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WPM Meeting in Caracas
On 14 October 2022, the first face-to-face and virtual meeting of members of the Coordinating Committee –CC- of WPM in 2022 was held at the Venezuelan Chancellery, with the presence of National Coordinators -NC- of the Movement from 21 countries from different continents.
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May the spirit of Kenji live on
MIYAZAWA Kenji (1896-1933) was a solitary figure in Japan’s modernist literature. Based in the poor northeast of Japan, far from the capital, he developed his
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Poetry and Covid: A Collaborative Project
Poetry and Covid-19 is an international project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and led by Anthony Caleshu at the University of Plymouth
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Poetry as Contagion: Language is a Virus
The microscopic coronavirus forces humans to reconsider their existence on a macroscopic level, as collective, as swarm, as massed body. Poetry, like everything else, has
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May the spirit of Kenji live on
MIYAZAWA Kenji (1896-1933) was a solitary figure in Japan’s modernist literature. Based in the poor northeast of Japan, far from the capital, he developed his
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Poetry and Covid: A Collaborative Project
Poetry and Covid-19 is an international project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council and led by Anthony Caleshu at the University of Plymouth
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Poetry as Contagion: Language is a Virus
The microscopic coronavirus forces humans to reconsider their existence on a macroscopic level, as collective, as swarm, as massed body. Poetry, like everything else, has
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Breaking News: Love Not Dead
A powerful new anthology depicting how love over the past two-and-a-half millennia has found its expression in the words of the world’s greatest poets. No, Love is Not
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The Poet and the Reader: Nobel Lecture 2020
Louise Glück When I was a small child of, I think, about five or six, I staged a competition in my head, a contest to
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Parmar and Shihab Nye to judge Ledbury Poetry Prize
The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) announces a call for proposals for the (Un)Infecting the City public arts festival 2021, which will run from March – April 2021. As South Africa grapples with