“Everyone comes here, kings, queens, murderers, poets, children; everyone comes this way, and none come back.” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The earliest recorded contest took place at Chalds in around 700 bc, the poet Hesiod proudly penning a few lines in celebration of his winning a solo singing class there. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Ah, but remember, the poet Emerson said that when we have worn out our shoes, the strength of the journey has passed into our body.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

After these readings, I followed as the poets would stand out on U Street or repair to a cafe and argue about everything—books, politics, boxing. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

She told him what he’d missed, the poet and the meal. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

But whenever you hear bad poets declaiming their bad poetry, filled with foolish similes and ugly rhymes, you will know which of the meads they have tasted. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

There is an immense difference between the two poets, who are separated from each other not only by six or seven hundred years, but also by the fundamental difference between the Greek, and the Roman. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The poet Keats said it first. Dr. Malone knows. It’s how I read the alethiometer. It’s how you use the knife, isn’t it?” The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Very good! Let us dance and celebrate. Tonight we sleep as aristocrats,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The small boy clung to the shoe poet, who was having difficulties navigating the shoving mob. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

There were musicians among them as well, and painters and poets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Evenings were often given over to discussions and meetings with local poets, painters, musicians, and writers of fiction, at which they praised or condemned other artists, scorned the marketplace and courted it. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My brother’s a sort of poet, too, you know,” he said to the bristling strangers. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He says that this seems to be a poem about England but it is a lament for the poet’s native land, our own native land, Ireland. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He imperiled his life again to take away from the Giants the skaldic mead, which made anyone who tasted it a poet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The book fair accelerated the growth of an international trade in books, what the Jacobean poet Samuel Daniel called ‘the intertraffique of the mind.’ The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Eva instructed the shoe poet to collect any wood or paper he could find for the fireplace. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Reading the poet Ovid, I learned that no one can resist love, for water wears the sharpest stone smooth, and even the hardest ground at last crumbles before the plow. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The final stop on the field trip, a short distance by bus from the poet’s house, is a graveyard where the writer lies buried. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were stories of heroes and poets and love and sacrifice. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Apparently, he is the “poet laureate of the sixth grade.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

It all added up to more than he could really put into words, maybe more than even a poet could—something beyond the sum of its parts, something mysterious and ineffable and gorgeous to behold. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She did her graduate work at NYU, and for three weeks the four of us stayed in the city and socialized with her former teachers and classmates—novelists, playwrights, screenwriters, poets. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“But, Eva, dear, your shoes are carrying your most valuable possession—your life. Do not delay. Everything else can be replaced,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

She recited those words now, at the dinner table of the French and American couple, while the Haitian poet stared, arms folded. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

These truths I heard in the works of other poets around the city. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Curiously enough, they inspired artists to make statues and pictures of them far more than poets to write of them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poet in me evolved from attending political meetings with my stepfather and his comrades. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Dr. Finch said, “Remember the minor women poets?” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Ifemelu had been drinking too much white wine; from time to time she had a swimming sensation in her head, and she would later send apology e-mails to the host and the poet. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I had heard stories about PG County from the same poets who opened my world. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

This is the picture the poets like best to paint of her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What is your addled poet brain getting at?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy clung to the leg of the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Sure, I can make a boat,” he said, and then added, quoting the poet Joyce Kilmer, “ ‘But only God can make a tree.’ The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Pindar'ic, after the style and manner of Pindar—a lyric poet of Greece. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm not sure. Anyhow," she continued, "imagine! Three years old and already drawing crowds. Of course, she became a poet." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

My dad’s dad, the poet farmer, the love of my other grandmother’s life. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

In later poets there are various entrances to it from the earth through caverns and beside deep lakes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the wine flowed and tales were told and jokes were cracked, and then silence was made and the King's poet with two fiddlers stepped out into the middle of the circle. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

Shortly before you were born, I was pulled over by the PG County police, the same police that all the D.C. poets had warned me of. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

It turned out he wasn’t just a poet. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

Forty years ago—in 1967—the late poet June Jordan covered this same ground, brilliantly, in an article she wrote for the Nation entitled “On Listening: A Good Way To Hear.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Why can’t poets just say what they want to say and then shut up? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The poets of the Elder Edda seem to have had conceptions greater than their skill to put them into words. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Most poems I’ve seen are about love or sex or the stars. You poets are obsessed with stars. Falling stars. Shooting stars. Dying stars.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“Part poet, part P. T. Barnum,” Emmett Watson, another legendary Seattle scribe, called him. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Really, he thought, if you couldn’t trust a poet to offer sensible advice, who could you trust? The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Finally, among all types of song, it is the song created by lyric poets that I find most compelling. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But since he has returned with the dwarfs’ mead, he has become a poet and a dreamer.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Of course, the famous woman poet at my college lived with another woman—a stumpy old Classical scholar with a cropped Dutch cut. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

These poets assured me that the PG County police were not police at all but privateers, gangsters, gunmen, plunderers operating under the color of law. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

But we weren’t taught about her or any other Latin American poets, for that matter. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Royal suddenly appeared at her side and pulled her away from the poet’s honey words. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

In the Roman poet Virgil this idea is presented in great detail as in no Greek poet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we were all inside the brush, the shoe poet and the boy replaced the branches. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

In the prison debates I argued for the theory that King James himself was the real poet who used the nom de plume Shakespeare. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poet kissed his host’s hand and asked permission to share some of his poetry. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

She also fell hard for a handsome, moody poet named Harold Van Kirk. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

“It’s the name of a famous poet. Edgar Allan Poe,” Cari said. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

She was also a scientist, nun, poet, visionary and diplomat, and her music is still performed and admired now, nearly a thousand years later. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One could well say of the event horizon what the poet Dante said of the entrance to Hell: “All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is quite controversial and Mrs. Mandell is a poet besides. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

The whole school knows who we are, that we’re “the poets.” Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Christopher, a graduate ,of Harvard Divinity School, was a poet, a philosopher, and a Unitarian minister, although he earned his keep as a bureaucrat in the California penal system. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were ‘I go to seek a Great Perhaps.’ Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Poems we would never read to that depression-loving group of miserable poets inside. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The boy was named Miltiades after the great Athenian general, but would be known as Milton, after the great English poet. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Another teen poet gets on the mic and yells so loud that I want to cover my ears. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Besides, he could not bind all that he had in his nature—the rover, the aspirant, the poet, the priest—in the limits of a single passion. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet softly placed his hand on my shoulder. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

And that thing, the third thing was, a poet had been bom. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was instructed to hear in the Renaissance poet’s celebration of pastoral life the reminder of his reader’s own civic responsibility and power. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He reminds me of the other poet guy, the one Ms. Laverne read us. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

"She a poet and she don't know it!" Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

“Why do you think the poet is telling us about a hot dog she ate when she was a kid?” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

When the poet Paul Valéry once asked Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

The happy end brought about by a divinity, the deus ex machina, is a common device with Euripides alone of the three tragic poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Admired by Jane Austen, Dr. Johnson, and David Hume, Blair edited the first Scottish edition of Shakespeare and a forty-four volume uniform edition of the English poets. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

I dare you to peep behind these eyes, discover the poet in tough-guy disguise. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I do not know if all cops are poets, but I know that all cops carry guns with triggers. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Okay, the first week of school Mrs. Henry, our English teacher, said we had to write poems in the style of some famous poet. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, marrying a poet was one thing, but fathering a son who preferred burying his face in poetry books to hunting... well, that wasn’t how Baba had envisioned it, I suppose. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon we would often be visited by one or more of the failed Beat poets who always, very coincidentally, seemed to find themselves in the neighborhood. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet stopped and thumped his stick against the icy road. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Four hundred years before Virgil a Greek poet looked at it differently. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She went to a conference and met a German poet. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“Take those boots,” called the shoe poet to an old man picking through a pile. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Virgil too is the only poet who gives clearly the geography of the underworld. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My mother was obsessed with the poet Nikki Giovanni, in love with her unabashed feminine strength and her reconciliation of love and revolution. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“It’s just that I thought we could look at some more modern poets this year and think about how they are writing and how we can use those poems as models...” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

“Such a fine poet, and such confused ideas! If he had died before the coup, I suppose he would have received a national tribute.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A Greek poet would never have thought of an elegant dress and coiffure for the wood nymph. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stood behind the shoe poet and the Polish girl, straining to hear the exchange between Joana and the sailor. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

So did Dr. Malone, and so did the poet Keats, whoever he was, and all of them knew you couldn’t get it by straining toward it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The description of Danaë in the wooden chest was the most famous passage of a famous poem by Simonides of Ceos, a great lyric poet who lived in the sixth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was Constantijn Huygens, a master diplomat of the age, a litterateur, poet, composer, musician, close friend and translator of the English poet John Donne, and the head of an archetypical great family. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet laughed and shook his walking stick at her. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

They are, in the language of the slave’s poet, Whittier,— Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

It had been written by a poet who had lived in Brooklyn, gone to the Brooklyn public schools and, as a young man, had edited The Brooklyn Eagle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every home has a poet and every home has a musician because words and music give Afghans life. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Educated Englishmen could read it; by using it, Bruno signalled that he was addressing himself to poets and courtiers, not to professors of mathematics or philosophy. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Then I said the thing I’d never have said to my revolutionary poet mother. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

There is very little that is attractive in the portrait the poets draw of her. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so, as usual, our family dinner conversations were about things of the mind: Einstein and Newton, the poets and the philosophers. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

This poet ate his salad with his fingers, leaf by leaf, while talking to me about the antithesis of nature and art. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“How can we be dangerous to the state? A poet, a chiropractor, and a high school senior?” Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He wants me to know the Persian poets like I know American rappers. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

He was the only poet Mr. Ward had us read who we were actually going to meet, which was pretty cool. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet sat by the glowing fireplace, polishing his boots with lampblack he had scraped from the hearth. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He thought back to their first meeting, four years earlier at a lecture hall in Cambridge, where a group of Bengali poets were giving a recital. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

There was a little sign above the door that said the poet Edna Saint Vincent Millay once lived in the house, and that it was the narrowest house in New York. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Now wasn’t the time to be an activist or a poet or any of those things. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

He can have another name given to him when he comes of age, a nickname from his friends, and if he is a poet, he can have a pen name. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wanders past graves belonging to philosophers and poets, authors whose books he knows from his grandmother’s library. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Their feet,” the shoe poet gently reminded as I passed him. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Bernabe felt like laughing, yet instead he set his face in a glower, hoping to drive this one-armed poet back into the heart of the revelry where he belonged. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Besides the other kids, I knew we’d have a living, published poet in the audience, so I’d spent a week memorizing and rehearsing my poem in front of a mirror, if you can believe that. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That day when I left him alone in his apartment, he told me what the poet Rumi had said. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

“I see your left foot is hurting, isn’t it, lad?” interrupted the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Really, he’s too sincere by half “What does a poet in chief even do?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He slept, his head in the shoe poet’s lap. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

No, I am not an artist or poet or singer. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Thank God for the aged,” sings the poet: Thank God for the aged And for age itself, and illness and the grave. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Isaac was a poet, you see, and in the adversity the words kept coming. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

I think I’m beginning to look down on all poets except Sappho. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

But what did the poets know about survival? Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I would rather be a poet than end up inside a bomb or a bottle of shampoo. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The noise called Tu-Whit Tu-Whoo, which is wished by poets on the owl, fa really a family noise, made by separate birds. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father was a wealthy banker in Birmingham; his mother was the daughter of Erasmus Darwin, the polymath poet and doctor, who was also Charles Darwin's grandfather. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Any deity who demanded them was thereby proved to be evil, and, as the poet Euripides said, “If gods do evil then they are not gods.” Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In return for their favor he acted so atrociously that no poet ever tried to explain his conduct. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Let’s get the poet offstage. Twelve verses is enough....” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

I adore the history of the arts, especially when it concerns writers, poets and painters; musicians may come later. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In the later poets, Artemis is identified with Hecate. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She writes athletic, musician, poet, singer on the board. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

They’re singers and actors and writers and dancers and directors and poets. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Four painters, four poets and four novelists. You’re one of the novelists.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had drifted from store to store, Esperanza a successful poet on her book tour and Moss a world-renowned fashion designer helping her with her wardrobe. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

In my account I have followed the stories given by the two tragic poets and by Theocritus, rather than Pindar, one of the most difficult of poets to translate or even to paraphrase. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my bedroom were books by poets and novelists—books that I loved—in which male writers published feelings the men in my family never revealed or acknowledged in words. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The story was a part of the great Persian poet Ferdowsi’s epic poem Shahnameh, which roughly translates to The Book of Kings. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He was a poet president, and from time to time Manolo would say, “Ay, if Minerva had lived to see this.” In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyway, a bit later the dejected poet received a message that there were two men waiting for him outside the party. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

His smile is kind, and his long hair pulled into a ponytail makes him look more like a poet than a scientist. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The poet prepared the dancing circles well, intoxicating them with visions of flight and release. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“I rhymed! Did you hear that? I’m a poet and didn’t know it, although my shoes kind of show it.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The Wreck of the Hesperus’ is by a poet called Longfellow, and it is a very dramatic tale. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

“I cannot think what any poet might say about babies or Witches, but I have no doubt that it is marvelously insightful.” The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

She is extremely close with her mother, a teacher in the Trenton public schools, and her father, a social worker and published poet. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z

But she got down our Gems of Spanish Poetry and quoted me another poem by the same poet: May the limitations of love not cast a spell On the serious ambitions of my mind. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

But if I were a doctor poet, I would spend all day with people who could not run past me, and then I would go home and write whatever I liked about their insides. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Occasionally these poets would show up drunk, carrying found objects onto which they had scrawled cryptic messages. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

More poets were executed, more villages set ablaze. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

She got it from a book of Negro poets at the Center. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Omer wanted to invite her to a poetry reading by local poets at his school that evening. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“We’ll be featuring some local teen poets who were part of the Poetry Out Loud summer workshops. So give ’em a round of applause, y’all.” Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

His hair is loose and blowing in the breeze and he's got his poet face on. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

The Greek poets thought of them chiefly as pursuing sinners on the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poet was finally carried away into the purely fantastic by his determination to create a hero for Rome that would make all other heroes seem insignificant. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The words were polite enough, but Denzo’s tone was edged with malice, and the eyes of the warrior poet gleamed bright with mockery. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I love poetry, actually. I really admire poets who can bare their souls on the page, you know?” The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The spring beloved of poets, Hippocrene, on Helicon, the Muses’ mountain, had sprung up where his hoof had struck the earth. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Only in a world where everything is patently being lost can a priest stir men’s hearts as a poet would by maintaining that nothing is in vain. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poet looked at the point of his spear and then the curtain wire and, deep in thought, walked back and forth across the stage. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He spoke of them with such love and emotion that a woman in our group had crowned him “the shoe poet.” Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Like in that movie. Prep school teachers love dead poets. It’s a thing.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

So dawn goes down to day, the poet wrote. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

A friend, the poet Harriet Monroe, waited with the other guests for the bride to appear on the stairway. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That it gets printed in a book after the poet makes it is quite beside the point.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

They find the stone that bears the poet’s name. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

And I read that book of poems by a poet named William Carlos Williams. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Well, if Shakespeare existed, he was then the top poet around. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

This lady said the Langston who wrote these words is a poet. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He was a poet, or a college president, or a movie star; he drank expensive whisky, and he smoked Lucky Strike cigarettes in the green package. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

“To see,” the poet Paul Valéry once wrote, “is to forget the name of the things that one sees.” The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

They put the young people’s presentations on first, before all of the speeches and the musicians and the adult poets. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I read aloud it seemed that the poet, longing for his absent love, exactly summed up my own sorrows. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

He has a beautiful poem called “Poem After Carlos Drummond de Andrade,” which is a reference to the great Brazilian poet. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

“She was a writer and a poet. She wrote a poem that is engraved on the Statue of Liberty that says, ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’” Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Our close friend Elizabeth Alexander, the poet who’d written a poem for Barack's first inauguration, spoke to the class, which meant that Barack and I got to sit back and just feel. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The Greek poets were not given to such details, but the Latin had no manner of objection to them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The prospect of traveling back to this delightful state of things is held out by nearly every writer who touches upon classical mythology, above all by the poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poets were pale emasculates, and Western men held them in contempt. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the books about the stories of classical mythology depend chiefly upon the Latin poet Ovid, who wrote during the reign of Augustus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father told me once, If that doesn't make you a poet, Finn, nothing will. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The poet made eating salad with your fingers seem to be the only natural and sensible thing to do. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“They can have just two words if the poet wants them to.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She was, the Latin poet Horace says, splendidly false. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, acknowledging that she had not written much of anything in years, she announced to her family that she was not a poet anymore. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Papa managed to find a couple of children’s books, including one of haiku by a famous Japanese poet from a long time ago. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Where shall we make our camp?” asked the shoe poet, looking around. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Here dwelt the great and good dead, heroes, poets, priests, and all who had made men remember them by helping others. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The idea of a concert career for me appealed to his vision of himself as a poet and of me as more than a spunky tomboy. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

I should like to be a doctor poet, I think, if I happen to survive to adulthood. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet had promised that today we would find the manor house he had known. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

If we were a people much given to revealing secrets, we might raise monuments and sacrifice to the memories of our poets, but slavery cured us of that weakness. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

And that thing, the third thing was, a poet had been bom. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poets did not care to linger in that gloom-hidden abode. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you are talking like a real poet.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Come with? No, thanks. I kinda wanna see the other poets,” I say. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

For years after graduate school, she wrote down poet under profession in questionnaires and income tax forms, and later amended it to writer-slash-teacher. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I have taken this story entirely from two plays of Euripides, the fifth-century tragic poet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’d never read him, but he looked like a good poet. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

“The word mean has more than one definition, Miss Gilly. Here the poet is talking about humility, lowliness, not”—he laughed softly—“not bad nature.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

“We’re partial to poetry here. Nothing after the nineteenth century. The greatest poets worked then. I got something for you.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Rather, he was something of a poet, an inventor of on-the-spot ballads called corridos, and at one time he had been able to read and write in both English and Spanish. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I also heard, for the first time, the poet Dylan Thomas on the radio. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

The barkers were all interesting guys, poets manques, most of them, and spent their time off in City Lights Bookstore, leafing through New Directions paperbacks. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Descriptions moved easily from the physical to the symbolic and were incomplete without a range of references to poets and philosophers. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

Dashing, I thought, in a scrawny poet kind of way. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Of them all he was foremost, as was proved by the extraordinary fact that poets report, that when Zeus wished to use his thunderbolt, it was Pegasus who brought the thunder and lightning to him. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I found this in the library. A book of poetry by a man named Langston Hughes. He’s a colored poet.” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He would show her the famed tree that had a poet buried beneath it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The poet returned home after a very long trip to find that his wife had given birth to a daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dennis Brutus, another Coloured political activist, was a poet and writer from Port Elizabeth imprisoned for violating his bans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I had told the poet I might well get married and have a pack of children someday, she stared at me in horror. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“Shut up. I hate it, but I read something once by a poet named Warsan Shire. It says that you can't make a home out of human beings, and that someone should’ve told you that.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“You might as well ask an artist to explain his art, or ask a poet to explain his poem. It defeats the purpose. The meaning is only clear through the search.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

It didn’t occur to me to use her poet name, Nzila, to maybe soften her up. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Musicians and poets saw the countryside as a roughly hewn wilderness, supplying countless images to convey the swirling emotional torrents of the yearning lover. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There are none to equal them in Greek mythology, except those retold by the tragic poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“His boots were military issue, but modified,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Who else in my classroom could claim they knew a poet and that she was their mother? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the world Michael-Mary Graham inhabited, her mild liberalism, a residue of her Bohemian youth, and her posture of sensitive lady poet passed for anarchy. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Your poet must have spent time in a village like mine,” he said. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

Did the poet use red to symbolize blood? Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

The materials for this story are taken from two poets, the Greek Aeschylus and the Roman Ovid, separated from each other by four hundred and fifty years and still more by their gifts and temperaments. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have followed Apollodorus, but I have added the fragment from Simonides, and short quotations from other poets, notably Hesiod and Pindar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She led me past the man they all called the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Two of the episodes in this story are taken from the earliest poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

There may be countless worlds on which the inhabitants are accomplished linguists or superb poets but indifferent radio astronomers. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Artists and scientists and philosophers and poets, many of them long dead. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

They were strong, as the poet rings, and it was weak—one day they would be weak, and it strong. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ben Hugo. I like that, it sounds like a poet’s name.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Freya herself rode to the battlefield and claimed her share of the dead, and to the Norse poets that was a natural and fitting office for the Goddess of Love. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poet Hesiod, the first Greek who tried to explain how things began, wrote, Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Edgar Lee Masters, Chicago attorney and emerging poet, called the Court “an inexhaustible dream of beauty.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

But I do think the poet might have regarded the death of the cat as more profound than the muffling of the chime of a watch. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z

We all pile into her office, which is full of beanbag chairs and has two mini love seats, a round table with a few chairs, and posters of poets everywhere. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I read this bad poetry at open mics in local cafes populated mostly by other poets who also felt the insecurity of their bodies. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

“But no, those words come from a poem written by the esteemed poet and linguist Master Lumumba. Do you know what they mean?” Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

“Poets survive in gulags, in detention blocks, in torture chambers. Even in that misery hole there is poets working, Merdegate, no, where in the hell, on the Channel, I always am forgetting...” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

To Virgil as to all Roman poets, war was the noblest and most glorious of human activities. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

And after each poet goes up, who are all just okay, the man finally calls my name. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The poet Carl Sandburg had sung its praises just two years before: “Hog Butcher for the World, / Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat..../ Stormy, husky, brawling, / City of the Big Shoulders.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

There are many allusions to him in prose writers as well as poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are often referred to by the poets and they are among the most prominent sufferers in the hell of mythology, where they must forever try to carry water in leaking jars. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The little boy had no luggage, the shoe poet only a carpetbag and his shoe-repair kit. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

By Friday morning, I’m pretty sure I’ll never get a response from the mysterious poet. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sunny’s moms had helped me pick it out because the poet was positive for Black women. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Bendix: “It was English. Mrs. Nally never cares if you’re late. Seriously, ask her. We were doing the metaphysical poets. Would you be in a rush to get yourself some pastoral elegy of John Donne?” Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

All it got me was a mother who lied about what her stupid poet name meant. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Pressure was put on him by a determined poet whose dreams were brass, cast iron, and rubber. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Any fool can make money these days and most of them do. But what about people with talent and brains? Name, for example, one poet who makes money.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The verse at the end is taken from the Alexandrian poet Moschus. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You come from a long line of great poets since Homer. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

So, on the afternoon that Robert Frost’s horse had clip-clopped through the snow, I’d raised my hand and told the class my mother was a poet. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was once the home of a poet, they are told. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I have added the account of what Jason and Medea did there, taking it from the fifth-century tragic poet Euripides, who made it the subject of one of his best plays. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pindar, the greatest lyric poet of Greece, began to write toward the end of the sixth century. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Greek artists and poets realized how splendid a man could be, straight and swift and strong. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oho? And the boyfriend of Dawn Madden, he is a poet or a barbarian?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

He might have flinched altogether from speaking if at this moment he had not seen Ampleforth, the hairy-eared poet, wandering limply round the room with a tray, looking for a place to sit down. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Aeschylus, the oldest of the three tragic poets, was a contemporary of Pindar’s. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My dear Eva, if I am right and there is in fact an estate, will you apologize to me?” asked the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He would never dare to consider himself a poet, because he wasn’t anything like that; he just loved rhymes. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The material for a great epic is there, as great as the Iliad, perhaps even greater, but no poet came to work it over as Homer did the early stories which preceded the Iliad. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Ward invited a real poet to come speak to us and to read some of his work. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Last night I almost made my way through each poet in the Caroling Dusk book. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“You flatter me with a poet's praises,” I said, looking sideways at him in order to hide my face. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet leapt feetfirst off the ship, plummeting toward the sea. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Mal, she learned, was a poet, had published several collections of poems. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The stuff where you’re not sure what the poet’s talking about. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Muhammad Ali was a boxer and a poet. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

That she named me for a poet whose words she loved and kept hidden in her heart, just waiting for a baby boy. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“Yes, it’s quite exciting,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Every time I go down to the Hideout, I keep hoping the mysterious poet will be there. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was completing her master’s thesis at Stanford, a study of an Irish poet whom Sanjeev had never heard of. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

I know there ain’t no chance Mama named me for a poet who wrote pretty words, but it feels good to hear her say it. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

All of these poets were older and wiser than me, and many of them were well read, and they brought this wisdom to bear on me and my work. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Then she quotes me something El Lider said in the early years, before they started arresting poets. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man I’d love would look like the poet in a frontispiece, pale and sad with a pen in his hand. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Does he really want to disagree with those who think that poets and artists stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, and accumulate knowledge about how to write poems and paint pictures? The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z

And yet, despite this, without musical accompaniment, the poet leads me to hear the sounds of the words that I read. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He made Allie go get his baseball mitt and then he asked him who was the best war poet, Rupert Brooke or Emily Dickinson. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

But my favorite patriotic song was “En mi viejo San Juan,” in which a poet says good-bye to Old San Juan and calls Puerto Rico a “sea goddess, queen of the coconut groves.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

It had a symbolism that wasn’t in the other poems, and it also involved the poet’s ideas about the moral responsibility of the mariner. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

This morning, she left the house in a floor-length black satin skirt and matching bolero jacket with a frilly white poet’s shirt. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

She wanted Ellsberg to realize he’d blown the appearance of the German poet way out of proportion, and he got the message. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“No, I am the lucky one,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Tell me why you want to be a poet,” she says. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Who elected her queen of the poets anyway? The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“What are you, a cuckoo-clock poet? Cut it out, she might be right outside the door!” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

The wandering boy and the shoe poet marched in front of our cart. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Last year when El Lider jailed a famous Cuban poet, she sneered at “those leftist intellectual hypocrites” for trying to free him. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I learned this trick the day Jay Cee took me to lunch with a famous poet. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

But to Gertrude I only said, “Perhaps the lady waits for the poet to marry her before granting him anything.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

They put the young people’s presentations on first, before all of the speeches and the musicians and the adult poets. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mother has always wanted an engineer, a real doctor, a poet, and a lawyer. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

“What good will you be, my dear, if you are injured?” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“What else? Homer, surely. And the lyric poets.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Another high schooler with a perspective adored by the older poets. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Apparently, I am also an Italian poet in my dreams. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

He suggested I look into Ralph Waldo Emerson, a supposedly famous old poet. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

“Just wonderful and unique. I love them, and I know you will love our standout poets that we’re going to study this year.” Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

I click on the names and photos of the poets we find. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mary Elizabeth came to school with a book of poems by a famous poet named e. e. cummings. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Of course, brave boy. The advice of poets is the cordiality of kings! How may I smear unction on your, no, not unction, how may I give balm to your pain?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“Just as I remember it,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Are you named after the poet Langston Hughes?” Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

“I’ll turn you into butter on a summer day. I’ll turn you into a poet with the soul of a priest. I’ll fill you with lemon custard and push you out a window.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

I’m not going to be no Langston Hughes, and I’m not going to be no poet. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not just a new prize—it’s also a short poem written in 1841 by the great American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Maybe that’s why Daniel wants to be a poet, so he can find the right words. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

In the end it may have boiled down to what the poet Robert Frost once said about a successful education: “Just hanging around until you have caught on.” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The duende, her head thrown back in throaty seduction, called to me through the poet. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It is by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. That is the poet’s name. Can you say it? Longfellow.” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

