KyiMayKaung

Burma, America, The World, Art, Literature, Political Economy through the eyes of a Permanent Exile. "We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the oppressed. Sometimes we must interfere. . . There is so much injustice and suffering crying out for our attention . . . writers and poets, prisoners in so many lands governed by the left and by the right." Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize Speech, 1986, Oslo. This entire site copyright Kyi May Kaung unless indicated otherwise.

Thursday, April 16, 2009

Lo! It's National Poetry Month by Robert Elisburg from Huffington Post --

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-j-elisberg/lo-its-national-poetry-mo_b_187696.html

Good month for arguing vociferously about WORDS.

Don't mess with a Poet!

Curse those who think words and sentences can be edited to be "diplomatic."

I need to find Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Curse Poem.

Blog note -- post copyright Kyi May Kaung

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Thursday, April 16, 2009

Lo! It's National Poetry Month by Robert Elisburg from Huffington Post --

Langston Hughes--The Negro Speaks of Rivers--I had a tape.

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