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18 Apr 2010, 7:57 pm
"American poet Henry David Thoreau wrote, "I was never unusually squeamish; I could sometimes eat a fried rat with a good relish, if it was necessary. [read post]
18 Feb 2011, 8:00 pm
But the impact of what is being done wrong on the national and global scale will, at least for the nonce, engulf all smaller efforts.In the end, which poet will have been right --William Butler Yeats? [read post]
17 Apr 2007, 1:11 pm
We recognize you as a young American poet.'" Governor Crist said that his legal team was reviewing the case and considering procedure, but he did not say how long the review might take. [read post]
29 Aug 2010, 5:46 pm
But Lennon’s toilet, which evoked almost $15,000 of a buyer’s inspiration would hardly have inspired “a flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme“ as did the vessel whose Greek etchings gave the Romantic poet such inspiration in “Ode On A Grecian Urn.” “When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say’st, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,”—that is… [read post]
11 Nov 2015, 5:30 am
The thing that amazes me most is the collections of personal papers from presidents, poets, generals, artists, musicians, comedians, statesmen, scientists, and now veterans. [read post]
26 Sep 2011, 11:26 am
We’re teaming up with Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and WYEP 91.3FM for an event where a range of Pittsburgh’s arts-loving activists — including a rapper, a teacher, a songwriter, and a poet — will read from books that have been banned or challenged. [read post]
18 Apr 2011, 6:00 am
Conceivably there may arise a poet who strings together words without rational sequence - perhaps even coined syllables - through whose beauty, cadence, meter, and rhyme he may seek to make poetry. [read post]
2 Jan 2011, 1:09 pm
B. again: this probably is the real Glassco we are seeing--a permanent case of arrested development, never so vivid as in recreating what is so long gone, forever panting, as the poet said, and forever young. -- *The account appears to be the essay entitled "Fiction for the Sake of Art: An Introduction to the Making of Memoirs of Montparnasse. [read post]
6 Nov 2011, 9:27 am
Serious student dismiss these attempts with the same tired conviction that Shakespeareans use in dismissing claims that Shakespeare was not Shakespeare but another poet of the same name I'm certainly not competent to challenge the conventional wisdom on this one. [read post]
21 Apr 2010, 6:36 am
Here’s how the 7th Circuit eloquently described the origins of the “cat’s paw”: One would guess that the chances are pretty slim that the work of a 17th century French poet would find its way into a Chicago courtroom in 2009. [read post]
27 Sep 2016, 12:43 pm
Or take a real-life example: The home where the poet Langston Hughes once lived is up for sale. [read post]
27 Feb 2012, 2:00 pm
Those stories begin as far back as the earliest days of our country, when a Massachusetts slave named Phillis Wheatley learned to read and write and became our country’s earliest black poet. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 1:40 pm
Frankly, I can only aspire to be as good a writer as Jamison.My wild guess is that he gets it from his father, a poet of both renown and great talent. [read post]
22 Mar 2018, 1:01 pm
Louis Repertory Theater invited Orlandersmith, a well-known poet, playwright, and performer from New York City, to create a play focused on Ferguson. [read post]
10 Oct 2011, 6:38 pm
” And the German poet, Bertolt Brecht, further admonished, “Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life. [read post]
17 Mar 2009, 11:02 am
The hybrid cases were where BOTH: (i) the benefits and costs were diffuse, there would be no legislative action or “feel good” laws such as an appropriation for building a statute to a well-known poet or to have a particular month declared national “exercise” month; and (ii) the benefits and costs were concentrated, then the legislature would adopt “framework legislation” in which some ideas acceptable to both sides might be… [read post]
2 May 2010, 2:28 pm
In Paris he had the fortune to connect with poet Jacques Prevert, and they formed a powerful song-writing team. [read post]
10 Nov 2010, 3:13 am
Lounge magicians, beatnik poets and high school kids have goatees. [read post]
27 Nov 2010, 3:27 am
It is claimed sometimes that the execution of poets, such as Ka'ab ibn al-Ashraf, for insulting the prophet is a precedent for executing blasphemers. [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 9:44 am
If you’re interested, you can read more about the class and its collaboration with the Rubenstein Library, the workshop the class held with poet Kelly Swain, and watch the these three videos (1, 2, and 3) of Duke Students Ryan Fitzgerald, Sarah Rapaport, and Edom Tilahun presenting on their work. [read post]
