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AAlfaro • 22 November, 2009
The Costa Rican writer and poet Felipe Granados passed away in August 2009 at the age of 33.
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I want them to know that I felt calm on the night that I killed god, I slept like a baby"
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mahmag • 16 November, 2009
Poem: Je t’aime from the collection Last Love Poems of Paul Eluard translated by Marilyn Kallet
Eluard’s poetry is measured, planned, almost like a mathematical calculation that has the correction sum
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AAlfaro • 13 November, 2009
Iran has protested to an Oxford University college over a scholarship in memory of the slain Iranian student who became an icon of mass street protests sparked by the disputed June election.
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mahmag • 07 November, 2009
Perhaps, some day,
a sunny day,
on the sidewalk, down the street
filled with pigeons
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mahmag • 05 November, 2009
BEYOND COMPREHENTION AND ELAM: A COLLECTION OF ENGLISH AND PERSIAN POEMS AND DRAWINGS
Available at AMAZON.COM
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mahmag • 22 October, 2009
'Anthology of Protest Poetry "(Summer 2009 Iran) which will be available in Farsi soon, with English/Italian/Spanish translations shortly. This Project is a joint effort between Dr. Mahnaz Badihian (poet, educator and activist) and Azadeh Davachi (poet and translator). For any ideas, suggestions or questions please contact publisher@mahmag.org. Below is a poem from that Anthology titled 'Tango in Evin' by Azadeh Davachi.
Guantanamo or Evin
They are only words
That pass through the
Incomplete understanding of geraniums
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mahmag • 15 October, 2009
SPIEGEL: Ms. Ates, in your controversial new book, you call for a sexual revolution in the Islamic world.
Ates: You don't know how necessary that is.
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mahmag • 11 October, 2009
After 160 years, the great American writer Edgar Allan Poe is finally to be honored with a decent funeral service.
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mahmag • 09 October, 2009
As a reader of poetry you always find poets that you can emotionally connect with and feel a specific excitement reading the feelings the poets put down on paper.
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mahmag • 08 October, 2009
LONDON (Reuters) - A group of women who are risking imprisonment to collect one million signatures on a petition demanding greater women's rights in Iran were presented on Tuesday with the Anna Politkovskaya award for courage.
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mahmag • 08 October, 2009
German author Herta Mueller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature
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AAlfaro • 06 October, 2009
Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), mathematician, poet and novelist, published in 1961 his monumental work
Cent Mille Milliards de poèmes (One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets). This herculean work consists of 14 groups of 10 lines of poetry.
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AAlfaro • 05 October, 2009
Three short poems by Iranian poet Nosratollah Masoudi. The first two are love poems and the last is an elegy.
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AAlfaro • 02 October, 2009
The UK newspaper
The Guardian has kicked off a campaign called The 10:10 Climate Change Campaign in order to help reduce carbon emissions throughout the world. The newspaper invited some major British poets to contribute poems responding to the crisis. Here we present two such poems. The first poem called
2084 is by Carol Rumens, a poet from South London who has published some 14 collections of poems amongst other works. The second poem called
Virgil's Bees comes from current poet laureate of Great Britain, Carol Ann Duffy.
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AAlfaro • 15 September, 2009
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