The Problem With Rupi Kaur's Poetry
Not many poets are able to say that Ariana Grande follows them on Instagram. Rupi Kaur, however, can: The 24-year-old Indian-born Canadian counts the Dangerous Woman singer among her 1.5 million Instagram followers. Indeed, Kaur’s particular brand of celebrity is more akin to that of a pop star like Grande than a traditional poet. Her debut collection milk and honey, 200 sparse poems about love and loss, abuse and healing — first self-published in 2014 while Kaur was still in college — has sold over a million print copies and remained on the New York Times bestseller list for 52 consecutive weeks. Tickets for the London leg of her world tour in spring 2017 sold out in less than ten minutes. In July, when Kaur uploaded a series of Instagram posts to announce her forthcoming second poetry collection — the sun and her flowers, to be released on Oct. 3 by Simon & Schuster — each image racked up over 100,000 likes. the way theyleavetells youeverything or
Chiara Giovanni | DIVISION OF LITERATURES, CULTURES, AND LANGUAGES
I received my training in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, completing an undergraduate and a master's degree in Spanish and German. My graduate work at Oxford, generously funded by the Mica and Ahmet Ertegun House Graduate Programme in the Humanities, addressed questions of identity, whether individual or literary: I produced work on race and performativity, and on love and the self, in Early Modern Spanish writing. My thesis examined a little-known West German novel from 1967, Don Quichotte in Köln, that explicitly refashions Cervantes' magnum opus in the service of contemporary political concerns, and the manuscript of this piece is currently under peer review.
Franco Zeffirelli
Franco Zeffirelli, KBE Grande Ufficiale OMRI (Italian: [ˈfraŋko dzeffiˈrɛlli]; born 12 February 1923) is an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He is also a former senator (1994–2001) for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia party. Some of his operatic designs and productions have become worldwide classics.[1][2][3][4] A Grande Ufficiale OMRI of the Italian Republic since 1977, Zeffirelli also received an honorary knighthood from the British government in 2004 when he was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.[5] He was awarded the Premio Colosseo in 2009 by the city of Rome. Early life[edit] Zeffirelli was born Gianfranco Zeffirelli in the outskirts of Florence, Italy. Italian researchers have found that Zeffirelli is one of a handful of living people traceably consanguineous with Leonardo da Vinci. Career[edit] Film[edit] Zeffirelli with Olivia Hussey while filming Romeo and Juliet in 1967 Opera[edit] Honours[edit] Personal life[edit]
Publications and Awards – Angus McLinn
Fiction “Hollywood, MN.” The Other Stories Podcast, Episode 155, April 18, 2018. “The Dim.” 17th Annual Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition Collection, Writer’s Digest, 2017. 23rd Place, Writer’s Digest Short Short Story Competition “Preexisting Conditions.” “Baby Teeth.” First Prize, Quarter Life Crisis Competition 2018 Pushcart Prize Nominee “Saint Peregrine Sequence.” “A Guy Walks Into a Bar and Says Ouch.” “Great Granite Dads” Tempered Magazine, Issue 1. “Getting the Doctor to Tell You to Stop Drinking”; “Horror Soundtrack Love Song”; “My Life is a Low Life Bad Joke” Tiger Train Magazine. “I Want to Stay Like This Forever.”Marco Polo Arts Mag. “Paper Airplanes.” 2013 Saint Paul Almanac, Arcata Press.September 2012 Winner, Harry Scherman Award for Creative Prose Your Heart Really Does Explode.
Songs of My Selfie — Constance Renfrow
Songs of My Selfie: An Anthology of Millennial Stories celebrates the millennial through the works of up-and-coming fiction writers, all under the age of twenty-six. This collection features seventeen short stories by millennial writers about actual millennial issues, exposing this generation's true ambitions and frustrations, humor and heartbreak, despair and joie de vivre. With fresh new voices and edgy prose, these compelling stories offer a cross-section of vibrant millennial characters: unemployed grads deep in debt, expectant mothers on the cusp of adulthood, online relationship addicts, and millennials at war with their families' expectations—even while stuck living at home. Here are the strong and the weak, the self-aware and those who reject reality—all carefully crafted to buck the common perception of the millennial. And yet, with a knowing wink, each story is accompanied by a selfie of its author. “Who better to write about millennials than millennials?
Hermann Oberth
Hermann Julius Oberth (German: [ˈhɛrman ˈju:lɪʊs ˈo:bɐt]; 25 June 1894 – 28 December 1989) was an Austro-Hungarian-born German physicist and engineer. He is considered one of the founding fathers of rocketry and astronautics, along with the French Robert Esnault-Pelterie, the Russian Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and the American Robert Goddard.[4][5] Early life[edit] Hermann Oberth as a young boy, c. 1901 Oberth was born to a Transylvanian Saxon family in Hermannstadt (Nagyszeben), Austria-Hungary, today Sibiu in Romania.[6] At the age of 11 years, Oberth became fascinated with the field in which he was to make his mark through reading the writings of Jules Verne, especially From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon, re-reading them to the point of memorization.[7] Influenced by Verne's books and ideas, Oberth constructed his first model rocket as a school student at the age of 14. On 6 July 1918, Oberth married Mathilde Hummel, with whom he had four children. Later life[edit] Legacy[edit]
Sonia Sanchez
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 9, 1934) is an African-American poet most often associated with the Black Arts Movement. She has authored over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books. She was a recipient of 1993 Pew Fellowships in the Arts. In 2001, Sanchez was the recipient[1] of the Robert Frost Medal for her poetry (one of the highest honors awarded to a nationally recognized poet) and has been influential to other African-American female poets, including Krista Franklin. Early life[edit] Sanchez was born in Birmingham, Alabama, on September 9, 1934. The death of her grandmother proved to be a trying time in her life. Although her first marriage to Albert Sanchez did not last, Sonia Sanchez would retain her professional name. Career[edit] Teaching[edit] She taught 5th Grade in NYC at the Downtown Community School, until 1967. Activism[edit] Sanchez supports the National Black United Front. Awards[edit] Poetry
The Movement (literature)
The Movement was a term coined in 1954 by J. D. Scott, literary editor of The Spectator, to describe a group of writers including Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Donald Davie, D. J. The Movement poets were considered anti-romantic, but Larkin and Hughes featured romantic elements. Enright, D.
