While the international media focuses on the battlefield, Russia’s military operation in Ukraine is having a broader effect domestically. Another “front” has opened in the cultural sphere, and this will have long term consequences. Poets, artists, and singers from all walks of life have embraced the realities of the conflict. …
Read More »It doesn’t matter how ‘apologetic’ you are, whitey! Don’t you dare touch black poetry, say activists
Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hill We Climb’ was the perfect poem for Joe Biden’s inauguration. Dripping with metaphors seemingly plucked at random from Barack Obama’s 2008 election literature, Gorman’s poem talked of a coming “era of just redemption,” a “country that is bruised but whole,” where dawn “blooms” and “there is …
Read More »Now lives the Faith that returned to fashion poetry
She introduced poetry into fashion a century later after this form of art has ceased to be massively popular. To listen to the lyrics, its authors collected huge halls of the public. And she just read the lyrics: no bright of the corps de ballet or circus — no need …
Read More »Poetry rain in photographs of the talented Frenchman. Photo
The Work Of Christopher Acro. Rain fell to the ground translucent sheet of water, hiding behind the passers-by, forcing many of them to hide under the canopies of vegetable stalls, tents for street cafes, public transport, made of carefully straightened hair urban fashionistas wavy, painted streets and alleys by countless …
Read More »The teacher hit children in the face for ignorance of poetry. Video
After the incident, the teacher was suspended from duties. In the Chinese city of Hefei, Anhui province, the teacher beat the students for poor knowledge of classical poetry. The incident occurred on 1 September. The teacher called students to the Board and slapped those who were not able to correctly …
Read More »In Moscow, police detained 10-year-old student for a poetry reading
Law enforcement officers took the child by car to the police station.In the center of Moscow on the evening of 26 may, on Vozdvizhenka street, police arrested the boy reading poetry. This was reported in the Facebook journalist Lucy Stein. “On Vozdvizhenka garbage grabbed read poems of a boy of …
Read More »The poetry of rain in Taiwan watercolors by the artist. Photo
They will win any. Young Taiwanese artist Lin Ching Che prefers to paint in watercolor. And a favorite subject in his paintings – a rainy cityscapes. Lin Ching-Che (Lin Ching-Che) was born in 1987 in Taipei. Drawing started in childhood. His artistic education began at a local elementary school, and …
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