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14 Apr 2016, 6:19 am by Marie-Andree Weiss
Miller is a photographer, writer, performance poet, actor and is also a make-up artist. [read post]
16 May 2019, 8:30 am
In the words of poet, attorney, and former prisoner Reginald Dwayne Betts, “Books weren't really magic when I was a child, they were just something that I [enjoyed] reading. [read post]
8 Dec 2015, 1:37 am by Jani Ihalainen
Similarly a few hundred years later, Vitruvius, a Roman author, successfully convicted some poets who had copied and passed off others' works as their own.Some ancient thinkers were ahead of their timeBoth the Romans and the Greeks, especially in the context of comedies, distinguished the appropriation and copying of works by other authors as theft ('furtum'). [read post]
10 Apr 2020, 12:43 pm
DETAILS: https://www.loc.gov/item/prn-20-028/ Poets Laureate Joy Harjo, Robert Pinsky, Natasha Trethewey and Juan Felipe Herrera talk to Ron Charles of The Washington Post about "The Poetry of Home" in a series for National Poetry Month. [read post]
26 Oct 2012, 10:05 am by Lloyd J. Jassin
   Faulkner called himself a failed poet who took up the novel. [read post]
23 Nov 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
The poet and columnist for the Nation is also one of the most eloquent champions for women’s reproductive freedom, and her latest book is a manifesto. [read post]
28 Feb 2016, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
” Indeed, nothing was ever easy for Murray, a black woman born in 1910, a woman attracted to women and also a poet, memoirist, lawyer, activist and Episcopal priest. [read post]
2 May 2018, 2:32 pm
" (the book is about going to study at the Jack Kerouac School for Disembodied Poetics, where the teachers are famous beat poets who turn out to be — as I put it in '04 — "all old men, somewhat addled and shambling" and the author finds that he is "not quite so much a student as an apprentice").Yes, why can't I just get through the book, which is quite likable? [read post]
21 Aug 2013, 5:10 am by Patrick S. O'Donnell
The real becomes as lively, fresh, and ‘moving,’—really real—as it was in childhood, which is why many proto-modern and modern poets and artists, Wordsworth, Baudelaire, Gauguin, Kandinsky, Klee and Dubuffet among them, have cherished the child as the greatest imaginer, and ‘primitive,’ childlike ‘outsider’ art as the most imaginative, vital art. [read post]
14 Oct 2016, 6:25 am
Here's what the Online Etymology Dictionary says:In English originally "book learning" (in which sense it replaced Old English boccræft); the meaning "activity of a writer, the profession of a literary writer" is first attested 1779 in Johnson's "Lives of the English Poets;" that of "literary productions as a whole, body of writings from a period or people" is first recorded 1812.Great literature is simply language charged with meaning… [read post]
25 Oct 2015, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
"The book deftly draws together late medieval and early modern legists, philosophers, poets, and theologians to offer a full picture of English humanism, arguing on behalf of its oral traditions and unwritten customs. [read post]
19 Jan 2022, 3:54 am
So Mann wrote in an afterword to a 1937 book about the Spanish Civil War, adding that the poet who forswears politics is a “spiritually lost man. [read post]
30 Jan 2017, 10:34 am
., "The Poets are fond of personalizing both physical and moral Qualities" — but the annoying meaning begins in advertising with this bit of crap from 1910:The Calvert label in a garment..identifies the best there is in Clothing Woolens; the highest grade of modeling and making. [read post]