Tag: poet

  • Poets Dream of Peace in Afghanistan

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    In a recent piece Dawn.com focuses on twenty Pashtun poets that get together every week  to share their dreams of peace: Jalalabad is regarded as the heartland of Afghan poetry in a region better known for its warriors than its wordsmiths, on a plateau south of the Himalayan mountains of the Hindu Kush. Meeting every Friday —…

  • Nanos Valoritis on Literature and Poetry

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    Here’s a poem of his — “Endless Crucifixion” — from the late-20th century. Nanos Valaoritis (b. 1921) is a widely acknowledged Greek poet, novelist, essayist and translator. After completing his studies in Athens, London and Sorbonne, he moved to London in 1944, where he translated modernist Greek poets from the 1930’s and contributed regularly to avant-guard literary…