| 单词 | laureate |
| 例句 | At the White House, he dismissed Byrnes’s concerns by pointing out that the scientific team behind the bomb included Ernest Lawrence and three other Nobel laureates, along with “practically every physicist of standing.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The well-known remark of William Blake that our great laureate of the War in Heaven, John Milton, was “of the devil’s party without knowing it” is testament to this. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Lawrence was the University of California’s first Nobel laureate—indeed, the first from any public university in the United States. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Space cannot even properly be said to be expanding because, as the physicist and Nobel laureate Steven Weinberg notes, "solar systems and galaxies are not expanding, and space itself is not expanding." A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Ernest Lawrence, a Nobel laureate and the intimate friend of statesmen and millionaires, suffered a sudden bout of stage fright at his first meeting with a US president. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The 1933 Solvay Conference on Physics brought together the sciences aristocracy, including a score of current or future Nobel laureates. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And at least two well-known scientists, the astronomer Ernst Öpik and the chemist and Nobel laureate Harold Urey, had also voiced support for the notion at various times. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Rabi, a Nobel laureate and veteran of the MIT Rad Lab and the Manhattan Project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This time Neylan’s target was Melvin Calvin, a future Nobel laureate who had worked at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago and then moved to Berkeley to research peacetime applications of medical radioisotopes with John Lawrence. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Apparently, he is the “poet laureate of the sixth grade.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z “Theorists tend to be more liberal in their politics, liberal ranging on into radical,” the Nobel laureate Edwin McMillan, Lawrence’s laboratory associate and brother-in-law, observed years later. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Lawrence was the only American invited to an event at which he would be rubbing shoulders with twenty-one other present and future Nobel laureates. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The first was a conversation with the distinguished German quantum physicist Otto Stern, a future Nobel laureate who was stopping at Berkeley during the holiday. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His fieldworkers actually tested two elementary students who went on to be Nobel laureates—William Shockley and Luis Alvarez—and rejected them both. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The animating figure was Caltech chemist Linus Pauling, a Nobel laureate known for his strong leftist views and stem-winding oratorical flair. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "The old argument was that the magazine was too safe, too tweedy," said Kevin Stein, Illinois' poet laureate. Poetry magazine well-versed in criticism 2011-06-20T21:14:00Z The laureate’s post, a one-year appointment sometimes extended for a second year, carries few official duties, though many laureates develop public outreach projects. Charles Wright Named America’s Poet Laureate 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Hall, who died on June 23, left behind a rich collection of poetry that earned him a National Medal of the Arts and a term as poet laureate of the United States. New & Noteworthy 2018-07-03T04:00:00Z In 1997, as I was starting college, he was finishing his term as United States poet laureate, the most famous poet in America. The Poet Robert Hass Is a Virtuoso of Common American Speech 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z He will serve as conductor laureate, but the organization remains in no hurry to confirm his successor, four years after he announced that he would leave. A Conductor’s Tumultuous, Invaluable Tenure Ends in Minnesota 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Smokey Robinson, the “poet laureate of soul,” will receive the eighth edition of the Library of Congress’s Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, David Mao, the acting Librarian of Congress, announced on Tuesday. Smokey Robinson, a Leader of ‘a Musical Revolution,’ to Receive Gershwin Prize 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z But at midday on 7 October, Mario Vargas Llosa was announced as this year's laureate for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt and defeat". Why Ngugi wa Thiong'o should have won the Nobel prize for literature 2010-10-08T09:48:00Z For now, our next poet laureate is off to Montana for three months. Charles Wright, former U-Va. professor and author, is named new U.S. poet laureate This Nobel laureate writes a broad, humanizing tale exploring the effects of China’s one-child policy, just as that policy fades into obsolescence. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z "Anne Fine, one of the previous laureates, sent me an e-mail saying the most important thing is to book two really good holidays!" Telling tales 2011-06-07T14:03:00Z Mr. Collins, another former poet laureate, agreed that Newark was a metaphor for where poetry is now. Urban Beat for Poetry Festival 2010-10-05T22:37:00Z It’s strange that the word “morality” keeps coming up when one is talking about this laureate of decadent ennui. In Michel Houellebecq’s ‘Serotonin,’ the Provocative Beat Goes On (and On) 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z In contrast, his fellow critic Leonard Feather christened Hendricks “the poet laureate of modern jazz” and said his writing showed “a talent bordering on genius.” Jon Hendricks, master of scat, jazz vocalization and sly lyrics, dies at 96 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z With this collection she stakes her claim to being Florida’s unofficial poet laureate, as Joan Didion is for California. Review | New stories from Lauren Groff, who wrote President Obama’s favorite novel in 2015 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z He is our laureate of paranoia and dread, a man who fully tapped into the mood of his age, as vital at his peak as any writer alive. Don DeLillo, an Old Hand at Paranoia and Dread, Meets Us Where We Are 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z He served as artistic director of Boston’s venerable Handel and Haydn Society from 1986 to 2001, thereafter holding the title of conductor laureate. Christopher Hogwood, conductor who gave new drive to classical warhorses, dies at 73 This collection is a commanding reminder that the former poet laureate is one of the most important poets writing today. Four Poets Write New Histories 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z It was taught by Robert Hass, who later became the poet laureate of the United States. Lucia Perillo, Whose Illness Shaped Her Poetry, Dies at 58 2016-10-25T04:00:00Z Now 26, Mr. Tyson is a laureate of contests, including a fifth-place finish in the 2012 Leeds International Piano Competition, and a graduate of the Curtis Institute, where he studied with Claude Frank. Music Review: Andrew Tyson at Merkin Concert Hall 2013-01-24T22:22:23Z Former Vermont governor Madeleine Kunin, who named Kinnell poet laureate, told Vermont Public Radio in August that he resembled Frost "in that he also appears accessible on the surface, yet mysterious when we probe underneath." Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Galway Kinnell dies in Vermont 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z Coleman, who died in 2013, was considered Los Angeles' "unofficial poet laureate"; friends, fans and family had advocated for a permanent remembrance. Branch library to be dedicated to Wanda Coleman 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z The outpouring of love and affection expressed for him by his collaborators and friends is on the level usually reserved for the likes of spiritual gurus or Nobel laureates. Allen Ginsberg celebrated by rock stars at the Ace Hotel in L.A. 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z Ada Limón, the current U.S. poet laureate, wrote a poem for NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft bound for Jupiter next year. A Time Capsule of Human Creativity, Stored in the Sky 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z Tracy K. Smith is the United States poet laureate and the author, most recently, of the collection “Wade in the Water.” Political Poetry Is Hot Again. The Poet Laureate Explores Why, and How. 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Although the position is largely ceremonial, laureates are free to use the pulpit at the Library of Congress to pursue whatever initiatives they like. Juan Felipe Herrera becomes first Mexican American U.S. poet laureate 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z It’s the mecca for diversity, and that’s what turns me on about being the laureate,” she told the newspaper after her naming. Janice Mirikitani, poet, San Francisco church leader, dies 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z Nobel laureate Albert Camus was reportedly inspired by André Gide. Reading group: Michel in The Immoralist: 'Are we supposed to like this guy?' 2012-07-19T08:45:21Z It is an occupational hazard of poets laureate that, however far they flee the public, rustic local books will be shyly pressed into their hands. An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z "An unusually high number of former Nobel laureates have exercised their nomination right," Englund wrote on his blog. Haruki Murakami leads race for Nobel prize for literature 2012-08-23T15:20:49Z He will leave his post in Hong Kong in the spring of 2024, after 12 years, and assume the title of conductor laureate. After New York, Jaap van Zweden Will Lead Seoul Philharmonic 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z Andrew Motion, Britain's former poet laureate, said it was "extraordinary" that writers like Hollinghurst and Graham Swift - both previous Booker winners - weren't among the finalists. Julian Barnes leads Booker Prize finalists 2011-10-18T11:01:07Z I learned that England’s poet laureate Robert Southey once told the ambitious Charlotte that “literature is not the business of a woman’s life.” Yorkshire celebrates the writing Brontë sisters, 200 years later 2017-07-27T04:00:00Z Esa-Pekka Salonen is back with his old colleagues, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, for three weeks, more than in any previous season since becoming conductor laureate. Salonen, Denk serve meat-and-potatoes Mozart, Beethoven 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z Longtime devotees will flock to Haydn’s oratorio “Creation,” conducted by James Levine, the orchestra’s newly appointed conductor laureate. Around the World With Music 2017-07-24T04:00:00Z This is how the poet Patricia Lockwood, an exemplar of brilliant silliness who has been called the poet laureate of Twitter, has described her own writing. Patricia Lockwood's Crowd-Pleasing Poetry 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, 81, had a novel out in the spring and has said she's working on a new one. Roth retires but Wolfe, Wouk among authors past 80 2012-11-20T12:59:09Z William Jay Smith, a former United States poet laureate whose work was known both for its acuteness of observation and acuteness of craftsmanship, died on Tuesday in Pittsfield, Mass. He was 97. William Jay Smith, Poet and Craftsman of Rhythm, Dies at 97 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Now he's joining an even more prestigious club: On Wednesday, the Library of Congress named him U.S. poet laureate. U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera: 'The audience is half of the poem' 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z He attended Princeton University, where he was roommates with future US poet laureate WS Merwin, who introduced him to the works of WB Yeats. Pulitzer-winning poet Kinnell dies 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z He was also an exceptional translator of the work of Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel laureate, who became a close friend. Alan Myers obituary 2010-08-22T17:26:00Z Congress rejected a proposal to rename the country's main airport after Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda, famous worldwide for his poetry and a hero of the Chilean left for his political leanings. Chile nixes renaming int'l airport for poet Neruda 2010-04-09T20:30:00Z In 1999, he was made Glasgow's first poet laureate and the following year he was awarded the Queen's gold medal for poetry. Edwin Morgan obituary 2010-08-19T17:23:00Z "It's about Jewishness, but so much more than that," said former poet laureate Andrew Motion, head of the judging panel, speaking to the press after naming the winner. Comic novel scoops Man Booker Prize for first time 2010-10-12T20:53:00Z And to the mansion where a teenager named Susan Sontag visited one of her literary heroes, the German exile and Nobel laureate Thomas Mann. Read Your Way Around Los Angeles 2023-05-17T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureates also expressed their support for a protest against the show scheduled for Monday afternoon outside NBC's New York headquarters. Desmond Tutu calls for axing 'Stars Earn Stripes' 2012-08-13T20:40:10Z Former children's laureate Michael Rosen said that he was "absolutely appalled and utterly enraged" by the news. Government withdraws all funding for book-gifting programmes 2010-12-21T17:00:56Z So begins the mythology of Gabriel García Márquez, the magus of magical realism, a Nobel laureate who blended truth and fiction to fit the outsize reality of Latin American life. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z “I’ve been to places where there is a poet laureate for every ZIP code,” Billy Collins, a former United States and New York State laureate, said. Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates Are Any Indication 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z When the poet laureate of yearning, Kurt Cobain, numbly riffs "hello hello hello", I often think about what it is he wished for and whether hello might have meant goodbye. The Man Booker 2012 shortlist: the authors on their novels 2012-10-12T21:54:02Z In a year when the Swedish Academy won’t name a Nobel laureate in literature, a pop-up nonprofit called the New Academy is aiming to fill the gap. With No Nobel Prize in Literature This Year, Another Award Steps In 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z He was associated in particular with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, of which he was a composer laureate. Peter Maxwell Davies, Contrarian British Composer, Dies at 81 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The American Academy of Poets announced Thursday that Levine, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, has been given the Wallace Stevens Award. Poet Philip Levine Wins $100,000 Prize 2013-09-12T14:25:17Z By 1961, he had become an important enough voice to discuss the state of poetry on television with John Betjeman, who would later be named Britain’s poet laureate. Royston Ellis, Bridge Between Beat Poets and the Beatles, Dies at 82 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z He then offered the Webster’s definition of “poet laureate,” a little nugget of education nestled within the fandom. Casey Kasem: A critic's take on why he mattered, for so long 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z This collection of old and new poems by the former poet laureate of the United States includes Trethewey’s powerful reflections on the way our nation contends with its diversity and memorializes its past. Perspective | What books to read this fall 2018-09-02T04:00:00Z A former poet laureate of Alaska, he revels in the natural: river otters and Arctic char, sedge wrens and yellow warblers, witch hazel and the wolves of Denali. Books Of the Times: Five Poets Seasoned by Life 2011-05-29T22:06:07Z Unsettled passions stir beneath much of the work of the Nobel laureate Alice Munro. Dear Match Book: Forbidden Love 2018-01-30T05:00:00Z As Germany’s greatest living writer and a Nobel laureate in literature, he has also raised a question both inconvenient and impolite. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z Dennis Russell Davies, the orchestra’s founding conductor and now its conductor laureate, relinquished his directorship in 2002, after 25 seasons, to focus more on his commitments in Europe. The American Composers Orchestra Looks Ahead 2012-05-25T18:36:30Z The rules dictate that the host city is determined by the previous year’s winner; this year’s laureate was the Swedish singer Mans Zelmerlow, with the song “Heroes.” Eurovision Contest to Be Held in Stockholm in 2016 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z The single man spotlighted as a guest on the radio program is Annan, the former secretary-general of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize laureate. Angelou celebrates black history with Oprah, Keys 2013-02-02T12:46:03Z I am on the phone with Nobel laureate Arthur B. McDonald, one of the most renowned physicists in the world. Perspective | The physics of ‘On Top of Spaghetti’ has bedeviled him for years. So he asked experts. 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z All three are laureates of major international competitions and sported bow-arms that could buzz like hummingbirds or pound like jackhammers. What do you get when you mix conservatory-trained violinists with Daft Punk? 