Politics and poetry may seem at first to be strange bedfellows. Yet governance and versification have a long tradition of being intimately linked. Queen Elizabeth.
Will Covid-19 mean another lost decade for Latin America? From Mexico to Argentina, the pandemic has intensified inequality, social unrest and political instability. On 18 October 2019 a group of Chilean school pupils began a campaign of fare dodging on the metro in Santiago. In stations across the centre of the capital exuberant teenagers leaped over turnstiles while chanting: “
Evadir, no pagar, otra forma de luchar!” (“Evade, don’t pay, a different way to fight!”). Their grievance was a small one, a 30 peso (about $0.04) hike in ticket prices. But it proved the spark. And Chile, long held up as a beacon of prosperity and stability in Latin America, turned out to be the tinderbox.
Melissa Crowe is the author of
Dear Terror, Dear Splendor (University of Wisconsin Press, 2019). Her work has appeared in the
Baltimore Review, Crab Orchard Review, Four Way Review, POETRY, and
Thrush, among other journals. She coordinates the MFA program at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, where she teaches courses in poetry and publishing.
INTRODUCTION
Certainly there are things I wish my younger self didn’t have to wait so long to discover about writing that emotional power lies, so often, in the most unassuming, daily, and personal of details; that compression is a superpower; that formal constraint can give rise to freedom, sometimes (almost paradoxically) by limiting the field of choices, sometimes by forcing a revelation the freest verse would let us avoid. Honestly, though, I think my young self might have some things to tell
National Wine Day 2021 Quotes By Suman Varandani
on May 25 2021 8:30 PM Covid-19 related loss of taste and smell has been devastating for people who make a living from tasting wine AFP / Mladen ANTONOV
National Wine Day is celebrated annually on May 25 to honor the ancient drink and the growing number of wineries across the U.S. The U.S. tops the list of countries that consume the largest amount of wine.
California leads U.S. wine production and is home to over 4,000 wineries.
Celebrate this day with your loved ones and uncork your favorite bottles of wine. Here are some quotes about wine from goodreads.com to share on this day.