him reading his anti-war […]
A convicted murderer who was known as the “Killer Poet” passed away Wednesday night at Tewksbury Hospital, less than two years after the Massachusetts Parole Board signed off on his medical release from prison, sources told Boston 25′s Bob Ward. Norman Porter, who was found responsible for the 1960 murder of 21-year-old store clerk John […]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinians on Friday paid tribute to Refaat Alareer, a prominent poet and scholar who sought to tell the stories behind the news headlines in the blockaded enclave of Gaza and was killed in an Israeli air strike, his friends said. The 44-year-old, who wrote in English, taught world literature and creative writing […]