It was kinda cool having a published poet in the audience. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the later poets he was her son and almost invariably a mischievous, naughty boy, or worse. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The poet Dylan Thomas, who liked a good drink at least as much as Alaska, said, “I’ve had eighteen straight whiskeys. I do believe that’s a record,” before dying. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Sadness of the kind that makes perfectly normal people into poets. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“These buildings, this hall, this dream of poets of centuries is the wild aspiration of crazy architects alone.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I mean, I’m usually Astrid Jones, pacifist poet type who doesn’t usually pick fights outside of correcting your grammar. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

So much, also, for the alternative visions of blind old poets and dragons. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

You come from a long line of great poets, some of the greatest poets since Homer. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet woke early, rapping our feet with his walking stick. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

“Because Robert Frost,” he said, slowly shaking his head in disbelief as if I was asking something real stupid, “is a major American poet.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

The tale is typical of the Alexandrian poets, tender, a little soft, but always in exquisite taste. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a bittersweet twist, the first to do so was the inspirational astronomer and poet Zhenya Rudneva, of the 46th Guards. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

‘The verses of your son who was the poet were very popular in Rome,’ the angel said. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

One night I read Dylan Thomas at the White Horse Tavern, the poet's favorite bar, and drank too much. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet walked ahead of the group, tapping the ice with his stick and nodding. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

I couldn't take my eyes off the pale, stubby white fingers traveling back and forth from the poet's salad bowl to the poet's mouth with one dripping lettuce leaf after another. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

President Senghor was a scholar and a poet, and he told us he was collecting research material on Shaka, flattering us by asking numerous questions about that great South African warrior. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The myths as we have them are the creation of great poets. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He said that reading a poem by an unknown member of our school was the same as reading a classic poem by a dead poet. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

“It is a manner of speaking, something a poet might write,” I said wearily, waving my hand. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Always someone falling in on holiday nights. Drunken poets and little children. Lucky she didn’t drown.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Welcome, young, brilliant poets,” Ms. Hawkins says, opening her door and ushering us inside. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z

‘I want to be a poet because I am stupid and don’t know better,’ you say.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

At the podium, the poet had been introduced and was waiting for the white-haired woman in the first row to finish talking. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet scavenged through abandoned luggage as we walked. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

My breath quickens, and I’m frozen there on the stage even as the audience stops applauding and the man calls for the next poet to come up. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“You are forgetting already. You’re forgetting your own family. And your history. These are the poets you should be reading in school.” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

This included business leaders, politicians, and poets, plus a coterie of famous people, from singers to athletes. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

“He’s talking about that lop-eared nitwit of a poet down there,” answered Bigwig. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have taken the story of Philoctetes and the death of Ajax from two plays of the fifth-century tragic poet Sophocles. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is not a mythological character, but a poet who lived about 550 B.C. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

As she fell, Annabeth thought about Hesiod, the old Greek poet who’d speculated it would take nine days to fall from earth to Tartarus. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I do think there are some interesting connections between the poet in ‘Song of Myself’ and Margo Spiegelman—all that wild charisma and wanderlust. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

The poets who wrote the plays, the actors and singers who took part in them, were all regarded as servants of the god. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The city was, in the words of famed poet Carl Sandburg, “fierce as a dog with tongue lapping for action.” 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

“You know how poets sneeze? Haiku! Our next act is one of my personal favorites. Give it up for the magical stylings of the one and only, the Great Timdini!” Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

The poet can tell the story, he argues, because he has become the captain. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

Mr. Allen—who’s wearing a gray suit—shakes Coach’s hand very formally and says, “Thank you again for what you said at the funeral. You’re a poet, a good friend, and a kind soul.” Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was empty now, but there were small posters attached to the beams, advertising various folksingers and poets who would be performing over the next few weeks. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

The story she told about her third daughter no longer had the charm of a prophetic ending: "And, of course, she became a poet." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

One book, The Gay Genius, by Lin Yutang, told the story of Su Tung Po, the Chinese poet, artist, philosopher, and civil servant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

And, as poets never do, we explained ourselves. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

Also: “Learn wisdom from the pupil of the eye that looks upon all things and yet to self is blind. Persian poet.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not the priest, but the poet, had influence with heaven—and no one was ever afraid of a poet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad, who knew that Mother’s favorite poet was Browning and suspected where the Robert came from, nevertheless bunched the fingers of his right hand, kissed their tips, and threw his hand into the air. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The shoes always tell the story,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

His mother and father thought him a poet because he wasn’t any good at anything else. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

His father, also named Charles, had the unusual distinction of being a leading authority on the poet Dante and on mosses. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z

“The soul lives inside a person when he’s alive. It’s the part of a person that feels. A poet’s soul feels more than regular people’s souls. And that’s what makes him write poetry.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

This story, so like the Renaissance idea of the classical—fantastic, delicately decorated, bright-colored—is taken entirely from a poem of the third-century Alexandrian poet Moschus, by far the best account of it. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You saw her being born on the kitchen floor, and I saw a poet being born up on that stage. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was like a poet in the Parthenon. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had some notion that I would find myself here, as a poet, of course, but it wasn’t just that.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had decided to press on, following the shoe poet and his ambitious walking stick. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Jews were the greatest artists, the greatest poets, composers, stage directors. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And so each drank, and each died, and the poets say, ‘I tell the tale that I heard told. Mithridates, he died old.’ Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Not at all. I know what I’m good at, and it ain’t drawing or painting or cutting things up and making something out of them. That’s Jade. I’m the poet.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

We know only that in the earliest Greek poets a new point of view dawned, never dreamed of in the world before them, but never to leave the world after them. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t care that he’s too earnest or that he doesn’t know what he wants or that he’s harboring dreams of being a poet, a profession that leads to heartbreak and the poorhouse. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“And he played for the Pistons. Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet. They’re not related.” The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her success earned her an offer for a graduate fellowship, but she thought spending three years studying a single medieval poet sounded restricting. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

Some of the poets say he was a king, some a hunter, but most of them say he was a shepherd. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet was already awake, staring at my boots. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Peanut Butter Shelley, I’d murmur beneath my breath, unable to remember all the poet’s womanly names. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gram was always saying stuff like that, like she was a poet instead of a painter. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

“We think Silverweed is one of the best poets we’ve had for many months,” said Cowslip. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this case, the poet was too enraged to observe this custom, and he stormed into the house with an assegai, ready to stab both mother and daughter. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The rest of the story is told best by two Roman poets, Virgil and Ovid, in very much the same style. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“One of our most illustrious Black poets! There is no true poetry any longer. No Blake, Keats, Pope....” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

I take that, and they even have the book Miss Fulton read, with poems by Countee Cullen and all the other colored poets. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The Beowulf poet does the same thing when he barks, “Hwaet!” which is Anglo-Saxon for “listen up.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

In the later poets his forge is often said to be under this or that volcano, and to cause eruptions. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

She appointed the eldest child at home to be “king” or “queen” to run the house in her absence and we took it from there, creating court jesters, slaves, musicians, poets, pets, and clowns. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The shoe poet tossed a life vest over my head. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

To many of my classmates Mrs. Finley’s dramatic readings of the English poets were comical, and I went along with laughing at her, but secretly I wanted to be an English poet. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Plus, the lobby seemed a spiderweb of trapped psychotic poets and artists. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

I knew José Martí was a poet, but I had no idea about the other stuff. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

“Or was it the inside of almonds? The dude is a poet. I’ll tell you something else, Addie: The dude likes you.” The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

Hrothgar himself did not boast, but his poets sang his praises all over the land of the Danes, and men came flocking to join his army. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

He used to say he wanted to be a poet like Pablo Neruda. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

“Really, Eva, at this point it makes no difference,” said the shoe poet. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

It was more because he felt he had value as a poet than the fact that he was a pale, green-eyed half-breed—and he did. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

They died quickly, “the way a hero sandwich dies in the garment district at twelve o’clock in the afternoon,” as the poet Pinero put it. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Now that I could read, he often took out a book of poems by the great Indian poet Rabindranath Tagore. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“He said that the poems happen to be written by the only great poet of the century. He said I should’ve bought a translation or something. Or learned the language, if you please.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

"Oddly enough, this wasn't written by a practicing poet. It was written by a psychoanalyst named Wilhelm Stekel. Here's what he--Are you still with me?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was a walled city for poets and astronomers and every shade of thinker in between. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He was a poet who wrote raps in his spare time. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

In the Odyssey when a priest and a poet fall on their knees before Odysseus, praying him to spare their lives, the hero kills the priest without a thought, but saves the poet. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wanted to focus on Mr. Hughes first, but now I want each of you to find a poet you like, and we’ll practice writing a little poetry.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

When we hear a fine poet, we say that they have tasted Odin’s gift. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

Constantijn Huygens, a poet and diplomat of the time, remarked that the Town Hall dispelled “the Gothic squint and squalor.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That she wanted to name her baby boy after the poet she copied in her letters. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

As I neared the tall doorway, the shoe poet raised his hand to stop me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

That poet she met at Lucinda's party the night before argued that no matter how much of it one lost, in the midst of some profound emotion, one would revert to one's mother tongue. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kazilly has made us do enough poems that I’m not fooled by the tricks that poets play with words. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

I hope the world hasn’t knocked the poet out of him yet. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Can’t please everyone. As my poet in chief, you could comfort the loser with a good poem.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

“I'm more into the First World War poets, myself.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

"Then men tell true," answered the poet, "for that is how Heorot is by day. But by night it's a different story. After darkfall the hall stands abandoned. None dare go there." Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted, as the ’80s poet Howard Jones would say, to get to know her well. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was ready to be many things at once—child, grown-up, poet, engineer, botanist, dragon. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

The later poets define the world of the dead more and more clearly as the place where the wicked are punished and the good rewarded. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

You come from a long line of great poets, some of the greatest poets since Homer. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

He was an astronomer, historian, geographer, philosopher, poet, theater critic and mathematician. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That's the name of the musician, poet and prophet who tried to rescue his dead wife from the underworld. "The Killing" settles on an obvious suspect 2011-06-13T11:14:00Z

That the poems were actually written by the actor playing the guard, Shen Shaoqiu, and that Mr. Shen in real life is a policeman as well as a radical poet, only adds to the strangeness. | 'The High LIfe': Captive to Politics and Radical Poetry 2011-06-19T22:17:09Z

She was one of six painters and poets — and the only woman — who in 1954 founded the Six Gallery. Deborah Remington, Abstract Artist, Dies at 79 2010-05-18T05:25:00Z

“Alien Boy: The Life and Death of James Chasse” presents the facts surrounding the tragic death of Chasse, a once-promising poet, artist and ’zine publisher in Portland. ‘Alien Boy’: documenting a mental-illness tragedy 2014-03-06T20:33:36Z

Dickens is the poet, as well, of foul weather, of mist and murk. Beyond Expectations: Rereading Dickens 2016-12-28T05:00:00Z

The larger exhibition reintroduces the veteran artist and poet Gerald Jackson, now in his mid-80s, whose work was fearlessly multimedia long before it became the thing to do. 6 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

It was the fourth time in history that a poet would speak at a Presidential inaugural. A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

The poet Richard Howard, in the 1969 book “Alone With America: Essays on the Art of Poetry in the United States Since 1950,” praised “a technical prowess probably without equal in American verse today.” John Hollander, Poet Known for His Range, Dies at 83 2013-08-18T22:06:10Z

No self-respecting poet would be seen dead in the poetry sector. In praise of ? impoverished poets 2011-07-27T22:03:34Z

In the 1990s, poet Donald Hall called Mr. Hill “the best English poet of the 20th century” — placing him above such luminaries as W.H. Geoffrey Hill, often hailed as Britain’s greatest poet, dies at 84 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

But mostly Rebecca mothers, and racks up literary accomplishments so easily that her charmed career will set real-life poets’ teeth on edge. A Multiracial Family Provides a Lens on the Essence of Caregiving 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

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

“I’d come to New York when I was 17 with the idea of being a poet,” he recalled of his arrival in 1967, having dropped out of high school in Kentucky. Forsaking the Punk Clubs of His Youth for a Well-Stocked Library 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z

Michael Hoffman is a fine poet, whose acute ear and eloquent understanding of the transition-points between the two languages make the text as powerful as it is down-to-earth. Rereading: Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin 2011-01-07T11:40:24Z

Photograph: Sportsphoto/Allstar/COLUMBIA "My Last Will" by Sir Walter Raleigh Imagining the clutter he will leave behind him, the poet commands his wife to destroy everything and start again. John Mullan's 10 of the best: wills 2012-07-06T21:55:19Z

"Dante's Inferno," a 1967 movie about the poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti, played up the differences between Rossetti's idealized view of his wife and her reality as a drug addict. British film director Ken Russell dies at 84 2011-11-28T12:07:21Z

"In the last 10 years there's been more of an acceptance that the poet standing up and performing isn't a second-class citizen," says McMillan. Poetry's future 2010-06-18T07:30:00Z

His other stage roles include the elderly poet A. E. Housman in Mr. Stoppard’s drama “The Invention of Love” with the Royal National Theater in 1997. John Wood, Actor Known for Nimbleness, Dies at 81 2011-08-11T04:16:36Z

He joined more than 120 Burmese writers and poets holding sessions on topics from oral traditions in Tibet to saving Rangoon's crumbling heritage architecture. Burma holds first literary festival 2013-02-04T16:12:38Z

But Beatrice's address is stern and even a little sarcastic, her purpose not yet to welcome the poet but admonish him. Poem of the week: From Longfellow's translation of the Divine Comedy 2010-08-16T09:35:00Z

But Ms. Potter, the daughter of a singer and a poet, seemed relaxed about making unconventional, uncategorizable films. In ‘The Party,’ a Portrait of a U.K. Deep in ‘Brexit’ Bitterness 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z

"At the time of the Arts Council England cuts to the PBS... many poets and readers felt a sense of anger and grief," Duffy said in a statement. Laureate Duffy fights poetry cuts 2011-05-31T15:53:36Z

An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. Toshiko Takaezu, Ceramic Artist, Dies at 88 2011-03-20T01:44:46Z

Skarsgard and Eggers both describe that meeting as “fated,” and it eventually led Eggers, along with the Icelandic poet and author Sjon, to write “The Northman.” Alexander Skarsgard’s Viking Dream 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

Except, that is, in “The Kiss: Intimacies From Writers,” edited by Brian Turner, himself an essayist, as well as a poet and memoirist. Writers Pay Lip Service to a Universal Gesture of Love 2018-02-08T05:00:00Z

“I am not a mental superman a la Blake,” he confessed to his parents, referring to William Blake, the late 18th-century visionary poet who worked in obscurity and poverty. John Updike?s Archive: A Great Writer at Work 2010-06-20T23:23:00Z

He’s enormously proud of being asked to be the voice of TS Eliot by the poet’s widow, Valerie; he hopes his gentle, sober radio reading of Four Quartets is among his best work. Jeremy Irons: ‘I have the natural tendency of a benign dictator’ 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z

Wrbican, who teaches at George Mason University, is a Washington-based poet, photographer and conceptual artist whose work hasn’t been seen much locally. Review | In the galleries: A surrealist painter inspires a photographer 2017-11-02T04:00:00Z

Occasionally, this group of poets is accused of obscurantism, or even cultishness. A Radical Poet in the Age of Google and Guantánamo 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z

Tickets are $12 and available through www.brownpapertickets.com; for more information about the film, see www.pedaldriven.org.Community Cinema presents a free screening Saturday of the documentary "Deaf Jam," about a deaf poet competing in a spoken-word poetry slam. SIFF musically reinvigorates Uptown Theater 2011-10-20T20:11:04Z

Ms. Sontag was annoyed because the poet ignored her by reading a newspaper, though it was an attempt to make Ms. Sontag talk to the star-struck young photographer he had brought to meet her. A Story of Love and Obsession 2021-12-29T05:00:00Z

Viewers familiar with the poet might be tempted to criticize “Dickinson” for its historical inaccuracies, but they should resist the urge. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

And on the surface, it does seem like a ridiculous choice to single out: After all, whoever heard of cowboys being poets? An unlikely player in the war on cowboy poetry 2011-04-11T17:03:00Z

The news that their poetry publishing will now be slashed to a single annual anthology is terrible for British poets. Salt abandons single-author collections amid poetry market slump 2013-05-24T11:12:18Z

“This is where the poets live, this is where the artists live, this is where the surfers live. They just kind of keep it quiet,” says resident artist Eric Rewitzer. Arty living in San Francisco’s rising Outer Sunset district 2015-07-25T04:00:00Z

Driving in Vermont, the poet notices how “the road Vanna-Whites its crops / of corn.” In Protest or Celebration, Four Poets Evoke a Sense of Endings 2020-03-27T04:00:00Z

Babatunde is a poet, playwright, and fiction writer from the Nigerian state of Ibadan. Nigerian wins Caine Prize 2012-07-05T13:56:00Z

Or was it just that she was so snobbish she thought she was someone, a poet, in some way better than everyone else? At the Writing Academy 2016-03-10T05:00:00Z

Like any human being, there are many sides to Big Boi: hustler, poet, husband, father, heathen, philosopher. Big Boi’s Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors Is Visionary Hip-Hop 2012-12-12T18:30:17Z

Though it's true that only a few of the painters went to Spain once the conflict was underway: the poets did a bit better in that regard. Spanish Civil War artists go on show 2014-11-11T05:00:00Z

I find these first large-scale abstractions, christened the “Night Journeys” by the poet Richard Howard, pretty theatrical. Lee Krasner, Hiding in Plain Sight 2019-08-19T04:00:00Z

For young poets, this combination meant new routes to publishing, new ways that your writing might fit into your life, and some very intense group reading, especially of the previous generation of poets. 81 Austerities by Sam Riviere – review 2012-08-03T21:55:07Z

One of America's greatest living poets, Gilbert won a Guggenheim as a young man to travel to Europe, and ended up living on a Greek island for almost two decades. Esi Edugyan's top 10 tales of Americans in Europe 2011-07-13T10:59:07Z

For a moment he thought he might be a Black Mountain poet. A Writer’s Justification 2016-05-03T04:00:00Z

It was an open university for poets, and its grateful alumni are countless. What the Poetry Book Society means to poets 2011-04-05T08:56:01Z

The most high-ranking of these courtesans presided over salons attended by philosophers, poets, writers, artists, musicians and incognito aristocrats. 2010-01-08T19:00:00Z

“I loved the fact that they looked like Romantic poets with lace trim sleeves and brooches and brocaded jackets,” Ms. Sui said. How the Rolling Stones Became Fashion Icons 2016-11-09T05:00:00Z

Richard, their grown son, is a talented poet, but he can't quite bring himself to commit to a degree so is working in a coffee shop by day and partying at night. In Between Days by Andrew Porter – review 2013-07-14T09:00:00Z

Radcliffe, 23, plays poet Allen Ginsberg aged 17 - a young, naive and closeted teen who struggles to find his place in the world years before the sexual and cultural liberation of the 1960s. Daniel Radcliffe: from boy wizard to gay beat poet 2013-01-25T02:43:34Z

Hill is even attempting another book of his own, about World War I poet Alan Seeger, best known for "I Have a Rendezvous With Death." Spotlight on researcher for McCullough, Ken Burns 2012-11-19T15:11:31Z

An agent who speaks in whispers, like “a poet or a psychopath,” guides them. A Novel About Refugees That Feels Instantly Canonical 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z

Blue Flower Arts will present the photographer and poet Thomas Sayers Ellis with the actress and poet Amber Tamblyn. Weekend Miser: New York City Poetry Festival on Governors Island 2012-07-19T19:58:22Z

Maybe the poet’s job is to press us on the large, existential questions, we reflected later that night, after roast lamb and red wine in town. Climbing the summits of Irish literature

I stole it from James Wright, the poet. A Word With: Sam Beam of Iron and Wine 2013-04-19T17:27:31Z

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

Mark Baumer, an award-winning poet who was walking barefoot across the country to raise awareness about climate change, died Saturday after being hit by a car in Florida, reports WEAR-TV. Poet Mark Baumer killed while walking cross-country in solo protest 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist and poet living in Brooklyn. An Acclaimed Playwright on Masks and the Return to the Stage 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z

As she goes on to achieve fame, we are reminded that the joyous freedom of her work traces back to the remarkable achievements of a child poet. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

With “The Collected Poems of Bertolt Brecht,” the translators Tom Kuhn and David Constantine invite English-speaking readers to discover Brecht the poet. Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

The poet James Thomson lauded their different styles – "What e'er Lorrain light-touched with softening hue, / Or savage Rosa dashed, or learned Poussin drew" – and their effect on British painters was profound. Constable, Turner, Gainsborough and the Making of Landscape 2012-11-23T22:55:21Z

If you were living in England a little over a thousand years ago, you might have listened with great satisfaction as a poet recited lines like these: What Does a Poet Know About War? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

Yet there's a stretching of language toward abstraction in the work of these poets that makes it difficult to present in another language. Rereading Rabindranath Tagore 2011-07-08T21:55:11Z

Allen Ginsberg was also a poet of abundance, recasting Whitman's oracular long lines in the roiling rhythms of the American midcentury. What do poets Kevin Young, Lucia Perillo and Allen Ginsberg have in common? 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z

Like Frost, Bidart is chiefly recognized as a New England poet, and, like Frost, he actually arrived there from California. Five Decades of Frank Bidart’s Verse, From Masks to Self-Mythology 2017-10-04T04:00:00Z

The Pulitzer Prize-winning poet reflects on race, faith and a mother’s devotion, as well as the literary influences that shaped her. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

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

Byron, among others, snobbishly dismissed Keats as a mere ‘Cockney poet’. Tom Wolfe vs. John Updike, Norman Mailer and John Irving — and other timeless literary feuds 2019-06-23T04:00:00Z

They must figure out how to make, for instance, a thirteenth-century Persian poet comprehensible to a contemporary American audience. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

And he describes his arrival in New York, where he launches himself as a performance poet and journalist. ‘The Education of Kevin Powell’: An activist and ex-MTV star looks back 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z

Ms. Cliff and Ms. Rich, the poet, were longtime partners. Michele Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

He was also an accomplished playwright and a poet. Soumitra Chatterjee, legend of Indian cinema, dies at 85 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

She also tells, for the first time, the full story of the central tragedy of Ashbery’s early years: the sudden loss of his brother to leukemia when the poet was 12. A Fascinating Deep Dive Into John Ashbery’s Early Years 2017-08-03T04:00:00Z

The winning collection, White Egrets, was described by the chair of judges, poet Anne Stevenson, as "moving and technically flawless". TS Eliot prize goes to Derek Walcott for 'moving and technically flawless' work 2011-01-24T19:30:01Z

Like Emily Dickinson, Herbert is limpid and enigmatic, deeply spiritual and inexhaustible, a poet one never finishes with. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury

“Vital. Vital,” is how the poet Gwendolyn Brooks began her lyrical preface to Etheridge Knight’s first pamphlet of poems, “Poems From Prison.” In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

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

Mukherjee, an oncologist, writes with supreme authority on a scary, depressing subject, combining the perspective of a physician and medical historian with the sensitivity of a poet. What book critics are reading: 'The Emperor of All Maladies' and 'Charlie Chan' 2011-01-29T00:47:54Z

Drafted into the Army during World War II, Gorey served as a clerk in Utah before enrolling at Harvard, where the poet Frank O’Hara became a roommate and a close friend. A New Biography Takes on Edward Gorey, a Stubborn Enigma and Master of the Comic Macabre 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

“The most unforgivable sin in the world,” Mr. McKuen told The Washington Post in 1969, “is to be a best-selling poet.” Rod McKuen dies at 81; poetry and songs sold millions and drew critical scorn in the 1960s and ’70s 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z

I’m neutral on rhyming poetry, but I think a good poet can make that work without seeming sing-songy. How do I start writing poems? 2013-02-22T01:00:00Z

In this cycle, nature becomes a sympathetic go-between for two lovers separated by distance, with the forest, clouds and streams carrying the poet’s missives. Review: ‘Book of Hanging Gardens,’ Sung by Christian Gerhaher 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

Then there was the poet who wrote this: "We are dust and ash, and beauty is brief as a flower." Festival of Books: Poetry, from sonnets to the 'language of the street' 2015-04-18T04:00:00Z

Richard Wagner: composer, conductor, dramatist, poet, polemicist, anarchist, Teutonic nationalist, anti-Semite, feminist, pacifist, vegetarian, animal rights activist — the man was the walking, talking definition of “protean genius.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The New York poet’s usual political and sexual themes are well represented in this slim collection, along with elegies for friends and literary colleagues who have died. New in Paperback: ‘Working’ and ‘Mad, Bad, Dangerous to Know’ 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

Enev also has a strong lyrical streak, which the poet Kassabova renders beautifully: "Suddenly her face shrivelled up and darkened like burning paper." Circus Bulgaria by Deyan Enev ? review 2010-10-15T23:15:00Z

Sometimes described as a "spiritual" poet, she belongs to the contemplative tradition, and she is scholarly and deft in handling religious subject-matter. Poem of the week: Puppet by Gillian Allnutt 2012-11-19T10:39:07Z

Bishop’s travels abroad and her tutelage under the poet Marianne Moore are rightly noted. Review: ‘Welcome to This House,’ the Private Life of a Poet 2015-05-25T04:00:00Z

"When people write speeches, it's poets that they quote most of the time," she said. A day to honor poets? Quoth the raven 'Evermore' 2010-04-23T13:16:00Z

He calls Nicks “a poet of sometimes exquisite technical skill in terms of cadence and scansion.” Rock ’n’ Roll, Between the Covers 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

“As poets, we recognize a piece of writing that meets the urgency of its time with the appropriate fire when we see it — and this is not it,” the letter said. Poetry Foundation Leadership Resigns After Black Lives Matter Statement 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z

He plays a recording of Plath describing the party in the 1950s at which she met fellow poet Ted Hughes, with whom she would share a disastrous marriage. How a choreographer sees art in a new way, through dance 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z

She was one of a number of experimental poets writing in Beijing in the nineteen-eighties. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

As a publisher, poet, pacifist, singer and songwriter, he used his talents for writing and humour to attack the perceived repressions of his nation and its escalating military activities in south-east Asia. Tuli Kupferberg obituary 2010-07-26T17:38:00Z

She’s like a haiku poet, wringing meaning from the least gesture, able to summon heartbreak or dry humor from the same clipped “Thenkyou.” Review: ‘The Crown’ and the Burdens of a No-Drama Queen 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

The Palestinian poet's metaphor for death is the train that arrives at the last platform with no one there. L.A. Philharmonic breathes fire into Saariaho world premiere 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

It is 100 years since the birth of the great Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and a London tribute to him is being led, in part, by comedian and writer Griff Rhys Jones. 'Thomas was an international poet' 2014-10-19T04:00:00Z

Pablo Neruda’s body exhumed following murder claim - video The body of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda is being exhumed in Isla Negra, Chile, after claims that he died as a result of poisoning in 1973. Pablo Neruda’s body exhumed following murder claim - video 2013-04-08T09:54:32Z

It’s a picaresque by a poet more concerned with notating startling moments than crafting a multibraided saga. Review | Roberto Bolaño’s popularity surged after his death. What does a ‘new’ book do for his legacy? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

How do we, the people, get outta this hole, what's the way to fight," adding, "It is not easy to be a poet here. Review: 'The Exonerated' is compelling, chilling 2012-09-20T01:06:07Z

A prolific poet — a literary discipline she sees as entirely distinct from songwriting — she has also been a visual artist for longer than she’s been a musician. T Magazine: Patti Smith, Requiem Lass 2011-10-14T15:15:24Z

If there are Indian poets working in America whose work you like, write to them. Stifled poet in India 2013-01-08T01:00:00Z