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z But the most intimate portrait came from Diane Blair, a woman Clinton befriended in Arkansas who was not a Nobel laureate or legal scholar and never held elected office. From press paranoia to affairs: A Hillary confidante’s letters reveal a window into her friend’s life 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z Poetry by Washington state’s poet laureate, who grew up near the Hanford nuclear reservation and later worked there as an engineer. Washington State Book Awards honor six local books 2013-09-05T02:10:38Z When he begins his tenure in September, he'll be the first-ever Chicano poet laureate, writing and speaking in both English and Spanish. U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera: 'The audience is half of the poem' 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Motion, who stepped down as laureate last May, will pick up the story a generation on in Return to Treasure Island. Treasure Island 2 2010-03-26T00:15:00Z What was ridiculous was the idea of a Nobel laureate singing “Stardust” in a voice that sounds like a shaken bucket of rocks. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z William Shakespeare had a secret son who grew up to become the poet laureate of England, according to the author of a new biography. Did Shakespeare have a secret son? 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z The stylish underground bar is a shrine to two of the Nobel laureate’s favorite things: booze and himself. 36 Hours in Montpellier, France 2012-08-09T19:11:35Z Jesmyn Ward’s “Sing, Unburied, Sing” won the National Book Award for fiction in 2017, the same year that another African-American writer, Tracy K. Smith, was named U.S. poet laureate. Kendrick Lamar’s Pulitzer Signals Hip-Hop’s Growing Cultural Clout 2018-04-17T04:00:00Z The Mellon Foundation contributed a $2.2 million grant last year for the laureate program and returned this year to bolster its reach. Mellon Foundation Grants $4.5 Million to Academy of American Poets 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z It was created in response to the growing number of poets laureate in the United States, said Jennifer Benka, the academy’s president and executive director. Mellon Foundation Grants $4.5 Million to Academy of American Poets 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z The performances in June include video interviews with supporters at leading grounds visited by Pook, a composer and musician whose past work includes a joint piece for the Proms with the poet laureate Andrew Motion. Classics to share Royal Opera House stage with experimental works 2010-05-02T14:29:00Z As the poet laureate, her duties will include writing poems for national newspaper publication and performing poetry readings across the country. New US poet laureate announced 2012-06-07T15:51:40Z What do you think of the children's laureate and the work they do? Malorie Blackman is the new children's laureate 2013-06-04T13:38:01Z Pyke, who was “like a figure on a Byzantine icon” to the Nobel laureate Elias Canetti, led a life that would have made for a roaring good read from any biographer. Cool Beach Books for Hot Summer Days 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z That none of Mr. Fielder’s business solutions ever work should not disqualify him from laureate consideration, because his deadpan genius is in defining the age, not solving its problems. ‘Nathan for You,’ on Comedy Central, Mixes Absurdity and Economics 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z She didn’t say, “You’re going to be poet laureate,” but I was with her the three months before she passed, and we did a lot of healing in that time. ‘Everyone wants a place where they feel safe,’ says Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z This former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, now poet laureate of California, rejoices that poetry has discovered new energy in slams, hip-hop and YouTube videos. Review | How do you define authenticity? A poetry collection explores a modern problem. 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z How do you see your role as U.S. poet laureate? The U.S. poet laureate on what America should be reading now 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Ferrara is the punk poet laureate of a city that no longer exists. Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins' 2010-08-05T20:29:00Z The most animated poet laureate in history has three gigs. Edinburgh festival 2011: Soak it up! 2011-07-17T20:29:01Z The Nobel literature laureate announced the plan at a news conference Wednesday, his 76th birthday. Vargas Llosa donates library to Peruvian hometown 2012-03-29T01:55:13Z The poet laureate Tennyson was there, but not Dickens. The Friday Night Gab Sessions That Fueled 18th-Century British Culture 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z This interaction between the students and the laureates, as well as the focus on connecting students worldwide, is what pushed Chicago ahead of other cities that sought to host the summit. Nobel prize laureates gather in Chicago 2012-04-23T11:00:00Z The idea was dreamed up following a conversation between the then poet laureate Ted Hughes and the author Michael Morpurgo, who went on to hold the position between 2003 and 2005. Ireland names Siobh?n Parkinson first children's laureate 2010-05-11T12:50:00Z Instead, Mr. Fo became one of the most unlikely Nobel laureates in literature — until the very day he died, when the prize was awarded to singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Dario Fo, Italian playwright and ‘jester’ who won Nobel Prize, dies at 90 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate had previously remarked that there were no monuments to slavery in America, "not even a bench by the road". Point of view: Tracy Chevalier on the power of silence 2013-03-14T12:05:01Z The position does not carry many formal duties, though laureates have traditionally undertaken projects that reach out to potential audiences. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z The former U.S. poet laureate and the unofficial poet laureate of rock 'n' roll appeared on stage Thursday at Fairleigh Dickinson University, where they discussed their work and careers. Springsteen, Pinsky team up at NJ festival 2010-05-07T01:14:00Z “He’s the laureate, if you like, of the industrial heartland. It’s a very, very American voice.” Philip Levine, U.S. poet laureate who wrote of working life, dies at 87 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z The Nobel laureate André Gide once praised her “natural and strange grace.” Michèle Morgan, a French Film Legend, Dies at 96 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z The octogenarian laureate has had twin careers as a poet and psychologist, with his work in the latter field focusing in particular on “juvenile offenders.” Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z Blake, the former children's laureate who worked with Dahl from 1975 until the author's death in 1990, features in the six-and-under category with Angelica Sprocket's Pockets, which he wrote and illustrated. Roald Dahl Funny prize shortlists writer's collaborator 2010-09-17T09:19:00Z The news that former poet laureate Andrew Motion is writing a play, to be premiered at this year's High Tide festival sounds like something of a surprise on first hearing. Poetry in Motion: why poetic drama has something new to say 2011-03-02T13:10:18Z Canetti, the Bulgarian-born Nobel laureate who wrote in German, has a unique perspective on the hyperinflation that hit the Weimar Republic, and which Hitler exploited for his political ends: The Books We’re Turning to Now 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z Joy Harjo, the current poet laureate and a member of the Muscogee Creek Nation, created a project called “Living Nations, Living Words,” which included a map that highlights Native American poets and their work. Ada Limón Is Named the Next Poet Laureate 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z “I spoke before the American Society of Breast Surgeons and it’s so hard to convince them – Nobel laureates! I gave them these statistics and there were gasps in that room.” Kathy Bates: 'I told Clint that after 50 years, I feel like I've hit the big time' 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z "The Tibetan issue is very complicated," said Tibet’s spiritual leader, appearing on a panel with former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev and other Nobel Peace laureates. Nobel laureates appeal to world's youth 2012-04-25T21:30:00Z The Medal was first presented in 1933 by King George V. Recommendations are put forward by the poet laureate and chosen by a committee. Poet Agard picked for Queen's medal 2012-12-20T14:06:44Z Every October, committees in Sweden and Norway name Nobel laureates for their contributions in fields including physics, literature and peace work. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z She first met Mr. Gioia, the new poet laureate of California and a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, eight years ago at a White House state dinner. Review: ‘Sung With Words,’ a Collaboration by a Pianist and a Poet 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z The committee in charge of awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature likes to crown its laureates with pronouncements that can seem as incomprehensible as its choice of winner often does. Patrick Modiano’s Postwar 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate's next project will be to devote himself to printmaking. G?nter Grass writes final autobiography 2010-08-24T13:25:00Z In January 2013 Trethewey will become the first US laureate to reside in Washington and will work directly in the library's Poetry Room. New US poet laureate announced 2012-06-07T15:51:40Z His commitment to the “art of space” was in part what led the Pritzker jury to select Mr. Isozaki as its 46th laureate, and the eighth from Japan. Pritzker Prize Goes to Arata Isozaki, Designer for a Postwar World 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z “Here’s a smash by the first recording artists we’ve ever known about who’s been officially named poet laureate of any of the 50 states,” he said in a July 1974 program. Casey Kasem: A critic's take on why he mattered, for so long 2014-06-15T04:00:00Z Blackman is also the first black laureate and a forceful advocate for black and ethnic minority children's needs and rights. Children's Laureate Malorie Blackman: 'I'm looking forward to redressing the balance for teenagers' 2013-06-05T12:54:04Z Aged 20, she sent a poem to Robert Southey, the British poet laureate, with a letter declaring her desire “to be forever known”. Woman of substance 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z The Finnish conductor served as the music director of the orchestra from 1992 to 2009, and currently holds the title of conductor laureate. Esa-Pekka Salonen, Yefim Bronfman cancel Hollywood Bowl appearance 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Bjork said she was honored to receive the prize and that it "tickled" her vanity to be mentioned together with previous laureates such as rock band Pink Floyd and singer Joni Mitchell. Bjork, Morricone accept 2010 Polar Music Prize 2010-08-30T15:51:00Z Actor Sir Ian McKellen and 27 Nobel laureates have written an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, asking him to change a controversial law banning "homosexual propaganda". McKellen protest at Russia gay law 2014-01-14T12:16:36Z Tennyson, then England’s poet laureate, joins the search for Gabriel and proves to be seriously self-important. Review | If poets could solve a crime . . . 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z The poet laureate of this kind of tale is the Norwegian novelist Vigdis Hjorth, whose brisk, skittering books pounce on everyday experiences, revealing beneath their forensically detailed surfaces pools of risk and doubt. The Best Post Office Novel You Will Read Before the Election 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z Glück, a Nobel laureate, is a formidable, essential and accessible poet. In Louise Glück’s New Book, Infant Twins Offer Contrary Worldviews 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Reed Whittemore, a former poet laureate of the United States whose work’s calm, unruffled surface belied deep subversion below, died on Friday in Kensington, Md. He was 92. Reed Whittemore, Former Poet Laureate, Dies at 92 2012-04-11T03:47:18Z O, the prophetic soul of Mr. Stoppard, whose younger self has resurfaced as both the poet laureate and court jester of our addled age of confusion. Stoppard Classics, Reborn for an Age of Uncertainty 2017-05-01T04:00:00Z There are a lot of state poet laureates I’m meeting, and they talk about doing what Jackie is doing. Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z The poet laureate typically serves one year in the honorary position, which carries a stipend of $35,000. U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera reappointed to second year 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z The California poet laureate, who serves for two years, gets a $5,000 annual stipend. Obama's favorite book of 2015 is by Lauren Groff, but what's hers? And more book news. 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Herrera, the former California poet laureate who was named U.S. poet laureate in June, has long written out of a sense of community. 7 great books and bookish events for fall 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z And between now and then, several well-known contemporary poets, among them Billy Collins, Marie Ponsot and Jean Valentine, the New York State poet laureate, will offer seminar-style personal takes on her work. Art: ?Emily Dickinson?s Garden,? at New York Botanical Garden 2010-04-29T23:07:00Z The Los Angeles Philharmonic's conductor laureate, who last led his old orchestra outdoors six summers ago just before beginning his final season as L.A. Fill-ins Behzod Abduraimov and James Gaffigan shine at Bowl 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Smith served from 1968 to 1970 as the consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress, as the poet laureate’s post was then known. William Jay Smith, Poet and Craftsman of Rhythm, Dies at 97 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z Mark LaFramboise, a book buyer at Politics and Prose in Washington, D.C., said the store often struggles to get stock of a new Nobel laureate, but this year it’s been unusually difficult. He Won the Nobel. Why Are His Books So Hard to Find? 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z There was a sighting of the Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Arts & Leisure: Arena Opera, Mortier Style 2011-07-14T13:38:17Z The goal is to find a worthy successor to Schwarz, who, after 26 years as music director, will step down and become "conductor laureate" at the end of the 2010-2011 season. Search for Gerard Schwarz's successor at SSO is a broad-ranging and discreet one 2010-05-21T22:07:00Z Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features Ted Hughes, poet laureate and author of such celebrated collections as Crow and Birthday Letters, is to be honoured by a memorial in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Ted Hughes joins literary greats at Poets' Corner 2010-03-23T06:00:00Z The commonwealth of Virginia has had a poet laureate since about a year before the country had one. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z I’m of a mind that poetry is basically a private thing, and that’s probably not a good thing for the laureate to think. Charles Wright, former U-Va. professor and author, is named new U.S. poet laureate The best work from a man who surely qualifies as the poet laureate of California’s canyons, rivers, mountains and coastlines. California in My Mind 2012-10-19T17:08:31Z And then again, among the hilarity, these stories contain tiny, heart-breaking moments of raw feeling, expressed by the laureate of denial in the simplest prose. Will PG Wodehouse's Blandings work on TV? 2013-01-12T15:58:12Z Set up by former children's laureate Michael Rosen in 2008, the prize is intended to reward authors and artists of humorous children's books. Roald Dahl book award put on hold 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z In 2000, at the Festival of Roma Experiences in Moscow, she was named laureate and Roma Singer of the Century. Esma Redzepova, Who Sang to Generations of Her Roma Heritage, Dies at 73 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z And more recently Philip Levine, upon being named the poet laureate of the United States in August, said that a priority of his tenure would be to get more American poets on the radio. Poetry in Performance in New York 2011-10-06T22:17:39Z I have some very exciting stories of having met Princess Diana or Michael Jackson or Barack Obama when he was a senator, hundreds of Nobel laureates. Producer Brian Grazer stays curious and writes about how he does it 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z Alice Mergler, secretary of the county’s arts council and the coordinator of the program, says that Prince William will have a junior poet laureate in the spring after receiving so many poems from younger writers. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The work is inspired by the Icelandic Nobel laureate Haldor Laxness’s 1937 novel “World Light,” whose protagonist is on a quest to become a poet. Testing German Ideas of Beauty 2014-02-19T14:22:11Z A winner becomes a laureate at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, where curators help devise public programming, an exhibition and a published monograph. Otobong Nkanga Wins the Nasher Prize for Sculpture 2023-10-05T04:00:00Z “Martin Gilbert tells the story from beginning to end,” Holocaust survivor and Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel wrote in a Chicago Tribune review. Martin Gilbert, preeminent Churchill biographer and Holocaust historian, dies at 78 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Manchester will still be seeing a lot of Noseda – he is retaining a link with the orchestra as conductor laureate, and his driving energy is something it won't want to lose. Prom 22: BBC Philharmonic/Gianandrea Noseda ? review 2011-08-01T10:12:14Z Fans of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter will be seeing double this season. New Broadway Season Has Something for Everyone 2013-08-28T15:15:27Z After he received the Nobel, there was resentment among some of his countrymen that Hungary’s first Nobel laureate for literature was Jewish. Imre Kertesz, Hungarian author who won Nobel Prize, dies at 86 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Last weekend, I listened to the poet laureate Tracy K Smith on the On Being podcast. What it took to finally confront my family about race and politics 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z This was 's last concert as the BBC Philharmonic's chief conductor – he returns as conductor laureate later this year – and, as so often in his closing season, his programme combined the retrospective with the new. Prom 23: BBC Philharmonic/Noseda ? review 2011-08-02T10:18:20Z The German Nobel laureate, who died this morning at age 87, was not just a novelist but also a political figure, a voice of conscience, a provocateur. How will Guenter Grass be remembered? 