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2012 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *January 31 – A Chinese court sentences poet and political dissident Zhu Yufu to a seven-year prison term for "inciting subversion of state power". During Yufu's trial hearing, prosecutors have cited a poem and messages he had sent on the internet. *February 13 – In a ceremony at the White House, John Ashbery is awarded the National Humanities Medal and Rita Dove awarded the National Medal of Arts. The honors are bestowed to 15 artists in all by President Barack Obama. *April 4 – Günter Grass's poem "What Must Be Said" is first published. Four days later, Eli Yishai, the Israeli Minister for the Interior, declares Grass ''persona non grata''. *June 7 – Natasha Trethewey is chosen by the Library of Congress to be the 19th U.S. Poet Laureate. *November 29 – A Qatari poet, Muhammad Ibn al-Dheeb al-Ajami, age 36, is sentenced to life imprisonmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irish Poetry
Irish poetry is poetry written by poets from Ireland. It is mainly written in Irish language, Irish and English, though some is in Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic and some in Hiberno-Latin. The complex interplay between the two main traditions, and between both of them and other poetries in English and Scottish Gaelic literature, Scottish Gaelic, has produced a body of work that is both rich in variety and difficult to categorise. The earliest surviving poems in Irish date back to the 6th century, while the first known poems in English from Ireland date to the 14th century. Although there has always been some cross-fertilization between the two language traditions, an English-language poetry that had absorbed themes and models from Irish did not finally emerge until the 19th century. This culminated in the work of the poets of the Irish Literary Revival in the late 19th and early 20th century. Towards the last quarter of the 20th century, modern Irish poetry tended ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persona Non Grata
In diplomacy, a ' (Latin: "person not welcome", plural: ') is a status applied by a host country to foreign diplomats to remove their protection of diplomatic immunity from arrest and other types of prosecution. Diplomacy Under Article 9 of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations, a receiving state may "at any time and without having to explain its decision" declare any member of a diplomatic staff '. A person so declared is considered unacceptable and is usually recalled to his or her home nation. If not recalled, the receiving state "may refuse to recognize the person concerned as a member of the mission". A person can be declared before that person even enters the country. With the protection of mission staff from prosecution for violating civil and criminal laws, depending on rank, under Articles 41 and 42 of the Vienna Convention, they are bound to respect national laws and regulations. Breaches of these articles can lead to a declaration being used to punish erring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Heath
Helen Heath (born 1970) is a poet from New Zealand. Background Heath is based in Wellington, New Zealand. She received her MA and PhD in Creative Writing from the International Institute of Modern Letters, at the Victoria University of Wellington. In 2017 she was publishing programme leader at Whitireia Publishing (part of Whitireia New Zealand, Whitireia Community Polytechnic). Works Heath's poetry explores ideas of science, motherhood and grief, and she draws inspiration from scientists such as Isaac Newton. Heath's first published work was the chapbook, ''Watching the Smoke.'' In 2012 she published her first poetry collection, ''Graft.'' Her collection ''Are Friends Electric?'' was published in 2018 by Victoria University Press. Heath has also been published in the Best New Zealand Poems series, ''Best New Zealand Poems'' series (2012) and literary journals, including ''Turbine,'' ''Swamp'', ''4th Floor,'' and ''Snorkel.'' Awards ''Graft'' won the 2013 NZSA Jessie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013). (born 16 October 1946) is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote ''The Elements of Typographic Style'', a reference book of typefaces, glyphs and the visual and geometric arrangement of type. He was named an Officer of the Order of Canada in June 2013. He lives on Quadra Island, near Campbell River, British Columbia (approximately 170 km northwest of Vancouver) with his wife, Jan Zwicky, a poet and philosopher. Life Bringhurst was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in Utah, Montana, Wyoming, Alberta, and British Columbia. He studied architecture, linguistics, and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and comparative literature and philosophy at the University of Utah. He holds a BA from Indiana University (1973) and an MFA in creative writing from the University of British Colum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Robertson
Lisa Robertson (born July 22, 1961) is a Canadian poet, essayist and translator. She lives in France. Life and work Born in Toronto, Ontario, Robertson moved to British Columbia in 1979, first living on Saltspring Island, then in Vancouver, where she began to publish and work collectively in a community of poets and artists. During the 90s, she was a member of The Kootenay School of Writing, which was a writer-run collective, and Artspeak Gallery. From 1988 to 1994 she ran Proprioception Books, a bookstore in downtown Vancouver specializing in poetry, theory and criticism, where she also hosted readings. Her first book was a chapbook, ''The Apothecary'', published by Tsunami Editions in 1991. Since then she has published nine books of poetry, three books of essays, and a novel. Robertson studied English literature and art history as a mature student at Simon Fraser University (1984–1988) before leaving the university without a degree to become an independent bookseller ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barry McKinnon
