Break Up Poems Links

Twenty years of Japanese American waterfront memorial to civil rights

On the west bank of the Willamette River, between the Burnside and Steel bridges, stretches a 100-year story. Through poems engraved in granite stones, it chronicles decades of hard work, injustice, new beginnings and, finally, hope.

Traveller's Guide: Irish lakes

The 'Emerald Isle' is also a brilliant blue strung with beautiful stretches of clear, fresh water. Aoife O'Riordain immerses herself

Wheaton-based journal uses art to empower those with mental illness

Amy Barlow Liberatore calls herself a stigma buster. The singer, songwriter and poet from Attica, N.Y., wants the world to know her immense creativity is actually a pleasant result of manic depression.

Pithy aphorisms

Occasional flashes of bitter wit strike home in the twin novellas of Bahaa Abdel-Meguid: the first, and suggestively more sober, Saint Theresa followed by the no less abstemious so to speak, Sleeping with Strangers . Both tales are at once simultaneously weird and wonderful with the evocatively religious element curiously espied.

Today's Blockbuster Poem (in Tyee Books)

Pull in here next 10 Fridays for some great Canadian verse. First up: 'Creation Song' by Max Middle.