Inji Hassan writes about her experience during anti-Mubarak protests in Cairo: she details the unity and generosity of Egyptian protesters, the hope for democracy, and the power of Twitter.
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Renée Alberts, curator of the Carnegie Library’s Sunday Poetry & Reading Series, reports on the 2010 Poets Forum. Presented in New York City by the Academy of American Poets, the forum provided a platform for an array of opinions, topics and styles of contemporary poetry.
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Professor Heather Pinson reflects on her experiences of the 2010 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Writer, musician and radio producer Hinemoana Baker reflects on her experience of the 2010 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Poet Yusef Komunyakaa on the 2010 Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Here we present an excerpt of Pennsylvanian author Philip Terman’s long poem “Serenade for Oil City, Pennsylvania,” in which he tells the story of the small Pennsylvania town once at the center of the oil industry.
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As a place to meet, share and exchange, the Tibetan blogosphere has created opportunities for Tibetan citizens that would be unimaginable in the offline world. Keeping in mind the state of internet censorship in the People’s Republic of China today, these new spaces can be seen as new outlets but also as new areas involving personal risk.
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