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...planned to read from and speak about his new book, “The Invasion Handbook,” the first installment of an epic poem about World...

Author: By Alexandra N. Atiya, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Controversial Poet Will Not Give Lecture | 11/13/2002 | See Source »

...Recep Tayyip Erdogan should not even be in politics. In 1998, the charismatic former mayor of Istanbul was convicted under Turkey's religious-hate-speech statutes for reciting a poem that contained the lines: "Our minarets are our bayonets, our believers are our soldiers." He served four months in jail and was banned from public office for life. Yet last week the clean-cut populist was back. His pro-Islamic Justice and Development Party (AK) drubbed Turkey's secular old guard in the general election, amassing nearly two-thirds of the seats in parliament - albeit with only one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Victorious — and Banned | 11/10/2002 | See Source »

Iweala, who performed the fleeting rhymes and ever-changing rhythms of his spoken-word poem, “The Rail,” to intermittent audience cheers, said he was delighted to be one of the evening’s winners...

Author: By Nathan J. Heller, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: BSA's Apollo Night Packs Lowell Hall | 10/28/2002 | See Source »

...rainbow watercolor panels. This is the third grade; you can peek into the window. It’s early morning, so the children are standing up, clapping and singing in tinny, wavering voices. In the next hallway, the fourth graders are still saying the morning verse, the ambiguously religious poem that begins the school day. I said it every day for years. “I look into the world,” they intone. “In which the sun is shining / In which the stars are sparkling / Where stones in stillness lie?...

Author: By Irin Carmon, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fairies in the Cafeteria | 10/24/2002 | See Source »

...much of his own writing, Heaney returns to County Derry and his childhood on an Irish farm, to those “long forgotten and suddenly remembered places.” For instance, the foci of his poem “Lightenings,” which became the night’s case study in composition, are the recalled image of a beggar on a threshold, Heaney’s feeling that the world had become “unroofed” after his parents’ deaths and his memories of playing marbles as a child. Mix thoughtfully...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting Along Seamus-ly | 10/10/2002 | See Source »

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