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z If I were named U.S. poet laureate, my first act would be to reclassify limericks from light verse to welter verse. Week 1072: The Tile Invitational — our second ScrabbleGrams contest “I’m not going to be an activist laureate the way Natasha was,” he says. Charles Wright, former U-Va. professor and author, is named new U.S. poet laureate Most verse lovers I hear from also mention the buoyant, contemplative lines of the former poet laureate Billy Collins. Poems to Uplift and Inspire Young Adults 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The list of Nobel laureates is hardly definitive. Why Bob Dylan’s Impact Is Bigger Than His Nobel Prize 2016-12-10T05:00:00Z The only character Wolfe seems to admire is a dapper Nobel laureate who argues, in a neuropsychology lecture, that human social life is as predictable as that of ants. Perspective | How Tom Wolfe’s ‘I Am Charlotte Simmons’ sounded the death knell for New Journalism 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate's jolly outlook in Norwich was markedly different to his appearance at the Adelaide Writers' Week earlier this year, introducing the British author Geoff Dyer. JM Coetzee rocks the house 2010-06-29T13:23:00Z These guys are fast becoming the theater’s poets laureate of human loneliness. ‘Let the Right One In,’ a Stage Version of a Vampire Novel 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z She is also Mississippi's top poet and will be the first person to serve simultaneously as a state and U.S. laureate. Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate 2012-06-07T02:59:08Z “Oh, Christ,” Doris Lessing said in 2007, when, as she exited a taxi in front of her house in London, a waiting reporter informed her that she was the newest laureate. Bob Dylan Says He’ll Skip Nobel Ceremony (He’s Busy) 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z Michael Tilson Thomas, who made his debut with the London Symphony in 1970 and is currently its other principal guest conductor, will become its conductor laureate next season. Gianandrea Noseda Named London Symphony's Principal Guest Conductor 1456-09-08T05:00:00Z We’re delighted by the appointment of Charles Wright as poet laureate. Charles Wright in The New Yorker 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z Joy Harjo is the U.S. poet laureate and the author, most recently, of “An American Sunrise.” The Poems That Poets Turn To in a Time of Strife 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Now 83, Ruscha is the unofficial artist laureate of Los Angeles, a foundational — and bridging — figure of both pop and conceptual art. Ed Ruscha’s stunning Sunset Strip art project lets you tour its full length, east to west — and back in time 2021-01-07T05:00:00Z He is the first laureate from India, and worked with the 20th-century masters Le Corbusier and Louis Kahn. Top Architecture Prize Goes to Low-Cost Housing Pioneer From India 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z I'm happy to be a singer-songwriter, but I'm performing at the American Poets Society, alongside seven poet laureates. Bard reputation: pop stars pick their favourite poets 2010-10-07T15:52:00Z Stop trying to fill out the international dance card of laureates. Perspective | The Nobel Prize in literature takes a year off. Let’s make it two. 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z As I sat there, I imagined laureates of the past walking toward the king to accept their medals. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z During his year as a Nobel laureate, he didn’t write a new memoir or release an album of new songs. Bob Dylan’s Year of Living Laureatishly 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z Bridging science and the humanities, Kandel, a Nobel laureate in medicine, offers a refreshingly holistic look at mental illness. New in Paperback: ‘The Disordered Mind’ and ‘In the Garden of the Fugitives’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z I thought the machair was the title of the Scottish poet laureate, but kept my mouth shut. The wild beauty of Scotland’s Western Isles 2019-10-17T04:00:00Z The poet laureate of the United States — PLOTUS, in the lingo — tends to be busy, Howard Nemerov once said, because he or she spends so much time explaining what the job entails. Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate With a Working-Class Voice Meant to Be Spoken 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z He acknowledges that some of his laureate poems worked better than others. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z Seven square metres is about seventy-five square feet; this was where the future Nobel laureate spent his childhood. The Shattering Double Vision of V. S. Naipaul 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Former children's laureate Michael Rosen warned that any cuts to libraries would damage opportunities for children and young people. Spending cuts put libraries at risk, authors warn 2010-10-20T14:42:00Z In his poem "Marginalia," Billy Collins, the former American poet laureate, wrote about how a previous reader had stirred the passions of a boy just beginning high school and reading "The Catcher in the Rye." Book lovers fear dim future for notes in the margins 2011-02-22T04:17:03Z Among Nobel laureates of recent vintage, only Mario Vargas Llosa, who won the prize in literature last year, has delivered as much pure pleasure as the Portuguese novelist José Saramago. Books of The Times: A Cautious Memoirist Who Ends With a Laugh 2011-05-10T20:49:38Z But as a poet, she has been awarded the highest honor in her field: On Tuesday, the Library of Congress announced she will become the next poet laureate of the United States. Ada Limón Is Named the Next Poet Laureate 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z The Swedish Academy, who decides who the Nobel laureate in literature will be each year, stopped trying to contact the 75-year-old Dylan after several attempts to reach him went unanswered. Bob Dyland Removes Nobel Prize Acknowledgment From Website 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z The 2012 Nobel Peace laureate is to be named on Friday by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and the prize in economics is to be announced on Monday by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. China’s Mo Yan Wins Nobel Literature Prize 2012-10-11T13:28:15Z There is a market for comic boy’s books that are “gross and disgusting,” full of “boogers and underpants,” explains the new poet laureate; Nesbitt’s books are a cut well above that. Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate 2013-06-15T14:58:08Z After escaping, she became a spokeswoman for other endangered Yazidis, and she is one of two laureates for the Nobel Peace Prize this year. New in Paperback: ‘Lou Reed,’ ‘The King Is Always Above the People’ 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Born Valerie Fletcher in Leeds, northern England, on Aug. 17, 1926, Eliot was the second wife of the U.S.-born Nobel literature laureate. T.S. Eliot's widow Valerie Eliot dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:43:10Z Among Indian public intellectuals, a bright category that includes the Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Roy is probably now her country's most globally famous polemicist, as both a writer and speaker. India's bold, brilliant daughter 2011-01-29T00:06:38Z Williamson, who has been quick to reject his thrust-upon status as poet laureate of the alienated English underclasses, would likely roll his buggy, bored eyes at such sentiments. Anger is an energy: The world’s best live band is made up of two middle-age British blokes in sweatpants 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z If I had a research assistant, I’d have him count and graph the age, ethnicity, gender and nationality — among other characteristics — of the laureates. What to see in L.A. galleries: tiny paintings of breathtaking beauty, photographs of the super-smart 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z "The government hasn't given us any notion of what they think a poet laureate is," Marsack added. Scotland stalls on new poet laureate 2011-01-02T18:43:43Z Malfi, written in 1612, is the glittering masterpiece of a playwright whose propensity for violence and the macabre led to him be described by George Bernard Shaw as the Tussaud laureate. Malfi mania 2010-04-14T16:37:00Z Two older works that have been on the list before also appear: Sherman Alexie’s autobiographical novel “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” and Nobel laureate Toni Morrison’s debut novel “The Bluest Eye.” Library study finds ‘challenged’ books soared in 2021 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z Sutton said nearly all the cancellations were due to illness or travel problems; in one case, the headlining author and Nobel laureate José Saramago died just after the programme was published. Edinburgh international book festival sees dip in ticket sales 2010-08-31T13:04:00Z As a winner of the prize, Soyinka can nominate future laureates to the Swedish Academy, and said he had been receiving a series of letters begging him to put Achebe forward. Calls for China Achebe Nobel prize 'obscene', says Wole Soyinka 2013-05-20T11:15:50Z Mark Strand, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate widely praised for his concentrated, elegiac verse, died Nov. 29 in Brooklyn. Mark Strand, acclaimed bard of absence and loss, dies at 80 The curators were convicted for their 2007 exhibit entitled "Forbidden Art" at the Sakharov Museum, a human rights center named after celebrated dissident physicist and Nobel peace prize laureate Andrei Sakharov. Russian curators sentenced but not imprisoned 2010-07-12T14:44:00Z The tale looms large for the Saints because Snow became the poet laureate of Mormon culture, and a grande dame in the Saints’ new Zion of Salt Lake City. Blood vows: Joseph Smith, Mormonism and the invention of American polygamy 2014-04-20T17:00:00Z Many authors have not been as measured as the children's laureate in their response to Deary's salvo. Julia Donaldson defends libraries from Terry Deary's attack 2013-02-15T16:13:12Z On Monday afternoon, several people stopped to buy books, largely grabbing novels, including one by the Portuguese writer José Saramago, a Nobel laureate. As London Bookstores Reopen, Eager Readers Return 2020-06-17T04:00:00Z AP: Are there any hokey demands on you as poet laureate? AP Interview: Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry 2012-11-21T13:16:14Z But as a poet laureate, on the inside of the Kims’ mythmaking machine, he sheds new light both on the dynasty’s ideological underpinnings and on what he calls “the tantrums of a defeated man”. Binding minds 2014-05-01T04:00:00Z Before he wrote “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” the novel that shook up the world of Latin American letters, Nobel laureate Gabriel García Márquez worked as a screenwriter in Mexico. Essential Arts & Culture: Zumthor's latest LACMA plan, USC's big art hires, a reparations debate, Streisand's Sondheim 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z “The work that a poet laureate does highlights poetry and its value in a public sphere,” says Stephen Young, program director at the Poetry Foundation. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z We've got 26 minutes to go: how about seeing how many former laureates you can spot in the Nobel website's wordsearch? Nobel prize in literature 2012: live blog 2012-10-11T10:49:18Z The brooding vocals and philosophical lyrics of anthems like “Suzanne” and “Hallelujah” earned him nicknames like the “godfather of gloom” and the “poet laureate of pessimism.” Exploring the Montreal That Leonard Cohen Loved 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z The book “affirms Haskell as a laureate for the earth, his finely tuned scientific observations made more potent by his deep love for the wild he hopes to save,” Cynthia Barnett writes in her review. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z Philip Levine, the former U.S. poet laureate who died of pancreatic cancer on Feb. 14 at 87, was not a poet to everyone’s taste. Philip Levine: a poet for the American working man 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z For almost 200 years, theaters staged a happier “Lear,” a script substantially altered by Nahum Tate, who became England’s poet laureate in 1692. Perspective | Turns out the Trump era isn’t ‘1984.’ It’s ‘King Lear.’ 2017-05-28T04:00:00Z “In my timeline, there is a direct line from Patti Smith to Sinead O’Connor,” says Stipe, invoking the 1970s punk poet laureate. Sinead O’Connor is still in one piece 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z You see that woman now and again in “The Super 8 Years,” which was made before she became a Nobel laureate — what timing! ‘The Super 8 Years’ Review: Annie Ernaux’s Celluloid Souvenirs 2022-12-15T05:00:00Z In addition to serving as the U.S. poet laureate, Trethewey is serving for four years as poet laureate for Mississippi. AP Interview: Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry 2012-11-21T13:16:14Z Children's laureate Anthony Browne, who announced Brahmachari's win, described Artichoke Hearts as "a beautifully written book about family, friendship, grief and hope, which made me laugh and cry – sometimes at the same time". Tribute to 'totally funky grandma' wins Waterstone's children's book prize 2011-02-10T10:29:23Z If Cave's not exactly a household name among the mainstream rock set, he's a laureate of the underground, one whose shadow becomes bigger with each passing year. Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds offer fury, comfort, brimstone at Ace Hotel 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z In an earlier version, the name of one of the sponsors of the poet laureate program was accidentally omitted. New state poet laureate hopes to turn adults to a love of poetry 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z Robert Scott is still working on the project he started as county poet laureate five years ago. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z The poet laureate serves a two-year term and is asked to perform public readings, undertake a significant cultural project and engage civic leaders on the subject of poetry and creative writing. Help wanted: Next California poet laureate 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z He may have won the Nobel Prize in 2001 but, from the start, he was a laureate of humiliation. V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious Greatness 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z Murguía is San Francisco's poet laureate and two-time winner of the American Book Award. Festival of Books: Poetry, from sonnets to the 'language of the street' 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z Fights and walk-outs dominate the show, with even the mild-mannered former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion eventually losing his rag. Tonight's TV highlights: Great British Food Revival 2011-03-16T00:05:01Z The author, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former poet laureate, assesses contemporary poetry in this brief volume, with an eye to broader questions of American identity. New in Paperback: ‘Augustown,’ ‘The Storied City’ 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Local media outlets reports the Nobel laureate met with students and presented a reading Wednesday at Oberlin College from her latest novel, "Home." Toni Morrison tells Ohioans she won't write memoir 2012-03-15T12:30:09Z The poet laureate will be appointed by the governor and confirmed by the state Senate for a coming two-year term. Help wanted: Next California poet laureate 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z His carol takes as its text a poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, the Victorian poet laureate. Bleak midwinter to Sydney sun: King's College carol service gets a taste of Australia 2012-12-22T13:10:26Z Though Ms. Smith often takes on current social and political issues in her poetry, she doesn’t plan to use her position as poet laureate to advocate social causes, she said. Tracy K. Smith Is the New Poet Laureate 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z Friday night, we have the poet laureate, whoever that is at the time. He Brought an Artistic Flair to the Knight Foundation’s Philanthropy 2023-03-24T04:00:00Z But there are other reasons not to saddle Hogg with the title of laureate of the middle class. Posh pushovers: why do films squeeze out the middle classes? 2011-02-25T15:22:36Z After 10 years as poet laureate it's not surprising Andrew Motion is in the mood for something new, and he reveals today that his new writing plans involve swashbuckling pirates. Treasure Island 2 2010-03-26T00:15:00Z Many commentators say that the omission of Gandhi from the list of laureates is the biggest error in the history of the Prize, first awarded in 1901. Pakistani teen, Indian activist win Nobel Peace Prize 2014-10-11T04:00:00Z “This collection is a commanding reminder that the former poet laureate is one of the most important poets writing today.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z The author Tracy K. Smith is in the second of her two years as the poet laureate of the United States. Tracy K. Smith and Jacqueline Woodson Talk Reading, Race and Spreading the Gospel of Literature 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z Yet, at 48, Stark is nonetheless emerging as the visual poet laureate of the Internet age. 