At the Lighthouse event, Scotland's national poet Liz Lochhead will read her poem, Three Stanzas For Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

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His comments follow reports that a judge in Lebanon has sent a formal charge against Mr Khalife to the country's senior prosecutor for setting to music a poem by the Palestinian poet, Mahmoud Darwish based on a Koranic verse.

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Literary sleuth and Vassar literature professor Don Foster, who famously exposed Joe Klein as the author of the book Primary Colors, sides with the family of Hudson Valley gentleman poet Henry Livingston Jr. in arguing that Livingston is the Christmas poem's true author.

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The book's title comes from a poem by Langston Hughes, a black American poet, that Mr Mbeki often cites.

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Here's a recording of the late Beat Generation poet Allen Ginsberg reading the beginning of his poem "Howl" in 1959.

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More than 35 performers will each read a poem from Ariel, a posthumous collection which includes some of the poet's best known works.

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Mr. ALLEN GINSBERG (Poet): When I went to Kerouac's house once, and I'd been revising my poem, and he said, stop revising.

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