Since I’ve been very young I’ve been writing poems.

They started out as a way for me to relieve emotions, and writing helped me go to sleep. I kept writing and writing, and people were getting inspired, and told me to write a book. Unsure of myself I waited a long time. I’ve now collected poems I have written from when I was 15 to my age today, 19. I’ve got 4 years of poems, and still writing. I want to help people with putting their emotions into words and motivate them to write.

I ...

A book about love and pain in life, expressed in personal thoughts, poetry and images.

In Leeuwarden kun je over poëzie lopen die is aangebracht op grote platen Belgisch hardsteen. / In Leeuwarden you can walk over poems that have been carved into large slabs of Belgian bluestone.De gedichten vormen samen de poëzieroute die door de stad loopt. De route is in 1993 begonnen met een serie gedichten aangeboden aan mr G.J. te Loo ter gelegenheid van zijn afscheid als burgemeester van Leeuwarden. In de jaren daarna zijn vele poëziestenen aan de route toegevoegd. De gedichten op de...

Because the poetry of Adam Mickiewicz is so closely identified with the history of the Polish nation, one often reads him as an institution, rather than a real person. In the Crimean and Erotic Sonnets of the national bard, we are presented with the fresh, real, and striking poetry of a living, breathing man of flesh and blood. Mickiewicz proved to be a master of Petrarchan form. His Erotic Sonnets chronicle the development of a love affair from its first stirrings to its disillusioning denou...

Gumilev holds a unique position in the history of Russian poetry as a result of his profound involvement with Africa. He extensively wrote both poetry and prose on the culture of the continent in general and on Ethiopia (Abyssinia, as it was called in Gumilev's time) in particular. During his abbreviated lifetime Gumilev made four trips to Northern and Eastern Africa, the most extensive of which was a 1913 expedition to Abyssinia undertaken on assignment from the St. Petersburg Imperial Museu...

'This lecture premiered at The Louvre auditorium as part of FIAC’s public programs in October, 2017. To give it, I loaded the talk into a teleprompter program on my laptop. The linebreaks in the piece are a result of the way the teleprompter program broke them up in order to facilitate the reading of the work. Although I have never written lineated verse, I love the idea that a computer lineated the verse for me. This lecture, then, reads an awful lot like the way I talk, but it is truly no...