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As you may have heard, The TayTay Supremacy continues, with Swift’s surprise double album having landed almost a week ago. Since then, ride-or-die fans have been combing through the lyrics of ‘ The Tortured Poets Department ’ to find every easter egg to add to an ever-expanding lore; countless op-eds have been published dedicated to whether Swift has lost it; and some mildly tortured Swifties like myself continue to bemoan the overblown cultural stranglehold the singer continues to exert through her hyperproductivity, waking up to the fact that oversaturation is near - especially when she coul...
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Legendary poet, writer, actor and campaigner Benjamin Zephanian will be immortalised in a vibrant mural celebrating his life and work this weekend. The artwork will be unveiled in a ceremony at Handsworth Park – the area of Birmingham where Zephaniah was born and raised – on 14 April. The mural was commissioned by Black Heritage Walks Network (BHWN), who describe the artwork as a celebration of Zephaniah as “The People’s Champion”. Artist Bunny Bread, founder of the Create Not Destroy collective and best known for his graffiti art, finished the work in March. “Benjamin really stood for the peo...
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Every so often, the poetry community is solicited by eager journalists who want to know whether poetry as an art form is making a comeback. But if you ask Steven J Fowler, an English poet and founder of the European Poetry Festival in the UK, the question is moot. “There's an article written every six months by a journalist saying poetry is coming back,” Stephen J Fowler tells Euronews Culture. “But there's no context about where it went.” For Fowler, poetry is an endless recurrence, making its way up and down and back again. But he will allow that European poetry is currently experiencing an ...
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New York (AFP) - Poet and activist Maya Angelou has become the first Black woman to appear on the US quarter, in a new version of the coin unveiled by the US Mint on Monday. Angelou, author of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings," will also be the first figure commemorated through the American Women Quarters Program, which was signed into law in January 2021. The US Mint "has begun shipping the first coins" with Angelou's likeness on the American quarter, a 25-cent piece, according to a press release from the agency. "It is my honor to present our nation's first circulating coins dedicated to cel...
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Paris (AFP) - Poet Amanda Gorman made her name with a call for unity within the United States, but the job of translating her work in Europe has sparked divisive debate. "To put our future first, we must first put our differences aside," the 23-year-old recited in her now-iconic performance at Joe Biden's presidential inauguration in January. But in Europe, it has been hard to ignore people's differences when it comes to translating that poem, "The Hill We Climb". The furore was kickstarted in the Netherlands when activist-journalist Janice Deul said it was "incomprehensible" that a person wi...
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The Hague (AFP) - A Dutch writer has resigned as the translator of poet Amanda Gorman, the young black star of US President Joe Biden's inauguration, after an "uproar" over the fact that a black translator was not chosen. Marieke Lucas Rijneveld, who became the youngest winner of the International Booker Prize last year for their novel "The Discomfort of Evening", was picked for the job by Dutch publisher Meulenhoff. But after criticism in the Netherlands of the fact that a white translator was chosen, Rijneveld, who uses the non-binary pronoun "they", said they were pulling out of the job of ...
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Paris (AFP) - A poem by Amanda Gorman, the young star of President Joe Biden's inauguration, is being translated into French, the Editions Fayard publishing house said Wednesday. The inauguration poem by the 22-year-old US National Youth Poet Laureate, "The Hill We Climb", is due out in hard copy next month in the United States and the French version will follow in May. It is being translated by up-and-coming music star Marie-Pierra Kakoma, who goes by the stage name Lous and the Yakuza. The Belgian-Congolese singer was recently nominated for France's top Victoires de la Musique awards. Gor...
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Tampa (AFP) - Amanda Gorman, the young poet who delivered a captivating performance at President Joe Biden's inauguration, opened the Super Bowl on Sunday with a new work celebrating essential workers, while The Weeknd performed a pandemic-era halftime show to headline one of pop's most visible gigs. The Canadian star opened with his hits "Starboy" and "The Hills," wearing a sparkling red jacket and deploying selfie-esque camera work fit for the age of Covid-19. When the artist born Abel Tesfaye broke into "I Can't Feel My Face," he felt his way through a narrow mirrored hallway, clamoring amo...
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New York (AFP) - Amanda Gorman, the young poet who delivered a captivating performance at President Joe Biden's inauguration, opened the Super Bowl on Sunday with a new work celebrating essential workers. The charismatic 22-year-old is the first-ever poet to perform at the National Football League championship, America's most-watched broadcast of the year. In a pre-taped performance Gorman delivered her poem "Chorus of the Captains," paying homage to three people declared honorary captains in the night's coin toss: an educator, an intensive care nurse and a US Marine Corps veteran. "They've ta...
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Washington (AFP) - Poet Amanda Gorman on Wednesday became a sudden star at age 22 at President Joe Biden's inauguration as she recited verse inspired by the Capitol attack, touching on how democracy "can never be permanently defeated." Gorman was the youngest poet to recite at an inauguration, a role first given to Robert Frost by John F. Kennedy in 1961, after First Lady Jill Biden saw one of Gorman's readings and invited her to participate at the Capitol steps. Gorman said that she had been writing a few lines a day but stayed awake at night out of a compulsion to complete her inauguration p...
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