Search for: "POET"
Results 121 - 140
of 2,841
Sort by Relevance
|
Sort by Date
15 Jun 2023, 5:19 am
Unfortunately, the measure was drafted by bad poets, and its language is so unclear that now everybody's arguing about when the disqualification would take effect – the boycotter's next term in office, or the one after that. [read post]
4 Jun 2023, 5:19 am
It’s really ironic how, even though there are no rewards in poetry, the little that there are, everyone’s so competitive about, and everyone is backbiting and striving for some kind of recognition in a way that’s probably more sordid than among painters, because there is actually a possibility of having some sort of comfortable life when you’re a painter, while the poets have to fight for scraps. [read post]
4 Jun 2023, 2:40 am
(Verse 3) And there was Liam, a poet with a pen, Words flowed from his heart, again and again. [read post]
30 May 2023, 2:30 am
” Like the poet Dante, you have been warned before you enter the gates. [read post]
26 May 2023, 6:47 am
Domestic policies proposed by Mélenchon include a 100% income tax on earnings over €360,000 a year, full state reimbursement for health care costs, a reduction in presidential powers in favour of the legislature, and the easing of immigration laws....Mélenchon believes in the "créolisation" of French culture and society, a term coined by poet Martinican Édouard Glissant, who defines it as "a blend of cultures that creates something new",… [read post]
26 May 2023, 4:01 am
"From "Pete Brown obituary/Long-haired poet who wrote the lyrics for the Sixties supergroup Cream, including White Room and Sunshine of Your Love" (London Times). [read post]
21 May 2023, 6:48 am
His second-closest, and then his closest friend (after the death of the poet Philip Larkin), was Robert Conquest, our leading Sovietologist whose book of 1968, The Great Terror, was second only to Solzhenitsyn’s The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. [read post]
15 May 2023, 8:07 am
Yevgeniya Berkovich, a Russian poet and theater director, has been arrested for supposed "justification of terrorism" in a play about Russian women who married jihadist men and went to Syria. [read post]
9 May 2023, 11:28 am
Today's DJ reports Manatt celebrates opinion-influenced poetry about its hosting the poet Harbani Ahuja on April 27 in its Century City office. [read post]
5 May 2023, 7:40 am
From New York Times: The American poet and writer Maggie Smith exudes a beatific warmth, so it seemed apt — a felicitous pairing of author and venue — that her recent book tour included an evening at a Brooklyn church.... [read post]
4 May 2023, 9:30 pm
Guido is also a poet. [read post]
2 May 2023, 4:22 am
Here is the Roman poet, Statius--a magnificent writer in his own right, but today largely forgotten--at the conclusion of his masterpiece, the Thebaid (concerning the travails of the Seven Against Thebes), with a lovely reflection on these perennial anxieties: Wilt thou endure in the time to come, O my Thebaid, for twelve years object of my wakeful toil, wilt thou survive thy master and be read? [read post]
30 Apr 2023, 6:18 pm
Here's the abstract: There is a memorable line by ancient Greek poet Archilochus: 'The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.' Drawing on this metaphor made popular by Isaiah Berlin, this book sets out to 'think like a fox' about transitional justice in an intellectual environment largely dominated by hedgehogs. [read post]
30 Apr 2023, 6:08 am
Bellew Poets' Corner 144 In Charles II.'s reign..the love-lock, or curl, was introduced, hanging from the nape of the neck between the shoulders. [read post]
29 Apr 2023, 11:00 pm
”And that reminded us of a quote from internationally acclaimed poet, and author, Nikki Giovanni, who aptly observed, “Mistakes are a fact of life. [read post]
28 Apr 2023, 7:36 am
A question for the memoirist, quoted in "Maggie Smith Tries to Make the Divorce Memoir Beautiful/Her new book, 'You Could Make This Place Beautiful,' is an exploration of what happened to her marriage after she became a well-known poet" (NYT).I clicked on this because I thought I was going to read something about the 88-year-old actress, Maggie Smith, but it's about a 46-year-old writer with the same name. [read post]
20 Apr 2023, 6:31 am
" A poet should understand the shall/will distinction. [read post]
18 Apr 2023, 5:47 am
"In the early years of the nineteenth century, the poet was increasingly dependent on opium, a 'free-agency-annihilating Poison,' as he called it, which sapped his will and made him despondent. 'A Gymnastic Medicine is wanting,' he wrote in his notebook during the winter of 1808-09, 'a system of forcing the Will & motive faculties into action.' The medicine he envisaged would be a kind of anti-opium, a tonic to kick-start the nerves, restore the… [read post]
15 Apr 2023, 3:36 am
In his final months, he didn’t have the energy to draw as large, or with such obsessive, scratchy detail, as before, but he still couldn’t resist reworking one final cartoon—featuring the Grim Reaper, as a poet—before sending it off to me last week.... [read post]
14 Apr 2023, 3:00 am
Another poet I belatedly discovered is Dana Gioia and his recent collection Meet Me at the Lighthouse (2023). [read post]
