"Christina Beyond the Curtain" is a lyrical rendering of a chapter from The Life of Christina of Markyate, a loose hagiography which follows the life of a young woman turned mystic and the extraordinary experiences that befell her.
Kale Hensley on "Christina Beyond the Curtain" |
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"Poetry Out Loud Takes London"
"Poetry really connects with young people, and we see that time and time again through Poetry Out Loud. That was just further conveyed, seeing them all come together from different countries. Poetry speaks to our social experience and our cultural experience, both personally and historically. Students are connecting to their literary history as well as contemporary life."
via THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Martin Mitchell on Carol Ann Duffy's The World's Wife
"In a way, though, the mundanity of the real story gets at the heart of The World's Wife: throughout the book, our meticulous cultural inheritance—our gods, our legends, our myths, our grandest stories—are stripped of their sheen and recast on a smaller, human scale. The collection is comprised of a series of dramatic monologues from the perspectives of the women who have been sidelined, overlooked, omitted." |
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