Barry Benjamin McKinnon (born 1944) is a Canadian poet. Born in Calgary, Alberta, he taught English at the College of New Caledonia in Prince George, British Columbia. Bibliography * ''The Golden Daybreak Hair''. Toronto, ON: Aliquondo Press, 1967. * ''The Carcasses of Spring''. Vancouver, BC: Talonbooks, 1971. * ''I Wanted to Say Something''. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1975. * ''Death of a Lyric Poet''. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1975. * ''Songs & Speeches''. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1976. * ''Sex at Thirty One''. Prince George, BC: Caledonia Writing Series, 1977. * ''The The. (Fragments)''. Prince George, BC: Repository /Gorse Press, 1979. * ''The The''. Toronto, ON: Coach House Press, 1980. (Nominated for the 1981 Governor General's Award) * ''Thoughts/Sketches''. North Vancouver, BC: Tatlow/Gorse, 1985. * ''I Wanted to Say Something''. Red Deer, AB: Red Deer College Press, 1990. * ''Pulplog''. Prince George, BC: Caitlin P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Wicks
Les Wicks (born 15 June 1955) is an Australian poet, publisher and editor. He has a long list of achievements in writing, publishing and broadcasting. This includes the publication of fifteen books of poetry. Early life and education Wicks grew up in western suburbs Sydney. He studied for a Bachelor of Arts in History at Macquarie University and worked at a variety of unskilled and semi-skilled jobs while living in Sydney and London. In the late 1970s, he established Meuse publications (with Bill Farrow) which mixed text and graphics. He helped set up the Poets Union in NSW. From the 1980s, he worked as a union industrial advocate for several unions after obtaining a Graduate Diploma in Industrial Law from the University of Sydney. Literary career Les Wicks has been widely published... appearances in over 400 different magazines, anthologies & newspapers etc across 33 countries in 15 languages. Readings/presentations/performance of works go into the many hundreds but includ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pashto
Pashto (,; , ) is an Eastern Iranian language in the Indo-European language family. It is known in historical Persian literature as Afghani (). Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages of Afghanistan alongside Dari,Constitution of Afghanistan â€''Chapter 1 The State, Article 16 (Languages) and Article 20 (Anthem)''/ref> and it is the second-largest provincial language of Pakistan, spoken mainly in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the northern districts of Balochistan. Likewise, it is the primary language of the Pashtun diaspora around the world. The total number of Pashto-speakers is at least 40 million, (40 million) although some estimates place it as high as 60 million. Pashto is "one of the primary markers of ethnic identity" amongst Pashtuns. Geographic distribution A national language of Afghanistan, Pashto is primarily spoken in the east, south, and southwest, but also in some northern and western parts of the country. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qatari
Qatar (, ; ar, قطر, Qaá¹ar ; local vernacular pronunciation: ), officially the State of Qatar,) is a country in Western Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares Qatar–Saudi Arabia border, its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf. The Gulf of Bahrain, an inlet of the Persian Gulf, separates Qatar from nearby Bahrain. The capital is Doha, home to over 80% of the country's inhabitants, and the land area is mostly made up of flat, low-lying desert. Qatar has been ruled as a hereditary monarchy by the House of Thani since Mohammed bin Thani signed a treaty with the British in 1868 that recognised its separate status. Following Ottoman Empire, Ottoman rule, Qatar became a British protectorate in 1916, and gained independence in 1971. The current emir is Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, who holds nearly all executive and legislative ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 29
Events Pre-1600 * 561 – Following the death of King Chlothar I at Compiègne, his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, divide the Frankish Kingdom. * 618 – The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue Rengao at the Battle of Qianshuiyuan. * 903 – The Abbasid army under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib defeats the Qarmatians at the Battle of Hama. *1114 – A large earthquake damages the areas of the Crusaders in the Middle East. Antioch, Mamistra, Marash and Edessa are hit by the shocks. *1549 – The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins. 1601–1900 * 1612 – The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India. * 1729 – Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi. *1732 – The magnitude 6.6 Irpinia earthquake causes deaths in the former Kingdom of Naples, southern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wall Street Journal
''The Wall Street Journal'' is an American business-focused, international daily newspaper based in New York City, with international editions also available in Chinese and Japanese. The ''Journal'', along with its Asian editions, is published six days a week by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corp. The newspaper is published in the broadsheet format and online. The ''Journal'' has been printed continuously since its inception on July 8, 1889, by Charles Dow, Edward Jones, and Charles Bergstresser. The ''Journal'' is regarded as a newspaper of record, particularly in terms of business and financial news. The newspaper has won 38 Pulitzer Prizes, the most recent in 2019. ''The Wall Street Journal'' is one of the largest newspapers in the United States by circulation, with a circulation of about 2.834million copies (including nearly 1,829,000 digital sales) compared with ''USA Today''s 1.7million. The ''Journal'' publishes the luxury news and lifestyle magazine ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Library Of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.; it also maintains a conservation center in Culpeper, Virginia. The library's functions are overseen by the Librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the Architect of the Capitol. The Library of Congress is one of the largest libraries in the world. Its "collections are universal, not limited by subject, format, or national boundary, and include research materials from all parts of the world and in more than 470 languages." Congress moved to Washington, D.C., in 1800 after holding sessions for eleven years in the temporary national capitals in New York City and Philadelphia. In both cities, members of the U.S. Congress had access to the sizable collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