Painful and charming, raw and sometimes purposefully childish, Soho’s poems track the Korean poet’s alter ego, Kyungjin, and her sometimes affectionate, sometimes bloody relations with her birth family. Four New Poetry Books Mine Their Authors’ Pasts for Music and Meaning 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z

Ever since the Byzantine times, Istanbul has been home to artists, poets and storytellers. Read Your Way Through Istanbul 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

At first, Spalding hunted for other librettists on Shorter’s behalf, brainstorming poets and writers she thought could match the music. Perspective | New opera by Esperanza Spalding and Wayne Shorter remakes myth without sacrificing music 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

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

“Monument” is a major book, and in her best poems this poet soars. Natasha Trethewey’s Poems Take Wing on Intimate Details 2018-11-13T05:00:00Z

“His way of speaking — hovering, tender, overbearing — sounds like nothing else in American poetry today,” the poet J. D. McClatchy wrote in Poetry magazine in 1989. C. K. Williams, Poet Who Tackled Moral Issues, Dies at 78 2015-09-20T04:00:00Z

Max Ritvo, a poet who chronicled his long battle with cancer in works that were both humorous and searing, died Aug. 23 at his home in the Brentwood area of Los Angeles. Max Ritvo, poet who wrote of his battle with cancer, dies at 25 2016-08-27T04:00:00Z

Believe it or not, there is a role for the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins in all this mayhem. Books of The Times: ‘NOS4A2,’ a Novel by Joe Hill 2013-04-28T20:53:12Z

Bishop was the little one, physically, but she was so much older, and a famous poet. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

But her attempts to support herself as a poet and publisher’s apprentice produced “a kind of nightmare” of financial instability. An Overlooked Novel from 1935 by the Godmother of Feminist Detective Fiction 2019-11-13T05:00:00Z

The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

The story is about nighttime cabbies who aspired to be actors or poets or playwrights. Riff: ‘Be Wrong as Fast as You Can’ 2013-01-06T08:07:03Z

Instead, he wanted to convene events that often feature musicians and poets performing on stage at the same time. A poetry museum that eschews having a home 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

She intones: “My mother is dead. My father is dead. I’m gay. I’d like to be a poet. This is my house.” Art Trek: From Hot to Schlock: Holland Cotter Tours Chelsea Galleries 2014-04-03T22:41:59Z

Author Toni Morrison has paid tribute to her friend, the poet, author and activist Maya Angelou, saying she was a "real original" with "no duplicate". Maya Angelou was a 'real original' 2014-05-29T04:00:00Z

The cash-strapped poet had agreed to the project to fund a proposed trip to Hollywood where he was due to collaborate with the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky, one of his many admirers, on an opera. Life and death of Dylan Thomas: BBC biopic to mark poet's centenary 2012-12-09T19:00:44Z

The museum’s “enchanted” backyard garden, inspired by Poe’s poem “To One in Paradise,” is a shrine to the author and poet. Now that spring is here, explore Richmond’s stunning garden trail 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z

In this animated film set in a seaside Mediterranean village, an exiled poet, his housekeeper, and her free-spirited young daughter embark on a fateful journey. Summer Sneaks 2015: The List 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

After Miranda’s students read, poets in attendance probed them about their lines and critiqued their work. A poetry museum that eschews having a home 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Paraphrasing French poet Louis Aragon, he said Baker was French “not by birth, but by preference.” Black artist Josephine Baker honored at France’s Pantheon 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z

Hayes invents forms — most famously the so-called Golden Shovel, in which one poet honors another by incorporating an existing poem into a new work. In a (Prose) Tribute to Fathers and Father Figures, a Fast-Paced Poet Slows Down 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

Since the days of Lord Byron, the romantic poet who was an early critic of their removal, the fate of the marbles has been bitterly contested. After 220 Years, the Fate of the Parthenon Marbles Rests in Secret Talks 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

But “Burn,” the new dance-theater piece he conceived with the choreographer Hoggett, will allow him to dive fully into physical storytelling, exploring the inner life and mental health struggles of the Scottish poet Robert Burns. 54 Dance Programs, Festivals and More Coming This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The participants collaborated on a dozen pieces, including photo collages that submerge women’s faces under various patterns and one that inscribes translucent fabric with lines from the 13th-century mystic poet Rumi. Review | In the galleries: A D.C.-Madrid ‘conversation’ between artists, two shows infused with color and light, and Persian perspectives 2020-02-06T05:00:00Z

José Martí, Cuba's national poet, lived for a time in New York. Valeria Luiselli's 'Faces in the Crowd' seeks poets in a city 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

The poets collaborate to create the tan-renga, which are then submitted to Jackson. Using haiku, more than 200 poets pay tribute to Obama 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

In advance, I’d told both his publisher and his assistant that I planned to ask about his favorite places in the “cool, grey city of love,” as the poet George Sterling called it. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

“At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction,” the poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning wrote, in 1839. A New Theory of Distraction 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en. Review | The action-packed saga ‘Monkey King: Journey to the West’ gets a modern take 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

We ought not to forgive a poet, Cole tells us elsewhere, for “writing well.” Baudelaire makes a comeback 2013-02-04T19:15:00Z

For those who mourn the dead — scribes like the Greek poet Simonides, who wrote epitaphs for fallen warriors — your voice must tremble with poignancy, with a certain piteousness. Maaza Mengiste Sings a Modern Song of War 2019-09-26T04:00:00Z

She calls herself a “family poet,” a phrase whose Mother Goose-ish overtones somewhat obscure the fact that she is writing about her family, not for them. Sharon Olds Sings the Body Electric 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

The last in the family to own it was Myron Benton, a poet and writer whose pals include Ralph Waldo Emerson, Mark Twain and Henry David Thoreau, all of whom visited regularly. The Hotel Historian Is at Your Service 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z

When the poet describes himself in this book, in a poem addressed to Anne Sexton, as not a larger-than-life character but rather “the shy heart with the side part,” he had me. Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

The former state poet, who defected to South Korea in 2004, now writes to tell the world about what he calls the brutality of everyday life in the North. Defected NKorea poet writes of hunger, desperation 2012-07-01T12:24:07Z

A sunnier, late-17th-century rewrite by Irish poet Nahum Tate became the preferred version for more than 100 years. Here a ‘Lear,’ There a ‘Lear’

She also edited multiple volumes of letters, giving scholars new insights into the intensely private poet. TS Eliot's widow Valerie dies, 86 2012-11-12T10:46:02Z

The “Hinge” series on emerging and experimental writers will feature poet, actor, musician and writer Saul Williams. Seattle Arts & Lectures announces 2015-16 season 2015-05-01T04:00:00Z

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

Indeed, the movement towards independence was given huge momentum by the late poet Edwin Morgan, who left £1m to the SNP in his will in 2011. The writers Alex Salmond is courting now will hold him to account 2013-07-14T20:00:01Z

Once settled in Hartford, Conn., the couple established separate bedrooms, and Stevens preferred to spend his evenings and weekends by himself, staring out his window as poets will or reading and scribbling verses. Who was Wallace Stevens? A new biography looks at the man and his work. 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

“I never failed at being a boy,” recites the poet, the words lingering hauntingly. The ‘bois’ are back: After a powerful reception in 2018, Dani Tirrell’s ‘Black Bois’ returns for a one-night performance 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z

That breadth of influences — from rappers to Wordsworth — and the poet's sharp, facile rhythms are reasons to peruse this book, whatever you think of his perspective. Four new poetry collections 2012-08-29T19:22:04Z

And the lyrics, with elaborate syntax popular with poets when the words were drafted a century ago, fluster many with arcane metaphors such as that of a land "lying eternally in its splendid cradle." As protests simmer, Brazil's national anthem soars at World Cup 2014-06-20T04:00:00Z

She supervises the design of hundreds of wreaths and swags, ordering materials, plus harvesting locally grown greens including Eastern red cedar, poet’s laurel, hemlock and magnolia, as well as berries. The history of Williamsburg’s beloved (but not so Colonial) holiday decorations 2017-12-19T05:00:00Z

In Mr. Lisiecki’s hands, the piano’s bereft reply sounded like the voice of a Romantic poet trying to break in. Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Plays Music From Vienna 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z

He’s led an important jazz-tradition trio for most of the last decade, but he’s also been writing music inspired by other traditions and functions, working with poets and M.C.s and string quartets. Releases From Bob Dylan and Diana Krall 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

One, based on the tragic life of poet Anne Sexton, looked promising because Natalie Wood was interested in playing the lead role. Allan Folsom, author of blockbuster novel, dies at 72

Lewis and Debra Winger as the American poet he loves and tends through illness, found a pleasing balance of tone and emotional texture, of heart and ache. Remembering Richard Attenborough, the Man Behind Gandhi 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

Though Mr. Black, a former rodeo rider and large-animal veterinarian, primarily identified as a poet, he was even more prolific as an essayist and radio commentator. Baxter Black, Who Elevated Cowboy Poetry to Folk Art, Dies at 77 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z

"Virginia Woolf thought that the income tax, if it continued, would benefit poets by enlarging their vocabularies and I dare say that she was right." Dear Life by Dennis O'Driscoll - review 2012-06-29T21:55:02Z

“Synthesizing Gravity,” however, is a poet’s book about poetry, and a fairly circumscribed one at that. A Poet Traces Her Personal Obsessions, in Prose 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z

Stalin supposedly called Boris Pasternak a “cloud dweller,” ordering the secret police to spare the poet. Pasternak’s Muse: The Real-Life Inspiration for ‘Doctor Zhivago’ 2017-01-27T05:00:00Z

As Eliot saw it, poets were less like people and more like laboratories. In Praise of Beach House 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z

Bridges, who played a boozy country singer trying to clean up his act, held his Oscar aloft and thanked his late parents, actor Lloyd Bridges and poet Dorothy Bridges. Bigelow and "Hurt Locker" win big at Oscars 2010-03-08T05:49:00Z

Being a poet at school had a certain prestige; it was a source of glamour. Alan Hollinghurst: 'The Booker can drive people mad' 2012-05-19T23:05:49Z

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 main Malian musical tradition is that of the griot, an itinerant poet/storyteller/praise singer. Can opera singers sing pop ? and vice versa? 2011-07-28T22:00:03Z

The program contains English translations of the text, by the Portuguese poet Herberto Hélder, but how necessary are these? Emmanuelle Huynh Presents Sensuous Show at St. Mark’s Church 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

In an unusual twist, the exhibition includes a “poetry intervention” by a local Tucson poet, Raquel Gutiérrez, whose works will be on the walls, too. At Museums, a Mix of Old and New 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

“He’s such a soulful guy with this Irish poet’s soul that I totally believed he could play a father a little girl would idolize.” Ex-bad boy Colin Farrell turns romantic in ‘Winter’s Tale’ 2014-02-14T21:57:23Z

“Energy is the only life and is from the Body,” wrote the romantic poet and artist William Blake. Review | ABT’s David Hallberg and Natalia Osipova give ‘Giselle’ a sensual charge 2018-05-20T04:00:00Z

The Palestinian Museum is also nearby, as is the highly recommended Mahmoud Darwish museum, dedicated to the poet who became a voice of the Palestinian resistance. Little town of Bethlehem – a travel photo essay 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z

In a car-mad country that prides itself in being perpetually in motion, the poet made a clear and conscious decision to stop, to slow down, to burrow into his imagination. Footsteps: For the Poet Wallace Stevens, Hartford Was an Unlikely Muse 2012-02-23T17:40:00Z

The poet Basil Bunting shows up, writing newspaper copy instead of epic verse, but the novelist Beryl Bainbridge is merely a memory, “dead in her grave” by the time the world recognized her talent. Mark Knopfler: “This getting older stuff ain’t for wimps” 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Larraín invites us to believe that history is on the side of the poets and the humanists, and that art will make fools of politicians and policemen. Review: ‘Neruda’ Pursues the Poet as Fugitive 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

In a telephone interview, he said that Kipling, an English journalist, author and poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1907 and wrote “The Jungle Book,” supported “colonialism and had racist attitudes.” British Students Paint Over Kipling Mural, Protesting ‘Racist Attitudes’ 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z

See it like a scientist, and as a poet. ‘Everything is not going to be okay’: How to live with constant reminders that the Earth is in trouble 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the San Francisco poet and City Lights publisher, turned a hundred in March and marked the occasion with “Little Boy,” which calls itself a novel but feels like a mystical memoir. What We’re Reading This Summer 2019-06-04T04:00:00Z

It is, as Shelley writes of the poet, “the influence which is moved not, but moves.” A Hundred Years of T. S. Eliot’s “Tradition and the Individual Talent” 2019-10-27T04:00:00Z

Powerfully evocative and beautifully written, The Old Ways is a vividly ruminative travelogue, including among its many delights a wonderfully perceptive section on the poet of pathways and roads without ends, Edward Thomas. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

How has jazz inspired you as a songwriter and poet over your long career? Bob Dylan Has a Lot on His Mind 2020-06-12T04:00:00Z

Rewarding the poet’s fatuousness, the portraitist’s flattery and the jeweler’s smarm with gold, she believes she is modeling a higher form of love. Review: Shakespeare’s ‘Timon’ Gets an Occupy Athens Makeover 2020-01-19T05:00:00Z

She goes on to assert that it turned even the poets' own lives into a "perfect hell". Young Romantics: The Shelleys, Byron and Other Tangled Lives by Daisy Hay 2010-04-24T23:08:00Z

It also dazzles us with science, as chemists, geologists, biologists and more ologists try to explain what poets would rather leave to the imagination. A pair of wine guides to complement anyone who likes to raise a glass 2015-09-18T04:00:00Z

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

Thousands of doughboys would die in this area that summer, including the poet Joyce Kilmer, who eschewed an officer’s commission because he believed enlisted men saw more of the “real” war. Where Americans Turned the Tide in World War I 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z

Each project is ruled by a separate gang that bears the name of one of the great poets. ?City of Bohane,? by Kevin Barry 2012-03-30T23:27:18Z

This week's poem, Descent, by Frances Williams, concentrates on arrival in Australia, and doesn't revisit the poet's native Wales. Poem of the week: Descent by Frances Williams 2010-06-14T11:26:00Z

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

"You start by arguing in your head with those who call him minor," says the writer and poet Blake Morrison, who knew Larkin. The real Larkin 2010-06-26T23:04:00Z

It is the currency of this campus; a poet may outlive the warrior, but the warrior, no matter how well-read, needs his battle. At West Point, warriors shaped through Plutarch and Shakespeare 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z

He's merely relentless, working on your nerves in a purely clinical way, without the levitating touch of the dung poet you find, for example, in a Roland Emmerich film such as "2012." Transformers: A 'Moon' to howl at 2011-06-28T05:19:00Z

She does remember feeling peculiar on realizing that, in her mid-seventies, she had outlived Yeats, whom she thought of as “that iconic ‘old poet,’ ” and who died at the age of seventy-three. What Old Age Is Really Like 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

She shares her admiration for Alaska with her husband, a Tibetan composer, poet, songwriter, documentarian and freedom activist whose stage name is Karma Culture Brothers. Paola Pivi’s American Moment 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z

The poet Avery R. Young recites Ms. Mitchell’s free verse, relating the futurist tale of Mandorla to the contemporary black freedom struggle. Nicole Mitchell, an Innovative Flutist With an Afrofuturist Vision 2018-01-10T05:00:00Z

Ross was born in England of Jamaican-Scottish ancestry, and while she has built her career as a journalist, poet, editor, academic and novelist in the U.K., she was raised in Jamaica. A Magic-Filled Island Where Life’s Struggles Rage 2021-04-20T04:00:00Z

“I’m hopeful that the poets that we’re funding will help their neighbors understand, process, reconcile this moment in time and find hope.” 23 Poets Laureate Receive Fellowships for Projects Around the U.S. 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z

Here, for example, is Cargo, written for the poet Rachel Hadas: Born in Brooklyn, New York, Samuel was raised in the borough of Queens by his Russian immigrant parents. Samuel Menashe obituary 2011-08-26T11:15:33Z

A poet who writes fiction can imbue his prose with a considerable amount of magic. How Langston Hughes Brought His Radical Vision to the Novel 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z

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

“This is the only time I’ve had poets come recite me their poetry,” he says. Why you should see Hugo Crosthwaite's L.A.-inspired mural — before he destroys it bit by bit 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

It’s a narrative style I associate with the films of Andrew Haigh and Joanna Hogg, two great visual poets of social anxiety and reticence. Sally Rooney’s Novel of Letters Puts a Fresh Spin on Familiar Questions 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z

He was a poet, and he’d written a few lyric stanzas in English, which he dreamed of turning into a song. Leaving Aleppo 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z

In 1958, Thompson moved to New York’s Lower East Side, befriending poets, musicians and fellow artists. Review | Bob Thompson died young, but his colorful jazz- and Old Master-inspired paintings speak to the ages 2021-09-20T04:00:00Z

So it was a poet working as she knew how to work and finding that what it added up to was the draft of a memoir that I was then able to shape. “Sorrow everywhere with nowhere to go”: Elizabeth Alexander on losing her husband and writing through grief 2015-04-20T04:00:00Z

"The Sorrow of Love" proclaims that the young poet has found one of his major themes, and begun the transformation of failed relationship into imaginative triumph. Poem of the week: The Sorrow of Love by WB Yeats 2010-08-09T09:17:00Z

When he did have a stab at something arty, it came out mangled: he played the poet Paul Verlaine opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as Rimbaud in Total Eclipse. 'My brain was on fire': David Thewlis on Naked, Fargo and creeping out the Coens 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z

“There is a malady to which poets are susceptible, and to which they rarely admit, except to themselves, and even then only reluctantly. I’ve come to call this condition “the syndrome of the sinking heart.” Postscript: Galway Kinnell (1927-2014) 2014-10-31T04:00:00Z

The singular nature of this world premiere recording excuses its few shortcomings, including tenor Markus Schäfer, too often shy of the mark in terms of intonation as Sappho’s fellow poet Alcaeus of Mytilene. CD reviews: Harnoncourt’s last Beethoven 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z

Atwood first gained attention as a poet, starting in the early 1960s with “Double Persephone” and reaching a national audience in 1966 with “The Circle Game.” Margaret Atwood returns us to Gilead in ‘The Testaments’ 2019-09-04T04:00:00Z

Claim to Fame: Mr. Nash, a sophomore at Brown, is a journalist, activist and poet who was named Washington’s Youth Poet Laureate in 2021. A Poet Activist at Brown With a Powerful Voice 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z

The prizewinning poet crafts a poignant chronicle of his experiences as a gay black man from the South. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

A leading novelist and poet of the Beat Generation. Pass notes No 3,178: Jack Kerouac 2012-05-20T19:00:01Z

Rumi is often described as the best-selling poet in the United States. The Erasure of Islam from the Poetry of Rumi 2017-01-05T05:00:00Z

To quote that apt, and haunting, line from the Irish poet George Russell: “In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was betrayed.” Review | Agatha Christie fans, take note: Anthony Horowitz has a clever new twist on the classic whodunit 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z

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

Which poets continue to inspire you in your work? Amanda Gorman, the Inaugural Poet Who Dreams of Writing Novels 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z

A reminder to send poet Stephen Dunn’s “Sweetness” to someone grieving a loss. Ruth Dickey and the turnaround at Seattle Arts & Lectures 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z

In her songs, she evokes the martyrdom of Hatuey and encourages the young poet to write about him. Review: Chutzpah? An Afro-Cuban-Yiddish Opera Worth a Schlep 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

The remaining $3 million is earmarked for the Frederick Iseman Professor of Poetry Fund, which will support a recognized poet or poetry scholar. $5 Million to Endow Yale Poetry Chair 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

In her lifetime, Plath was little known beyond fellow poets. A Alvarez, poetry critic and best-selling author, dead at 90 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z

The iconic poet and activist, who just celebrated his 100th birthday, uses this autobiographical novel to recount his life story in a free association of flashes and arias, of high and low culture. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Reached at her home in Cambridge, Mass., on Thursday morning, Glück said she was “completely flabbergasted that they would choose a white American lyric poet.” Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Unlike his poetry to date, these are formally very loose, gently line-ended but without anything much in the way of rhyme, metre or the other prosodic tools poets often bring to bear on their poems. Poetically speaking at the Hay festival 2010-06-02T13:07:00Z

There will always be wild-eyed poets, but there was exactly one William Blake. Seinfeld at 25: There's Still Nothing Else Like It 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z

For seven years, she swept the streets by day and spent her evenings entertaining artists, poets and writers at the apartment she shared with her husband. Special Report: Art in Perspective: Russia's Photo Impresario 2010-05-28T12:00:00Z

Fiction writers and poets workshop their material, but they do so, typically, in small rooms full of other writers, often led by luminaries in the field. Half-Truths, Non-Truths, and Louis C.K. 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z

Each of them is – was – as much a real person as the two great war poets, though they have long been lost among Rivers's case studies. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-08-24T21:55:08Z

“For a moment, for a while, they’re unified in a common experience,” she said, adding, for good measure, a paraphrase of poet Percy Bysshe Shelley: “The greatest force for good is the imagination.” Perspective | Trump’s White House doesn’t support the arts. Nancy Pelosi is rallying the cause instead. 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z

Online battles over cultural appropriation may be relatively new, but Mr. Carlson-Wee’s poem is part of a long, queasy history of white poets adopting black vernacular. A Poem in The Nation Spurs a Backlash and an Apology 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

“You always feel that Jenny values you,” said Rose Styron, the poet, journalist and human rights activist, and another year-rounder. For Jenny Allen, She and Her House ‘Were Sort of in This Together’ 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z

We caught up with Essbaum, an award-winning poet and native Texan, in advance of her novel’s March 17 debut. In "Hausfrau," "Anna Karenina" Goes "Fifty Shades of Grey" 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z

What I mean is that many poets never learn how to articulate death’s banality, one of the main subjects of “Summer Snow.” The Poet Robert Hass Is a Virtuoso of Common American Speech 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

What is the appeal of this poet, and by extension, this work? "This film is Poe's origin story": "The Pale Blue Eye" director on his gothic whodunit at West Point 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z

There is something of the visionary artist and poet in her powerful idea of drawing tiny, intimidated figures climbing on, or kneeling before, Bourgeois' bodies. Tracey Emin, the visionary, emerges as Margate's answer to William Blake 2011-02-18T15:09:05Z

This alliance of geeks and poets has generated exhilaration and also anxiety. Digital keys for unlocking the humanities' riches 2010-11-18T02:01:00Z

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

But Carrasco also was paying homage to the past and to the popular songs recorded by Federico Garcia Lorca, the poet who was executed at the start of the Spanish Civil War. Men in skirts? Entertaining flamenco at NY fest 2012-03-06T02:31:05Z

Several of those by poets in Untermeyer, no doubt. John Ashbery: By the Book 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z

Another distinguished poet was among their children: Mary Wroth. Poem of the week: Sonnet 30 by Robert Sidney 2013-05-20T09:01:27Z

Over the course of a long career — 13 stand-alone volumes since 1968 — Glück has become a true poet of the void. Louise Glück’s Stark New Book Affirms Her Icy Precision 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z

Limón is a poet situated in a particularly American geography, first of California and now of Kentucky, grounding her work in the lush details of a lived-in landscape. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

At 43, Jewel is a prolific songwriter, a best-selling poet and occasional actress — along with other roles, she stars in the Hallmark Channel’s “Fixer Upper” mystery movie series. ’90s folk superstar Jewel is happy — finally. Now she wants to know: Are you? 2018-01-17T05:00:00Z

The radical antiwar leader and his band, which included the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg, did not achieve their aim of elevating the nerve center of the U.S. military. Taking on the B?rse, Abbie Hoffman-Style 2010-09-16T17:00:00Z

Over this long career, Mr. Rorem wrote hundreds of pages about music and words and the relationship between the two, about the importance of respecting the poet’s meaning and the singer’s need to enjoy singing. Ned Rorem, Composer Known for Both His Music and His Diaries, Dies at 99 2022-11-18T05:00:00Z

Rader didn’t know many politically conservative poets in general, and his friends found Trump’s election in particular to be “terrifying” and offensive. Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

In the longest redacted document, “In Houston,” the poet discovers a hidden truth: “Pursuant to our federalist system the / defendants / must be / used as / an instrument of oppression.” A Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After Prison 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

He was described in the Guardian as "a subtle and skilled poet" when his most recent collection, Headwater, was published in 2008. Rowan Williams releases poem promoting organ donation 2013-07-11T14:36:39Z

He listed Aiken among his 12 great American poets born in the last three decades of the 19th century, situating him among the major names of American poetic modernism. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

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

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

Meghan O’Rourke is a talented young poet and critic, and her new book, “The Long Goodbye,” is a chronicle of her experience during and after her mother’s two-year battle with colorectal cancer. Books of The Times: Tales of Lives Extinguished All Too Soon 2011-04-12T23:52:00Z

His relationship with Jackson, who sometimes added his own postscripts to Merrill’s letters, endured from the early 1950s until the poet’s death. In James Merrill’s Letters, a Workshop and a Stage for the Poet’s Wit 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z

“Will,” premiering with two episodes airing back-to-back Monday at 9 p.m., is worlds away from the vision of playwright and poet seen in 1998’s “Shakespeare in Love.” TNT’s “Will” styles Shakespeare as a rock star, but wants for substance 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z

I think I'm a better philosopher than a poet. Delorean: 'We're a friend alliance first, a musical project second' 2012-06-20T14:26:00Z

From a wintry studio Werther – here an artist rather than a poet – dreams of Charlotte and her happy, wholesome family, and these fantasies spiral him into increasing madness. Werther – review 2013-02-18T17:25:50Z

The more you write songs, the more you broaden your vocabulary and the poet inside you. Top 10 tips for being a music producer 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z

This week: A salute to African American poet Langston Hughes, a classic Clifford Odets drama, and “Rent” rolls into Costa Mesa on its 20th-anniversary tour. L.A. theater openings, Jan. 1-8: 'Rent' and more 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z

Oppenheimer: Not even the emotion of a poet? Werner Herzog in North Korea: “We had a deeper understanding because of the quest for reunification” 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z

I am a great fan of Wallace Stevens, the American poet. The age of atheism: “If God exists, why is anybody unhappy?” 2014-02-15T15:45:00Z

Did you set out to make a film specifically about poets and poetry? Director Jim Jarmusch Talks New Film 'Paterson' 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Wright, an award-winning poet renowned for her forceful and eclectic style, her fusion of lyricism and reportage, and her passion for writing, died Jan. 12 at her home in Barrington, R.I. C.D. Wright, poet who wrote of her Arkansas youth, dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

“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

Doty has long been one of our best living American poets, and his recent memoirs, including 2008’s “Dog Years,” prove him one of our best prose writers as well. Review | In ‘What Is the Grass,’ Mark Doty looks at Walt Whitman through an autobiographical lens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Near the Enchanted Storybook Castle, a restaurant called Wandering Moon Teahouse will, designers say, “honor the restless, creative spirit of China’s wandering poets” and serve Chinese cuisine. How 'Chinese' will Shanghai Disney be? 2015-07-15T04:00:00Z

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

Some went very far down that line, as in Les Murray's poem, "Lyrebird", in which he impersonates the sound of the bird, where the creature reveals the poet to himself. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

Mr. Johnson will also engage aspiring poets who stroll through the Guggenheim’s doors. Coming Soon to the Guggenheim: Words, Words, Words 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

A splash of color comes in a grid of 42 snapshots made by Mr. Trinidad, the poet, who is an avid collector of Barbie paraphernalia. 2010-01-15T06:00:00Z

The Jamaican-born poet writes a learned, lofty, rhetorical kind of poetry, a little like Tennyson. The Best Books of Poetry from 2016 2016-12-19T05:00:00Z

