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Poetry Is In Again And K College Prof Earns NEA Fellowship For It When Amanda Gorman read a stunning poem at the Presidential inauguration on January 20th, and followed it with another at the Super Bowl, the art of beauty of Poetry was suddenly thrust back in the spotlight. And now a Kalamazoo College associate professor has earned a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for $25,000. Oliver Baez Bendorf was selected from about 1,600 eligible applicants. A release says Fellows are selected through a highly-competitive, anonymous process and are judged on the artistic excellence of the work sample they provided. The fellowships provide funding for recipients to write, revise, research and travel . ....
Prof Ayaz assumes charge as IIU VP Islamabad February 2, 2021 Islamabad: Professor Dr Ayaz Afsar assumed his duties on Monday as vice-president (academics) at the International Islamic University (IIU). Earlier, Prof Afsar was serving as Dean of the Faculty of Languages and Literature. He has also served as Chairman Department of English for 3 years. He also is the founder and Editor of Journal of Contemporary Poetics of the Department of English. Prof Afsar did his M.Phil in Applied Linguistics (2000) and PhD in English Literature (2004) from the University of Manchester in the UK. He did post-doc from the University of Manchester (2012) and another post-doc from the University of Birmingham in the UK (2014). ....
Poet, educationist Prof Qazi Jamil dies Peshawar HARIPUR: Renowned poet, journalist and educationist Prof Qazi Jamil-ur-Rehman died here Friday night. He was 71 and left behind a widow and three sons. Qazi Jamil was admitted to Corona Ward of Haripur DHQ Hospital about two weeks ago when his condition worsened and he tested Corona-positive. He remained on ventilator for more than a week but could not survive and breathed his last Friday night and Dr Mehvish, in-charge Corona Ward, confirmed his cause of death as Corona-positive. He was buried in his ancestral graveyard of Sera-e-Saleh on Saturday where poets, journalists, teachers, his former students and local people attended his funeral prayer. ....
January 24, 2021 Dr Ajaz Anwar’s one lifelong regret is that he missed meeting Prof Ahmad Saeed, a learned man who had invited him to design the cover image of his book The book cover. Image: Amazon The professor somehow got my contact number and messaged me if I could design the cover of his forthcoming book, Lahore Ki Saqafati Tareekh. It was an honour he wanted to bestow upon me. I had never met him, though. Before I could send a note of compliance, he sent me a copy of his book, Trek to Pakistan. I was especially delighted that he had sent it to me via Pakistan Post which was more economical than the illegal couriers. It still is. ....
Professor George Obiozor, Ohanaeze President General President General (PG) of Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Prof. George Obiozor, has asked the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, and all those championing the cause of separation from Nigeria to drop the idea, saying Igbos have no reason to separate from Nigeria. He told the agitators to understand that Igbo nation was not at war with anyone or the rest of the country. The Ohanaeze leader specifically warned Kanu against his agitation for Biafra as a separatist state, stressing that such demand was beyond him, noting that Ndigbo has nothing pending before any institutional authority that demands a separate existence from Nigeria. ....