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...beloved American poet Sylvia Plath COMMITTED SUICIDE IN 1963 after her husband Ted Hughes left her for another woman. What better way to commemorate this tragedy than by cashing in with a movie starring Gwyneth Paltrow? But Plath's daughter Frieda Hughes is outraged by the film, Ted and Sylvia. She has refused to allow the movie to quote from Plath's poetry, and she has written a poem of her own about it: "The peanut eaters, entertained/At my mother's death, will go home,/Each carrying their memory of her,/Lifeless--a souvenir./Maybe they'll buy the video...
...Wednesday, some poet-professors took the bold step of giving a reading at the Loeb Drama Center in support of “a non-military response to the crisis with Iraq.” Eschewing tatty anti-war sloganism for refined resistance, their message was still clear to the TV cameras and 150 people present. Looking slightly toward the heavens, Marquand Professor of English Peter M. Sacks declared: “I say this directly to the White House: we oppose....” There is a nobility in this sort of grandiosity that I think few students recognize...
Former U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky read from his letter to Laura Bush in which he declined the invitation to speak at the White House’s “Poetry and the American Voice” symposium...
Ideal mate: Ryan, the firefighter poet from ABC’s “The Bachelorette...
...Baghdad. It is a sleepy, haphazard sprawl, short on Saddam's favored monumental architecture--and, in fact, on Saddam himself. There are entire streets in Basra without a single depiction of the dictator. Basra's most notable statues are not of Saddam but of such historic figures as the poet Badr Shakir al-Sayyab and the philologist Al-Khalili bin Ahmed al-Farahidi and of "martyrs" from earlier battles. The most poignant of Iraq's countless memorials is on the corniche along the Shatt al Arab: 100 bronze statues of war heroes, each pointing an accusing index finger...