I did all of the James Weldon Johnson sermons” — Mr. Johnson being the poet whose “God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse” was published in 1927. Beliefs: The Church of Oprah Winfrey and a Theology of Suffering 2011-05-28T00:30:15Z

With "the great ones" the poet leads us to look up. Poem of the week: Departed by Grahame Davies 2012-07-09T13:24:37Z

If earlier poems acknowledge forbears who took on the challenges of emigration, the dedication here is to the poet's mother, who died in 2001. Poetry review: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-05-14T23:38:00Z

"Selling poetry is, for most poets, a challenge," Young says. Caroline Kennedy returns to poetry for 10th book 2013-03-31T14:41:14Z

The effect is described in a 6th-century description of the building by Paul the Silentiary, an aristocrat and poet at the court of Justinian. How a Historian Stuffed Hagia Sophia’s Sound Into a Studio 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z

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

Who is more qualified to write about the end of life than a poet who is also a funeral director? 9 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z

Among them were works about historical figures like the poet Lord Byron and adaptations of stories like Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." Playwright Romulus Linney dies at 80 2011-01-16T15:50:08Z

“These 23 Poets Laureate Fellows will lead an extraordinary range of public poetry programs,” Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Mellon Foundation and also a poet, said in a statement. 23 writers nationwide will serve as Poets Laureate Fellows 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z

"By the end of the film, he becomes the rebel, he self-proclaims himself as a poet and finds his own voice." Daniel Radcliffe: from boy wizard to gay beat poet 2013-01-25T02:43:34Z

“His reputation fed those of the poets he took on, and theirs fed his as a publisher, so that Faber became the home of literary Modernism.” The Unlikely History of Faber & Faber 2019-07-23T04:00:00Z

“Brecht is a great poet,” the translators write in their introduction, “one of the three or four best in the whole of German literature.” Bertolt Brecht: Poet and Communist 2018-12-14T05:00:00Z

This charge underestimates Dylan's complex creative process, which closely resembles that of early modern poets who had a different concept of originality – a concept Dylan intuitively understands. How Bob Dylan used the ancient practice of "imitatio" to craft some of the most original songs 2022-11-19T05:00:00Z

"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

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

Time was when the lilting incantations of the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas were viewed as visionary outpourings of a holy bohemian by audiences entranced by his mellifluous voice. Review: ‘Set Fire to the Stars’ Unleashes Dylan Thomas on America 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z

“A lot of poets walk around, asking: ‘How do we survive, how do we thrive, how do we flourish?’ The symbiotic relationship between poets and the garden 2020-12-15T05:00:00Z

David Berman, the ingenious poet, songwriter, and performer behind the bands Silver Jews and Purple Mountains, died on Wednesday, at fifty-two. David Berman Made Us Feel Less Alone 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

It's windy and the great poet is worried about his barnet. John Cooper Clarke: 'It's diabolical how poor I am' 2012-05-29T18:00:02Z

In the video game Dante is no longer a reedy, introspective poet but a knight who returns home from the Crusades to find that his beloved Beatrice has been brutally murdered. 2010-01-30T05:20:00Z

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

For poets, playwrights, editors, and actors from the seventeenth century through much of the nineteenth, Shakespeare’s language wasn’t intoxicating so much as intoxicated: it needed a sobering intervention. Why We (Mostly) Stopped Messing With Shakespeare’s Language 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

Zamora, a poet, captures his childhood impressions of the journey, including his fierce, lifesaving attachments to the other people undertaking the trip with him. 15 Memoirs and Biographies to Read This Fall 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z

The auction probably was the last chance to acquire such a large collection of the author's work, Louis Daniel Brodsky, a poet and Faulkner scholar, said in an interview before the auction. William Faulkner collection auctioned in NYC 2010-06-22T17:04:00Z

Russell Goings, a football player turned entrepreneur turned poet, no longer plays tennis, but he still comes to the courts for inspiration: “This is one of the crown jewels” of the area, he said. Tennis in New York Is Knowing Where to Look 2010-08-05T22:30:00Z

“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

Grant, a former national chairwoman of the Actors Equity union’s Equal Opportunity Employment Committee, viewed as her biggest professional disappointment “Phillis,” a 1986 musical about the pioneering Black poet Phillis Wheatley. Micki Grant: ‘I Wanted to Open Eyes’ 2021-08-27T04:00:00Z

It is not a coincidence that most of the writers on my list are also poets. Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Being Orpheus means choosing life or art and Pluto's poet is clear which side he's on. Pluto by Glyn Maxwell – review 2013-04-20T11:01:01Z

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

Part of the plot revolved around the psychological struggles of a New York poet, the sister of the novel’s central character. Pat Conroy, best-selling author of ‘Great Santini’ and ‘Prince of Tides,’ dies at 70 2016-03-04T05:00:00Z

Jack, a garrulous, combative and alcoholic poet who has lost his creative mojo, is on the verge of being fired. Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche Star in ‘Words and Pictures’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Tom Stoppard’s historical whirligig, a semi-invented tale of a Zurich rendezvous between James Joyce, Vladimir Lenin and the Dadaist poet Tristan Tzara, ends its Broadway spin. 14 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z

The reason I will forever identify as a poet is because I think poetry is the one genre that privileges feelings. Poet Claudia Rankine says of her MacArthur, 'the prize is being given to the subject' of race in America 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

With texts by the Palestinian poet Ghassan Zaqtan, the piece is also based on Pakistani raga, tracing its development — its own migration, if you will — from the 13th century to the present day. Perspective | Can a festival make the Kennedy Center a destination for political art? 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z

The poet James Merrill said that if poems are chopsticks and radishes and sashimi on a plate, prose is fish guts and cleavers. A Poet Laureate Sends News From the End of Life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Her focus was initially on the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, but she soon learned that another writer was working on her biography. Marion Meade, Biographer of Dorothy Parker, Dies at 88 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z

A more surprising aspect of O’Connor’s novel is that the voice of the Irish maid is more engaging than that of the famous poet. ‘Miss Emily,’ by Nuala O’Connor: a fictional look at the Belle of Amherst 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

Bond chose several Baroque sonatas and songs by Henry Purcell, and created six sections corresponding to different facets of femaleness, such as the Madonna, the mother, the poet, the muse. Perspective | When world-class dancers leap into a new role: Choreographing world premieres 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z

He says he knew the work of Alfred De Musset, the French poet and novelist who wrote Confession. Pete Doherty: the challenge of making a film as a heroin addict 2012-05-24T20:00:02Z

American poet. I read my poem, feeling American poets alive and dead by my side, feeling myself as representative in the most grave and beautiful way. A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

He may demand effort from the reader, but, as always with this poet, the dividends are commensurate. Christmas gifts 2012: the best poetry books 2012-11-30T08:30:03Z

The judges called him “a profoundly original American poet whose work embraces the coexistence of comedy and tragedy, exploring the intersection of high poetic style and an often startling vernacular.” Allen Grossman, a Poet’s Poet and Scholar, Dies at 82 2014-06-29T04:00:00Z

There he found inspiration in the Louvre, in the retrospectives of the flickering Impressionist generation, in his acquaintance with would-be painters and poets and, it appears, in the invigorating camaraderie of la Vie Bohème. How Picasso Became Picasso 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z

If passers-by on a busy bridge in central Berlin on a recent summer afternoon recognized East Germany’s most famous songwriter, poet and dissident, they did not show it. Germany Celebrates a Singer Who United East and West 2023-07-07T04:00:00Z

I told him that his story was remarkable: a poet who defeated a former defense minister at the ballot box. The Bizarre Trial of a Poet in Myanmar 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

Mikhail, a poet and journalist, profiles the beekeeper who helped rescue some, delivering a searing portrait of courage. 8 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z

The same is true for poetry, where the poet is like a steeple with a carillon of bells. Orphic Paris, Part XVI 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Shelley is as intriguingly animated here as the figure who appears in biographies of the poet, and Shepherd is as sensitive to the cadences of Claire Clairmont's voice as more scholarly chroniclers of her life. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z

As the cobbler Hans Sachs, the leader of Nuremberg’s guild of tradesmen who moonlight as singing poet “masters,” the baritone Michael Volle is fiercely articulate. Review: Wagnerian Comedy Is No Joke in the Met’s ‘Meistersinger’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

If she's a really compelling poet but it's just not seen that way because of who she is, because of how it's framed, well, then it's a much more heartbreaking movie. Maggie Gyllenhaal on playing “starving” women: “The way many women are feeling right now” 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Todd, the mistress of Dickinson’s brother, cast the poet as strange and solitary to style herself as a liberator, bringing to light the work of a cloistered genius. Perspective | ‘Dickinson’ is another example of pop culture trying to liberate Emily Dickinson 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

These traits make Bunting sound less like a savage disciple in Pound’s posse than any number of twentysomething poets working today. The Improbable Life and Prescient Poetry of Basil Bunting 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z

Zamora, a poet, recounts in absorbing detail the dangerous, weekslong journey he took from El Salvador to reunite with his parents in the United States when he was just 9. 18 Books Coming in September 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z

Among the people who came to hear his cabaret songs were the poet E. E. Cummings, Blitzstein and Copland. Capturing the Short, Glamorous Life of a Forgotten Broadway Lyricist 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z

Robert Frost was an admirer of Kennedy, and it was thought that the presence of the stately octogenarian poet would lend gravitas to the inauguration of the baby-faced senator. Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

She brings in “a poet friend” to ask: “Why has Judy Davis not yet played her in the movie?” In Lorrie Moore’s Nonfiction, the Sounds of an Intellectual Having a Good Time 2018-03-26T04:00:00Z

She knew she was doomed when the poet hit her with a question that implied her surgery confession was a publicity stunt. The competition for Miss America 1984 was business as usual — until everyone got a look at Vanessa Williams 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

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

Calling herself a poet rather than a playwright, she railed against theater conventions, arguing that for black artists, plays without dancers and musicians were a waste of an “interdisciplinary culture.” ‘For Colored Girls’ Is a Choreopoem. What’s a Choreopoem? 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Following his Forward Prize win, judge and National Poetry Day founder William Sieghart described Porter as "one of the most distinguished poets at work in Britain today". Poet Porter dies at the age of 81 2010-04-23T17:06:00Z

Mr. Pinsky is a poet who knows his gods but also a lot about the seamier crevices of men and women. Opera With Atmosphere of Brave New World 2010-10-04T12:00:00Z

Growing up in Moscow, the photographer Anastasia Samoylova was exposed, from a young age, to the work of the Russian Romantic poets, whose ecstatic descriptions of nature helped form her early impressions of Russia’s geography. Millions of Mountains, Billions of Flowers 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z

Luckily for him his writing also sings about how brilliantly clever, inventive and funny he is, a poet for everyone who wouldn't live the ordinary life if you paid them. Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls by David Sedaris – review 2013-04-27T10:00:02Z

Benjamin Voisin plays Lucien, a young poet from the provinces who is all too happy to savor the corruptions of the capital. Best Movies of 2022 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z

Throughout his career, Mr. Smith often wrote in a rigorously classical style, using the traditional forms of meter and rhyme that many other 20th-century poets deemed outmoded. William Jay Smith, former U.S. poet laureate, dies at 97 2015-08-22T04:00:00Z

Ocean Vuong is not an experimental poet, but he is a poet of the American experiment. How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Then there are countless poets whose work excites me. Praise Poems: Ellen Bass Talks About 'Like a Beggar' 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

Groucho was an avid reader, and an admirer of Eliot's, so he must have been delighted, one day in 1961, to get a fan letter from the poet requesting a signed photograph. Serious questions about literature ? in quiz form 2011-01-07T11:07:32Z

When he first landed in New York, he wanted to be a poet or a musician, whichever came easier. Jim Jarmusch: ‘I’m for the survival of beauty. I’m for the mystery of life’ 2019-07-07T04:00:00Z

He was the most well-known poet in China, but was prohibited from reading and writing. In the Cultural Revolution, Ai Weiwei’s Father Burned the Family’s Books 2020-12-31T05:00:00Z

Zink’s humor is rarely predictable, even when she goes after predictable subjects — such as academic sinecures and poets. ‘Mislaid’: Nell Zink’s subversive novel takes on racism and sexuality 2015-05-12T04:00:00Z

The life of a poet — a "literary sharecropper," as he ruefully dubbed himself — was numbingly prosaic. 'Selected Letters of Langston Hughes' a glimpse of enigmatic poet 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z

But even the great German poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who died in 1832, acknowledged that the German tongue should be open to outside influences. Shitstorm arrives in German dictionary 2013-07-04T10:14:13Z

When Sassoon first met Rivers, in July 1917, the young poet had been diagnosed with “shell shock” after months of trench warfare and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh to recover. After Writing About Mental Illness, Kay Redfield Jamison Turns to Healers 2023-05-22T04:00:00Z

The poet Dean Young provides an introduction that is charming but unhelpful. Review: ‘What About This: Collected Poems of Frank Stanford’ 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z

It was conceived with the poet and playwright Tony Harrison , at the National theatre in 1977, for a small company of actors and instrumentalists. Bow Down ? review 2012-05-20T18:22:36Z

Wang Wei was a painter, poet and politician of the Tang dynasty. Laurie Anderson Needs Your Help Finding an Image From Balzac 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

Writing under the guise of a series of alter egos or "heteronyms", Pessoa established himself as one – in fact, several – of Portugal and Europe's greatest poets. The great books giveaway 2011-03-04T11:19:03Z

The decades reveal more than a poetic autobiography but also nothing less: the evolution of a poet in the pages of a magazine in a way that we are not likely to see again. When You Go Away: Remembering W. S. Merwin 2019-03-20T04:00:00Z

“We’ve cut our costs by about 30 to 40 percent by going to Newark,” said Mr. Farawell, who is also a poet. Urban Beat for Poetry Festival 2010-10-05T22:37:00Z

Booth’s real concern, however, is — to borrow a Wordsworthian phrase — “the growth of a poet’s mind.” Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth

Mr. Cohen was a man of letters, both poet and novelist, long before he set words to music. Books of The Times: ‘I’m Your Man,’ Leonard Cohen Biography by Sylvie Simmons 2012-09-13T22:17:26Z

“I think Moore, in later decades of her life, did her readers a lasting, and compounding, disservice by altering and suppressing the writing she published as a younger poet,” White comments. A definitive work on Marianne Moore and other best poetry to read this month 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

Established poets share verses, which serve as prompts for improv scenes, which in turn inspire a brand new poem at the end of each show. Comedy Listings for Sept. 5-11 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

In addition to a handful of major exhibitions each year, the museum hosts a variety of performances by dancers, musicians and poets. Raising the Cultural Bar on Campuses 2019-03-12T04:00:00Z

Robert Guédiguian’s “Army of Crime” observes the doomed terrorist campaign against German occupiers mounted by a daredevil French Resistance cell largely made up of Communist immigrants and led by an Armenian poet. Film: Yvan Attal at Rendez-Vous With French Cinema 2010-03-11T05:31:00Z

One of the great pleasures of poetry is catching a good poet in midcareer. Books Of the Times: Five Poets Seasoned by Life 2011-05-29T22:06:07Z

It is unfortunate that the dramatic poet who taught the American theater to lyrically soar is once again being remembered for his dissolute decline rather than for the sublimity of his best writing. 'God Looked Away,' and so should you: Why Al Pacino's play falls so short of expectations 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z

In the Romantic era, poets such as Blake, Keats and Shelley did promulgate a new ideal: the transformative power of erotic love. ‘Self and Soul’: Mark Edmundson’s biting critique of modern complacency 2015-11-24T05:00:00Z

“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

Born in South Africa before moving to England as a child, Levy, 63, is a poet, playwright and author. With a Doppelgänger Novel, Deborah Levy Embodies Strangeness 2023-06-02T04:00:00Z

The prize money for the TS Eliot Prize has been increased to mark the 50th anniversary of the poet's death in 2015. Anniversary boost for TS Eliot prize 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

I am large, the poet wrote; I contain multitudes. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2019-05-16T04:00:00Z

She gave away her baby daughter, vowed to make something of her life and headed for New York to become a poet. Patti Smith: punk poet queen 2013-05-25T08:00:00Z

Ms. Steichen met her husband in 1959 through the poet Carl Sandburg, who was married to Steichen’s sister. Joanna T. Steichen, Managed Work by Edward Steichen, Dies at 77 2010-08-07T05:04:00Z

It remained an important part of Carter's life: In the 1970s, he wrote a cycle of vocal music based on the writings of poets including Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop and Hart Crane. Award-winning U.S. composer Elliott Carter dies at 103 2012-11-06T00:53:04Z

Now, a young poet recited verses to an old one. Perspective | As Trump slips out of town, Biden repurposes old symbols for new life 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z

The life and murder of the Elizabethan poet and playwright Christopher Marlowe have provided recurring inspiration to fiction writers. New in Paperback: ‘Of Women and Salt’ and ‘Drug Use for Grown-Ups’ 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z

Shane is a Beatnik poet, drawn to the siren song of the open road. "The L Word: Generation Q": Shanes I have known 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z

“Locher’s purposeful appropriation of misinformation — laws that might not actually be laws at all — is an act of political critique,” writes poet Kenneth Goldsmith, another appropriator, in his introduction. A candy-colored blend of fact, fiction and photography: 'I Fought the Law' 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z

“He sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world,” Kerouac wrote. Wanting to See Like Robert Frank 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

For neighborhoods as well as for poets, growing up isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Review: Looking Inward in Poetry Books From Ron Padgett and Nick Flynn 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z

The poet Louise Glück won the Nobel Prize in literature last year. Nobel Prize in literature awarded to Abdulrazak Gurnah 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

The prosaic and spiritual mix in the poet Alice Fulton’s first book of stories, “The Nightingales of Troy,” spanning more than 90 years and four generations of women in Troy, N.Y. Short Stories to Read Before Bed 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z

He was a self-styled “poet of the people” who often appeared on radio and television before his death at 89 in 1967. Penelope Niven, who wrote about 20th-century cultural figures, dies at 75

The “Alt Lit” of Tao Lin and his acolytes continued to grow while “Weird Twitter” became a thing, championed by champ poets like Tricia Lockwood and Kimmy Walters, who tweet amazing things. 10 pivotal moments for digital art in 2012 2012-12-31T14:00:00Z

We need poets to tell the truth about it. Poem of the week: Rendition by Chris Wallace-Crabbe 2013-01-28T13:02:28Z

In the ancient world Plato banned poets from his ideal republic; today they have to navigate the “embarrassment or suspicion or anger” that follows when they admit to their profession in public. War of words 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Katha Pollitt, better known as a journalist and essayist, is not a new poet, but to meet her again in this collection is a treat. A Raging Pandemic Inspires Poetry With Little Bite 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

The others include “Dear Love,” based on the correspondence between the poets Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and “Dear Life,” inspired by the letters exchanged between Anton Chekhov and his wife, Olga Knipper. Jerome Kilty, 90, Actor and Playwright, Dies 2012-09-16T00:27:42Z

It was the first in a series of beers inspired by the poet Dante Alighieri; the second installment, Mercury, contains blood oranges and was released last week. Beer: Citrus brews, however they’re made, taste like refreshment

Here it would probably be helpful to mention that the author is now a celebrated poet, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in 2015. Review | How a young writer emerged from a troubled past to a Pulitzer 2018-04-15T04:00:00Z

The allusions are to Greece and Homer, as well as to the Alexandrian poet C.P. Review | Peter Sacks is one of the most compelling artists in America. But he didn’t find his voice until late in life. 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Also present was Chiang Yee, a Chinese poet, author, artist and emigree, who remarked on the extraordinary numbers of people drawn to his youthful and fluffy compatriot. Meet Ming, the panda pioneer who left China to boost Britain's wartime morale 2013-06-13T11:32:46Z

Poems “Envelopes of Air” Two poets forge a bond amid the shifting landscape of contemporary America. The Best New Yorker Visual and Interactive Stories of 2018 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Whether Eliot is the greatest 20th-century poet writing in English or just one of the greatest, these two hefty volumes honor every aspect of his artistic genius and unrivaled flair for cultural bricolage. Beyond the bestsellers: Michael Dirda picks 12 books for the holidays 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z

Jones, best known for British television parts in Shameless and Grange Hill, has spent his career being told he should play the poet. Dylan Thomas biopic stars pay homage to the poet's favorite New York haunt 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

The poet’s latest collection responds with high art and startling presence to the vantage offered by mortality. 100 Notable Books of 2014 2014-12-02T05:00:00Z

For Edna St. Vincent Millay fans, the Camden Public Library, a few blocks from the hotel, devotes an entire room to the poet. A Maine Inn With a Storied Past Gets a Modern Makeover 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z

In other firsts this year, we débuted an online-only poetry series with “Envelopes of Air,” a view on contemporary America, as told through a correspondence between the poets Ada Limón and Natalie Diaz. The Best New Yorker Visual and Interactive Stories of 2018 2018-12-30T05:00:00Z

Harjo, though very much a poet of America, extracts from her own personal and cultural touchstones a more galactal understanding of the world, and her poems become richer for it. Joy Harjo, the Poet of American Memory 2019-08-29T04:00:00Z

Strand, who began publishing in the 1960s, was widely recognized as one of America's premier poets. Former U.S. poet laureate Mark Strand dies at 80 2014-11-29T05:00:00Z

But Sadulaev's mission is different – he has the voice of a poet and the perspective of a "lone bird who has strayed from the flock". I Am a Chechen! by German Sadulaev, translated by Anna?Gunin ? review 2011-01-15T00:07:01Z

Careful montage shapes these views of Mr. Honig and interviews with family members and friends into a sensitive, unified portrait of a poet and a human being. Movie Review: ‘First Cousin Once Removed’ Documents Edwin Honig’s Life 2013-09-15T22:10:53Z

It might seem strange, but that diatribe - by hard-living, proudly alcoholic beat poet Charles Bukowski - was the inspiration for Noah and the Whale's third album, Last Night on Earth. Noah and the Whale, and Bukowski 2011-02-11T09:52:36Z

For reasons yet to be fully elucidated, James Franco – actor, writer, director, producer, painter, film-maker and aspiring poet – has an unquenchable interest in gay rights. Sundance film festival 2013: Interior. Leather Bar – first look review 2013-01-21T15:07:55Z

Only the old poet Mr. Carmichael appears to have thrived; his new collection does very well. Trying to Imagine Post-Pandemic Life? Virginia Woolf and Toni Morrison Can Help. 2021-05-08T04:00:00Z

In the second of our new series on the Books podcast, The Books That Made Me, we pay a visit to the children's writer, poet and broadcaster Michael Rosen. The Books That Made Me: Michael Rosen 2010-08-20T12:29:00Z

About a 1972 meeting between the poet WH Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten, its structure is a bit of a problem and there are times when it feels a little thin. This week's new theatre 2010-09-24T23:06:00Z

A production of the Barbican in London and Les Théâtres de la Ville in Luxembourg, the show features a new translation by the poet Anne Carson, with direction by Ivo van Hove. In Performance: Juliette Binoche of ‘Antigone’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

The acclaimed poet and biographer is to make his first venture into children's books after striking a deal to write a sequel to Robert Louis Stevenson's classic story Treasure Island, first published in 1883. Treasure Island 2 2010-03-26T00:15:00Z

The middle of three sisters, with a ceramicist mother and poet father, she was raised in Milton, Massachusetts. Jenny Slate: ‘Ivanka Trump is a fake feminist and should be ashamed’ 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

After receiving the letter Kerouac lent it to Allen Ginsberg, who passed it along to another poet, who was living on a houseboat, who “lost the letter, overboard, I presume,” Kerouac said. Long-Lost Letter from Neal Cassady to Jack Kerouac Headed to Auction (Again) 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

“Her poems are flash bulletins from her inner life, a region that she examines unsparingly,” the poet Dan Chiasson wrote in The New Yorker. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

The first published collection of her poems, from 1890, cleaned up her eccentric punctuation and spelling, cut stanzas and created titles, presenting her as a more conventional poet than she was. A Very Modern Emily Dickinson (Twerking Included) 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

Other sections feature shorter, tighter pieces that highlight some of his interests — opera, French poetry, the artist Henry Darger — and demonstrate Ashbery’s tremendous range as a poet who masterfully combined the mundane and the dreamlike. A new collection of John Ashbery’s work and other best poetry for September 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

He was also lucky enough to find a fine translator, the American poet Stephen Sartarelli, who is especially good at rendering Sicilian dialect and general verbal muddle in English. Review | Blind, Andrea Camilleri dictated this delightful mystery novel before his death at 93 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z

“Not the first poet to meditate on political economy and empire, Joseph is distinguished by his knowledge,” Paul Franz writes in his review. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z

To quote poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “tis not in death that men die most.” And for many men, the process begins long before manhood. Toxic masculinity is killing men: The roots of male trauma 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

A writer who stopped using punctuation in the 1960s and spent much of the last 30 years secluded in Hawaii will become the nation's next chief poet. William S. Merwin named 17th US poet laureate 2010-07-01T08:58:00Z

And one reason I’m attracted to the New York School of poets is this idea of writing to one person. Director Jim Jarmusch Talks New Film 'Paterson' 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

"Anything I shall ever write will owe so much, so much, to you," wrote Murdoch to Queneau, a married French novelist, poet and publisher with whom she corresponded between 1946 and 1975. Letters reveal Iris Murdoch's frustrated passion for Raymond Queneau 2010-04-26T11:33:00Z

Another friend, the poet Robert Lowell, invited Mr. Raban to live at his house in London for a while in the 1970s. Jonathan Raban, Adventurous Literary Traveler, Dies at 80 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z

For reasons that are still mysterious and which, perhaps, if revealed, might seem banal, in the eighth year A.D. the poet Publius Ovidius Naso was banished from Rome by the Emperor Augustus. Is there any reason to read? 2012-06-08T00:00:00Z

By 1957, the poet was noting that "the programme staggers on" but, crucially, continued to listen, later admitting that he was kept going by "The Archers and other forms of unreality". Archers fans prepare for shock anniversary episode 2010-12-31T14:55:45Z

Its title, from a book by the poet Osip Mandelstam, was “The Noise of Time.” With ‘The Noise of Time,’ Julian Barnes takes on music, timidly 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

The 15th-century church next door — St. Andrew’s — is beautiful and also noteworthy, as it is the final resting place for the English war poet Siegfried Sassoon. 10 Travel Writers, 10 Favorite Hotels 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z

A week later, dissident poet Youssef Belkhdim was convicted of attacking police - a charge he denies - at a sit-in he organized in support of Belghouat and sentenced to two years in prison. Morocco hosts world's artists, imprisons its own 2012-05-26T09:31:03Z

He recited two lines from the Hungarian poet Attila Jozsef, written in French, that roughly translate as “I have no theme other than that I love you.” A 92-Year-Old Composer’s First Opera Is His ‘Endgame’ 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z

The young poets emerging at the same time were, in their own way, also in revolt against the decrepitude of Victorian Britain. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

"Art is not a mirror to reflect the world, but a hammer with which to shape it," says the opening quote, from poet Vladimir Mayakovsky. Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer – review 2013-06-13T11:02:19Z

“I’m trying to understand the voice in this poem,” Nate Marshall, an African-American poet from Chicago, tweeted in reply. A Poem in The Nation Spurs a Backlash and an Apology 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

“The world needs more poets!” proclaims Matt, who tends to quote the likes of Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost in his musings. ‘Poets’ at Book-It: an Everyman’s hilarious downward spiral 2013-06-14T04:08:58Z

She prefers German poets like Rainer Maria Rilke to radical rhetoric. Kyung-sook Shin's 'I'll Be Right There' finds artful solace 2014-05-30T04:00:00Z

And in “The Psychic Life of Savages,” she provided a sportive outing for a gaggle of famously strung-out confessional poets. And you thought your contractor was bad. Meet 'The Monster Builder' at South Coast Rep 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z