'UH-OH: Frances Stark, 1991-2015' at Hammer Museum is an enthralling midcareer survey 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Mann, a Nobel laureate, left Germany in the early 1930s when Hitler rose to power. Germany Buys Thomas Mann’s Los Angeles Home 2016-11-18T05:00:00Z Unlike her male postcolonial contemporaries and fellow Nobel laureates V. S. Naipaul or J. M. Coetzee, Lessing — like Anna — is unafraid to dirty her hands in the quest for truth. Doris Lessing’s ‘Golden Notebook’ and Our Era of Unrest 2020-08-15T04:00:00Z Yet Hollywood and the burgeoning community of awards socialists see these lists of laureates as predictors of Oscar nominees and winners. Critics Awards 2: Judgment Daze 2013-12-10T18:55:39Z When that poet is Trethewey, former poet laureate of the United States, start reading immediately. Ten books to read in July 2020-06-30T04:00:00Z Language, territory and conflict dominate the work of Nobel prize laureate Herta Müller. The Hunger Angel by Herta Müller – review 2012-11-21T08:00:07Z On Wednesday at 8 p.m., for example, the economist Thomas Piketty joins Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate and columnist for The New York Times, and Joseph Stiglitz, also a Nobel winner. Spare Times Listings for Feb. 27-March 5 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Tilson Thomas will become the New World Orchestra’s artistic director laureate and intends to work with orchestra fellows and alumni on projects. Tilson Thomas resigns from New World Symphony, lessens work 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z He's enlisted 13 state poets laureate to help drum up support. A day to honor poets? Quoth the raven 'Evermore' 2010-04-23T13:16:00Z Also at the library that day will be Taffy Thomas, the UK's first storyteller laureate based at Grasmere. Cumbria is the place to boggle your Hallowe'en mind 2012-10-29T10:33:55Z LAGOS, Nigeria — Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says his nation Nigeria is "at war" with a radical Islamist sect and shouldn't negotiate with a group that only wants "abysmal appeasement." Nobel laureate Soyinka: Nigeria 'at war' with sect 2012-11-09T14:19:08Z In 1966 he succeeded Stephen Spender as consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress — a job we now call poet laureate — and he enjoyed his term in a way few have since. Books: ?Deliverance?: A Dark Heart Still Beating 2010-08-24T22:27:00Z Instead, he will assume the position of conductor laureate, meaning he will continue in a less-prominent role. Eschenbach to leave NSO, Kennedy Center music directorship in 2017 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z Blending poetry and prose, Harjo examines her childhood, her ancestors and her path to becoming the country’s first Native American poet laureate. Newly Published, From Water Statues to the Supreme Court 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The laureates receive them at an elegant ceremony on Dec. 10 — the anniversary of Nobel’s death in 1896 — in Stockholm and in Oslo. 2 Nobel literature prizes to be awarded after 2018 scandal 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z It is one of my two Telluride favorites, along with another Cannes laureate, “Leviathan,” a grave and beautiful drama, at once intimate and enormous, from the Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev. The Telluride Film Festival Features ‘Mr. Turner’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Rivlin said the laureates were selected “for their achievements on behalf of humanity.” Stevie Wonder awarded Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z He prefers to talk art, not politics, dropping in references to Goethe and Italo Calvino and comparing himself to last year's Nobel literature laureate Mario Vargas Llosa. Wang Xiaofang exposes world of Chinese bureaucracy 2011-02-25T19:19:44Z When he was 95, he became the nation’s poet laureate. The symbiotic relationship between poets and the garden 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z Edward Koren, whose whimsical cartoons of shaggy animals and hairy, bemused humans are a staple of , is the neighborhood’s poet laureate. Art Review: Edward Koren at the Wallach and Luise Ross Galleries 2010-05-20T21:44:00Z The two performed the tune in December at the Nobel Peace concert in honor of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo in Oslo, Norway. India.Arie readies 5th effort with Israeli singer 2011-03-03T14:07:26Z Announced in Tokyo, London, Rome and other cities, the laureates were selected from lists submitted by a panel of international advisers who include former prime ministers, diplomats, politicians and global cultural figures. Japan hands top arts prize to filmmaker Coppola, sculptor Gormley 2013-09-17T20:06:55Z Looking back, though, what was it like to feel the wrath of the Nobel laureate Grass? Helene Hegemann: 'There's no such thing as originality, just authenticity' 2012-06-23T23:05:24Z I remember listening on a typical gray and rainy Seattle afternoon to Oregon’s poet laureate, Paulann Petersen, reading and talking in the old store. Readers and writers remember 2013-06-21T20:58:44Z “I thought coupling the Republic’s poet laureate and America’s balladeer was a unique invitation to young and old audiences,” Ostrow added in a recent email. Bob Dylan’s First Musical Had a Devil of a Time 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z Mr. Goldsmith, who refers to his writing as “mimetic and uncreative,”recently became the first poet laureate appointed by the Museum of Modern Art. Books of The Times: ‘Seven American Deaths and Disasters’ Transcribes the News 2013-06-18T19:13:23Z She went on to become what The Boston Globe called “something very close to Scotland’s folk singer laureate.” Jean Redpath, Prolific Scottish Folk Singer, Dies at 77 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z Since Poe’s death in 1849 he has been the patron saint of paranoia, the poet laureate of the young, lonely and morbidly romantic, who see this world and the next as one seamless, fearful pageant. The Raven: Edgar Allen Poe Solves a Serial-Killer Mystery 2012-04-27T10:30:18Z Following the news of Herrera being named the new U.S. poet laureate, we gathered a few videos of the high-spirited Herrera enthusiastically sharing his creative vision with his audiences. See how Juan Felipe Herrera won the crown of poet laureate 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Naipaul, the Nobel laureate who died at 85 on Saturday, had so many gifts as a writer — suppleness, wit, an unsparing eye for detail — that he could seemingly do whatever he wanted. V.S. Naipaul, a Writer of Many Contradictions and Obvious Greatness 2018-08-12T04:00:00Z In the United States, the role of national poet laureate grew from the Library of Congress’s consultant of poetry; the first was Joseph Auslander in 1937. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z And, no great shock, these are the very comic books that our enduring horror laureate, Stephen King, cut his sharp teeth on. Books of the Dead 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, Donaldson is not worried her work as laureate will get in the way of her writing. Telling tales 2011-06-07T14:03:00Z Lower-league football will never have a greater laureate than this man whose rasped tones can make 'six defeats in a row for Hereford' sound like a national emergency. Web exclusive! All the celeb lists we couldn't fit in the mag 2010-12-17T12:18:20Z Valerie Eliot was the second wife of the US-born Nobel laureate in literature, whom she met at London publisher Faber & Faber. Valerie Eliot, widow of TS Eliot, dies at 86 2012-11-11T17:55:00Z Limón is the first woman of Mexican ancestry to be named poet laureate of the U.S. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The Washington state poet laureate will discuss and read from several of her books, including her latest, "Plume." 12 top entertainment picks for the week of Sept. 2-8, 2012 2012-08-29T21:43:04Z Soyinka, the Nobel laureate and playwright, returns with his first novel in nearly 50 years, set in an imaginary Nigeria. 19 New Books Coming in September 2021-08-26T04:00:00Z In this oral history, the Nobel laureate channels the memories of Russians who experienced World War II as children, allowing the malleable perception of youth to flash alongside the adult’s somber recollection. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-08-22T04:00:00Z Eminent biologists and doctors, including Nobel laureates, dismissed their work as scientifically worthless, unnecessary and ethically questionable, and the Medical Research Council would not fund it. Seven ways IVF changed the world – from Louise Brown to stem-cell research 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z Polar Music Prize laureate Chuck Berry has been honored at an awards ceremony in Sweden. Chuck Berry Honored With 'Music's Nobel Prize' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z The afternoon found the children's laureate, Anthony Browne, being quizzed on his favourite animal, while Lucy Mangan hosted a debate on the Puffin of Puffins, in which the superlative Goodnight, Mister Tom finally triumphed. Hay festival 2010: Thursday at Hay 2010-06-04T12:05:00Z In Lincoln — where the mayor bought a C.S.A. share — an original piece of poetry by Ted Kooser, a former poet laureate of the United States, is among this year’s offerings. ‘Buy Local’ Gets Creative 2013-08-04T21:51:29Z Alongside Louis tonight are Allegra Huston, author of the memoir Love Child, and the current children's laureate Anthony Browne. The Culture Show 2010-06-03T07:00:00Z Separately, Martelly said he is moving ahead with a campaign pledge to restore Haiti's army despite opposition raised by some people, including Nobel peace laureate and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias. Haiti president to host Oprah Winfrey during visit 2011-12-10T02:54:12Z Many teach, one former poet laureate sold insurance, others get by on grants. David Byrne's Warning About KindleUnlimited, From Last October 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z In the original cartoon as well as the new film, which opens Friday, Mr. Peabody is a Nobel laureate, a master inventor and a fabulous dinner party host. A career comeback for Mr. Peabody 2014-03-06T19:34:07Z Several previous poets laureate have criticized McCrory for bypassing the traditional though not obligatory process of involving the North Carolina Arts Council in the selection. NC gov defends his self-published poet laureate 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z An earlier version of this article misspelled the surname of one poet laureate. 13 Poets Laureate Receive Fellowships for Civic Projects 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, painter, social activist and bookstore owner, has been San Francisco’s de facto poet laureate and literary Pied Piper for seven decades. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z That’s not always true of Nobel laureates, popularity with American readers not being one of the Swedish Academy’s criteria. Kazuo Ishiguro is a rarity and now a Nobel Laureate 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z The children's author will work to "engage young people with high quality children's literature and to underline the importance of children's literature in our cultural and imaginative life" in her role as laureate. Ireland names Siobh?n Parkinson first children's laureate 2010-05-11T12:50:00Z Collins: It was the first time I spoke publicly about a project I had just started as poet laureate. ‘The end of an innocent world’: An oral history of the first National Book Festival, which debuted three days before 9/11 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z Trethewey is considered Mississippi's top poet and will become the first person to serve as state and US laureate at the same time. New US poet laureate announced 2012-06-07T15:51:40Z Robert Penn Warren, who wrote so eloquently and at times conflictedly about the South and its history, is one of her models, and so is Gwendolyn Brooks, the first black laureate. Natasha Trethewey Is Named Poet Laureate 2012-06-07T02:03:39Z Tracy K. Smith, America’s poet laureate, returns with her first collection since “Life on Mars” won a Pulitzer Prize in 2012. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z A poet laureate, Daniel Thomas Moran, officiated, and the mother of the bride baked the couple’s two wedding cakes. On Love: Michelle L’Archeveque and Adam Jones Joy Harjo becomes the first Native American poet laureate of the United States. The biggest book news of the year 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z A former poet laureate of Rhode Island, Ms. Wright was a professor of poetry at Brown University at the time of her death. C.D. Wright, poet who wrote of her Arkansas youth, dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z The poet laureate has few required duties, but becomes an ambassador for the form. Ada Limón Is Named the Next Poet Laureate 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — Actor Sean Penn is being honored by a group of Nobel laureates for his relief work in Haiti following the country's devastating January 2010 earthquake. Sean Penn's Haiti work earns humanitarian prize 2012-03-19T19:46:12Z One day someone slipped an anthology of poetry under his cell door: “The Black Poets,” edited by Dudley Randall, Detroit’s first poet laureate. A Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After Prison 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z The post of poet laureate is an apolitical position, which might seem limiting in the face of the country’s sharp political divide. Ada Limón Is Named the Next Poet Laureate 2022-07-12T04:00:00Z Theroux, a younger friend of the Nobel laureate, soured on the relationship either after a snub on the street or when Naipaul sold books at auction that Theroux had autographed to him. What do a Gutenberg Bible, Charles Bukowski and Paul Theroux have in common? 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z On Friday night, he returned to Walt Disney Concert Hall for the first of three weeks leading his old orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, of which he is conductor laureate, in a brilliant concert. A hero's welcome for Esa-Pekka Salonen at Disney Hall 2016-01-31T05:00:00Z He has also long been interested in art, particularly abstract art, and, in this trim volume, Kandel the Nobel laureate and Kandel the art lover join forces. What We Know About Art and the Mind 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z Every October, as the approach of winter turns our thoughts to the frozen north, the phones vibrate with calls from Swedish newspapers, anxious to get the foreign perspective on likely Nobel laureates. Here's our Booker dozen ? what's yours? 2011-07-25T13:31:23Z But due to the pandemic, the awards will be given at the laureates’ place of residence. Stevie Wonder awarded Israel’s prestigious Wolf Prize 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z Mr. Anderson, a Los Angeles son and its reigning cinema laureate, knows California’s plagues and pleasures well. ‘Inherent Vice,’ Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z The music world lost today one of its greatest poet laureates. Songwriter Jerry Leiber dies at 78 2011-08-23T11:27:25Z The daughters of President Barack Obama, entertainers, a Nobel laureate and a girl baseball player all made Time's annual list of most influential teenagers, the magazine said on Monday. Obama girls, Malala Yousafzai, Tavi Gevinson make Time's 'influential teens' list 2014-10-13T04:00:00Z If some previous laureates are any indication, she may be sending out poems long after her tenure ends. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z This year’s Nobel laureate will be announced by the Swedish Academy at 1 p.m. ArtsBeat Blog: Dylan Tangled Up in Nobel Prize Speculation 2011-10-05T17:14:37Z Phil, which Salonen led for 17 years and of which he has been conductor laureate for five, still sounds like his when he conducts it. A brilliant start to Esa-Pekka Salonen's L.A. Phil residency 2014-10-27T04:00:00Z "It would be very easy for a poet laureate to spend most of his or her time in the Bay Area or the Los Angeles area," he said. Obama's favorite book of 2015 is by Lauren Groff, but what's hers? And more book news. 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z Tracy K. Smith, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and former U.S. poet laureate, concurs. Amanda Gorman clearly has talent. But there’s more to her meteoric rise. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z The poet historian will be among the youngest laureates and said she hopes to promote national activity around the writings and engage with the library and people who visit it in the nation's capital. Natasha Trethewey named 19th US poet laureate 2012-06-07T02:59:08Z To some it is Carol Ann Duffy writing a laureate poem on the banking crisis or Geoffrey Hill attacking her for mistaking "cast off bits of oligarchical commodity English" for the language of art. Poetry and Privacy by John Redmond – review 2013-06-21T17:30:00Z Over the years he has established himself as a laureate of the transcendental, but his new collection, Black Cat Bone, shows a perceptible change of tack. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z But in his day the extravagantly bearded creature who succeeded Wordsworth as poet laureate was as well known as Katie Price, and twice as much the product of his times. Tennyson: To Strive, To Seek, To Find by John Batchelor – review 2012-11-16T11:00:01Z They drew crowds of well-wishers on their first three days in Cape Town, where they visited non-governmental organizations working with vulnerable communities and the youth and met Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu. Prince Harry to visit Angola de-mining project, in Diana's footsteps 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z The country was becoming steadily citified, and Bellow — born outside Montreal, raised in Chicago, at home in Manhattan — was the laureate of the new urban cosmos. ‘The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, 1915-1964,’ by Zachary Leader 2015-04-27T04:00:00Z “He’s the genuine article: uncommonly serious and complex of thought, but not unmirthful, and not sobersided. And he’s immensely readable. What else would you want from a Nobel laureate?” After the Bob Dylan Nobel prize backlash, will honoring Kazuo Ishiguro ‘make the world happy’? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z Mark Strand, a former US poet laureate who won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1999, has died in New York aged 80. Mark Strand, US poet, dies at 80 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z She is also a former U.S. poet laureate. Hayes and Trethewey receive Bobbitt poetry awards 2020-12-03T05:00:00Z Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony conductor laureate, presented Wright with the lifetime dedication to the arts award for her support of the symphony, Pacific Northwest Ballet and Seniors Making Art, among other groups. ACT artistic head Kurt Beattie, philanthropist Arlene Wright honored by ArtsFund 2012-05-07T19:27:04Z In some circles, he was being spoken of as a likely Nobel laureate. WG Sebald's quietly potent legacy 2013-05-13T16:17:59Z “I just have always felt like less is more when it comes to the poetry that I do,” says Amaker, 45, from Charleston, S.C., where since 2016 he has been poet laureate. In ‘Unknown,’ a composer and a poet offer new perspectives on war and 100 years of soldiers with names lost to time 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z Of the 46 laureates, nearly half were from Europe. What to Know About the Pritzker Prize, Called the Nobel of Architecture 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z The reference to Britain’s most prestigious literary award evoked a longstanding disappointment that she had been excluded from its laureates. Fay Weldon, British Novelist Who Challenged Feminist Orthodoxy, Dies at 91 2023-01-04T05:00:00Z So, what do you say to your daughter right before she becomes the youngest Nobel laureate ever? Malala's Dad: How I Raised a Nobel Peace Prize Winner 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z Literature laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah will be the first to get his prize in a lunchtime ceremony Monday at the Swedish ambassador’s residence in London. Nobel Prizes awarded in pandemic-curtailed local ceremonies 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z But despite being hailed as “one of Africa’s greatest living writers” by the author Giles Foden, Gurnah’s books have rarely received the kind of commercial reception that some previous laureates have. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Baraka refused then New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey's request for him to resign and, in response, state lawmakers passed a law to eliminate the position of poet laureate. U.S. playwright, poet and activist Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:29:14Z Last year, American rap artist and actor Will Smith and his wife, the actress Jada Pinkett Smith hosted the Nobel Peace Prize Concert, honoring the 2009 peace prize laureate and Smith fan Barack Obama. Denzel Washington to host Nobel Peace concert 2010-09-30T12:34:00Z He recently concluded his two-year term as California's poet laureate, traveling to hidden corners of the state and showcasing young poets' work in various media. U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera: 'The audience is half of the poem' 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z On the young people he met as California poet laureate: I went to high schools. U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on the art of poetry 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z How Louise Glück, the new Nobel laureate, was no admirer of Rich’s teaching practices at Columbia University when Glück was a student there. ‘The Power of Adrienne Rich’ Captures a Forceful and Complicated Poet 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z Besides that, Salonen considers his relationship with his old orchestra, of which he is conductor laureate, the ideal situation. In a tumultuous world, conductor-composer Esa-Pekka Salonen is focusing more on the present 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z The submissions were reviewed by a panel that included three former United States poets laureate, who are anointed by the Librarian of Congress. 13 Poets Laureate Receive Fellowships for Civic Projects 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Smith, poet laureate of the United States and a Pulitzer Prize winner, shows tremendous range in these rich, humane poems as she shifts from lyricism to direct speech, from meditative passages to wry humor. Review | Can poetry both challenge and uplift? Four new collections show us how. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z She is the first person to serve simultaneously as poet laureate for a state and the nation. AP Interview: Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry 2012-11-21T13:16:14Z What do you think about his choice as poet laureate? See how Juan Felipe Herrera won the crown of poet laureate 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z "It's been a great privilege and an exciting challenge for us to reduce our longlist of 13 to this shortlist of six outstandingly good novels," said chair of judges Andrew Motion, the former poet laureate. Booker prize shortlist drops early frontrunners 2010-09-07T11:13:00Z As poet laureate, Jones will advocate for poetry and writing in general during lectures and appearances at schools, libraries and other institutions. Alabama governor honors state’s first Black poet laureate 2021-12-01T05:00:00Z "He is the perfect ambassador for this event, which celebrates peace through music and illuminates the notable contributions of the Nobel laureate." Denzel Washington to host Nobel Peace concert 2010-09-30T12:34:00Z The silhouetted figure's travels were interspersed with appearances by assorted impossibly well-informed and articulate experts on poverty such as Nobel laureate and professor of economics at Columbia University Joseph Stiglitz. TV review: Poor Us – An Animated History of Poverty; Goodnight Britain 2012-11-28T23:31:01Z If that is the case, an idiot wind is blowing across the private sector, to paraphrase the poet laureate of the boomers, Bob Dylan. Aging boomers befuddle global marketers eying $15 trillion prize 2013-09-17T15:27:00Z The Swedish Academy has tried to increase the diversity of considered authors, after facing criticism that, before Thursday’s announcement, 95 of the past 118 Nobel laureates were European or North American, and only 16 women. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Donaldson, the author of more than 120 books including Room on the Broom, Zog, and teenage novel Running on the Cracks, takes over from outgoing laureate Anthony Browne. Telling tales 2011-06-07T14:03:00Z Mr. Otto, 89, died in Germany on Monday, two weeks before he was to be named this year’s laureate, the prize committee said. Frei Otto, German Architect, Wins Pritzker Prize Posthumously 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Atwood, Nobel laureate Alice Munro and Robertson Davies were among those who helped Canadian literature become known worldwide, with Atwood’s early contributions also including such novels as “Surfacing” and an influential work of criticism, “Survival.” Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z And Davenant is always good value, the poet laureate with a lively past. Sunday Feature: The First English Opera 2010-05-31T07:00:00Z The 70-year-old actor was selected by a committee that included Nobel literature laureate Elie Wiesel. Michael Douglas to be honored by the Genesis Prize Foundation 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z “The poet laureates of the early ‘Mad Men’ era.” Review: Eric Comstock and Barbara Fasano Croon at the Metropolitan Room 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z Some of its authors enjoy worldwide reputations, with one Nobel literature laureate, S.Y. Bill would protect Israeli authors' royalties 2012-06-14T18:42:08Z Claudia Castro Luna, the poet laureate for Washington State, is spending her year as a fellow conducting poetry readings along the Columbia River in partnership with other writers and local organizations. Mellon Foundation Grants $4.5 Million to Academy of American Poets 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z Ms. Glück, now 69, was United States poet laureate in 2003-4. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z "Push the Sky Away" is yet another gem in a long string of fiercely literate offerings from the poet laureate of post-punk. Review: Nick Cave mellows on new Bad Seeds album 2013-02-19T17:20:09Z Former poet laureate Andrew Motion said the news of Salt's withdrawal was "a great shame". Salt abandons single-author collections amid poetry market slump 2013-05-24T11:12:18Z “He will bring an enthusiasm and electricity to the role of poet laureate that is sure to spark new and wider interest in the art form among people of all ages.” Juan Felipe Herrera becomes first Mexican American U.S. poet laureate 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z The governor’s office announced Friday that Valeria Macon will be the state’s new poet laureate. McCrory appoints new poet laureate for NC 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z Juan Felipe Herrera, the first Latino to be named U.S. poet laureate, is a master of many forms -- and the kind of poet who just might win over those who think they hate poetry. See how Juan Felipe Herrera won the crown of poet laureate 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Convinced that “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” had misrepresented the South, Dixon emerged as Jim Crow’s novelist laureate. A History of Race and Racism in America, in 24 Chapters 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z Lawrence was one of the foremost physicists of the 20th century, a Nobel laureate in the same league as Ernest Rutherford and Marie Curie. The man who invented 'Big Science,' Ernest Lawrence 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The most surprising thing about Mr. Merwin’s selection as poet laureate of the United States is that he hasn’t held the position before. Books: Hawaii and Nature Are Inspirations for W. S. Merwin 2010-07-01T02:20:00Z Gore is a Nobel laureate for his environmental activism and is chairman of Current TV. Current TV to air global warming talk by Al Gore 2011-09-12T18:05:08Z Her performance, in The Wife, as the enigmatically reserved wife of the conceited Saul Bellow-style Nobel laureate novelist is a high-IQ treat. Oscar nominations 2019: Roma and The Favourite deserve acclaim, but no female directors is woeful 2019-01-22T05:00:00Z Former U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins, one of the contest's judges, said of her work, “These are witty but deeply serious poems.” Detroit's first free Write a House goes to Brooklyn poet 2014-09-19T04:00:00Z The California Arts Council is now accepting nominations for California poet laureate. Help wanted: Next California poet laureate 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z The county’s program also includes a circle of all poet laureate applicants, who meet to expand offerings for literary arts and make their proposed projects a reality. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Among those who weren’t disappointed by Dylan’s win last year is the new laureate himself. After the Bob Dylan Nobel prize backlash, will honoring Kazuo Ishiguro ‘make the world happy’? 2017-10-05T04:00:00Z He irritated his centrist friend Octavio Paz, the late Mexican Nobel literature laureate, by playfully referring to Mexico's political system - dominated at the time by a single party - as "the perfect dictatorship." Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z Jeffrey Kahane, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra’s music director for 20 years, now the ensemble’s conductor laureate, was back — if only for a weekend. For Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the welcome return of some familiar faces 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z Photograph: Murdo Macleod Children's laureate Julia Donaldson has come out in staunch support of libraries, dismissing Horrible Histories author Terry Deary's belief that they have "had their day" as "seriously flawed". Julia Donaldson defends libraries from Terry Deary's attack 2013-02-15T16:13:12Z These quietly powerful poems were written as Merwin, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, was losing his eyesight. Best poetry collections of 2016 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Children's author Philip Pullman and former poet laureate Sir Andrew Motion led the protest and ministers were forced into a U-turn. Children's Bookstart scheme funding to be cut by half 2011-02-25T16:02:49Z The office of the U.S. poet laureate is a relatively recent one. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Like Frayn’s madcap “Noises Off,” “The Copenhagen Papers” — written by Frayn and David Burke, who played the Nobel laureate Niels Bohr in the original London cast of “Copenhagen” — is a backstage farce. 7 Things to Do This Weekend 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z Swigging Schlitz from a bottle, the pockmarked laureate of the underground discoursed on one of the few traits that, as is well known, one may possess though never acquire. The Uniform Cool of Charlie Watts 2021-08-25T04:00:00Z And the mantle of neurotic Manhattan’s poet laureate passed to Woody Allen, whose films offered a hipper variation on the same sensibility. Theater Review | 'Next Fall': At Helen Hayes, Taking on Religion From a Hospital Bed 2010-03-12T03:05:00Z After months of suspense and typically inscrutable standoffishness, Bob Dylan, the elusive Nobel laureate, will finally accept his literature prize at a meeting with members of the Swedish Academy in Stockholm this weekend. Bob Dylan Will Receive His Nobel Prize While on Tour in Sweden 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Harjo, the first Native poet laureate, draws on her family’s ancestral stories and artistic influences in her second autobiography, which she wrote in verse and prose. 7 New Memoirs to Read This Season 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Then there’s Sánchez’s job as the city of Redmond’s poet laureate. Seattle poet Raul Sanchez lends his words to a unique music project 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z Embedded in the pavement in front of it is a plaque dedicated to the Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness, who was born there on April 23, 1902. Read Your Way Through Reykjavík 2022-08-17T04:00:00Z The South African Nobel laureate was born at a time when the telegraph was the quickest form of sending messages from one country to the next. Nadine Gordimer is remembered -- and lives on in social media 2014-07-14T04:00:00Z In his youth, America's former poet laureate, Robert Pinsky, played the saxophone and wanted to be a jazz musician. Former poet laureate sees jazz everywhere in American culture 2010-10-12T20:39:00Z “He’s the laureate, if you like, of the industrial heartland,” Mr. Billington added. A Gritty Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate : Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate 2011-08-10T02:20:31Z “We are so very proud of Alexandra. Her words, poise, and brilliance speak to the heart of what our nation needs to hear right now,” Michael Cirelli, founder of the youth laureate program, said Thursday. Alexandra Huynh, 18, is the new National Youth Poet Laureate 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z Yeoh says the Nobel Peace Prize laureate is a hero of hers. Michelle Yeoh calls Myanmar's Suu Kyi her 'hero' 2012-02-01T13:23:15Z “I meet a lot of rocket scientists, Nobel laureates, people playing at very high levels academically,” Nye says. Star talker: Neil deGrasse Tyson on fame, education and tweets 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z Though he has long lived in San Francisco, Mr. Kleinzahler hails from Fort Lee, where he was anointed poet laureate in 2005. Neighborhood Cheer: Big TVs and Flowing Taps 2010-12-23T22:35:49Z Strictly speaking, the poet laureate has few official duties during the one-year term, but lately the laureates have tended to take on projects intended to broaden the audience for poetry. A Gritty Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate : Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate 2011-08-10T02:20:31Z The flagrant unlikelihood of anyone in today’s White House ingesting a book of poems, much less consulting Tracy K. Smith, our current laureate, on any matter, is apparent. Scorching, Sophisticated New Work From Two of America’s Leading Poets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z This year's show honors Nobel Peace Prize laureate Liu Xiaobo, the Chinese dissident writer and human rights activist who is currently imprisoned in his home country. Anne Hathaway, Denzel Washington to co-host Nobel peace concert 2010-11-19T02:54:00Z I’ll be officially a laureate, so I suppose I shall polish my bay leaves every so often. Maestro of the Influential Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra to Step Down 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z This fall, she begins a one-year term as U.S. poet laureate. Poet laureate Natasha Trethewey working on memoir 2012-07-02T16:51:15Z “Someone in the governor’s office approached me about becoming poet laureate and asked if I’d be willing to write poems for state occasions,” she recalled in a 1996 interview with Washingtonian magazine. Linda Pastan, Poet Who Plumbed the Ordinary, Dies at 90 2023-02-03T05:00:00Z But there are constraints imposed by the laureate status he has attained. America's composer 2010-06-19T23:01:00Z There’s a beautiful, poignant poem about your mother in this book, and I wonder what you think she would think of you becoming poet laureate? ‘Everyone wants a place where they feel safe,’ says Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Philip Levine, who will be the new US poet laureate from October. Philip Levine appointed new US poet laureate 2011-08-11T09:28:47Z Today’s state laureates range from nationally known writers to those whose names ring few bells outside state lines. Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates Are Any Indication 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z Billington made his selection in consultation with about 50 people, including 10 previous poets laureate. Charles Wright, former U-Va. professor and author, is named new U.S. poet laureate One of the poems Ms. di Prima read at the event celebrating her appointment as San Francisco’s poet laureate was “The Poetry Deal,” written in 1993. Diane di Prima, Poet of the Beat Era and Beyond, Dies at 86 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z However, Ladbrokes and other betting sites are not especially skilled at Nobel laureate predictions. ArtsBeat Blog: Dylan Tangled Up in Nobel Prize Speculation 2011-10-05T17:14:37Z According to the new novel by Nobel laureate Dario Fo, however, this is nothing but “creative embroidery in the fine art of scandalmongering.” ‘The Pope’s Daughter’ review: Dario Fo’s novel defends the Borgia clan 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z First established in 2006 by the family of the former poet laureate, the competition aims to encourage children to read, write and be inspired by poetry. National Poetry Day: Foyle Young Poets and Betjeman prize announced 2012-10-04T13:19:55Z While this will be Limón's first walk through the door as the poet laureate, she has already followed in the footsteps of Tracy K. Smith, who was poet laureate from 2017 to 2019. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z The poets laureate, from 10 states, will receive a combined amount over $1 million to establish projects like podcasts, writing workshops and poetry readings in their communities and support civic programs in the next year. 13 Poets Laureate Receive Fellowships for Civic Projects 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z Now in his late 80s, Hall, a former U.S. poet laureate, no longer writes poetry. The best poetry books for December 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z His memoir offered a highlight reel of snarky critiques of authors — the Nobel laureate V.S. Robert Gottlieb, Eminent Editor From le Carré to Clinton, Dies at 92 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z This spring’s lineup will pay tribute to Pops conductor laureate John Williams, who turned 90 last month, including performances of Williams’ theme for the 1980 classic, “Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back.” Noteworthy musical news: Boston Pops spring season returns 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z The former poet laureate and author, most recently, of “Monument” came to poetic language via Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “Before I ever committed any poems to memory I had memorized his speech.” Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z Library experts, including chair of the Museums, Libraries and Archives council and former poet laureate Andrew Motion, have previously spoken of their concerns about the use of volunteers in libraries. Jeanette Winterson hits out at threats to libraries 2010-08-18T10:25:00Z It was as if his name had been erased: The Tennessee-born poet Charles Wright, a recent poet laureate of the United States, was and is better known. The Pleasures of a Writer Who Was ‘Richard Pryor on Paper’ 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z She also thanked the poet laureate for establishing the new prize, which is run by the Poetry Society. Alice Oswald wins inaugural Ted Hughes award 2010-03-30T19:20:00Z As Vargas Llosa writes in his latest book, it is impossible to know definitively another human being and, it might be added, still less possible to know why one future Nobel laureate punched another. Mario Vargas Llosa: a life in writing 2012-06-15T21:55:18Z "The laureates teach us how to confront large-scale societal issues in a peaceful way," said Kennedy, whose family once owned the Merchandise Mart in Chicago. Nobel prize laureates gather in Chicago 2012-04-23T11:00:00Z Or from the Nobel laureate George Stigler, whose essay “The Intellectual and the Marketplace” would have leavened Bacevich’s book with something it lacks: wittiness. The Mind of Conservatism 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z Philip Levine, a former U.S. poet laureate and Pulitzer Prize winner, died Saturday in Fresno. Philip Levine dies at 87; former U.S. poet laureate, Pulitzer winner 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z Another writer who used the Holocaust as a metaphor for moralizing about the human condition is Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka, who was jailed for his attempts to mediate between Biafra and Nigeria. Nigerian writers compare genocide of Igbos to the Holocaust 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z Kooser, who served two terms as U.S. poet laureate, draws on small dramas and the vast Midwestern landscape to create emotionally resonant writing. Review | The best poetry collections to read this month 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z In “his mellifluous and curt voice,” the Nobel laureate asked his students “if they composed by hand or on a computer.” Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z Edwin Morgan was Scotland's greatest living poet and the natural choice in 2004 to become the country's first makar – its national poet laureate. Scotland stalls on new poet laureate 2011-01-02T18:43:43Z The Nobel Prize for literature is one exception, with laureates receiving nearly $1 million. New Literary Prize Will Award Over $100,000 to a Female Novelist 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z It is emphatically a family house, with the strange twist that there just happen to be photographs of a Nobel laureate on almost every shelf. Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z "When told the news out of the blue by the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, I couldn't believe my ears and it took a little time to sink in," he said. Poet Agard picked for Queen's medal 2012-12-20T14:06:44Z The author of some 20 collections of poems and the winner of the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for his book “The Simple Truth,” Mr. Levine is 83, making him one of the oldest laureates. A Gritty Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate : Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate 2011-08-10T02:20:31Z The chosen author will be named by the chair of the judging panel, former poet laureate Andrew Motion, shortly before 10pm. Booker prize 2010: Tom McCarthy remains favourite 2010-10-12T09:40:00Z Walcott, a Nobel laureate tipped as the strongest candidate, dropped out of the election when the allegations were widely publicised. Forward shortlist includes Geoffrey Hill, Sean O'Brien and David Harsent 2011-07-13T23:05:01Z After spending time “soaking up the culture” in Louisiana, he married into a Basque community in northeastern Wyoming and is now the state’s poet laureate. At the Cowboy Poetry Gathering, Tall Tales, Resonant Rhymes 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Let’s give the last word to the Chilean Nobel laureate in literature, Pablo Neruda: “He who does not know the Chilean forests, does not know the planet.” Take the long view: Chile revisited 2019-01-06T05:00:00Z In the application process, poets laureate — those appointed to promote the art form in their state or locale — were invited to submit letters of recommendation and civic project proposals. 13 Poets Laureate Receive Fellowships for Civic Projects 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z His father was, by then, England’s first Nobel laureate in literature and its foremost poet of empire. When Rudyard Kipling’s Son Went Missing 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Mr. Obama started with an invitation to read works by the Nobel laureate Toni Morrison, who died last week at the age of 88. Obama Shares His Summer Reading List 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z But James was the true poète maudit, the "laureate of pessimism", as he was nicknamed, who could raise squalor to the level of the visionary. Poem of the week: An Arab Love-Song by Francis Thompson 2012-12-17T10:52:15Z So what exactly does a children’s poet laureate do, besides collect a $25,000 stipend? Meet Kenn Nesbitt, the New Children’s Poet Laureate 2013-06-15T14:58:08Z As a newcomer and an outsider, when she entered Bellow's class – the Nobel laureate! – the main thought in her head was: which seat will best enable me to disappear? Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z That was $2,000 more than what the Nobel laureate will receive for the school’s commencement speech next month. Snookinomics: Profits From a Tan 2011-04-09T04:00:19Z ‘An artfully relaxed, well-groomed quality’: former poet laureate Andrew Motion photographed earlier this year. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-11-25T00:05:29Z I am best known for my work spearheading the movement to change the Mississippi State flag.I recently returned from a five-month national tour with Vote Common Good, of which I am the poet laureate. The Blue Flame of ‘Hotlanta’ 2020-12-12T05:00:00Z This year is the first time that the children's laureate post receives the branding of Waterstone's in the title. Telling tales 2011-06-07T14:03:00Z Despite a string of 20th century laureates, no American has been awarded the Nobel Prize in literature since Toni Morrison's 1993 win. Book trends in 2016: Paper is popular, science fiction rises, long-form nonfiction dips 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z It's the stripey one-piece bathing costume that makes the image of George Bernard Shaw, playwright, critic, socialist and Nobel laureate, terrifyingly memorable. George Bernard Shaw photographs uncover the larky private man 2010-09-08T10:22:00Z The Library of Congress announced Thursday that Charles Wright is to be the 20th U.S. poet laureate. Charles Wright named new U.S. poet laureate 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z It's a point the Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer made forcefully when she visited the West Bank a couple of years ago. The Palfest book festival puts Palestinian writers on the map 2010-05-11T10:56:00Z Novelists Martin Amis and Salman Rushdie and former poet laureate Andrew Motion were all up for critical mauling of the year in a shortlist published on Tuesday. Rushdie, Amis targeted in critical maulings of 2012 2013-01-08T15:39:20Z Here the obvious comparison is to the neurologist and prolific writer Oliver Sacks, often described as the poet laureate of medicine. Three New Books Explore the Machinery of the Mind 2020-04-03T04:00:00Z The punk poet laureate of lost New York ... Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins' 2010-08-05T20:29:00Z The bulk of the action unfolds in Stockholm, where Joan keeps Joe in line while he prepares — with his other laureates, all men — to receive the prize. Review: ‘The Wife’ Looks Behind the Closed Doors of a Literary Marriage 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z California's first poet laureate took the position a century ago, in 1915. Help wanted: Next California poet laureate 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z It’s rare for a sitting poet laureate to release a collection of new work during her term, and here Smith is forcefully addressing some of the nation’s enduring wounds. In Her New Work, a Public Poet Balances the Personal and Political 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z As the first children's laureate, 1999-2001, Blake encouraged all children to draw and paint, and he remains a tireless supporter of the annual Big Draw. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z In January, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation announced a $2.2 million grant to bolster projects by local poets laureate and poetry organizations. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Gurnah, 72, is the first Black writer to receive the prize since Toni Morrison in 1993, and some observers saw his selection as a long overdue corrective after years of European and American Nobel laureates. Abdulrazak Gurnah Is Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z He then will become the orchestra's music director laureate and assume a full-time faculty position at USC Thornton. Chamber orchestra music director Jeffrey Kahane to join USC faculty 2014-12-10T05:00:00Z The prize, which was recently renamed in honor of the philanthropists Barbara and David Zalaznick, carries a $50,000 cash award and an engraved medal, as well the unofficial laureate title. Jane Kamensky Wins Historical Society Book Prize 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z The Customs Houseby Sir Andrew Motion It is Motion's first collection since he retired as poet laureate and is divided between accomplished performances about war and more autobiographical offerings. The Customs House by Andrew Motion – review 2012-11-25T00:05:29Z The Hemingway award was founded in 1976 by Mary Hemingway, widow of the Nobel laureate. Teju Cole wins $10,000 prize for first novel 2012-03-07T01:31:06Z Beginning in 17th-century England, a poet laureate would write verse for historic occasions. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z By no means every poet laureate has been commemorated in Poets' Corner. Poets' Corner memorial for Hughes 2010-03-22T18:03:00Z Billy Collins, poet laureate from 2001-2003: There was this incredible spread — everything you could possibly think of to eat, not just for breakfast but any meal. ‘The end of an innocent world’: An oral history of the first National Book Festival, which debuted three days before 9/11 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “W. S. Merwin is an inevitable choice for poet laureate,” said Dana Gioia, a poet and a former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z Jamaica’s poet laureate, Olive Senior, stops to embrace old friends at the entrance to the grounds, making plans to catch up soon. Sun, Sea and Books Make This Festival an Enticing Destination 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Asked how she would use her time after her term as laureate, Ryan told a Washington DC interviewer: "I plan to do a lot more bicycle riding". Kay Ryan: the un-American poet who will fly the US flag at Poetry Parnassus 2012-06-29T08:26:54Z Another Nobel laureate and Princeton faculty member, Toni Morrison, said in a statement that giving him the prize was a "brilliant choice." Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z In the process, Chang, the poet laureate of Brooklyn, weaves powerful narratives and uses various poetic forms to create a momentous landscape. Review | Joy Harjo’s stunning new collection and other best poetry collections this month 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z She thinks she can recapture her romantic innocence, and he flatters himself into believing that late capitalism craves its own poet laureate. How novels came to terms with the internet 2011-01-15T00:06:06Z MacMillan were named as laureates of the Nobel Prize for chemistry Wednesday for finding an easier and environmentally cleaner way to build molecules that can be used to make compounds, including medicines and pesticides. Nobel panel to announce 2021 prize for literature 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z Last year, fellows largely worked with people in physical spaces — the poet laureate for Washington State traveled the length of the Columbia River hosting workshops about its ecological and historical significance, for instance. 23 Poets Laureate Receive Fellowships for Projects Around the U.S. 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z He is the first Asian laureate of the prize, which was first awarded in 2016. Kojin Karatani Wins $1 Million Berggruen Prize 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z The lines of verse are selected and transcribed by local resident Natalie Potell, who began a two-year stint as the county's poet laureate in October, becoming the fourth person to hold that position since 2014. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Several events will focus on Russian publishing and literary history will be made when Natalia Solzhenitsyn, widow of Nobel laureate Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, unveils her husband's archives. Publishing industry gathers for annual convention 2012-06-04T11:39:13Z The new Nobel laureate has been accused of being both subtly subversive and too close to the party line Chinese author Mo Yan at a book fair in Saint Malo, France, in 2006. Chinese Novelist Mo Yan Receives Nobel Prize. But Is He Politically Correct? 2012-10-11T14:50:27Z Sue Brannan Walker, who was Alabama’s laureate from 2003 to 2012, recalled being asked to write a poem for a social studies textbook that would mention various state features, including the U.S. Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates Are Any Indication 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z The library will on Tuesday host a symposium celebrating the life and work of the former poet laureate and marking what Chris Fletcher, keeper of special collections, said was an extremely generous gift. Cecil Day-Lewis letters donated to Oxford library by his children 2012-10-30T00:01:03Z The position is now called poet laureate of the United States — a title Mr. Smith disliked. William Jay Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 97 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z Nine singers, laureates of this year’s regional auditions in the United States and Canada, competed in the final concert; five were chosen as winners. Review: National Council Auditions Winners Named at Grand Finals Concert 2015-03-23T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate has lived in this converted boathouse since the late 1970s, when she spotted a "For Sale" sign while driving by and soon agreed to pay the then-impractical sum of $120,000. At home with Toni Morrison 2012-05-07T14:13:08Z “When you think that you lost everything, you find out you can always lose a little more,” as the Nobel laureate Bob Dylan once put it. In Trying Times, 20 Wines Under $20 That Revive and Restore 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z Mrs. Obama promoted a social media advocacy campaign for girls’ education, and Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate from Pakistan, received an ovation to rival the musicians’. Review: Global Citizen Festival, Including Beyoncé and Pearl Jam, Mixes Music and Activism 2015-09-27T04:00:00Z Potell’s interpretation of her role is a far cry from how the job of a poet laureate was originally conceived. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Mr. Schwarz, who announced his departure early this year, will become conductor laureate. Ludovic Morlot Is Seattle?s New Conductor 2010-06-29T22:04:00Z Some laureates stay in Washington and use the office, some don’t. Charles Wright, former U-Va. professor and author, is named new U.S. poet laureate Manual Cinema is a company with deep Midwestern roots — a fitting group to explore the story of one of the region’s and Chicago’s most iconic writers, the poet laureate Gwendolyn Brooks. A Decade of Puppets in Organized Chaos 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z Several of the state’s previous poet laureates denounced his choice as a political appointment rather than one that rewarded literary merit. North Carolina's New Poet Laureate Bows Out 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z Nobel literature laureate Bob Dylan will provide a speech and fellow American singer-songwriter Patti Smith will perform one of his best-known songs in his absence during Stockholm's prize celebrations, the awards body said on Monday. Patti Smith and a speech by proxy to fill Dylan void at Nobels 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z The Nobel laureate’s sole short story, published in 1983 and only now being released in book form, depicts an interracial friendship between two girls — one white, one Black — who meet in a shelter. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Sampson tells us that if Barrett Browning were not a woman, she would have been appointed poet laureate after William Wordsworth died. Review | Elizabeth Barrett Browning was ahead of her time. ‘Two-Way Mirror’ does justice to her riveting life. 2021-08-16T04:00:00Z Such eccentrics are key to the gonzo tone of “Justified,” which is based on stories by the crime laureate Elmore Leonard. R.V.s and Stolen Kidneys: Life on the Fringes in ‘Justified’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z Jason Loviglio, 58, is the poet laureate of his Baltimore neighborhood’s giveaway group. Buy Nothing is everything 2023-02-06T05:00:00Z He hadn’t particularly aspired to be poet laureate, Mr. Levine said, but he was pleased that after a long career, the honor had come his way. A Gritty Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate : Voice of the Workingman to Be Poet Laureate 2011-08-10T02:20:31Z For Pusha T, poet laureate of drug-dealer lore, the sins of the past are an opportunity for reflection and also celebration. The Playlist: Ashley McBryde’s Loner’s Lament, and 10 More New Songs 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z “Going to Newark is actually wonderful; poetry is used to unlikely settings,” said Ms. Dove, one of four of the country’s former poet laureates scheduled to attend the festival. Urban Beat for Poetry Festival 2010-10-05T22:37:00Z As Detroit’s music director laureate — a new title — Mr. Slatkin will remain with the orchestra through at least the 2019-20 season. Leonard Slatkin Stepping Down as Music Director of Detroit Symphony 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z Yet, after four grandsons, he half-seriously threatened to "resign" as grandfather/laureate unless a girl was produced. A Hundred Doors by Michael Longley 2011-03-20T00:02:02Z Ms. McCray, a poet, frequents neighborhood readings and has judged poetry competitions; she recently made arrangements for the city’s youth poet laureate to read a composition at her husband’s inaugural. A New Mayor Brings Hope for a Populist Arts Revival 2013-12-29T19:52:34Z At the heart of the collection are stories of women quietly pushing against societal constraints and of female trailblazers in the science or the arts, like Ina Coolbrith, the first poet laureate of California. Review | Can poetry both challenge and uplift? Four new collections show us how. 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Typically, the U.S. poet laureate does a few official readings and beyond that is free to create his or her own programming during the year. U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera: 'The audience is half of the poem' 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Established in 2017, the national youth poet laureate program is an initiative of the literary arts and development organization Urban Word. Alexandra Huynh, 18, is the new National Youth Poet Laureate 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z The playwright, Deborah Margolin, is also trying to move forward, yet remains deeply shaken by her clash with Mr. Wiesel, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and Holocaust survivor. Deborah Margolin?s Madoff Play, Now Without Wiesel 2010-07-20T00:39:00Z So wrote Constantine Cavafy, laureate of 20th-century Alexandria, putting words into the mouth of one of its ancient citizens, the better to explore his own emotions, his own desires, his own disappointments. Alexandria: The Last Nights of Cleopatra by Peter Stothard – review 2013-07-05T11:00:01Z In New Zealand, the laureate produces a book of work at the end of his or her tenure. Scotland stalls on new poet laureate 2011-01-02T18:43:43Z "Her gifts, adventurousness and generosity, suggest she will be a terrific young people's poet laureate." Jacqueline Woodson named the new 'young people's poet laureate' 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Morrison lives in my imagination at a higher plane than any other living writer, a Nobel laureate operating at the peak of language and moral clarity — a mythical, monumental deity of American letters. Analysis | Toni Morrison has kept the public at arm’s length. Now she’s letting people in on her terms. 2019-07-01T04:00:00Z Pointing to the many volumes of Pirandello, the writer explains that there is a statue of the 1934 Nobel laureate in Porto Empedocle. Andrea Camilleri: a life in writing 2012-07-06T21:55:16Z ACT Theatre on Friday opens its Pinter Festival, dedicated to the work of the late British dramatist and Nobel laureate Harold Pinter. ACT Theatre celebrates Pinter with monthlong festival 2012-07-19T20:12:10Z Andrew Motion, the former poet laureate, believes that maintaining libraries is fundamentally important. Andrew Motion attacks 'catastrophic' plan for volunteers to run libraries 2010-06-11T15:08:00Z People seeking the poet laureate position should be a poet of significance; have a strong record of publishing; received prior awards; and, of course, live in California. Help wanted: Next California poet laureate 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z A small reading nook rounds out the first floor, with books curated by Joy Harjo, the U.S. poet laureate and a Tulsa native who will be the center’s first artist in residence. At 80, Bob Dylan finally gets a museum 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z It was that Cairo, with its layers of history and character, that shaped the literature of Egypt, inspiring the likes of our Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz. Read Your Way Through Cairo 2022-08-03T04:00:00Z Despite humanity’s inevitable chess ability sag, the age at which the average Nobel laureate gets their gong is pretty late. The age when you hit 'peak loneliness' – and other life milestones 2017-05-03T04:00:00Z One benefit of becoming poet laureate was the availability of “some very high-class fishing,” Mr. Bate writes. Review: ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’: Cursed by Beauty 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z The Romanian Nobel Peace Prize laureate and ardent Holocaust educator -- perhaps best known for his moving memoir “Night,” about surviving brutal life in the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz -- died on Saturday at 87. Elie Wiesel's death spurs social media remembrances 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z June 23: The position of U.S. poet laureate is filled by a young lass from Nantucket. Style Invitational Week 1264: A cry for Yelp 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z On Wednesday, Herrera becomes the first Hispanic American to serve as poet laureate of the United States. Juan Felipe Herrera becomes first Mexican American U.S. poet laureate 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z Some laureates still receive old-fashioned requests to compose verse for graduations, hospital openings and other public occasions. Is Poetry Dead? Not if 45 Official Laureates Are Any Indication 2014-07-27T04:00:00Z It was all rather unseemly and not something that usually happens during an election for a position considered second only to that of the poet laureate in terms of prestige. Oxford poetry professorship re-run begins 2010-04-19T18:37:00Z The shortlist was “a small miracle,” she said, as it contained two artists — Mr. Murillo and Mr. Abu Hamdan — “more substantial, fascinating and globally ambitious than any Turner laureate this century.” The Turner Prize Goes to … All 4 Shortlisted Artists 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z Ms. Fisk is the poet laureate of Nevada County, Calif., which is just 70 miles from Paradise, a town that was decimated by the Camp Fire in 2018. Mellon Foundation Grants $4.5 Million to Academy of American Poets 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z She was recently named young people’s poet laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Jimmy Carter and Jacqueline Woodson on Race, Religion and Rights 2015-07-24T04:00:00Z What would they think of you becoming the poet laureate? The U.S. poet laureate on what America should be reading now 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z The award will be bestowed on Mr. Doshi, the 45th laureate, at the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto in May. Top Architecture Prize Goes to Low-Cost Housing Pioneer From India 2018-03-07T05:00:00Z Finally, and happily: The former poet laureate Rita Dove returns with an excellent collection of new work, her first in 12 years, “Playlist for the Apocalypse.” 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2021-08-19T04:00:00Z The Nobel laureate is the author of the novels "Beloved," "Song of Solomon," "Sula" and more than a dozen others. Happy birthday, Toni Morrison! 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z We’re about to launch into a survey of the Australian Nobel laureate, Patrick White. The Best Book That Amor Towles Ever Received as a Gift 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z From Feb. 19 to Mar. 17, 2013, the center will present a Nordic festival featuring not only the arts of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, but also their food and Nobel laureates. ArtsBeat: Kennedy Center Announces 2012-2013 Season 2012-03-06T16:48:09Z R&B master and “poet laureate of soul” Smokey Robinson will receive the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Motown great Smokey Robinson to receive prestigious Gershwin Prize 2016-07-05T04:00:00Z Foster was his student when she attended Yale University in the 1980s and he helped advise her on her senior thesis about Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. Nobelist Wole Soyinka to honor Henry Louis Gates at PEN gala 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z But for Roth there was no joking about a public letter Conarroe had signed, intended to protest the revocation of Amiri Baraka’s honorary post as poet laureate of New Jersey. Cynthia Ozick Calls the New Philip Roth Biography a ‘Narrative Masterwork’ 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z Eligible nominators, which include university professors, scientists, members of national governments and previous Nobel Prize laureates, submit the names of potential candidates each year. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z The former United States poet laureate Billy Collins serves as muse in Varone’s new work, “Everything Is Fine.” 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z The poet laureate is not a political position. Joy Harjo is first Native American named US poet laureate 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z His most recent films — “Force Majeure” and the two Cannes laureates, “The Square” and “Triangle of Sadness” — are best when they’re silliest. ‘Triangle of Sadness’ Review: Don’t Worry, Be Happy 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z Duffy, also Britain's poet laureate since 2009, called the work "a tremendous book of grace and gallantry which crowns the career of a world-class poet." Poet Sharon Olds wins T.S. Eliot award 2013-01-14T19:54:58Z Some journalist had made a comment about me being the laureate of white bread, or something like that, so State of Play was kind of like a posh tantrum. Shameless creator Paul Abbott: 'People are desperate to be scared' 2012-10-05T15:00:00Z As U.S. poet laureate, the 46-year-old describes herself as a "cheerleader" for the written word. AP Interview: Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry 2012-11-21T13:16:14Z Yet the quality achieved throughout this programme spoke of a relationship between the ensemble and its conductor laureate that remains, however infrequent his visits latterly, genuinely special. LSO/Previn ? review 2011-01-18T22:31:01Z Poet Laureate for a Second Time The Library of Congress will announce on Monday that Natasha Trethewey is to be appointed to a second one-year term as the United States poet laureate. Arts, Briefly: Poet Laureate for a Second Time 2013-06-09T21:55:55Z Along with returning veterans, the ensemble's younger players — 21 and up — are indeed laureates, prizewinners who need the right platform to help them toward the next career step. The iPalpiti festival: 20 years of peace through music 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The children's laureate title not only honours the author for outstanding work but tasks them with promoting and celebrating literature for children. New children's laureate for Ireland 2014-05-09T08:20:15Z The librarian of Congress, James Billington, named Trethewey as the nation's 19th poet laureate in June, and she began the one-year position in September. AP Interview: Trethewey a 'cheerleader' for poetry 2012-11-21T13:16:14Z It was only the second time that three laureates have been chosen in a single year. Hip-hop icon Grandmaster Flash, violinist Mutter win Polar Prize 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Typically, the poet laureate receives a stipend of up to $15,000 for a two-year project. NC gov defends his self-published poet laureate 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z The British playwright, who died in 2008, was a Nobel laureate and is widely considered one of the most important dramatists of the 20th century. The Wooster Group runs into problems with Harold Pinter production 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Sept. 25 — Pulitzer Prize-winner Charles Wright becomes the 20th poet laureate of the United States. 2014: A good year for book lovers To Nadine Gordimer, a fellow Nobel laureate, he was simply "the father of African literature". Chinua Achebe: leader of a generation 2013-03-26T13:44:53Z The laureate is selected by an independent jury of five to nine professionals, who serve for several years so that each panel includes past and new members. What to Know About the Pritzker Prize, Called the Nobel of Architecture 2019-03-05T05:00:00Z It was certainly a long-awaited acknowledgement – the first woman to be considered for the laureate, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, was overlooked for Alfred Lord Tennyson. Carol Ann Duffy 2011-03-08T00:05:21Z All the Globe laureates in the acting and Picture categories will have six weeks to slug it out for single statuettes. Great Storytelling Was the Real Winner at the Golden Globes 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Mark Strand, a former United States poet laureate, will read alongside Jennifer Michael Hecht at the second of the Poetry Society’s own two slots. Weekend Miser: New York City Poetry Festival on Governors Island 2012-07-19T19:58:22Z The day after the ceremony, she says, Nobel laureates gathered and asked to take selfies with her. Patti Smith, an accidental rock legend, has finally become the artist she always wanted to be 2019-09-23T04:00:00Z The foreword is by Zadie Smith, adapted from a tribute she wrote soon after the Nobel laureate died in August at age 88. Book of Toni Morrison quotations is coming out in December 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z Shot in Swat Valley, the same area where Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban, the film captures some of the region’s breathtaking scenery. Film 'Janaan' seeks positive global spotlight for Pakistan 2016-09-14T04:00:00Z His books are not without magical touches, but he is more grounded, more a "realist" than fellow Nobel laureate and South American Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Mario Vargas Llosa wins Nobel literature prize 2010-10-07T19:38:00Z When Robert Frost was poet laureate in the late 1950s, he saw himself as a political as well as a literary eminence. Scorching, Sophisticated New Work From Two of America’s Leading Poets 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z Philip Levine, the former U.S. poet laureate who died of pancreatic cancer on Saturday at the age of 87, was not a poet to everyone’s taste. Remembering Philip Levine 2015-02-16T05:00:00Z When you’re asked to be poet laureate, is that something you say yes to immediately, or do you think about what it entails? ‘Everyone wants a place where they feel safe,’ says Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z Old music directors never die, they just become conductors laureate and return every season. Review | Familiarity breeds warmth with Eschenbach and NSO 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z Originally from Moscow, Solzhenitsyn, conductor laureate of the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and principal guest conductor of the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, serves on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music. At SSO: Two nights of Shostakovich, two Schwarzes 2013-05-09T22:02:20Z Mr. Harrison was our poet laureate of lumbering desire. An Appraisal: Taking Big Bites of Jim Harrison’s Voracious Life 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z Nobel laureate Morrison's 10th novel is an intense, striking read, though some critics found the book moved too briskly to develop and deepen her abiding themes of violence and fortitude, horror and love. The big novels of 2012 2012-07-13T15:00:07Z In 2002, respected enough to be named New Jersey’s poet laureate, he shocked again with “Somebody Blew Up America,” a Sept. Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z The austere Nobel laureate's 1961 drama requires an actress to spend the better part of two hours talking almost incessantly while planted in a hole in the ground atop a godforsaken mound of dirt. Brooke Adams learns the dirty truth of Beckett's 'Happy Days' 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z Atlas also wrote the memoir “My Life in the Middle Ages” and a biography of Nobel laureate Saul Bellow, criticized by some for being overly harsh. James Atlas, author and editor of biographies, dies at 70 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z Glück, a former U.S. poet laureate whose awards include the Pulitzer Prize, understands the power of mystery and the need for sincerity. National Book Award finalists for poetry If there were any doubt, Herrera, the first Mexican American U.S. poet laureate, made it clear Tuesday night that he’s bringing a new sense of wonder and drama to the position. New U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera made a fantastic debut in DC 2015-09-16T04:00:00Z Hughes, an English poet laureate, and Plath, his American wife, are considered among the 20th century's greatest poets. Poem by Ted Hughes tells of Sylvia Plath's suicide 2010-10-07T18:32:00Z An essay like Steiner's now appears almost every year, usually with an exasperated mention of Roth, the eternal bridesmaid, whose failure to win the prize somehow delegitimizes every other laureate. The gripes of Roth: US incredulity at not winning the Nobel literature prize 2012-10-11T18:07:59Z At the time of the gift, Heaney, 72, was a global bardic presence, a Nobel laureate wreathed in acclaim as one of the leading poets in the world. ‘Listen Now Again’ Is a Tasting Menu of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry 2018-10-30T04:00:00Z Eliot at London publisher Faber & Faber, where the Nobel literature laureate was a director and she a star-struck secretary who had been a fan of his work since her teenage years. AP Exclusive: Art owned by TS Eliot's wife on sale 2013-05-31T01:02:08Z He would be named poet laureate of the United States in 1990, and win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1999 for his collection Blizzard of One. Pulitzer-Winning Poet Laureate Mark Strand Dead at 80 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z Rita Dove, a former United States poet laureate, said that poetry is “the bones and the skeleton of the language. It teaches you, if nothing else, how to choose your words.” Find Poetry in the Pages of a Newspaper 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z The idea for the “List” series that would bring him more notoriety originated more than 10 years ago, when Greenfield-Sanders was talking with Nobel laureate Toni Morrison. 'Show the struggle, but also the great accomplishment,' says photographer behind minority photo series 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z She was introduced by Pulitzer Prize winner and U.S. poet laureate Tracy K. Smith, who praised her contributions to “the inner life across this country and beyond.” Paul Simon, Alice Quinn honored by Poetry Society of America 2019-06-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Dove, a former poet laureate of the United States, writes poems that have earthiness, originality, power and range. The Top Books of 2016 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Joy Harjo, 68, is the 23rd poet laureate of the United States. ‘Everyone wants a place where they feel safe,’ says Joy Harjo, the first Native American U.S. poet laureate 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z In September, I was approached to sing at the Nobel Prize ceremony, honoring the laureate for literature, who was then unknown. Patti Smith on Singing at Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize Ceremony 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z This year's judging panel is chaired by the former poet laureate Andrew Motion. Booker longlist 2010-07-27T18:06:00Z But the Nobel laureate did not confine herself to one kind of writing. Rare Toni Morrison short story to be published as a book 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z "Then on Thursday we have a formal vote, but yes, we have agreed upon a laureate." Nobel jury picks literature prize winner 2010-10-01T13:01:00Z There will also be a banquet in the winner’s honor, just as there would be for a Nobel laureate. An Alternative to the Nobel Prize in Literature, Judged by You 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z Each year, members of the Swedish Academy, professors of literature and language, previous Nobel Prize laureates and leaders of various writers’ organizations around the world are invited to secretly submit nominations for the literature prize. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z She was appointed 23rd poet laureate of the United States on Wednesday. Joy Harjo is the first Native American U.S. poet laureate 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z Harjo, a member of the Muscogee Nation, is the first Native American to serve as U.S. poet laureate; this anthology highlights work from a range of other Indigenous poets. New & Noteworthy Poetry, From First Peoples to Posthumous Ashbery 2021-06-22T04:00:00Z When I meet the Nobel laureate in a London hotel, she clutches my arm and whispers: "I am a broken person." Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z For many years he taught at the Royal College of Art, became the inaugural children's laureate in 1999 and was knighted in 2012. Quentin Blake unveils art centre 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z We also offer our own seasonal treat: the Manchester Carols, written by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and performed on CD by Manchester Carollers and the Northern Chamber Orchestra. A merry and foul-mouthed Christmas 2010-12-17T15:13:59Z The Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk, Güler’s frequent collaborator, included the photographer’s images in his memoir, “Istanbul: Memories and the City,” to conjure a picture of a Turkish childhood that words alone could not convey. What Ara Güler, “The Eye of Istanbul,” Saw in His Homeland 2018-10-27T04:00:00Z The one-year appointment as poet laureate is meant to raise national appreciation of poetry. William S. Merwin named 17th US poet laureate 2010-07-01T08:58:00Z Excerpts from drafts of an unpublished poem by poet laureate Ted Hughes, which details his feelings about his wife Sylvia Plath's suicide in February 1963. Excerpts from Ted Hughes poem on Sylvia Plath 2010-10-07T20:04:00Z But he changed his mind and became the 17th U.S. poet laureate last year after seeing the position as an opportunity. US poet laureate says humans failing themselves 2011-08-03T02:09:16Z The program offered no female composers or authors until the touching “Blessing the Boats” appeared as an encore, with music by Saint-Saens and words by Lucille Clifton, a former poet laureate of Maryland. Review | With Bill Murray, crossing a bridge from America past to America present 2018-09-30T04:00:00Z An invigorating polemic by Sir Paul Nurse, Nobel medicine laureate and recently anointed president of the Royal Society. Tonight's TV highlights: Horizon: Science Under Attack 2011-01-24T00:04:00Z On what he'll do as U.S. poet laureate: I would like to say hello, invite people to write, honor their experience, culture, style, traditions and voices, in writing. U.S. poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera on the art of poetry 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Neumeier, 73, is this year’s laureate in the arts and philosophy category. John Neumeier, Choreographer, Wins $400,000 Kyoto Prize 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z He continued as the orchestra’s conductor laureate, serving on the orchestra’s artistic staff for 56 years. Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, who led Minnesota Orchestra for 19 years, dies at 93 2017-02-21T05:00:00Z Flenniken, 51, was appointed to a two-year term as the state's poet laureate in February, succeeding Samuel Green, the first poet laureate. Once a Hanford engineer, now Washington's poet laureate 2012-04-02T02:01:16Z If I hadn't been laureate we would never have raised the two million quid we needed to get it off the ground. Andrew Motion: a life in writing 2012-10-05T21:55:13Z In his fiction Golding would become a laureate of humiliation, writes Mr. Carey, a well-known British literary critic, biographer and academic. Books of The Times: ?William Golding,? the Lighter Side, by John Carey 2010-07-06T23:03:00Z Nov. 22: Billy Collins , another former poet laureate, raconteur and first annual recipient of the Mark Twain Prize for Humor in Poetry. Seattle Arts & Lectures brings Elizabeth Strout, Tracy Kidder, Jonathan Franzen and more to the NW 2010-06-11T20:34:00Z In his memoir, Mr. Patch said the recipients of Bedford’s services included the dissident Soviet writer and Nobel laureate Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Svetlana Stalina, the daughter of the late Soviet dictator. Isaac Patch, who led CIA-financed program to distribute books in the Soviet Union, dies Grandees of high culture have been wheeled out by all of them, notably Derry's Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, but mass involvement played a larger part in the detail of the bids. Derry celebrates culture capital success 2010-07-15T19:41:00Z The father in “Disgrace,” the searing book by the Nobel laureate J.M. Dear Match Book: Daddy’s Little Girl 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z I'm sure we will enjoy his continued participation from time to time as conductor laureate. In the music's service: Gerard Schwarz reflects on 26 years with Seattle Symphony 2011-06-08T22:23:03Z Award-winning Irish author and publisher Siobhán Parkinson was named yesterday as Laureate na nÓg, Ireland's first laureate for children's literature, by Irish president Mary McAleese. Ireland names Siobh?n Parkinson first children's laureate 2010-05-11T12:50:00Z The most influential U.S. poets laureate have usually had a special interest or project: Maxine Kumin championed the work of women poets. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z Boyle managed to find a way of showing us who we are, as if he were poet laureate. Olympic opening ceremony wins UK theatre award 2012-11-26T12:45:36Z Prince William is expanding its efforts as well, with plans to add another laureate. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z And a slender new poetry collection by the Nobel laureate Louise Glück, which in its way also has fate on its mind: “Who can speak of the future?” 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z For the Thursday night guest headliner opening party, expect a performance from punk rock's poet laureate Patti Smith.To buy tickets please click here. Win a summer of festival tickets for you and a friend 2013-06-08T23:05:00Z Although it lacks the maturity of the Nobel laureate’s later works — the confident hand of a master the critic Irving Howe called the “connoisseur of ironies” — it provides a fascinating glimpse into the young writer. Book review: ‘Skylight’ by Jose Saramago 2014-12-22T05:00:00Z Initially, the poet laureate was sceptical about the project, protesting that he possessed the kind of singing voice that could bring up bodies from the murky depths of the Thames. Hidden treasures: Sir John Betjeman's Banana Blush 2013-02-15T10:10:12Z The Nobel, worth more than $500,000 today, set up the family in its new country, where a professorship at Columbia University awaited the new laureate. A Remarkable Man Among Remarkable Men and Women 2018-01-24T05:00:00Z To celebrate the anniversary of the birth of the poet laureate of L.A. lowlife, here are 18 things he wrote and said and did. Celebrating Charles Bukowski, 'poet laureate of L.A. lowlife' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z If, however, after a decade as the unofficial poet laureate of geezer , Mike Skinner – aka – really is quitting pop for films and books, he is going out with a party. The Streets ? review 2011-02-22T18:21:32Z This septuagenarian journalist turned author has become the poet laureate of the anti-globalisation movement by adding a laconic, poetic voice to non-fiction. Eduardo Galeano: 'My great fear is that we are all suffering from amnesia' 2013-07-23T16:41:00Z Motion, a former poet laureate of the United Kingdom, includes captivating descriptions of exotic flora and fauna, birds, sea creatures and other wonders Jim marvels over. 'Silver': courage and terror in the sequel to Treasure Island 2012-08-01T20:01:03Z He was poet laureate of the United States. Mark Strand, a revelatory poet of love and death 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z In 1997, he was named to the first of three terms as United States poet laureate and consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress. Former poet laureate sees jazz everywhere in American culture 2010-10-12T20:39:00Z In 2002, as poet laureate of New Jersey, Baraka drew accusations of anti-Semitism over his poem Somebody Blew Up America, which referenced the 11 September 2001 attacks. Poet Amiri Baraka dies, aged 72 2014-01-10T11:15:12Z Among the festival’s headliners are Tracy K. Smith, the United States poet laureate, and Frank Ostaseski, an author and end-of-life care educator, both of whom are slated to appear at the festival’s opening night. Festival in New York Will Look at Death From Many Angles 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z Charles Bukowski was called many things: "poet laureate of L.A. lowlife," "the enfant terrible of the Meat School poets," "the prophet of the underemployed" and "a flamboyant provincial." Celebrating Charles Bukowski, 'poet laureate of L.A. lowlife' 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z Ned’s odyssey reunites him with Simon, still wearing his garbage collector’s uniform as a Nobel laureate and now aspiring comedian. Review: In Hal Hartley’s ‘Ned Rifle,’ Closure for a Son and a Series 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z Others involved in the project included Patience Agbabi, this year's Canterbury poet laureate. Tackling UK poetry's ethnic imbalance, with no help from Jeremy Hunt 2010-09-22T07:00:00Z The Academy of American Poets said on Thursday that it would be able to fund its poet laureate program for the next three years with a $4.5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Mellon Foundation Grants $4.5 Million to Academy of American Poets 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z When he performed in Tulsa last month, at a theater just a few blocks away, the Nobel laureate made no acknowledgment of the institution in his honor about to open just down the street. The $10 Million Bob Dylan Center Opens Up His Songwriting Secrets 2022-05-05T04:00:00Z And we hear from the Nigerian Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka why, after decades on the front lines of his country's political battles, he has decided to retire from public life. Guardian Books podcast: Wole Soyinka, Kishwar Desai and Jason Wallace 2011-01-14T11:17:32Z Ted Hughes was Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998 The widow of the former poet laureate Ted Hughes is to write a memoir about her 28-year marriage to the controversial figure. Ted Hughes widow to write memoirs 2013-01-07T12:12:21Z The County, broodingly shot but ultimately uplifting, makes him the poet laureate of Icelandic rural life. 'They're behaving as capitalists': the film inspired by Iceland's farming stranglehold 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Less than a week into her role as North Carolina’s poet laureate, Valerie Macon, a self-published poet and state employee, resigned over questions about her literary credentials and qualifications. North Carolina's New Poet Laureate Bows Out 2014-07-18T04:00:00Z The award also has roiled the Swedish Academy, which chooses the laureate from nominees selected by a committee. Nobel laureate Handke strikes out at questioners 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z While Potell writes on the envelopes that the poem comes from the county’s poet laureate, she doesn’t include a return address because she doesn’t want people to feel pressure to respond. This 32-year-old poet (and firefighter) mails poems to strangers without a return address 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z He was the first poet laureate of MtvU, the subsidiary of MTV broadcast only on college campuses, and his lifelong devotion to and influence on film was celebrated by the Harvard Film Archive. John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z As a popular Nobel laureate he may find, in the near future, that it's more difficult to be incognito. Mario Vargas Llosa: a master of humour and humanity 2010-10-07T17:42:00Z In his acceptance speech for the foundation’s award, he noted that he preferred an assessment by the New Musical Express in London, which had dubbed him “the poet laureate of wild a--holes with revolvers.” Elmore Leonard shoots his way into the Library of America Weeks before his death, he was named a student Lincoln laureate, an annual award given to a student at each of the state's four-year universities who shows excellence in school and extracurricular activities. Man convicted in DePaul student's murder 2011-09-16T19:28:00Z I tell him I'm good and remind him that we're supposed to talk about his role as our country's poet laureate and about his Kirsch award. Juan Felipe Herrera, U.S. Poet Laureate, on eating too many chilaquiles and returning to L.A. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z These pages clearly demonstrate why Trethewey, whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and two terms as poet laureate of the United States, is one of our preeminent poets. Review | These new voices in poetry should make us sit up and listen 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z |
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