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Quote of the day by Elizabeth Bishop: 'The art of losing isn't hard to master, so many things seem filled with...' - inspiring life lessons on dealing with loss, letting go, moving forward and acceptance by Pulitzer Prize winner and The Fish and One Art poet

Quote of the day by Elizabeth Bishop: Elizabeth Bishop's wisdom on loss offers a profound perspective, suggesting that losing things is an inherent 'art' mastered through life's constant changes. Her insights encourage acceptance of impermanence, framing endings not as disasters but as natural transitions.

The Economic Times

Ruth Ozeki: ‘All my books are an attempt to recreate Charlotte’s Web’

The US author, film-maker and Zen Buddhist priest on smart young girls, the difference between irony and cynicism, and working her way through 13 volumes of Chekhov

The Guardian - UK

How lichens are bringing stone to life and reconnecting us with the natural world

Lichens on stone, those “still explosions” as the great American poet Elizabeth Bishop named them, remain unseen to most, which is remarkable when you consider how commonplace they are. It seems these ecologically and culturally significant whatever-they-ares unfairly fall victim to something akin to plant blindness, a known phenomenon and…

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Six poems that tell stories about monsters and monstrosity

Poetry isn’t a medium typically associated with towering beasts. Lyric poems tend to be short, tender and concerned with minor everyday incidents. That, or abstract concepts like love and death. Poems also tend to be thought of, wrongly or not, as true accounts – the inverse of creature feature films…

The Conversation

How to watch 'Fringe' online – stream all episodes now

Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson and John Noble head up the Fringe Divison, investigating the paranormal and unexplained. Here's how to watch 'Fringe' online and from anywhere.

Tom’s Guide

Daniel Handler AKA Lemony Snicket: ‘I return to Toni Morrison’s Beloved every five years’

The Unfortunate Events author on getting nightmares from Dr Seuss, Raymond Chandler’s brawny wit and the ghost story he read to tatters

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: The Meeting by Harriet Monroe

A quiet standoff on a US road in the early years of the automobile age is a vivid picture of a world in transition

The Guardian - UK

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‘A more anarchic city’: Darryl Pinckney on New York literary life in the 1970s

The novelist’s memoir evokes the ambition and thrill of writing alongside Gore Vidal, Susan Sontag, James Baldwin and his mentor Elizabeth Hardwick

The Guardian - UK

Meet Ada Limón, U.S. poet laureate

A brief history of our poet laureates and why Limón is the perfect person to be appointed now

Salon

Ada Limón is a poet laureate for the 21st century, exploring 'what it looks like to have America in the room'

“Ada Limón is a poet who connects.” This was how Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden introduced the 24th poet laureate of the United States.

The Conversation

Elderly couple struggle to reach GP surgery after parking issues leads to change in Tonyrefail bus route

Dilwyn and Elizabeth Bishop have spoken about the impact that Stagecoach changing the route of the 124 service has had on them and others

Wales Online

Robert Lowell: Memoirs, edited by Steven Gould Axelrod and Grzegorz Kosc – review

A collection of the poet’s stately prose from the 1950s reveals his shift into confessional writing and the bipolar disorder that led to hospitalisation and regrets

The Guardian - UK

Memoirs by Robert Lowell review – a poet’s life

A vivid account of childhood, depression and the postwar American literary scene, from the author of Life Studies

The Guardian - UK

Seven Steeples by Sara Baume review – an astonishing prose poem

Two people withdraw from city life and retreat to the countryside in this tender chronicle haunted by loss

The Guardian - UK

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