Despite joyfully explicating the poets and poems he loved, Jarrell could be merciless in his takedowns. Review | ‘Don’t Read Poetry’ is a literary manual for the Instagram era 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

The exception is Sylvia Plath, who, with her perfect blond pageboy, wide smile and cinched-waist dresses, looked less like a proper poet and more like Doris Day. Shifting the Focus From Sylvia Plath’s Tragic Death to Her Brilliant Life 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z

A poet who writes of the "huge and birdless silence" instantly evokes a crowd of birds. Alice by Judith Hermann ? review 2011-08-19T21:55:06Z

But the real special effect was her music: her piano and voice in all their transformations, distilling classical, traditional and pop idioms down to their sorrow and rage, harnessing them to poets’ words. Review: Diamanda Galás Has Dark Moments and Gallows Humor 2016-05-11T04:00:00Z

The bad thing, though, is that he obviously wrote it himself and seems certain that in addition to being a memoirist he’s also a certified motivational speaker and, worse, a poet. Review | Matthew McConaughey is ‘alright, alright, alright’ — and thinks you will be too 2020-10-18T04:00:00Z

As the poet, Lloyd Riggins conveys deep sensitivity in the carriage of his body, the way he lists and sways as others walk by, unnoticing. Hamburg Ballet’s ‘Little Mermaid’ — adrift in a sea of despair 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z

Before long it was decided — by the people who decide such things — that T. S. Eliot was the greatest poet of the 20th century. How T.S. Eliot Went From Neurotic Banker to Neurotic Worldwide Literary Hero 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

She moved on to a poetry workshop, then private tutoring by a well-known poet, then completion of the Masters in Fine Art writing program at Pacific Lutheran University. Once a Hanford engineer, now Washington's poet laureate 2012-04-02T02:01:16Z

Ackmann’s “These Fevered Days” peoples the poet’s world more thoroughly than do previous accounts. Reviving Emily Dickinson in 10 Episodes 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

In his book “Black Music,” the critic and poet Amiri Baraka—then writing as LeRoi Jones—called it “staggering.” A Quest to Rename the Williamsburg Bridge for Sonny Rollins 2017-04-05T04:00:00Z

The letters are mostly to a friend and mentor, the poet Edward Dorn. The Revival of the Great Lucia Berlin Continues Apace 2018-10-29T04:00:00Z

And she considers herself a poet at heart, sometimes offering her editing notes in free verse, at all times of the day and night. The Grande Dame of Documentary is Leaving Her Home at HBO 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z

By the time her father’s glamorous young disciple, the budding poet Percy Shelley, appeared on the scene, Mary’s emotional isolation was extreme. The Mother of Frankenstein 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z

The Romantics, by contrast, thought of the poet as a lamp, illuminated by an inner fire of spontaneously ignited feeling that made nature visible. M.H. Abrams, Who Shaped Romantic Criticism, Dies at 102 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

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

Photograph: National Trust A hundred years ago this Easter, poet Edward Thomas cycled from south London to the Quantock Hills in west Somerset. Our pursuit of spring continues, 100 years after Edward Thomas's 2013-03-28T13:57:39Z

Jackson, 69, will always be known for the decade he spent as musical director alongside the revolutionary poet, musician and activist Gil Scott-Heron. Brian Jackson, a Key Gil Scott-Heron Collaborator, Reintroduces Himself 2022-05-25T04:00:00Z

It's the benchmark for any poet, so we met up. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z

In the magazine, and as a poet, he is hard to predict. Poetry magazine well-versed in criticism 2011-06-20T21:14:00Z

In the series finale streaming now on Apple TV+, the poet’s work is flourishing but there’s strife in her family and across Civil War-torn America. New this week: ‘Lost Daughter,’ NYE in Nashville, Boba Fett 2021-12-27T05:00:00Z

The poet had hoped to be present but hadn’t been able to make the trip; air travel is no longer easy for him. A Trinidadian Friendship: Derek Walcott and Peter Doig 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z

Asher Gamedze is a young drummer quickly rising on the Cape Town scene, but he’s more than that too: a poet, bandleader, composer, visual artist. Gerard Way Sneers at the Apocalypse, and 12 More New Songs 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z

First up, poet Owen Sheers explores our changing attitudes to the sea, reflected over the last four centuries by artists from Turner to Maggi Hambling. Midsomer Murders 2010-05-05T07:00:00Z

Anton was for Anton Chekhov, the "poet of loneliness," and "Joseph" for Joseph Conrad, who penned a motto Rushdie tried to follow: "I must live till I die." Salman Rushdie dismisses latest death threat 2012-09-19T16:58:59Z

Eliot, William Carlos Williams, and other leading poets of the 20th and 21st centuries. Chicago-based Poetry Foundation hires new president 2021-04-28T04:00:00Z

“It wasn’t like I thought, ‘Oh, now I’m going to be a poet.’ John Freeman, the editor behind lauded literary journal Freeman's 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z

Mario Vargas Llosa, the Peruvian novelist, poet, essayist and journalist, was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy announced today. Mario Vargas Llosa: Nobel Prize in Literature Goes with a Well-Known Name 2010-10-07T16:10:00Z

"I earn more than I thought I would when I became a poet." Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z

Elsewhere, as a kind of defense reflex, the word “snarky” is used repeatedly to describe a poet or poem. Review | ‘Don’t Read Poetry’ is a literary manual for the Instagram era 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z

Rich was sometimes charged with being more polemicist than poet, but “these essays tell a different story,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes. 7 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Who are among your favorite poets and their books? ArtsBeat: Poetry Profiles: Black Ocean 2014-03-03T21:26:30Z

There were a significant number of female novelists, poets and painters in earlier times. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: The Female Factor 2011-01-18T20:58:10Z

Picador is launching a new prize that hopes to find the best previously unpublished poets in the UK, to be judged by the award-winning poet Don Paterson. Picador launches prize for unpublished poets 2010-05-26T10:34:00Z

But the poet fires off some bracingly furious salvos, and his wordsmith talents are abundantly in evidence. Luke Wright ? review 2011-08-26T15:49:14Z

That night, the audience also celebrated poets whose words might be famous someday. D.C. students give a voice to poetry for national Poetry Out Loud contest 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

Prophets and poets were touched by forces beyond themselves. Two Authors Examine Biblical History for Clues About Faith 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z

As Mr. Handke’s award was condemned in some corners, many in the literary world celebrated the news about Ms. Tokarczuk, an experimental novelist and poet from Poland who is beloved by readers and critics. Olga Tokarczuk and Peter Handke Awarded Nobel Prizes in Literature 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z

His old friend Patti Smith, writing in The New Yorker, called him “our generation’s New York poet, championing its misfits as Whitman had championed its workingman and Lorca its persecuted.” Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wright was the son of James Wright, a celebrated poet who won the Pulitzer in 1972. Franz Wright, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, dies at 62 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z

“One of the most gifted students I have ever had,” said the poet Mark Strand, who was one of his professors and is now on the Columbia faculty. Lorin Stein, the Paris Review?s New Party Boy 2011-02-25T19:58:16Z

And then there are the artists; poets, painters, philosophers, composers. Syphilis, sex and fear 2013-05-17T15:59:01Z

Today it sits, refurbished and reborn in the music exhibit — a symbol of Berry’s musical legacy and his role as the African American poet of teenage exuberance and jukebox subversion of the 1950s and ’60s. How the museum talked Chuck Berry into giving up his prized red Cadillac 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z

He said he could not have afforded the tuition without the scholarship, which led him to an M.F.A. program and a career as a poet and a teacher. Bread Loaf Ends ‘Wait Scholar’ Program 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

Few contemporary poets are as embedded in landscape — but beneath you can feel the punishment ruptured into being by the declining circuits of age. One Last Book From an Outback Poet Who Was Part Hero, Part Pariah 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

As host of a discussion series devoted to artists he finds interesting, he will interview the poet Ariana Reines, whose books include “Mercury” and “Coeur de Lion.” Spare Times Listings for Nov. 14-20 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z

In between are the poet’s night-thoughts about “the sure extinction that we travel to/ And shall be lost in always.” Book review: ‘Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love,’ by James Booth

Whereas Hopkins argues that the sifting role of editors and publishers remains important online, performance poet Francesca Beard believes they can now be bypassed. Poetry's future 2010-06-18T07:30:00Z

The 22 finalists, whom the National Book Foundation announced Thursday, include two Pulitzer Prize winners, two previous National Book Award winners and a poet making her debut. National Book Awards Finalists Include Colson Whitehead and Viet Thanh Nguyen 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

As a poet, however, she is virtually forgotten – ignored even – by the 20th century anthologists dedicated to the recovery and re-evaluation of neglected women poets. Poem of the week: The Candle by Katherine Mansfield 2010-07-19T11:11:00Z

Now, at the home of Neruda, the Nobel-winning Chilean poet and champion of the left, I had discovered a kindred spirit. In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

He is a poet whose language, whether translated or in English, expresses war and how war was to develop through the 20th Century. Call to protect WWI poet's home 2012-08-30T05:29:38Z

Born in Beijing in 1957, Ai grew up in exile after his father, renowned poet Ai Qing, was punished by communist authorities. Ai Weiwei on creating political art in the Trump era: ‘Be part of the change’ 2017-06-27T04:00:00Z

In Plato’s “Republic,” Socrates banishes poets, including dramatists, from the perfectly just city. Socrates Questions, a Contemporary Philosopher Answers 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z

The arrival of each winter, a time when the world seems quieter, invoking introspection, gets me thinking of the poet and what we might call the Keatsian model of the heart. Perspective | The perfect poem for Valentine’s Day 2019-02-07T05:00:00Z

So what do contemporary poets know, or seem to know, about war? What Does a Poet Know About War? 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z

He was the seventh Swede to win the Nobel for literature, and he was the only winner in nearly 20 years to be known mainly as a poet. Tomas Transtromer, Crystalline Swedish Poet, Dies at 83 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z

The poet Claudia Rankine created powerful spoken monologues that intersperse musical numbers, drawing on Baker’s own words. Review: A Haunting Tribute to Josephine Baker Arrives at the Met Museum 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

“The Complete Poems,” arranged chronologically, shows the tremendous range and innovation that, despite Ammons’s stage fright, helped establish him as one of America’s most original and important 20th-century poets. Review | Poets respond to gun violence and other best collections of the month 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z

And the website lets poetry fans listen to audio recordings from poets . Oxford American celebrates its hard-won 25th anniversary 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

Part of the story: a defining moment in the life of the poet Edward Thomas was the starting point for Now All Roads Lead to France. The art of biography is alive and well 2013-02-15T18:10:01Z

The Museum's curator, the poet Michael Rosen, is currently helping decide how the exhibition spaces will be filled. Oxford Story Museum submits plans 2012-09-18T12:42:23Z

This is a poet with a prosecutorial mind: in supple and exact language, she interrogates the world around us. Dwight Garner’s 10 Favorite Books of 2012 2012-12-17T16:09:38Z

They, along with many poets, novelists, and artists, were purged from German society by revoking their citizenship or sending them to their deaths in concentration camps. The right’s religion lie: Science, sex and the truth about God and politics 2015-03-15T04:00:00Z

She has also joked about her experience as a poet of color online. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

The book’s long first sequence portrays a poet assembling her materials, admitting what’s missing — some of which is her native language. Why you should be reading poet Layli Long Soldier 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z

Soon after the new firms arrived, seemingly everybody was online, from lawmakers to Buddhist extremists to former generals and poets. The Bizarre Trial of a Poet in Myanmar 2016-03-02T05:00:00Z

To be away from your home as a writer can be good in some ways, but can also be a limitation, especially as a poet. Nick Laird: a life in writing 2013-01-04T22:55:01Z

Later that year, Collins asked Cohen, who saw himself as just a poet, and was ashamed of his voice and acoustic guitar skills, to play a fundraiser with her. Leonard Cohen’s impact: From the ’60s to indie rockers and beyond 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

One of the reasons Ten matters is because it redresses a gross imbalance, namely that under 1% of poetry books published in the UK are by black or Asian poets. Tackling UK poetry's ethnic imbalance, with no help from Jeremy Hunt 2010-09-22T07:00:00Z

She was born and grew up in Coney Island, N.Y., and she continues, after more than 40 years in Tangier, to exhibit what the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti called “a Coney Island of the mind.” T Magazine: The Aesthetes 2014-04-11T18:32:15Z

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

Those claims may surprise students — and teachers — who have long assumed that each poem harbors one correct meaning that poets try to hide from hapless readers. Stop dissecting a poem as if it were a dead frog 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

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

That great American poet appears on the album’s opening track, “The Dreamer.” Music Monday: Common Dreams Big 2011-12-19T17:30:42Z

Both poets were recognized in their own time as chivalrous advocates for human rights. Valentine’s Day was reimagined by chivalrous medieval poets for all to enjoy, respectfully 2021-02-14T05:00:00Z

And another one, "The Death and Dying Words of Poor Mailie", in which the poet's pet sheep gets tangled in his tethering and speaks to us before he dies. It's a dog's life 2010-04-30T23:10:00Z

It is not Gorman’s first book but it functions like a debut, coming in the wake of her instant elevation to the rare status of “celebrity poet.” An Expansive New Book From Amanda Gorman, Celebrity Poet and Inaugural Star 2021-12-07T05:00:00Z

And Robin Sanders, the spoken word poet, used to choreograph for the New Ballet Ensemble in Memphis when I was taking ballet there. Lil Buck and Jon Boogz, Dancing to Improve the World 2018-04-10T04:00:00Z

“You got to be a spirit,” the poet tells him. Activist author Amiri Baraka dead at 79 2014-01-09T23:19:00Z

The poet Omar Taous says that the book “is like a mirror to the Berber people, of their civilization and history.” ‘The Miracle of the Little Prince’ Review: A Children’s Book Turned Rosetta Stone 2019-08-27T04:00:00Z

On social media, friends and admirers of Baumer mourned the death of the poet. Poet Mark Baumer killed while walking cross-country in solo protest 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

What separates poets from mere versifiers is a quality of feeling based in experience. Ai, an Unflinching Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 2010-03-28T02:20:00Z

But at the beginning of the 1920s, when they began taking portraits for Beach and then for people in the circle of poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, neither had been working with cameras for long. Review | Glamour, gossip, sex, scandal: Man Ray’s portraits captured Paris between the wars 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

“April’s an artist — a singer, an actor, painter, writer, poet — who happens to also cut hair,” he wrote in an email. No More Drugs or Gigolos: A Celebrity Hairdresser Comes Clean 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z

This book is the first time the poet has publicly acknowledged that she has — and has had for more than 20 years — a form of multiple sclerosis. In ‘Playlist for the Apocalypse,’ the Weight of American History and of Mortality 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

The cup is carved in low relief with the figure of a famous poet of the fifth century A.D., Chinese Bidders Conquer Market 2010-04-02T12:10:00Z

Another elegiac 1961 picture, “In Memory of My Feelings — Frank O’Hara,” takes its title from a lament on lost love by a gay poet who was a friend of Johns and an art-world fellow traveler. Jasper Johns: Divide and Conquer 2021-09-23T04:00:00Z

The show is introduced by his alter ego Paul Hamilton, a would-be groovy performance poet getting down with the comedy crowd. Kevin Eldon 2010-08-18T21:00:00Z

Another Titian from the Living Hall depicts the well-known poet, playwright and satirist Pietro Aretino, a friend of the artist’s and, to judge from this likeness, an intimidating hulk of a man. Parmigianino’s ‘Schiava Turca’ Comes to the Frick 2014-05-15T04:00:00Z

Most poetry prizes are for a lone poem, but we requested a representative sample of work, looking for proof that the poet can get lucky on a regular basis. Don Paterson on finding the best new poets 2011-01-21T15:44:44Z

As a young person, she wanted to write fiction, “but because I’m so attracted to the granular level of language, I ended up being a poet,” she said. Graywolf Press’s New Publisher is Looking for Talent in New Places 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z

This is the work, note, of Austen's favourite poet. The Real Jane Austen: A Life in Small Things by Paula Byrne – review 2013-02-08T07:00:02Z

Verheyde believes it is because he is seen through his lyrics as a "literary figure, a poet". Pete Doherty goes from druggie to luvvie as he makes his film debut 2011-04-08T13:38:51Z

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

The poet Keats died at 25 in 1821, and his short life and brilliant work have inspired a vast amount of literature. 17 New Nonfiction Books to Read This Season 2022-03-25T04:00:00Z

In later years, her prowess with language, despite her illiteracy, impresses some as rivaling that of her dead husband, the trained church poet. She Didn’t Know How to Read, but Her Stories Captured History 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z

Shelley’s famous line about poets being the unacknowledged legislators of the world always strikes me as giving a little too much credit to poets, and a great deal too much credit to the world. How to Understand Your Computer 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z

A lingerie tint with louche undertones, it was celebrated by Théophile Gautier in his 1850 poem “To a Pink Dress,” the poet rhapsodizing, “How I love you in that dress that undresses you so well.” A Big Bold Show Wants You to Rethink Pink 2018-09-05T04:00:00Z

What distinguishes Miłosz as a poet is the abundance and spontaneity of the work, his at-homeness in so many different genres and landscapes, his desire for belief and his equally acute scepticism. Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z

Walliams, in conversation with Andrew Motion, proved an erudite enthusiast for the poet's work; the Little Britain star is full of surprises. Rewind radio: Jamie Cullum Interviews Dave Brubeck; Brubeck at 90; David Walliams on Philip Larkin; Decoding Basquiat; Ernest John Moraen 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

Later in the decade his voice, with other New York poets, could be heard on Dial-a-Poem, a free telephone service. Bill Berkson, Poet and Art Critic of ’60s Manhattan In-Crowd, Dies at 76 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z

Ryan taught remedial English part-time at the College of Marin, but over time she would establish herself as one of the country's most original poets. Details on the 2011 Pulitzer Prize winners 2011-04-19T00:29:08Z

Dana Gioia, the poet who served as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, wrote in 1990 that Mr. Haines was for readers who know that “poetry can sometimes resemble a prayer.” John Haines, a Poet of the Wild, Dies at 86 2011-03-05T05:48:09Z

“You think of the great poets right through the era, that’s the only place where we have let go of the tight corsets and collars.” A Pianist Revisits His Youth, in Playful Fragments 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

Pip Carter, as the poet, is both the obsessive note-taker about nature and a haunted figure communing with some unseen spirit. The Dark Earth and the Light Sky – review 2012-11-16T11:57:23Z

A biography of the beloved English author and poet, whose dramatic life was as striking as her literary output. 50 notable works of nonfiction in 2019 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z

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

“Jonathan earned worldwide acclaim as a food critic, but he possessed the soul of a poet whose words helped readers everywhere understand the history and culture of our city.” Jonathan Gold, first restaurant critic to win a Pulitzer, dies aged 57 2018-07-22T04:00:00Z

Late in life, Comfort regretted that he was no longer regarded as a poet; that his name had become uncoupled from those of his less-forgotten contemporaries. The joy of Alex Comfort 2012-12-28T22:55:14Z

There are two kinds of poets in the world — poets who write poetry, and poets who don’t. Facing ‘the Can’t-See of the Future,’ in Verse and at the Chiropractor’s 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

Mr. Manzarek formed the Doors in 1965 with Jim Morrison, a poet and film student and singer, after the two of them had a chance encounter on Venice Beach in California. ArtsBeat: Ray Manzarek, Doors Keyboardist, Dies at 74 2013-05-20T21:58:03Z

The more democratised art becomes, Paterson – a poet, not coincidentally – goes on to argue in The Book of Shadows, the more we recognise in it our own mediocrity. Calling on the audience to live the dream 2010-08-21T06:00:00Z

When the poet Robyn Schiff introduces Moore to students, she told me, Moore serves as a kind of barometer: “If you love poetry, you love Marianne Moore.” The Marianne Moore Revival 2016-04-13T04:00:00Z

And RS as a religious poet looks back with an echoing mixture of fascination and repugnance. RS Thomas: Serial Obsessive by M Wynn Thomas – review 2013-04-06T08:30:19Z

Tents selling secondhand books spilled onto the lawns of the Inya Lake hotel, which was hosting the festival, while poets and writers crowded around picnic tables discussing art and literature. Burma literary festival flourishes under patron Aung San Suu Kyi 2013-02-03T19:30:37Z

“When I was a poet living under the stairs in Brooklyn, I tried to be self-employed on my taxes,” Mr. Blanchfield said. Helping Writers With a Windfall Avoid a Downfall 2016-04-06T04:00:00Z

But Walker is also known and acclaimed as a poet — a form to which she began to devote herself in earnest after the events of 9/11. Look Ahead: The hottest Seattle events for October 2018 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Shea bought, in addition to pastoral scenery, fore-edge portraits of literary figures including Shakespeare and the poet Robert Burns, and tableaus of historical moments like the assassination of Caesar and the eruption of Vesuvius. Antiques: Keeping It Real: A Show Made of Fakes 2010-11-19T07:00:00Z

Mr. Conquest became known as a poet before he began writing history. Robert Conquest, Historian Who Documented Soviet Horrors, Dies at 98 2015-08-04T04:00:00Z

Testimony draws on the records of hundreds of court cases to present a portrait of a society in ferment; the society, incidentally, into which the poet was born. How poetry can be written after Auschwitz 2011-01-11T13:02:06Z

For example, when TS Eliot wanted to become poet in this lands, it wasn't as an English poet, it was an Anglian poet he wanted to be. I am an English writer, not a British one, Ian McEwan tells Alex Salmond 2012-08-22T21:40:25Z

Perhaps no other MC would frame an album with cameos from the poet Maya Angelou and his own worldly wise father, as Common does on “The Dreamer/The Believer.” Album review: Common, 'The Dreamer/The Believer' 2011-12-19T03:52:00Z

But overall, this is a performance that more than confirms Gwyneth Lewis's reputation as one of the most exhilaratingly gifted poets of her generation. A Hospital Odyssey by Gwyneth Lewis 2010-04-16T23:10:00Z

Also an acclaimed poet, Ballou wrote a verse portrait of Charles Darwin called "The Darwin Poems." PBS' 'Masterpiece' to adapt Elizabeth Gilbert's 'Signature of All Things' 2015-04-21T04:00:00Z

Death could come at any time from a shell, what the poet Siegfried Sassoon called “your downward darting kiss.” How poppies, strong and fragile, became a symbol of WWI devastation 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z

The exposure — rare for a living poet, let alone one who was only just approaching mid-career — sparked waves of media attention and unlocked professional opportunities like speaking and teaching engagements. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

Bate also concludes that the poet instinctively gave himself entirely to the moment: ‘Ted Hughes’: A controversial biography shows the poet’s darker side 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z

It certainly produced better memories than four years ago in Pyeongchang, when his short program to music from British poet and lyricist Benjamin Clementine fell flat. Nathan Chen demonstrates new era of music in figure skating 2022-02-10T05:00:00Z

Its mistakes can clearly be infuriating but its docility, though merely that of the machine, arouses the poet's, and the reader's, sympathy. Poem of the week: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-10-20T12:52:00Z

And some questioned whether Mr. Dylan could truly be considered a poet. Bob Dylan, More Than a Songwriter 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

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

He was a Nobel-winning poet and writer, a senator and a great advocate for many forms of artistic expression.” In Ireland, All Yeats, All Year 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

At one, he met the poet Sarah Maguire, who persuaded him to send some poems to Robin Robertson, poetry editor at Jonathan Cape, before jacking it in. John Burnside: a life in writing 2011-08-26T21:54:01Z

"It was extraordinarily hard to choose," said judge Hugo Williams, himself an award-winning poet. Forward poetry prize avoids Nobel laureate clash 2010-07-20T22:59:00Z

The songwriter and poet, who died at the age of 52 on Wednesday, inspired a rare kind of devotion. Perspective | If a human being was capable of feeling it, David Berman could write it and render it profound 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z

The poet herself dismissed the idea she was writing to "an agenda", arguing instead that the ecological focus of some of her recent work came because "you write about your obsessions". Gillian Clarke 'stunned' at winning Queen's gold medal for poetry 2010-12-24T00:00:01Z

There were other artists who were also searching — musicians and painters, poets and sculptors, and architects. Anna Halprin on a ?Crucial Time? for Dance 2010-04-04T03:03:00Z

Place names and dates make a bid for permanence as the poet carefully stitches these new poems to earlier pieces. Poetry review: Dragon Talk by Fleur Adcock 2010-05-14T23:38:00Z

The Roman poet, in contrast with the unknown Anglo-Saxon who wrote “Beowulf”, is mellifluous and silver-tongued. Music from the underworld 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Are there other poems that you’re reading now, other poets that you’re thinking of now and might want to direct people to? On Being Seen: An Interview with Claudia Rankine from Ferguson 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

To paraphrase the manly poet Hamlin Garland, they let urban professionals be savage again. Extreme Obstacle Course Races Forge a Bond in Mud and Guts 2012-12-07T23:56:00Z

But he knew the blocking and cues, and had originally trained as an actor and was a slam poet. On Broadway, a playwright becomes an actor, saving a show 2021-12-24T05:00:00Z

"Never, ever get in a car which a poet is proposing to park," a friend once told me, shuddering from the nightmare experience. Philip Hensher: The importance of place in fiction 2013-05-17T15:00:02Z

One of his friends, the poet William Corbett, described him as a “delicate sort of buffalo.” Perspective | Anger at Donald Trump may turn great artists into political cartoonists. It’s happened before. 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. Owen’s portrayal of the poet as a self-destructive, macho blowhard fighting a losing battle with the bottle is one of the more compelling portraits of an alcoholic to be encountered in a recent film. Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche Star in ‘Words and Pictures’ 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z

Gwendolyn Brooks, who died in 2000, was one of the most important, prolific and distinguished poets of her time, and as with most brilliant artists, her creative force was evident when she was a child. Picture Books That Bring Black Heroes to Life 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z

Many early pages chronicle the poet’s youthful Wanderjahre in Europe, but almost nothing is said about his 25 years as a Harvard professor of European languages and literatures. Review | Beloved, patriotic, sentimental: A look at the life and poetry of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

But poets often talk very well about their work, as this collection proved. What the Poetry Book Society means to poets 2011-04-05T08:56:01Z

New MacArthur fellows are given the news a few days before the announcement and sworn to secrecy, a challenging task for poet Terrance Hayes, who describes himself as “the one that talks.” MacArthur Fellows include Alison Bechdel, Terrance Hayes 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z

Sachs, 53, was a photographer, painter and poet before she began to make films. Fandor's Fix gives female directors a vital platform 2015-05-02T04:00:00Z

Written by the acclaimed Chilean author when he was 31, this novel tracks two young poets as they wander through Mexico City, seeking the literary life. New in Paperback: ‘Spies of No Country’ and ‘Daisy Jones & the Six’ 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z

She is the second woman to receive the prize in three years after Louise Glück, the American poet, was given 2020’s award. Annie Ernaux’s Work Dissecting the Deeply Personal Is Awarded the Nobel 2022-10-06T04:00:00Z

I mention English Romantic poets in the book. The mystique of Daniel Johnston: “There’s something ancient in all of this — the notion of the eccentric” 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

Virtually every young woman poet comes and says, ‘I don’t know if what I’m writing is important?’ Rise of the female rock memoir 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fitzgerald will be among 15 local, emerging and internationally known poets and writers, each reading an O’Hara poem as well as one of their own. Fire Island Poetry Festival to Honor Frank O'Hara 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z

