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World Poetry Day: Ancient Greece's Classics, From Homer to Sappho's Poems

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William Adolphe Bouguereau 1825-1905. Homer and his Guide 1874 via Wikimedia Commons Poetry stands as one of humanity’s oldest art forms. It is the art of manipulating words into rhythm and meaning to elicit strong emotional responses, allowing us to experience the world in new ways. As people across the globe celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21,  we revisit the immortal world of poetry in ancient Greece—from Homer’s epic poems, the earliest …

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Selby Wynn Schwartz's book begins with the story of the Italian feminist Lina Poletti, goes through the bohemian nights of free and queer love in France by Natalie Barney and Gertrude Stein, arrives in England where Virginia Woolf will create “Orlando” and walks through Sappho's Greece Imagine a chorus of female voices that starts from a call from Sappho, from her island of Lesbos, and echoes through 19th and early 20th century Europe, with the …

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Havana, 21 Mar (Latin Press) The space “La Tarde del Bolero” took place today in the Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac), in this capital, to honor World Poetry Day. The post bolero afternoon in Cuba for World Poetry Day first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.

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