http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NcSVxNafit8 I met Maya Angelou in 1983. I worked for the Center for Participant Education at Florida State University and we had invited Angelou to speak on campus. I went with…
Seamus Heaney died today. The New York Times headline described him as "Irish poet of soil and strife." I don't pretend to always understand poetry though I savor it. I…
Tourist, don’t take my pictureDon’t take my picture, touristI’m too uglyToo dirtyToo skinnyDon’t take my picture, white manMr. Eastman won’t be happyI’m too uglyYour camera will breakI’m too dirtyToo blackWhites…
This poem is written by one of my favourite Bengali poets, Joy Goswami. It loses in the translation, of course. And yet...In the evening sadness comes and stands by the…