And then out came the first look: a full gray skirt and T-shirt featuring the title of a book by the poet/Ms. editor/women’s rights advocate Robin Morgan, “Sisterhood is Global.” Feminism in the Playground of Dior and Saint Laurent 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Another of my former teachers, the poet Kenneth Koch, had died recently, and in my purse was a remembrance of Koch that I had written for the journal Teachers & Writers. The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

In all these societies, as in many others, from the 1870s onwards, there was a fetishisation, first by poets and playwrights and painters and then by intellectuals and politicians, of the countryside itself. Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers 2012-06-15T21:55:00Z

Another counter to Hardwick’s idea of the literary letter as an idealized self-portrait is her own wrenching correspondence with her husband of 23 years, the confessional poet Robert Lowell. What Do Letters Reveal About the Creative Mind? 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

The poet adds: "I've made it up or rather I've mistaken / my father's story for the thing itself: // the smell, the wormy skull, the policeman / tall, bright-buttoned, standing by the Aga." The Crumb Road by Maitreyabandhu – review 2013-07-05T17:30:00Z

“A new writer, if he’s a great poet like Hofmannsthal, walks among us like a demigod,” Stoppard has a character say. Drama, in German, in the Shadow of ‘Leopoldtstadt’ 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z

If these moments had been removed and the book distilled further, readers could have had an evocative glimpse into a daily life ripe with the poet’s curiosities. Three of Fiction’s Brightest Stars Have New Books — of Poetry 2021-02-09T05:00:00Z

For Murph, as Thomas Murphy is known, is an aging poet, now in his 70s, undergoing tests because of memory lapses and fearful that he has a shrinking brain. In Roger Rosenblatt’s ‘Thomas Murphy,’ a poet refuses to go quietly 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z

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

“It shows a much more political Ferlinghetti, a voice for the poets of dissent,” Mr. Weil said. ArtsBeat: Ferlinghetti Travel Journals to Be Published 2014-03-16T21:29:07Z

In the “Fast and Furious” series, driving is an existential truth: “Life’s simple,” one of its poets says in “Tokyo Drift.” One Indelible Scene: When a Woman Takes the Wheel in ‘Licorice Pizza’ 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z

As one of Kim's top state poets, Jang, 40, said he was responsible for glorifying the leader in the poetry he published in the official Workers' Party newspaper. Defected NKorea poet writes of hunger, desperation 2012-07-01T12:24:07Z

In the 19th century, the clown was something like a poet, walking the line between reality and fiction and imagining an alternative to the status quo. Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z

The poet's political passions were notorious and are still famous, but it was not these that made him a great poet. Anarchy in Peterloo: Shelley's poem unmasked 2013-07-08T17:28:22Z

You sense the books of many poets of Dove’s generation slipping to the back of the bookcase. In ‘Playlist for the Apocalypse,’ the Weight of American History and of Mortality 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

He writes, “That upsweeping electric hair is the poet’s helmet, his rooster comb.” Books of The Times: A Lifetime of Anxiety and Lust 2011-05-25T22:16:59Z

But the poets of old and even more recently were interested less in wine’s flavors than its effects. Why I use phrases like ‘tobacco leaf,’ ‘black fruit’ and ‘jammy’ to describe wine 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z

Yet that is what the Indian poet and Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore did with a town called Shantiniketan, or “Abode of Peace.” Footsteps: Where a Poet’s Vision Lives on in India 2013-02-01T18:07:13Z

For both general and specialist readers of this popular but confusingly prolific poet, the selection provides a welcome opportunity, to see him emerge in a clearer and slightly less familiar outline. Luminary by RS Thomas: Poem of the week 2013-06-17T11:37:44Z

Ben Lerner’s novels are told by men who, like Lerner, are poets and novelists. In ‘Optic Nerve,’ a Woman Trains a Sharp Eye on Art and Her Life 2019-04-18T04:00:00Z

In this strong and angry work of what he calls refugeography, Bao Phi, who has been a performance poet since 1991, wrestles with immigration, class and race in America at sidewalk level. Books of The Times: Poems by Bao Phi, Roberto Bola?o and Simon Armitage ? Review 2011-12-19T22:52:42Z

Even love is like a ghostly soldier who trudges beside the poet on that "last mile." Poem of the week: Poem by John Cornford 2010-10-25T09:06:00Z

The late Jim Harrison – one of America’s greatest novelists and poets – acquired an unwanted reputation as a “macho writer.” Toxic masculinity doesn’t just target women: The viciousness and vacuity of modern American manhood is also harmful to the self 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z

And the inanity of Instagram poets is wickedly lampooned with his description of an app called Locket, on which poets assemble vast virtual crowds to listen to and praise Solomon Wiese’s stolen verse. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

Yet he tends to neglect another key part of any poet’s development: the awakening of his or her political sensibility. A Fresh Look at How Poets Evolve Over the Course of a Career 2018-12-07T05:00:00Z

He was a regular doorman at The Echo and a poet who read at venues such as Stories Cafe. Local music fixture Sammy Winston dies while saving roommates in Echo Park fire 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z

As he wryly says, "the East-West border is always wandering", though Estonia is "not far from Thule", but his Selected Poems takes a different route from many poets writing under the old Soviet bloc. Selected Poems by Jaan Kaplinski ? review 2011-07-08T21:55:07Z

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

Schulman is an award-winning poet who writes in this memoir about caring for her ailing husband. New & Noteworthy 2018-08-14T04:00:00Z

This is a lovely, haunting book about the power of remembrance from a poet who left us too soon. The best in poetry: National Book Critics Circle Award finalists 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z

Working with a string quartet and a handful of M.C.s and poets, as well as his jazz combo, Mr. Akinmusire makes music in mid-blossom, often nearing resolution but never totally breaking through. Pop and Jazz Fall Preview: 70 Albums, Shows and Festivals 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z

Though he specializes in bureaucracies and quantification, or as he puts it “modern things shrouded in cloaks of boringness,” Bouk himself has a poet’s flair for wordplay. Counting the Population Has Always Been Political 2022-08-28T04:00:00Z

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

WARSAW, Feb 1 - Polish Nobel Prize winning poet Wislawa Szymborska, once described as the "Mozart of Poetry," died on Wednesday, after suffering from lung cancer. Polish Nobel winning poet Szymborska dies at 88 2012-02-01T23:09:00Z

If Villon is the prime example of the poet as criminal, then Robert Browning must be the model poet as crime writer. Poster poems: Crime 2013-01-18T09:00:04Z

By then, the poet had revolted against his father’s severe morality, yet he felt obligated to pay a debt of honor. An American Poet Shaped by the Futility and Sadism of War 2020-07-21T04:00:00Z

It is also an engaging primer on — of all things — Dante, the poet whom Luzzi, a professor of Italian at Bard College, relied on to help find his way through this thicket of loss. The perfect pick for a a booze-free book club and other top June memoirs 2015-06-23T04:00:00Z

Didn't you think reviewing an actual poet in verse might make your own effort look silly by comparison? From Franzen to Fieri, the five rules of the review as takedown 2012-11-28T17:36:00Z

I don’t know if you know him; he’s an old, old French poet—old, like, from the sixteenth century. Albertine Reparue: A French Bookshop in New York 2014-12-03T05:00:00Z

In “What Remains,” a presentation of Danspace Project and the French Institute Alliance Française as part of the Crossing the Line Festival, three artists — a poet, a choreographer and a filmmaker — join forces. 9 Dance Performances to See in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2018-09-20T04:00:00Z

Better yet, the text was written by one of the great poets of the 20th century. The First Fully Illustrated Selection of Pablo Neruda’s Question Poems 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z

As a rare books curator, I get to interact with first editions of novels I love, illustrated versions of my favorite poets’ works, and lavish editions of historical engravings. What we can learn from reading Sylvia Plath’s copy of "The Great Gatsby" 2018-12-15T05:00:00Z

Book-wise, the superfunding of libraries belongs near the top of any government’s to-do list because the better our public libraries, the better the poets, editors and novelists we’ll get a generation later. How to weather the Trump administration: Head to the library 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Had he not picked up a guitar, and put on the black glasses and porkpie hats, he might easily have been a poet, a Charles Simic or a Paul Muldoon. Review: Elvis Costello’s ‘Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink,’ a Memoir 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z

At one point in “Foley,” the poet hears two cats noisily going at it outside at 2 a.m. and we read: Review: Poetry by Lucia Perillo and Amit Majmudar 2016-03-29T04:00:00Z

He wouldn’t wish a poet’s soul on anyone, though: “They grieve for grace, they destroy their hearts with their own hands.” New Fiction About Family Members Gone Missing 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z

The poet Algernon Swinburne captures all of it in one of his greatest poems, and we love poetry in this magazine, so let us have a little part of it here, “A Swimmer’s Dream”: | Float, Memory 2014-05-06T13:00:33Z

The Bad Priest in V by Thomas Pynchon In war-torn Valletta, poet Fausto Maijstral first encounters the Bad Priest when he tries to persuade Fausto's lover to get rid of their child. Paul Murray's top 10 wicked clerics 2010-03-17T15:38:00Z

Harris won her last two Tonys for playing historical figures - Mary Todd Lincoln in "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln" and poet Emily Dickinson in "The Belle of Amherst" by William Luce. Julie Harris, Broadway star, dies at 87 2013-08-25T00:38:31Z

Aiken, the 1969 recipient of the National Medal for Literature, was best known as a poet. Is it time to rediscover Conrad Aiken? 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Scottish poet Kathleen Jamie won the poetry prize for her collection "The Overhaul," and writer/illustrator and dyslexia campaigner Sally Gardner claimed the Costa Children's Book Award for "Maggot Moon." Mantel's history novel picks up another major award 2013-01-29T21:07:23Z

We made a beeline for the venerable bar Li Po Cocktail Lounge, named after a hard-living Chinese poet. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Yet his portraits were profoundly revealing: the knowing eyes of the poet Anna de Noailles, the glazed stare of the perennially pickled Sinclair Lewis, the burly forcefulness of a young Alexander Calder. What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in June 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z

The 45-year-old writer was in a car in a parking lot when he was shot by an assailant who fled on a motorcycle; the poet and activist died at a hospital. PEN condemns slaying of Thai poet Mainueng K. Kunthee 2014-06-11T04:00:00Z

For a second year, the Olympic Peninsula’s North Olympic Library System is teaming with Olympic National Park to offer Poetry Walks, displaying the works of famous poets alongside four trails in the park. Take a Poetry Walk in Olympic National Park 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

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

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

Graves was rejected, reveals Schueler, because even though he had written several historical novels, he was still primarily seen as a poet. Swedish Academy reopens controversy surrounding Steinbeck's Nobel prize 2013-01-03T15:43:46Z

What inspired me to write poems was the example of Tang and Song Chinese poets and the way they brought nature in. By the Book: Gary Snyder 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

O’Connor’s poet may be withdrawn from the world at large, but she is intensely engaged in her writing and her small circle of acquaintances. ‘Miss Emily,’ by Nuala O’Connor: a fictional look at the Belle of Amherst 2015-07-14T04:00:00Z

In 1953, 16 and in love with the idea of being a poet, Giorno takes the train into the city to see a production of Dylan Thomas’s “Under Milk Wood.” Three New Memoirs Offer a Glimpse Into the Writer’s Mind 2020-08-07T04:00:00Z

She’s been a vital concern of poets and readers ever since, a poet of tragic promise, almost certainly launched on a major career. The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

A fragmentary, aphoristic examination of night in all its illuminating darkness from a Lebanese-American poet who is also an admired visual artist. The Best Poetry of 2016 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

He transformed from this beatnik poet into a kind of political clown, and somehow he avoided the co-optation of all these 1960s ideals. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Debating Pot in America 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z

In the 1970s, as editor of Z Press and its annual Z Magazine, Mr. Elmslie published many of the poets he admired. Kenward Elmslie, Poet and Librettist, Dies at 93 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z

"With a poet's deep appreciation for language, Reynolds Price taught generations of students to understand and love literature," said Duke President Richard H. Brodhead. Reynolds Price, author and Duke professor, dies 2011-01-21T11:53:09Z

Greenwell’s narrator is a poet of self-abasement, keenly attuned to the notion of size, of taking up too much space, and its centrality to queer experience. Gay Literature Is Out of the Closet. So Why Is Deception a Big Theme? 2020-04-26T04:00:00Z

Her editors and advisers lean heavily toward Princeton connections, sprinkled with writers, poets, a MacArthur “genius” grant recipient and two women more frequently photographed than written about. Uzoamaka Maduka Leaves a Paper Trail With the American Reader 2013-01-02T22:14:17Z

The Smithsonian Institution senior cultural history curator is a published poet who holds a 1989 patent for design of a "modular space vehicle for deep space applications." How a Smithsonian researcher reinterpreted Rumpelstiltskin for the #MeToo era 2020-03-06T05:00:00Z

He went outside the law school to find an adviser, William Alfred, a Harvard English literature professor who was also a poet and playwright. John Jay Osborn Jr., Author of ‘The Paper Chase,’ Dies at 77 2022-10-27T04:00:00Z

But as in the original version, the stage floor is heaped with dirt, and Mr. Kelly’s poet kneels in it, caresses it, gets filthy in it. Review: John Kelly Revives ‘Love of a Poet’ 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z

And finally, there's the work of such theatrical poets as Samuel Beckett and Sarah Kane; possibly two of the most influential dramatists of the last half-century. Poetry in Motion: why poetic drama has something new to say 2011-03-02T13:10:18Z

Lin, 25, is a muscular poet of the keyboard. Pianist Steven Lin sets bar high for Washington Performing Arts’ new season

Ryan has all of a critic’s skills, but this isn’t a critic’s book; it’s a poet’s book about poetry. 12 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z

He said he felt “stifled” in his art studies and by graduate school had decided he was better suited for writing, with Philip Larkin and Thomas Hardy among the poets he was reading. Mark Strand, acclaimed bard of absence and loss, dies at 80

Those are the things I am working at, as a poet and as a human. Why Poets Can Make Better Search Engines 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z

The libretto, by the poets Anne Carson and Claudia Rankine, is inspired by interviews with people around New York who were asked: What does 7 p.m. mean to you? A ‘Mile-Long Opera’ Is Coming to the High Line 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z

The poetry of Whitman, and the leadership of King and Jackson offer insight into the distinction that the British poet and pamphleteer, Samuel Johnson, made in his essay on patriotism. How Bruce Springsteen – and the left – can reclaim and cultivate a vocabulary of patriotism 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z

The French poet Arthur Rimbaud said that no one is serious at 17, but Mr. Assayas disagrees. Movie Review: ‘Something in the Air,’ directed by Olivier Assayas 2013-05-02T23:51:05Z

“I hear America singing,” the Brooklyn poet Walt Whitman once wrote. Perspective | The nightly ovation for hospital workers may be New York’s greatest performance 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z

In July 1822, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley went down in a storm off the Italian coast. Lynn Shepherd's top 10 fictional drownings 2013-03-06T10:30:18Z

He and his wife lived in a Greenwich Village loft formerly occupied by the poet Allen Ginsberg, whom Mr. Becker met through a childhood friend, Lucien Carr, a member of Ginsberg’s Beat Generation circle. William Becker, Who Transformed Janus Films, Dies at 88 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z

So there is something fitting in the director of "Bad Lieutenant" making a film on the Italian filmmaker, poet, journalist and cultural critic Pier Paolo Pasolini – from one provocateur to another. TIFF 2014: Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe revive 'Pasolini' 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z

The poet may have been served better writing a little less. In Chile, Where Pablo Neruda Lived and Loved 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

After the poet's death, Valerie spent almost four decades as guardian of his literary legacy. AP Exclusive: Art owned by TS Eliot's wife on sale 2013-05-31T01:02:08Z

Often overlooked as a poet now, Stephen Spender wrote over a million words of journal entries. Books of the year 2012: authors choose their favourites 2012-11-23T22:55:14Z

Is she the love poet famous for “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”? The chronicler of the Italian Risorgimento for staid British readers? The Victorian Poet Who Sought to Capture Everyday Life in Her Verse 2021-08-17T04:00:00Z

Her mother, who had not been educated past grade school, was an accomplished poet, writing in private until the day she was offered the chance to collect her work in a book. 2010-02-17T05:56:00Z

Unlike most contemporary poets, who write in compressed phrases and short lines, Mr Walcott’s work is voluminous. Beach bard 2014-04-24T04:00:00Z

Graham Greene called her “the poet of apprehension.” Patricia Highsmith Lived Extravagantly, and Took Copious Notes 2021-11-08T05:00:00Z

The public library’s exhibition surveys the landmarks of the poet’s public career, drawing in large part from its rich holdings. 33 Art Exhibitions to View in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z

In “my president,” the poet hovers over the city, all-seeing, all-praising: “i sing your names / sing your names / your names / my mighty anthem.” ‘Homie,’ a Book of Poems That Produces Shocking New Vibrations 2020-01-07T05:00:00Z

With a chuckle, Sánchez points out that poets don’t make a lot of money. Seattle poet Raul Sanchez lends his words to a unique music project 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

He also has the body of a Greek god and the soul of a poet. Theater Review: ‘Bridges of Madison County’ Brings Iowa to Broadway 2014-02-21T03:00:02Z

So I noticed that the very first author Mark Morris mentioned was the poet Anne Carson. In Praise of Omnivorous Readers 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z

They offered to take him to meet Gurudeb, as the poet was now known to his followers, at his nearby ashram, Santiniketan, “the abode of peace.” The Second Man in the Front Row: A Forgotten Story of the First World War 2018-11-10T05:00:00Z

Jack Haines was a poet and solicitor living nearby in 1914 and was one of the few people who witnessed the transition at first hand. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

In 1816, the celebrated poet, London’s Lord Byron, challenged his houseguests to write a ghost story. For Years, a Literary Villain Made Joe Ide Wary of Nurses 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z

This kind of success sometimes prompts poets to produce increasingly wan imitations of the work that won the big award. Review | Yusef Komunyakaa again brings his distinctive music to the page 2021-06-28T04:00:00Z

The poet Jenny Xie was exploring the library stacks at the Shanghai campus of N.Y.U., where she was on a fellowship, when a book with a bright red cover caught her eye. Jenny Xie Explores the Subversive Power of the Concealed and the Overlooked 2022-09-19T04:00:00Z

Besides training thousands of students in classical dance over the course of her decades-long career, she was also a writer, poet and environmentalist. Famed Indian Dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai Dies at 97 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. Will this be the Downfall of remix culture? Don't bet on it 2010-04-29T11:13:00Z

Athletes, musicians, actors, poets — they were all in the same video, all paying homage to the greatest performer of all time. Damson Idris Was Raised on ‘Def Comedy Jam’ and Bagel King 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z

Already an enthusiastic tyro poet, he had a poem published in Poetry Society's youth journal. David Harsent: A life in writing 2011-02-21T08:00:00Z

Yet for them, and for Irons too, the poet appears one of us, which is to say that in all these recordings Eliot becomes more English than I think he really was. Jeremy Irons Breathes New Life Into ‘The Poems of T.S. Eliot’ 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z

That poem mentions his friendship with the poet Jack Gilbert, another Pittsburgh native; they used to read their poems to small gatherings at a restaurant in the Webster Hall Hotel, across from the Pitt campus. Gerald Stern, Poet of Wistfulness, Anger and Humor, Dies at 97 2022-10-29T04:00:00Z

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

The Mom Egg, a literary journal that highlights writers who happen to be mothers, presents a group that includes the free-jazz poet Eve Packer. Weekend Miser: New York City Poetry Festival on Governors Island 2012-07-19T19:58:22Z

As he does in his podcast of the same name, Rocca here offers whimsical capsule biographies celebrating departed people and things, from poets to sports teams. New & Noteworthy, From Mo Rocca to George Wallace 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

In a comment quoted on the book's back-jacket, Williams explained his opposition to the title "religious poet," and said that he preferred "to be a poet for whom religious things mattered intensely." Poem of the week: Rublev by Rowan Williams 2011-07-18T11:01:24Z

And it’s a multimedia affair, with a reading by the esteemed poet Fred Moten; dance performances; and film screenings on the Black Panther Party and the musician Cooper-Moore, who is this year’s honoree. Pop, Rock and Jazz in NYC This Week 2017-05-25T04:00:00Z

He recommended that Mr. McBurney read Hardy’s book “A Mathematician’s Apology,” which compared the creative work of the mathematical proof to that of a painter or a poet. Simon McBurney Discusses His ?Disappearing Number? 2010-07-02T08:19:00Z

It’s rich with detail about Mr. McCartney’s philanthropy, his knighthood, his taste in country homes, his dabbling as a painter, a poet and a composer of classical music. Review: Paul McCartney’s Yesterdays. All of Them. 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

In Mr. Acconci’s case, the work grew out of an experience as an aspiring poet and fiction writer whose fascination with the physical space of the page eventually led out into the world. Vito Acconci, an Artist as Influential as He Is Eccentric 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

April is the cruelest month, the poet wrote, but not so for Seattle theatergoers this season. New on Seattle stages: Kafka, a poignant Passover, a statement made without clothes 2013-03-28T22:04:00Z

Scott deigns to mention only one similar poet, James Hogg, the "Ettrick Shepherd", who was a friend, a source for ballads and a rival. Burns is not the only bard 2013-01-25T12:40:39Z

After running the tables, cross the street to the hip cafe Blendend, where you can join a crowd of designers, poets and playwrights arguing about obscure aesthetic principles until the very, very late hours. 36 Hours in Graz, Austria 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

He was poet laureate of the United States. Mark Strand, a revelatory poet of love and death 2014-11-30T05:00:00Z

So, when the poet had the idea for a collaboration between the two, she and a team of writers and musicians brainstormed themes that were contemporary and gritty enough to spark interest. Seattle artists imagine the apocalypse, set to music and poetry 2012-03-28T19:56:08Z

Blake, a poet and printmaker who went largely unrecognized before his death in 1827, is now considered a leading figure of the Romantic age for his writings, drawings and engravings. ArtsBeat: Hundreds of Lost William Blake Engravings Discovered 2013-01-22T13:45:07Z

Eliot was one of the most important poets of the 20th century, a giant of modern literature whose haunting verse has fascinated generations of high school students and poetry lovers across the English-speaking world. The Love Letters of T.S. Eliot: New Clues Into His Most Mysterious Relationship 2020-01-04T05:00:00Z

As if being a gifted composer, pianist and conductor were not enough, the young Matthew Aucoin is also a poet. Review: Paul Appleby Performs ‘Merrill Songs’ 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z

They are only part of what she is as a poet. Books of The Times: Louise Glück: ‘Poems 1962-2012’ 2012-11-08T22:39:48Z

It was my second published book, but the one I first began writing as a teen-ager, soon after I’d read both the Evans anthology and the essay about kitchen poets. The Ancestral Blessings of Toni Morrison and Paule Marshall 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z

The poet is happy only while writing the poem. Notes From the Book Review Archives 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z

A poet reflects on race in a divided nation. Review | Marriage, feminism, politics, love: The best new poetry explores our passions 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

His movie roles have included Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in "Kill Your Darlings" and a bereaved man who mysteriously grows devilish horns in "Horns," by French horror auteur Alexandre Aja. Critics hail Daniel Radcliffe's latest stage turn 2013-06-19T13:18:09Z

When Henry has a breakdown, he asks his mother “to sing him a protest hymn by James Russell Lowell, the 19th-century New England poet, critic and anti-slavery advocate.” Books of The Times: Phantoms of the Mind, No Longer Shocking But No Less Haunting 2011-02-01T21:45:58Z

Ms. Wright’s survivors include her husband, the poet Forrest Gander, with whom she ran Lost Roads Press, a publisher of poetry and fiction, for many years; their son, Brecht; and a brother, Warren Wright. C. D. Wright, Poet of Ozarks and Beyond, Dies at 67 2016-01-16T05:00:00Z

The ambitious project will see 66 playwrights, poets, novelists and songwriters responding to each of the 66 books in the King James Bible. Bush names new artistic director 2011-07-07T13:33:44Z

Feb. 8: Round 69 — Musicians, slam poets, live painters and more, 8 p.m. Dance, music, art and more mix it up at Fremont Abbey Arts Center in Seattle 2011-01-24T17:32:04Z

“Shadow of the Wind” was published in English in the United States in 2004, lushly translated by Lucia Graves, an author who is the daughter of famed English poet Robert Graves. The bestselling literary sensation you may struggle to name 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

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

In addition to being an expert on obscure Roman poets, Tessa is also a formidable scholar of the Daphne and Apollo myth. Review | ‘The Latinist’ is the perfect suspense novel to kick off your reading year 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z

Then, when I was in college, I fell for an older, thoughtful poet. How to Escape the Friend Zone 2015-01-17T05:00:00Z

He devoured it, decided that "to be a poet was freedom itself" and went on to become his nation's preeminent living bard, a singer of democracy and reunification with North Korea. 2010-02-17T14:05:00Z

Square that ring, poet; brother, raise your hands. 'Play up! play up!' 2010-07-09T23:05:00Z

Vuong also likes O’Hara and the other New York School poets for their frank sex talk. How a Poet Named Ocean Means to Fix the English Language 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Heaney, who was born in Northern Ireland but moved to Dublin in his later years, is recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. Seamus Heaney, Acclaimed Irish Poet, Dies at 74 2013-08-30T11:50:38Z

The outward drama the poet responds to mirrors the interior one he struggles with all his life. ArtsBeat: The Poetry of Catastrophe 2011-03-18T19:09:01Z

In July 1943 Francis Poulenc set eight of the Resistance poet Paul Éluard’s texts to music for “Figure Humaine,” a cantata for double chorus a cappella that is fiendishly difficult to perform. Unlocking the Mystery of Honegger 2010-08-29T02:30:00Z

He moved to the Bay Area and joined the Beat ferment, often teaming up with a cadre of poets who were active in the Mission District of San Francisco. Juan Felipe Herrera of California to Be Next Poet Laureate 2015-06-10T04:00:00Z

A simple, “It’s a bad word. Musicians, artists, poets, writers and many other people use it to express themselves. We don’t say it too often in our family.” When your 5-year-old asks about the F-word 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

Singh-Chitnis called the poets up to read their work in between award presentations; all were inspired by nominated or winning films. Poetry calls out from the screen at Silent River Film Fest 2014-10-29T04:00:00Z

Instead, she appeared onstage with two of that year’s finalists, the poets Audre Lorde and Alice Walker; the three of them accepted the award on behalf of all women. Adrienne Rich, 1929-2012: Adrienne Rich, Feminist Poet and Author, Dies at 82 2012-03-28T23:54:57Z

If I favor one of my biographical subjects it should probably be Thomas Hardy, great and long-lived poet and novelist of English country life. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

“The proud witch undone before the hero’s sword, kneeling and begging for mercy. Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets.” Analysis | Women, once relegated to supporting roles, are becoming the protagonists of their own stories 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Annabella did not necessarily fare better as the poet’s widow than she had as his wife. Mad, Bad and Dangerous: The Legacy Left to Byron’s Wife and Daughter 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Since then, he was published more than 20 books as a poet, essayist, editor, and translator. Poet Martín Espada: "The imagination is absolutely critical to political activism" 2021-03-31T04:00:00Z

Cyrano — we are told by his gossipy friends and admirers — is a mythic hero, a “rare being” who’s a poet, duelist, soldier and gourmet par excellence. Theater Review: ‘Cyrano de Bergerac,’ With Douglas Hodge 2012-10-12T02:00:00Z

Hemingway wasn’t the only writer drawn to the island, prompting the poet Wallace Stevens to state in the 1930s, “Key West, unfortunately, is becoming rather literary and artistic.” 36 Hours in Key West, Fla. 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

O'Rourke is an award-winning poet, but here she keeps lyricism in its place: death, after all, is at once extraordinary and horribly mundane. The Long Goodbye: A Memoir of Grief by Meghan O'Rourke ? review 2011-08-12T11:15:01Z

