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19 Feb 2007, 6:08 pm
Following The Lincoln Lawyer I read all the Harry Bosch novels, as well as Blood Work and The Poet. [read post]
2 Jun 2010, 12:40 pm
I knew from the few entries I read after his initial email that his father was a poet, that he was married to a pretty spectacular (and gorgeous) lawyer and had just moved here from Philly. [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 7:18 am
After high school, Marshall attended Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, where his classmates included the soon-to-be-renowned poet Langston Hughes. [read post]
26 Jan 2012, 7:34 am
It is this latter avatar that we will miss the most.In his first satire, the Roman poet Horace pauses to ask rhetorically, “Ridentem dicere verum Quid vetat? [read post]
10 Mar 2010, 6:52 pm
By one of the great contemporary poets of the English language, W.S. [read post]
29 Apr 2011, 4:59 am
Lingering in our collective subconscious are Thomas Paine’s words about a hereditary governing class being “as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wiseman, and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet laureate. [read post]
18 Dec 2015, 6:16 am
I still keep a list of unusual names on which you’d find a quote from a piece about the poet Herrick: “[He] … had, after all, highly placed friends such as Mildmay Fane, second Earl of Westmorland; Sir Clipsby Crewe; and an officer in the royal household, Endymion Porter. [read post]
29 Apr 2020, 11:46 am
The ancient Roman poet Virgil wrote the line, “Beware Greeks bearing gifts,” which refers to the Greeks’ defeat of Troy using the first “Trojan Horse. [read post]
28 Jun 2016, 10:05 pm
” Therefore, the Society decided that the future examinations should require a display of a general knowledge of English, Grecian and Roman History, an acquaintance with one of the ancient Latin Poets, and an understanding of mathematics. [read post]
31 Aug 2016, 6:58 am
Probably that I am an artist and a poet–I write, sketch, and paint whenever I can find time. [read post]
28 Dec 2011, 3:30 pm
Have you ever come across the book On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection, by the poet Susan Stewart? [read post]
20 Sep 2011, 11:50 am
The longest chapters are dedicated to a comprehensive account of the intellectual development of Mexican nobel-prize-winning poet Octavio Paz, for whom Krauze clearly has a special affection and admiration. [read post]
26 May 2010, 9:42 pm
The Special Edition includes content – in prose, verse, photography and video – from the well known political commentators, award winning poets, photographers, senior civil servants, erstwhile high-ranking diplomats, senior academics, leading feminists, researchers, film-makers, novelists, leading voices from the Tamil diaspora, senior journalists, youth activists and bloggers. [read post]
6 Sep 2016, 12:41 pm
The term “cat’s paw” comes from “The Monkey and the Cat,” a fable credited to Aesop and later written as a poem by the 17th-century French poet Jean de La Fontaine. [read post]
26 Jan 2008, 3:40 pm
Botstein selected 5 works to present under this thematic concept: Alexander Mosolov's "Iron Foundry," a legendary except from a ballet written in 1928; Shostakovich's incidental music for a comic play called "The Bedbug," Gavriil Popov's music from the film Komsomol - Patron of Electrification, Arthur Lourie's funeral chant in memory of the poet Alexander Blok (setting verses by Anna Akhmatova), and finally the enormous symphony for… [read post]
12 Jan 2008, 8:02 am
Not only does surety always elude you, but in focusing on it with spotlight intensity, you miss the best part of the journey: living the questions, as Rainer Marie Rilke writes in his Letters to A Young Poet (this is my very favorite passage): You are so young, so much before all beginning, and I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked… [read post]
22 Jan 2013, 2:00 am
Reaching out to mommy bloggers, poets, and sports enthusiasts may be the best way to draw larger numbers of people into political conversations they might not have otherwise. [read post]
3 Nov 2010, 9:27 am
But her closest friend who gave her eulogy said, "Some bloggers encouraged Nancy to write a book, others simply called her 'a Modern-age Poet.' I think Nancy intended to pursue her writing after completing her back surgery next week, but now she will not have a chance to do so. [read post]
5 Sep 2018, 9:00 am
In the poem, Dante has a guide through hell: the Roman poet Virgil. [read post]
3 Mar 2020, 4:53 pm
In a partially-published, 150-page slip opinion resolving appeals in consolidated cases, and filed February 25, 2020, the Fifth District Court of Appeal affirmed in part and reversed in part a trial court decision finding CEQA defects in the 1800-plus page EIR prepared for Kern County’s adoption of an ordinance designed to provide a streamlined, ministerial permitting process for new oil and gas wells in the county. [read post]