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

I'm in the latter camp on this issue and am sorry to say it looks as if the poets will be staying when Coles takes over on 9 April. Radio head: Saturday Live 2011-03-23T08:00:08Z

But over the past decade, her work has enjoyed a revival among contemporary Japanese poets, and it has begun to appear in English. The Startling Poetry of a Nearly Forgotten Japanese Modernist 2015-08-18T04:00:00Z

The highlight of David Walliams's tribute to Larkin was hearing the archive recording of the poet reading his homage to the traditional New Orleans sound that he favoured. Rewind radio: Jamie Cullum Interviews Dave Brubeck; Brubeck at 90; David Walliams on Philip Larkin; Decoding Basquiat; Ernest John Moraen 2010-12-05T00:05:00Z

I suppose it's a toss-up as to which of these poets was less wrong. Poster poems: Easter 2010-03-26T10:58:00Z

Most likely, there will be another saint or poet who will inspire a 3,000-word post that will become another book in his search for enlightenment. Rod Dreher is the combative, oversharing blogger who speaks for today’s beleaguered Christians 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

If I tend not to regard Ammons as a nature poet, it’s because I prefer him when he is talking about other things. Adding Up a Prolific Poet’s Charming Weather Reports 2017-12-11T05:00:00Z

The coterie was “the most brilliant and romantic circle of poets, writers and personalities which Switzerland — and Europe — has ever seen,” wrote the historian Elma Dangerfield in “Byron and the Romantics in Switzerland, 1816.” Lake Geneva as Shelley and Byron Knew It 2011-05-27T19:00:27Z

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

She eventually finished college at the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, where she took a poetry class with Mr. Berkson, who introduced her to prominent poets like Mr. Ashbery and Frank O’Hara. Bernadette Mayer, Poet Who Celebrated the Ordinary, Dies at 77 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z

The movement is mainly negligible; Mr. Kosoko, who is also a poet, seems to be mainly compelled by words. Dance Review | Kosoko Performance Group: Dancers Compelled by Words of a Poet 2010-02-19T23:16:00Z

Every moment is infused with what the poet Hart Crane called “infinite consanguinity,” the mysterious bond that links us with one another and that only an alert and sensitive artistic imagination can make visible. ‘Moonlight’: Is This the Year’s Best Movie? 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z

It is "unique", said head of miniature portraits Jennifer Tonkin, as the pictures of the poet which do exist "rarely show him looking directly at the viewer". Rare John Keats portrait comes to auction 2013-04-10T12:50:14Z

I want to listen to poets instead of pollsters. Viet Thanh Nguyen on the Democrats' failure and our future 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

In her essay collection “Upstream,” the poet Mary Oliver observed that “Writing is neither vibrant life nor docile artifact but a text that would put all its money on the hope of suggestion.” Amos Oz and the Politics of the Hebrew Language 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z

The first poet to read at one was Robert Frost. At the Inauguration, Amanda Gorman Wove History and the Future Into a Stirring Melody 2021-01-21T05:00:00Z

Poet and novelist Caoilinn Hughes wrote in Granta last year that “when poets turn their hands to prose, those hands might well belong to Midas.” Review | A violent police raid leads to a casualty — and a meditation on racism in America 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Myles’s new poems are transformations, and perhaps a culmination of the poet’s previous inquiries into love, gender, poetry, America and its politics. From an Iconoclast and an Icon, Poems of Personal and Public Transformation 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z

Other poets also read poems onstage before the concert began, but he was one of the few to appear in the film, he told me, because he spoke into the correct microphone. Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Enduring San Francisco 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z

Another technique he favored was to include fragments from other texts in his poems, even other poets’ work, a device he called approximation. José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican Author, Dies at 74 2014-01-28T04:40:46Z

For one thing, Paz was “the most impressive, deep and original poet and thinker writing in Spanish in the 20th century, and one of the most influential creators in the world,” Ruy-Sánchez observed via e-mail. D.C. exhibit showcases artwork inspired by writings of Octavio Paz

“Protecting organizations that exist to support writers is essential work,” the poet and Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander said in a statement. Arts organizations establish ‘Literary Arts Emergency Fund’ 2020-07-17T04:00:00Z

Historians argue about whether or not it was a wardrobe staple of the poet. Cynthia Nixon’s “Emily Thing” 2017-04-15T04:00:00Z

One is reminded of the reflective serenity of the Quaker poet Basil Bunting, whose work Briggflatts was a key influence on Hugonin's thinking. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-08T23:07:00Z

But when she is invited to present her work at a poetry festival in Shiraz, Iran, she meets poets who expand her ideas about the art form and about herself. Review: ‘Window Horses’ Animates a Young Poet’s Self-Discovery 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

Housman is a poet who often seems to be on the verge of saying the conventional poetic thing, and then, in a flash, turns it in a new direction. Poem of the week: When summer's end is nighing by AE Housman 2011-08-15T08:46:43Z

At the time, I thought this was because Ethan was a warrior poet. Why I went back to my ex-boyfriends, one by one 2016-02-12T05:00:00Z

“I’m not sure. But I think in some sense that’s what poets do. They write their poems to ward off dying.” Harold Bloom, a Prolific Giant and Perhaps the Last of a Kind 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Declaring that the poet must become a “seer” through a “derangement of all the senses,” he reinvents poetry’s mission while advancing free verse, raw diction and phantasmagoric imagery. Books of The Times: The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom? 2011-08-23T20:39:20Z

The poet and novelist Jackie Kay turned memoirist last year with her book Red Dust Road, an account of her search for her birth parents: a white Scottish woman, and a Nigerian man. Edinburgh book festival podcast: Jackie Kay and Sebastian Barry 2011-08-15T10:02:00Z

Hiram College is home to the Lindsay-Crane Center for Writing and Literature, which is named for two poets, Vachel Lindsay and Hart Crane. Grammar and Punctuation in Hiram, Ohio 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

Literarily, she starred as poet Emily Dickinson in the 2016 film “A Quiet Passion.” Exclusive: National Book Awards to be livestreamed by Facebook Live 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Though he never produced a translation himself, I think he would have recognized his Homer — a poet “eminently rapid…, eminently plain and direct” — in Wilson’s. A Version of Homer That Dares to Match Him Line for Line 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z

For a general atmosphere of irresponsibility, endless beautiful language, startling images, freedom of thought and imaginative flight, how about the poets, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Rimbaud? Deborah Levy Would Like to Drink With Virginia Woolf 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z

Written in 1603, Othello is one of Shakespeare's tragedies based on an Italian story A Moorish Captain by the poet Cinthio. Playing the Moor 2011-06-30T07:46:27Z

In the opening scene among the instructors, one, a poet named Genevieve, introduces a subtle point. Review: ‘Office Hour’ Is the Play That Goes Bang 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

She is ambitious and focused, securing a job teaching at the local university, while he remains stalled on a monograph about an obscure poet. 'The Hundred-Year House' a juicy, gothic tale of art and love 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z

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

Most ambitious of all, she’s become a producer, striving to adapt “The Bell Jar,” the autobiographical novel by the poet Sylvia Plath, into a feature film. ?Dexter? and ?Persephone? in Julia Stiles?s Second Phase 2010-07-18T03:12:00Z

Jackson called his wife, poet Didi Jackson, into the study and explained his idea. Using haiku, more than 200 poets pay tribute to Obama 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

She befriended poets like Ginsberg, serving as what she called their devoted and decidedly square “handmaiden,” helping them manage their correspondence and readings schedules. Elsa Dorfman, Who Made Art With Giant Polaroids, Dies at 83 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z

The film also evokes the poet Philip Larkin’s line, “Man hands on misery to man,” particularly with respect to Leo’s relationship with his daughter. ‘The Roads Not Taken’ Review: Alternate Lives, All of Them Hellish 2020-03-12T04:00:00Z

Instead, the novel, about a young poet who travels to Vienna with her husband and attempts to live out her fantasies by having an affair, became a blockbuster and cultural touchstone. Erica Jong’s ‘Fear of Dying’ Defies the Sunset of Sex 2015-09-07T04:00:00Z

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

I had told my boyfriend, Greg — for the fifth time in seven years — that I love him, and had said “I hugely admire you” to a poet friend beset by his obscurity. You?re O.K., but I?m Not. Let?s Share. 2010-12-01T08:10:00Z

He would not say, on the record, which famous poets he considers overrated, which seemed to me needless cowardice. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z

Poems about living through grief from the award-winning poet and novelist. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-04-12T04:00:00Z

Introspective, with eclectic interests, he counted among his friends the poet Donald Hall and the director Ron Howard. ‘No No: A Dockumentary’ Looks at Dock Ellis 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z

Johnson was an avant-garde polymath: novelist, poet, playwright, critic, filmmaker and football reporter. Summer Readings: Like a Fiery Elephant by Jonathan Coe 2011-07-30T09:00:01Z

Death is the moment when all eyes are upon the poet for the last time; beyond, for most harmless drudges, lies the abyss. Leonard Cohen’s Posthumous Collection of Poems, Lyrics and Sketches 2019-01-02T05:00:00Z

Cheever’s wife, the poet, artist, and teacher Mary Cheever, continued to live in the house for the next thirty-two years. Closing the Book on Cheever’s House 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

A poem for the mystic and the poet. Over time, the L.A. Times saw Conrad Aiken as brilliant, misunderstood and dishonest 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

The Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award-winning poet and author of "Time and Materials" is the next attraction on a bang-up Seattle Arts and Lectures season. The week ahead: 'Hamlet,' singer-songwriter Sufjan Stevens and poet Robert Hass 2010-10-20T23:58:00Z

Heated words continued to be had, with the adversaries goading each other before then finally parting, the poets talking heatedly of the incident as they walked. Edward Thomas, Robert Frost and the road to war 2011-07-29T21:57:01Z

Langston Hughes, for me, was always the poet of the people. On Being Seen: An Interview with Claudia Rankine from Ferguson 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

“We are sometimes as important as priests or poets, but until we dedicate ourselves to worthier goals … we are poets of emptiness,” the mission statement proclaims. The Towering Narcissism of Jerry Maguire 2016-04-30T04:00:00Z

He was an academic classicist, a poet and a didactic aesthete. Review | Surprising influences on Oscar Wilde’s greatest works 2018-07-31T04:00:00Z

The poet R. Dwayne Betts is somebody who’s addressing race, but also addressing, specifically, the fate of black men in contemporary America, and he’s a fantastic poet and a beautiful writer. On Being Seen: An Interview with Claudia Rankine from Ferguson 2014-08-22T04:00:00Z

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

Her eloping with the married poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, who would become her husband, and holing up with Byron in the Swiss commune where her novel was spawned, was scandalous in its day. TV listings and previews: plan your week's viewing - 29 October - 2 November 2012-10-29T08:00:00Z

The presentation of “To Have and Have Another” is alphabetical, and so the book opens with absinthe, that notorious, once-banned refreshment of minor decadent poets, often known as La Fée Verte, the Green Fairy. ‘To Have and Have Another’: Ring in your new year as Hemingway might 2015-12-30T05:00:00Z

Read it or, better still, listen to the poet’s unforgettable recording. Review | A reading list just right for Christmas 2020: A little Dickens, a little Wilde, a little Donald Duck 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

Williams is however introducing a new programme for aspiring poets which will in part be modelled on the 63-year-old horticultural panel programme Gardeners' Question Time. Radio 4 chief vows greater 'internationalism' 2011-01-24T07:27:24Z

“I’d rather learn from one bird to sing than teach 10,000 stars how not to dance,” Mr. Adams once wrote, quoting the poet E. E. Cummings in a note about his early “songbirdsongs.” Review: ‘Canticles of the Holy Wind’ Summons the Elements at the Met 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z

A literary critic, professor, and poet, Liu Xiaobo had been an unwavering voice against the authoritarianism of the Chinese Communist Party for more than two decades. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Free to the public, the celebration will include screenings of award-winning films, talks by the young writers and artists at Parsons, art workshops, a poets’ panel discussion and student open-mike readings at Pratt. Spare Times for Children Listings for June 3-9 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

Ted Hughes was an elemental poet of myth and nature, his verse easy to parody. Review: ‘Ted Hughes: The Unauthorised Life’: Cursed by Beauty 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z

The movie is about a poet/bus driver named Paterson, played by Adam Driver, who is inspired by the falls. In Undiscovered Paterson, Falls, Food and Fetty Wap 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Alexander is best known as the poet who composed and read “Praise Song for the Day” at President Obama’s first inauguration. Poet Elizabeth Alexander’s memoir of love, loss, art and glorious food 2015-04-29T04:00:00Z

The desire for sensuous hedonism is expressed with a touch of defiance, but the poet knows that this is not the whole answer. Poem of the week: Two in the Campagna by Robert Browning 2010-07-26T09:44:00Z

Donald Hall, who died on June 23 at 89, was not a particularly nimble poet. A Poet Laureate Sends News From the End of Life 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

She is also a prolific poet and short story writer, and the author of eight children's books. Atwood novel due out in September 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z

I am still beckoned by playwrights who in their hearts are poets. Five Poets That Yusef Komunyakaa Returns to Again and Again 2021-01-28T05:00:00Z

Poetry, he wrote, was a dark battleground where poets deliberately “misread” those who came before them and repress their debt to them. Harold Bloom, Critic Who Championed Western Canon, Dies at 89 2019-10-14T04:00:00Z

The highlights include: , who lived in the city for 30 years and found fame as a poet while working as a librarian at the University of Hull. A beginner's guide to culture in Hull 2013-11-20T16:20:25Z

But a line from another Cambridge poet seems to me more apt as a final pronouncement on “The Maidens.” Review | ‘The Silent Patient’ was a huge hit. Next we have ‘The Maidens.’ Don’t believe the hype. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

Failure to know about such contingencies as the role Plath’s gas supply played in her death, Gladwell writes, “leads us to misunderstand some of our greatest poets.” Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice When ‘Talking to Strangers’: Be Careful 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

She was a writer, poet and painter from Lapland. From Doodling on Napkins to Acres of Art 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

The poet Sonia Sanchez once called Toni Morrison — who discovered Jones’s talent and became her editor in the 1970s — “a blessed one.” After 22 Years, Gayl Jones Returns 2021-09-14T04:00:00Z

Graham’s work has more of life and of the world than that of almost any other poet now writing. 100 Notable Books of 2015 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

You might look for other poets, join a group, or even start your own. Hannah Lowe's top poetry writing tips 2013-07-24T11:25:48Z

But Mekas, a filmmaker, poet, philosopher, evangelist and one of life’s tireless adventurers, died Wednesday at 96. Jonas Mekas: A Poet With a Movie Camera 2019-01-27T05:00:00Z

But another poet, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, did live and die here, and the house was owned by the writer JB Priestley, too. Constructive criticism: the week in architecture 2011-08-26T14:53:45Z

In need of cash — we’ll get to why she needs it in a minute — Elle Reid, a poet and sometime professor in her 70s, decides to sell some precious old books. Review: In ‘Grandma,’ Lily Tomlin Energizes an Intergenerational Road Trip 2015-08-19T04:00:00Z

"No ideas but in another thing," to bowdlerize the poet William Carlos Williams, who hovers in the conceptual background of Rios' marvelously materialized veil of tears. Object lessons at Torrance Art Museum's 'Another Thing Coming' 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z

Annual reading of Dante’s “Inferno” by poets and translators. In the Air: Flowers, Parades and Easter in New York 2010-03-25T20:42:00Z

It would be stronger, too, if there were more of a link between his grandfather and these war poets. Books of The Times: Poetry on His Mind, British Author Revisits His Grandfather?s War 2010-08-31T17:06:00Z

A biography of the poet that draws on a newly discovered cache of letters. What books to read in 2017: 26 titles to start the year 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Ward said he knew the show might spark an uproar; he half-expected a backlash over a full-frontal nude portrait of the poet Frank O’Hara. Wounded in Crossfire of a Capital Culture War 2011-03-30T11:57:54Z

The poet Frank O’Hara, who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, pops up all over this volume, in his own writing and in that of others. ‘Art in America 1945-1970,’ Edited by Jed Perl 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z

“I call the young people who grew up in the past 25 years the Trayvon Generation,” writes Alexander, a poet and scholar. 12 New Books Coming in April 2022-03-31T04:00:00Z

She was an emotionally shy and private person and so lacked Shange’s boldness, but that didn’t make her any less of a poet. Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z

But, she added, “almost all of these positions are not funded or are funded very modestly, while the poets serving in these roles are doing a lot of work.” Mellon Foundation Grants $4.5 Million to Academy of American Poets 2020-01-30T05:00:00Z

But it doesn't matter, really: there is so much here that is worthwhile about the intentions of poets, the way they work, that we find ourselves better equipped after all. Who is Ozymandias? And Other Puzzles in Poetry by John Fuller – review 2013-04-16T11:56:09Z

Few of her students are aware that she is not just their patient, quiet teacher — Choi is also a noted, award-winning poet. Don Mee Choi finds freedom in poetry 2011-12-18T03:31:05Z

The award, run by the nonprofit organization Poets & Writers, is “given annually to an American poet of exceptional talent who deserves wider recognition.” ArtsBeat: Claudia Rankine Wins $50,000 Poetry Prize 2014-04-21T21:21:45Z

“With some of the music I really contradicted the subject matter or the time that the poet wrote,” she said. From Natalie Merchant, a Literary Tour 2010-04-16T19:06:00Z

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

Writing about the Cubist painters in 1913 – another anniversary – the poet Guillaume Apollinaire suggested that they did not seek human measures of beauty at all, but the impossible beauty of the "infinite universe". Stravinsky and the modernism that still stirs 2013-01-03T07:30:01Z

Here, as in all renditions of the story, Rimbaud, the brilliant, sneering student from Ardennes hits Paris and turns things topsy-turvy among the Parnassian poets of the time. Books of The Times: The Prodigy Burned Out. Why Not Blame Mom? 2011-08-23T20:39:20Z

The world continues to mourn Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, writer, actress, director, civil rights icon, professor: a woman who inspired and touched millions with her poems — some of which were only 140 characters. Maya Angelou’s Twitter feed may be the best poem she ever wrote 2014-05-28T04:00:00Z

Hans Sachs, shoemaker and poet, ruminates on a trap he's just set for Beckmesser; and the orchestra circles, as if in a holding pattern, around a melody symbolising futile, manual work. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z

I have no need to argue that he's not a very important poet. Rick Gekoski: It takes judgment, not taste, to pick a Booker winner 2011-08-26T13:25:14Z

Generations of authors have lived out the poet's role that Wordsworth created, in life and poem, withdrawing from industrialized society and rejecting its materialist values. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

He’s a spoken-word poet just home after living in France, given to saying things like: “This chilled butter wreaks havoc on a croissant. You Americans and your mania for refrigeration.” Beyond ‘Hamilton,’ for Better and for Worse 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z

Seattle Poetry Slam Grand Slam: Competition for spots on a four-member team that will represent Seattle in the National Poetry Slam held in Boston in August, plus performances by guest poets. Daemond Arrindell returns poetry to the people 2013-04-05T01:39:16Z

Dr. Maya Angelou was best known as a poet, author and civil rights activist. Go Inside the Making of the First Documentary About Maya Angelou 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z

The complete poems of Andrew Marvell — and most of the metaphysical poets — and also Tennyson. Claire Tomalin’s Favorite Fictional Heroine? It ‘Must Be Natasha’ in ‘War and Peace’ 2021-11-11T05:00:00Z

In the half-light of Edinburgh's Scottish Poetry Library, some thought-provoking news arrived from a poet: Europe needs 674 million immigrants by 2050. Tom Pow's poetry keeps Dying Villages alive 2010-05-28T08:57:00Z

“History Keeps Me Awake at Night,” the Whitney Museum’s retrospective of the works of the artist, writer, and activist David Wojnarowicz, opens with a mask of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud. David Wojnarowicz’s Still-Burning Rage 2018-08-18T04:00:00Z

Blanco, a Cuban American poet, was asked to compose and write a poem for Obama’s second inauguration — a work called “One Today” that was an ode to the country’s diversity and unity. Do it for the country? Or don’t do it at all? The dilemma facing artists at Trump’s inauguration. 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z

To see poetry as a form validated on such a large scale was really exciting to me as a poet and as a fan of poetry. Maggie Smith on her memoir's unanswerable questions and feeling ambivalent about "Good Bones" 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z

Billboard 200 chart, has publicly credited poet Maya Angelou as her biggest inspiration. Fiona Apple: “Rings of Power” warrior woman 2022-10-22T04:00:00Z

Dad was an admirer of the anti-materialism exemplified by the Beat poets. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z

He has a distinguished career as a poet, critic, teacher, editor and translator. Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson 2013-02-18T11:19:21Z

It was an article by Mark O'Brien, a poet who lived in Berkeley in the 1970s, forced to spend most of his days in an iron lung – again, as the result of polio. Ben Lewin on The Sessions: 'You can reach women without brute force' 2013-01-03T19:00:00Z

Ms. Lasky said that she first became interested in astrology as a child, poring over the reclusive poet Linda Goodman’s best-selling 1980s books on the subject. How the Astro Poets Lit Up the Internet 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z

She grew up in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago, with a father who worked in real estate and a mother who was a poet. What Happens When a Weddings Influencer Gets Divorced? 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Meanwhile Sara nurses an unseen sick guest upstairs, a gentleman Yankee who is also afflicted with the touch of the poet, though more of the transcendentalist variety. Review: ‘Touch of the Poet’ is a Powerful Study in Toxic Pride 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

Yet what’s really special about this book is that it demonstrates what a melancholy baby this poet is, in all the best ways. Review: Charles Simic Displays a Poet’s Voice and His Passions 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

She was a poet, and explained to me that a poem isn’t possible if the writer isn’t open to the words in the ether. The wedding I almost ruined 2012-06-13T00:01:00Z

The poet Doireann Ni Ghriofa was also pregnant with her third child when she fell under its thrall, keeping a “scruffy photocopy” under her pillow. One Irish Poet Looks Back Three Centuries to Find Obsession and Inspiration in Another 2021-05-25T04:00:00Z

From his youth, Mr. Bolcom took Blake’s principle of contraries, as the poet called it, as an inspiration for his own work, which draws from music of very contrasting styles. Anthony Tommasini’s Interactive Quest for Surprises 2014-02-28T15:50:53Z

If you look at storytellers and poets, it’s about a taking stock and a gathering up of wherever you are. Dead Can Dance's Lisa Gerrard, the interview: 'It hurts, there is pain, there are blessings' 2012-08-16T04:25:00Z

Ms. Williams, 31, didn’t start as a poet. What if Shakespeare’s Dark Lady Told Their Love Story? What if It Were a Ballet? 2019-02-05T05:00:00Z

Like the other objects evoked, the toys have solidity, but, by emphasising their unhandled coldness, the poet flips them into mystery. Poem of the week: The Overcoat by Peter McDonald 2013-04-15T09:51:10Z

Tomas Tranströmer, a Swedish poet who received the Nobel Prize in literature in 2011 for a body of work that made him known as a “master of metaphor,” died March 26. Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet and Nobel laureate, dies at 83 2015-03-28T04:00:00Z

He’s intrigued by Meena’s past as a poet and even seeks out her book. Theater Review: Marin Hinkle in ?Rx,? by Kate Fodor, at 59E59 Theaters 2012-02-08T03:00:00Z

Seth Frank was named the most promising young poet for his poem “Black Mythology.” Former US poet laureate Rita Dove wins $100,000 prize 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

At the University of Tulsa, she studied with the Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who introduced her to Russian literature. Shining a Spotlight on the Art of Translation 2022-02-11T05:00:00Z

Ninety years after the publication of The Waste Land, he remains the lodestar poet for ambitious songwriters. I will show you Arcade Fire in a handful of dust: why pop music loves TS Eliot 2012-05-23T12:11:40Z

Last but never least is the jubilant retelling of Jesus' birth by poet Langston Hughes, "Black Nativity." A sleigh full of holiday shows 2011-11-24T23:56:38Z

That’s a cosmically sublime detail; no other poet slices with such accuracy and deadly intent. Louise Glück, a Nobel Winner Whose Poems Have Abundant Intellect and Deep Feeling 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

It was the first A.L.A. award for Mr. Alexander, a poet and novelist who has published 17 books. Kwame Alexander and Dan Santat Win Children's Book Prizes 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

“The collection of Dr. Angelou shows the natural affinity this great American poet, writer, thinker, and educator had with many visual artists,” says Nigel Freeman, director of African-American Art at Swann Auction Galleries. Shop the Art Collection of Maya Angelou 2015-08-31T04:00:00Z

The story of the peacock dinner is really about the forms literary professionalism took just before poets could learn their trade in schools, first from literature surveys and, much later, from writing workshops. When Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats Ate a Peacock 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

That's Joan Osborne, and she's got womanly lips to sing whatever she sets her heart to — blues, country, rock, R&B, even the words of poet Allen Ginsberg set to music. Joan Osborne will sing the blues (and country, rock and R&B) in Edmonds 2010-04-22T22:46:00Z

Unlike most other poets, Thomas' readings of his work were just as famous as  the work itself, and Hollander is magnificent. TV Picks: 'Grimm,' 'Death Comes to Pemberly,' 'A Poet in New York' 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z

The Kurdish poet Abdulla Pashew writes: “If a word / can’t become . . . winged bread / to fly from trench to trench, / then it might as well / become a brush to polish the invader’s boots.” Throwing Weight Into Sound: Kaveh Akbar on Poetry and Power 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z

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

He became a regular commentator on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” and, through Mr. Keillor’s recitations on “The Writer’s Almanac,” a kind of poet in residence of the public radio airwaves. David Budbill, a Poet of Small-Town Vermont, Dies at 76 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z

"He's just like a poet, he's just good." San Francisco to honor Tony Bennett with statue, festivities 2016-08-19T04:00:00Z

My father, Eric Trethewey, was a poet, and very early in my life he began reciting all kinds of poetry to me, especially the poems of Wordsworth, W. B. Yeats and Robert Hayden. Natasha Trethewey: By the Book 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z

As Franz got older, Wright found him easier to relate to, and even became a kind of mentor to the aspiring poet. An Ecstatic, Troubled Poet Comes to Life in a New Biography 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z

He took a particular interest in medieval English poet Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," from which one of the most famous characters was that of a knight. Terry Jones dies at 77 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z

Foreign films "Black Butterflies", a drama based on the life during apartheid of South African poet Ingrid Jonker, "Grey Matter" from Rwanda and "Cairo Exit" about a young woman's struggles in the Egyptian capital. Tribeca film festival turns ten 2011-04-17T12:32:32Z

It was a question of being a poet at the expense of being anything else, and that includes physical relationships, strong bonds with people. Big mouth strikes (once) again 2010-09-03T20:30:00Z

Yet that was the conclusion reached by her friend, the poet and critic Alfred Alvarez, in his 1971 book, “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide.” Malcolm Gladwell’s Advice When ‘Talking to Strangers’: Be Careful 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z

In her introduction to the excellent 1973 anthology “The Poetry of Black America,” Gwendolyn Brooks suggested that there were essentially two varieties of young black poets then extant. Books of The Times: ‘The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010’ 2012-10-11T16:46:12Z

Kapos, an American poet, though long settled in Britain, is proof, if any were needed, that gender does not dictate a poet's choice of mentor. Poem of the week: A Mind of Winter by Martha Kapos 2010-09-20T09:21:00Z

The maneuverings of poets and literary people, jostling for fame behind the keyhole of glimpsed conviviality, is as old as Rome, older even; but Pound had a special gift for P.R. When Ezra Pound and W.B. Yeats Ate a Peacock 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Musician, poet and photographer, Ms. Smith, 68, is remarkably attuned to the sound and sorcery of words, and her prose here is both lyrical and radiantly pictorial. Review: ‘M Train,’ Patti Smith on All the Roads She Has Taken 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

When it was published in 1711 it earned the young poet immediate acclaim. Poem of the week: An Essay on Criticism by Alexander Pope 2013-07-08T09:59:20Z

In the first dream-poem, "The Lilies", the poet looks down from a mountain road and sees some waterlily-like plants growing by a stream far below. Poem of the week: Time's Acquittal by Sara Coleridge 2011-01-10T10:49:35Z

He sings in a false British accent with a thin and earnest voice, and values an exact rhyme over fresh language, as if he wants to sound like a high-school poet. Critics? Choice: New Cds: The Droll, Buzzing Grandpas of Rap 2011-05-02T19:51:31Z

And in that he was indeed what his fellow villagers called him: a poet. An Unintentional Scottish Masterpiece 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z

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

Born Florence Anthony, the poet legally changed her name to Ai, which means love in Japanese, as a young woman. Ai, an Unflinching Poetic Channel of Hard Lives, Dies at 62 2010-03-28T02:20:00Z

But there were also personal artistic principles at stake for the poet. D. A. Powell’s Unruly Elegies 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z

Ms. Akdogan is a visual poet of the everyday, pursuing an attenuated found-object art whose primary materials are light, shadow and space. Art in Review: Rey Akdogan’s ‘Night Curtain’ at Miguel Abreu 2012-10-11T22:52:06Z

With the possible exception of Billy Collins, Ted Kooser must be the most accessible and enjoyable major poet in America. Poetry review: ‘Splitting an Order,’ by Ted Kooser

Mary and Percy Shelley were visiting Switzerland with fellow poet Lord George Byron when the latter proposed a contest: Who among them could write the best ghost story? Hopelessly romantic: ‘Frankenstein’ at Book-It 2014-02-07T21:39:52Z

He is the poet as everyman, using his eyes, his humour and his common sense; a natural lyricist with a direct line to the rhythmic vitality of our dear unfashionable old friend, the Common Muse. Poem of the week: School's Out by WH Davies 2010-03-29T10:09:00Z

“Vowels,” the poet Rimbaud wrote, “Someday I’ll explain your burgeoning births.” Where Have All the Vowels Gone? 2018-12-29T05:00:00Z

Nearly all of them, however, are written by literary scholars, poets or novelists. Review | Is Poe the most influential American writer? A new book offers evidence. 2021-06-02T04:00:00Z

In another way, this woman is a poet herself, and I think five-year-olds say incredible poetic things all the time. Maggie Gyllenhaal on playing “starving” women: “The way many women are feeling right now” 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

Music of Remembrance offers a free "rush hour" program saluting a Holocaust-era poet on Monday night. Music of Remembrance offers free program Monday night at Good Shepherd Center 2011-03-12T01:26:12Z

Here, Shakespeare accuses another poet of ruining his own work: "Was it his spirit, by spirits taught to write / Above a mortal pitch, that struck me dead?" Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

The subtle hexameter on that last line—one beat beyond the blank-verse norm—suggests the burden on the now established poet, above and beyond the standard of his art. How Seamus Heaney Became a Poet of Happiness 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

Among the first group of cowboy poets to attend the Gathering was a Montana rancher named Wallace McRae. My Cousin, the Cowboy Poet 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z

He ditched some teasing framing poems in the voice of the poet, virtually erased the presence of the miller girl herself and focused on the psychological disintegration of the boy. Ian Bostridge on Schubert’s Hidden Depths 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Planning to devote a further three years to polishing his Homeric magnum opus, the unfortunate poet instead fell mortally ill in 19 BCE and ordered his friends to destroy the manuscript. Virgil’s ‘The Aeneid’ still looks strikingly contemporary 2017-09-12T04:00:00Z

“Hugo wrote in every genre that was available to him at the time, but he really wanted be known as a poet.” What you need to know about Peter Balakian, the new Pulitzer Prize-winning poet 2016-04-19T04:00:00Z

In his new essay collection, “The Book of Delights,” the poet Ross Gay remembers sitting in a workshop taught by Derek Walcott. Review | Email and texting are terrible. There’s an easy solution: Write more letters by hand. 2019-02-12T05:00:00Z

Desperate to protect a historic structure that once housed an apartment used by the poet and novelist Mikhail Lermontov's grandmother, activists in May agitated for a new Lermontov museum. St Petersburg's homely tributes to Russia's great artists 2012-11-20T13:56:01Z

The young poet discovered that she was undocumented only when colleges refused her financial aid. Introducing Janine Joseph, a talented poet who writes of being undocumented 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

In this volume of poetry, Mr. Hirsch, an award-winning poet, writes about the loss of his son, Gabriel, who died at 22. National Book Foundation Names Poetry Finalists 2014-09-16T04:00:00Z

“The Noh is unquestionably one of the great arts of the world,” the poet Ezra Pound wrote in 1916, “and it is quite possibly one of the most recondite.” Japanese Theater Inspires a New Opera of Celestial Textures 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z

Nonetheless, Herbert — like the other metaphysical poets — fell out of fashion during the 18th century. Book review: ‘Music at Midnight: The Life and Poetry of George Herbert,’ by John Drury

Lerner’s argument is founded upon his assertion that “the poet is a tragic figure. The poem is always a record of failure.” Ben Lerner considers the hatred of poetry; Marie Ponsot celebrates its joys 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

Hughes was speaking as a poet to other poets, but his comment is more widely true. Now All Roads Lead to France by Matthew Hollis ? review 2011-08-05T21:55:07Z

A memory of him onstage I will cherish: his graceful portrayal of a frail, centenarian poet in “The Night of the Iguana.” Clayton Corzatte is remembered for more than fine acting 2013-05-15T23:24:28Z

Cleo, a poet, is carrying a sensitive letter, acting as courier for an exiled Cuban she met in Mexico City. What’s It Like to Write Poetry in Authoritarian Cuba? Tricky, This Novel Suggests 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

“All that remains is this city of words,” the poet, Pampa Kampana, writes at the end of her epic, which she buries in a pot as a message for future generations. Salman Rushdie Has a New Book, and a Message: ‘Words Are the Only Victors’ 2023-01-25T05:00:00Z

Fans of Morrison, who some considered a poet, also paid homage at his grave by leaving flowers there. Jim Morrison honored on anniversary of his death 2011-07-03T16:31:04Z

I find Burt’s lucid, insightful explications of poems energizing: they make you want to discover more of that poet’s work. The Education Issue: Stephen Burt, Poetry’s Cross-Dressing Kingmaker 2012-09-16T00:17:27Z

He married Leslie, a poet he met at Iowa, started freelancing, wrote a novella, got a job teaching at La Salle in Philadelphia and then another one at Rice in Texas. The Passage of Justin Cronin 2012-10-07T07:00:05Z

Not that Bishop wanted to be known as the first woman poet to teach creative writing at Harvard, or as a woman poet at all. Elizabeth and Alice 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z

The critic Harold Bloom called him “the strongest British poet now active.” Geoffrey Hill, Dense and Allusive British Poet, Is Dead at 84 2016-07-01T04:00:00Z

I was reading a lot of poets then. The Story Behind the Cars’ ‘My Best Friend’s Girl’ 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z

“A mathematician, like a painter or a poet, is a maker of patterns,” he wrote. | 'A Disappearing Number': Simon McBurney?s Play at Lincoln Center Festival 2010-07-16T22:29:00Z

Rawlings loved to entertain visitors, Mulligan says, among them the poet Robert Frost. ‘The Yearling’ author’s homestead is a doorway to a quirky Florida subculture 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z

This new series explores the area over the period of a year, following those who live and work there, including a warden, a farmer, a climber and a poet. TV highlights 27/07/12 2012-07-26T19:00:00Z

Also on view are Ms. Smith’s drawings of book covers; in this series, “Firespitters,” she celebrates books by some of her favorite poets and others that they, in turn, have recommended. The Whitney Reopens With 3 Powerhouse Shows 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

Rather, Mr Crawford presents Eliot as he finds him: a nervous, unhappy individual who was also, for most of the time, a brilliant poet. Time present and time past 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

Kevin Eldon opens his solo debut at the Stand in the guise of his earliest alter ego, performance poet Paul Hamilton. Poet, comedian, or both? 2010-08-27T16:10:00Z

It really is up to us: as Fuller puts it, "The poem has escaped from the hands of the poet." Who is Ozymandias? And Other Puzzles in Poetry by John Fuller – review 2013-04-16T11:56:09Z

At one stroke, this puzzling book renders Berryman perhaps the only major American poet about whom you can say: If you want to read his best stuff, avoid the selected poems. John Berryman Is Reconsidered in 4 New Books 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z

Durant gave his large personal library to the college, including many first editions by both poets. Browning, Barrett letters: Devotion goes digital 2012-02-14T14:22:31Z

"Hair is a woman's glory," the poet Maya Angelou tells him at one point in the film. Yeah, he said it 2010-05-28T23:04:00Z

For while Whitman was possibly the most emblematically American poet that America ever produced, he presented himself as a relatively modest creature of the immediate here and now. Review | In ‘What Is the Grass,’ Mark Doty looks at Walt Whitman through an autobiographical lens 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z

Their origin story varies but since we're talking about "The Handmaid's Tale" fourth season finale, "The Wilderness," let's go with the poet Hesiod's version. "The Handmaid's Tale" furious finale could turn the show around – and it's all in the execution 2021-06-17T04:00:00Z

Greenhouse also announced other changes at the magazine: The poet Jana Prikryl, formerly a senior editor, is now the executive editor; Daniel Drake is the production editor; and Maya Chung is the associate editor. Emily Nemens Departs as Paris Review Editor 2021-03-03T05:00:00Z

Like Twm the poet, son of another famous writer, who once wasn't a woman and went on the 1953 Everest expedition, and now is a woman, though Twm doesn't mention this – probably bored of it. Snowdonia: a Year in the Wild – review 2012-07-28T06:00:01Z

D.C. poet Essex Hemphill, whose words on candidly homosexual subjects are also quoted at length in the libretto, made just such a criticism of these problematic photographs some 30 years ago. Review | In three parts, an artistic reexamination of Robert Mapplethorpe 2019-04-07T04:00:00Z

It is a very rare survival of his Avignon works and contemporary with his lost portrait of Laura, the beauty to whom the poet Petrarch wrote hundreds of verses. Cy Twombly, Ren? Magritte and Thomas Struth ? the week in art 2011-07-08T16:17:00Z

The 30,000-volume nonlending library, including a children’s collection and two listening rooms where visitors can hear recordings of poets reciting their work, is open to the public. In Transit: In Chicago, a Home for Poetry 2011-07-14T17:37:31Z

The first sees Remo and Jan staying in a rickety rooftop dig, meeting a brilliant poet and motorcyclist named José Arco and exploring the city’s suspicious surge in poetry magazines. Roberto Bolaño and the Beat Connection 2019-03-03T05:00:00Z

It was the strange destiny of this poet so entangled in dread historical experience to end up in 1960 in Berkeley. Seamus Heaney on Czeslaw Milosz's centenary 2011-04-07T12:15:26Z

He was a gifted poet — his late book-length poem “The River in the Sky” is a dark masterpiece — who also wrote with vigor and sensitivity about poetry. Clive James, a Tireless Polymath Who Led With His Wit 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

Using lyricism honed as a poet, Castillo describes the agonizing realities of life as an undocumented immigrant, particularly after his father was deported. New in paperback: 13 September releases worth reading 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z

Another groundbreaker is the poet and novelist Ana Castillo and her border classic “So Far From God.” Read Your Way Through the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z

Rotting flesh, a disintegrating personality, an insatiable craving for brains — this is the zombie experience, although the more daring zombie poets allow for complex emotional states like alienation and loss. Zombie Poetry Takes On a Life of Its Own 2012-01-13T14:47:39Z

Key to the argument is how the Poetry Review magazine relates to the organisation, and which poets and what kind of it should be promoting. Poetry Society: when Muriel Spark flew 2011-07-28T15:22:00Z

It lasts about 25 minutes, and at its core is a recorded reading of “Falling” by the poet that flickers in and out of focus. Review: New York New Music Ensemble Plays a Tribute Concert for Lee Hyla 2015-05-19T04:00:00Z

The life of the Victorian-era poet Emily Dickinson isn’t thought of as the most exciting source material for a young adult series, let alone a comedy. Assessing the Apple TV+ new series, from "The Morning Show" to "For All Mankind" 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

A small group of us — Ms. Shin, a poet friend of hers, an interpreter and I — followed an English-speaking guide through the Mario Botta-designed wing that houses mostly traditional art. Seoul’s Hundred Faces 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z

But he believes Ireland's cultural riches -- its poets, writers, musicians and actors -- are an important calling card for companies seeking a foot in the door overseas. Ireland's Gabriel Byrne brainstorms art and economics 2011-10-07T14:12:10Z

Great premise, but the poem seems paid by the word, the poet tracking every gesture for an anecdote never as necessary as his dedication to nuance suggests. From New York to Barcelona, a Poet With His Eye on Politics 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z

Some weeks later, feeling nervous, foolish, and excited, I arrived at Mary Beth’s loft with a few close friends, including the poet Sharon Olds. Finding the Heart 2018-11-04T04:00:00Z

The poet Petrarch recorded how trolling for seashells could help people feel “unconscious of depressing cares.” 5 Design Books That Are Easy on the Eyes 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z

I don’t mean the rubbish heap of history, which is how the poet Petrarch envisioned the city in the 14th century. Rome in Ruins 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

It is a cleverly-plumbed system of benefits flowing outwards to readers and publishers, and circulating internally to the producers of poetry – the poets. What the Poetry Book Society means to poets 2011-04-05T08:56:01Z

More than a half-century later, the poet Charles Baudelaire gave new definition to the passionate wanderer-spectator. The Flâneur Discovers Paris, a Step at a Time 2015-10-02T04:00:00Z

His album "Modern Times" included lines lifted from blues songs and from the Civil War poet Henry Timrod. Author acknowledges fake Dylan quotes, resigns 2012-07-30T20:45:08Z

Piercy’s decision to speak for the voiceless fuels a lifelong journey that begins with some wild days, broken relationships and learning what it means to be a poet. The best poetry for April 2015-04-14T04:00:00Z

Today, Black writers and poets continue to explore what it means to be Black and from Appalachia. How Black poets and writers gave a voice to "Affrilachia" 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z

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

Like many of his projects, this one channels the ideas of writers and artists he calls his queer ancestors, in particular the poet Audre Lorde. This Artist Proposes a Community Space ‘to Dream, to Imagine’ 2020-04-15T04:00:00Z

Everything has been stashed away higgledy-piggledy, a system that I’ve been known to rationalize by murmuring a line from poet Wallace Stevens: “A great disorder is an order.” Perspective | Clutter, says who? College essays, letters from Stephen King and Tucker Carlson: I’m keeping (almost) all of it. 2020-12-29T05:00:00Z

The poet Allen Ginsberg was born ninety-two years ago today, on June 3rd, 1926. Sunday Reading: The Beat Generation 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z

He said he does relish “being part of something much more public and talking too much,” however, and the job of the nation’s premier poet will enable him to do both. W. S. Merwin to Be Named Poet Laureate 2010-07-01T02:16:00Z

But in 2006, when a volume of uncollected material by the poet Elizabeth Bishop was published, the scholar Helen Vendler wrote that Bishop would have greeted it “with a horrified ‘No.’” Jessye Norman Rejected These Recordings. Should They Be Released? 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

"He's a great poet in the great English language tradition stretching from William Blake onwards." Times a-changin': Nobel jury says lyrics can be literature 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z

It’s what makes “The Circuit” such a joy to read: a poet’s love song to the game of tennis. A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Begin with this window-seat epiphany from the poet in flight, sky liner notes rivaled only by James Merrill’s “A Downward Look” and Elizabeth Bishop’s “Night City.” In Praise of Derek Walcott’s Epic of the Americas 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

She wrote in an email that she wanted to see how great African-American poets would respond to Lawrence’s work — his colors and compositions. Jacob Lawrence’s Great Migration Series Returns to MoMA 2014-12-16T05:00:00Z

They're hung over, Caravaggio probably still drunk; Quevedo, the Spanish poet, seeks victory to maintain his reputation in the eyes of his royal confidante. Aztec and European empires collide in the strange and bloody 'Sudden Death' by Álvaro Enrigue 2016-02-05T05:00:00Z

"There are more bodyguards here than there are poets." A defence of poetry at the Hay festival 2010-06-01T21:40:00Z

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

And of course, modern pop culture has imbued in him a fatal self-consciousness about convention and how things look – things that would not worry the romantic poets. Liberal Arts – review 2012-10-04T14:30:01Z

In front of a statue of persecuted poet Federico García Lorca, she talked about the brutality of the Franco regime. Mushrooms, vermouth and jamon: Food-touring in Madrid 2015-07-30T04:00:00Z

In independent but thematically linked couplets, the poet walks the reader through prison’s aftermath, holding Virgil’s lamp to the various circles of carceral hell. A Poet and Ex-Con Writes About Life After Prison 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z

Both of these poets had in some sense transcended print, though both can be accommodated by, and enjoyed in, a printed book. The Poetry I Was Grateful For in 2018 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

He knew a lot about the poet, novelist, musician and Black Arts Movement hero often called the “godfather of rap.” Gil Scott-Heron’s Legacy Is a Work in Progress 2020-02-05T05:00:00Z

Long before he published his two acclaimed novels, “Leaving the Atocha Station” and “10:04”, Mr Lerner was known as a poet. War of words 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

It is hard to think of a major American poet who revealed so little about herself while revealing so much about the human world we inhabit. Review | It’s always a good time to revisit the brilliance of Elizabeth Bishop 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z

But his phrasing reminds me of the odd standard often applied to marginalized voices: in this case, there was something refreshingly noteworthy about a Chinese poet writing about non-Chinese things. When White Poets Pretend to Be Asian 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z

“Pox take your orators and poets,” he wrote at the time, “they spoile lives & histories.” You Remember John Aubrey. Chased by Debt Collectors, Chaser of Whores. 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

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

Recovering from a stroke in the hospital, he greeted his friend and fellow poet Paul Muldoon with, “Hello, different strokes for different folks.” ArtsBeat: Another Kind of Music 2013-08-30T22:44:13Z

It might seem that a poet would offer poor fodder for such a premise — at least compared with warring monarchs or conniving popes. A new show imagines a punk rock Shakespeare — the latest of our many fantasies about the bard 2017-07-06T04:00:00Z

Writing on SFGate.com, the Web site of The San Francisco Chronicle, Professor Rader says he will “spend the next two weeks taking suggestions, lists, nominations, and justifications for the 10 greatest poets.” ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers? Been There, Done That. What About Poets? 2011-02-20T16:58:23Z

The drunken poet Shakes was all shook up. A gamble pays off: Long Beach Opera transports 1692 'Fairy Queen' to modern-day Vegas 2017-01-23T05:00:00Z

Rossetti's "Jenny" brings us to yet another world, the poet's own bohemian milieu. Poster poems: Dramatic monologue 2010-04-30T07:00:00Z

Almost 20 years later, the defiant poet was elected to a seat on the union’s board. Andrei Voznesensky, 77, Celebrated Russian Poet, Dies 2010-06-01T20:19:00Z

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

There was little in his background that would suggest that Mr. Ashbery would become the leading poet of his generation. John Ashbery, Prize-Winning Poet, Is Dead at 90 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z

She does have a boyfriend — an athlete, poet and French speaker named Trent — but she's game for any new admirers. 2010-01-08T21:05:00Z

The third was a young Irish poet whose lectures on interior design and Gothic art formed an elaborate publicity stunt for a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta. Declaring His Genius: Oscar Wilde in North America by Roy Morris Jnr – review 2013-02-15T14:01:01Z

For Ms. Slemmons, who counts poets and writers as a major influence on her work, paper — and the ideas written on them — are powerfully symbolic. A Jewelry Maker Who Goes Far Beyond Metal 2012-12-06T16:07:04Z

July 24 — Copper Canyon Press announces that it will publish a new collection of recently discovered poems by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda. Book news 2015: Nostalgia, blockbusters and controversy 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

But an anticlimactic last stanza like that of Duparc’s “Sérénade,” in which the poet Gabriel Marc fears that “in vain I seek to please you,” requires a more psychologically curious singer. Review: Jennifer Johnson Cano and Dimitri Pittas at the Morgan 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Fuckinelle", with the repeated lines "The poet has tried to write villanelle; / He's very pleased. Don Paterson on Shakespeare's sonnets 2010-10-15T23:06:00Z

Romanticism in the 19th century doubled down on the cult of individualism: An artist or poet was a supernatural creature destined to sore about the dull crowd. Can unions save the creative class? 2013-03-18T16:25:00Z

His father was a renowned poet who ran afoul of the Maoist government. Art Review: A Beijing Bohemian in the East Village 2011-07-28T23:14:41Z

Each verse is accompanied by brief background on the poem and poet. Government backs drive for young to learn poetry by heart 2013-01-08T13:59:22Z

We sat there for the next hour listening as East Village poets cried out in political protest and in celebration of sex and pot and Buddhism and the vegetarian lifestyle. A very 60s Christmas 2018-12-24T05:00:00Z

Her careers as novelist, campaigning journalist and poet were crammed into a short life beset with personal difficulties, including poor physical and mental health. Poem of the week: Ku Li by Robin Hyde 2011-02-28T12:55:00Z

But most poets aren’t exactly household names — so who exactly is he? Who Is Charles Wright, the New Poet Laureate? 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z

And there was sort of a seminar in the afternoon for high school students, and students were asking questions of the poets. White House event sparks collaboration between poet and singer 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z

My plum-ginger jam evokes the feeling that led the poet William Carlos Williams to eat the delicious plums that were being saved in an icebox, rapturously describing them as “so sweet / and so cold.” Preserving the Season at Its Peak 2021-08-30T04:00:00Z

In August, just as the walls of the convent began to pulse with the sun’s heat, Allegra received a visit from the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, a thin man with feminine cheekbones and burning eyes. Fiction: The Autobiography of Allegra Byron 2012-07-21T16:00:00Z

She was to me and so many poets an exemplary and inimitable figure. Postscript: C. D. Wright, 1949-2016 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z

He was a poet who happened to find art first, and this is a poet’s show. Basquiat’s First Editions 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

“I am reduced to my irreducible self,” the poet and essayist Wendell Berry wrote in “An Entrance to the Woods,” after camping alone along Kentucky’s Red River Gorge. The Case for Covering Your Ears in Noisy Times 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z

This past Sunday, she performed in London alongside the American poet Moor Mother in a series of improvised duets. Madness, Royalty and the Music of Screams 2023-05-24T04:00:00Z

Stone Soup Theatre has found a holiday groove with "A Child's Christmas in Wales," a fond choreo-poem portrait of a tiny Welsh village, like the poet Dylan Thomas' hometown. A sleigh full of holiday shows 2011-11-24T23:56:38Z

“Prose” is the first appearance in print of some probing correspondence Bishop had with the poet Anne Stevenson. Books of The Times: Fighting The New Yorker Over Extra Commas and Steaming Cowflops 2011-02-08T22:00:14Z

By that he means the Bodleian's archival holdings of other Oxford poets – the Thirties Poets as they became known – including Auden, Stephen Spender and Louis MacNeice. Cecil Day-Lewis letters donated to Oxford library by his children 2012-10-30T00:01:03Z

"They were the poets, producers and visionaries who took the business into a whole new dimension." From Leiber and Stoller to Lennon and McCartney: the alchemy of the duo 2011-08-23T20:31:01Z

The journal was one of just three kept by the British poet. Unseen WH Auden diary sheds light on famous poem and personal life 2013-06-26T08:00:03Z

This year's judging panel is chaired by the former poet laureate Andrew Motion. Booker longlist 2010-07-27T18:06:00Z

There are picture books by the Muslim and Latino poet Mark Gonzales and the British pop star Harris J. The imprint plans at least nine books a year, including board books, picture books and novels. A step toward greater diversity in children’s books: Hena Khan’s ‘Amina’s Voice’ 2017-03-20T04:00:00Z

Each of the five movements sets a text by a male poet reflecting on contemporary Israeli identity. Whispers of an Italian-Jewish Past Fill a Composer’s Music 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z

"Laureate", because of its common usage, is understood better, but as it's actually an adjective describing the noun "poet", it is, come to think of it, itself rather a foosty antique construction. Makar's a muckle of an honour 2011-01-25T10:39:43Z

The open-air talent show attracted a local poet, Rafael Díaz, who declaimed inspirational verses in several languages. Impromptu Club 124 in East Village Resumes for a Night 2014-08-25T04:00:00Z

His father, Ai Qing, was a revered poet who during the Cultural Revolution was persecuted by the government. 'Human Flow,' Ai Weiwei's feature-film debut, takes on the global refugee crisis 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

His most recent collection, 2009's Better Than God, was hailed in the Guardian as "a densely fleshed book by a poet at the height of his powers". Poet Peter Porter dies, aged 81 2010-04-23T15:56:00Z

If he were still alive, Paterson poet Ginsberg probably would have appreciated Mr. Maxwell’s work. In Undiscovered Paterson, Falls, Food and Fetty Wap 2017-09-14T04:00:00Z

Jane Lynch is phenomenal as the nefarious cheerleading coach Sue Sylvester, who delivers stinging insults with the rhythmic panache of a slam poet. Glee's Problem? The Music 2010-04-13T17:43:00Z

He pursued graduate studies at the University of Iowa but returned after a year to teach at Emerson, where he was named poet in residence. Thomas Lux, Poet Who Wrote of Life’s Absurdities, Dies at 70 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

It was an episode so formative that the poet recounted it at length in his Nobel acceptance speech in 1971. Director Pablo Larraín is this awards season's double threat with 'Jackie' and the poet caper 'Neruda' 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z

Merwin received virtually every honor a poet could ask for — more, it turned out, than he desired. W.S. Merwin, prize-winning poet of nature, dies at 91 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

Brian Turner’s eloquent rendering illuminates both the shared space and the painful divide between poet and soldier, mission and memory, war and peace. Review: ‘My Life as a Foreign Country’ by Brian Turner

This section of the show, titled “The Artist as Social Critic,” even makes the visionary religious poet and watercolorist William Blake into something of a political artist. Review: ‘The Critique of Reason’ Revisits What Romantic Art Means 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z

Ultimately, he said that only poetry mattered, not poets, and claimed to be “leery of the literary circus.” José Emilio Pacheco, Mexican Author, Dies at 74 2014-01-28T04:40:46Z

Many poets and novelists have practiced exotic colour writing: "azure" and "cerulean" are the aesthetes' favourites. Peter Forbes's top 10 books on colour 2011-03-16T17:49:51Z

There's really no zone, it seems to say, and no magical room, even for the poet: there's only the journey. Poem of the week: The snow whirls over the courtyard's roses by Tua Forsström 2013-03-04T10:39:48Z

As José Martí, Cuba’s talismanic national poet and philosopher once wrote, “In a time of crisis, the peoples of the world must rush to get to know each other.” Havana’s Symphony of Sound 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z

And as a writer he found fame not in his own right—by his own admission, he was a second-rate poet—but as a translator of Marcel Proust. Remembrance of lives past 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

These poets are some of America’s pithiest great philosophers. A Poet’s Tale from Obama’s First Inaugural 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z

Which Italian poet began a great work with these lines, which refer to a dark wood in which the author finds himself? Quiz: Darkness in literature 2010-12-21T11:23:17Z

In the prelude to Nina Sankovitch’s compelling group biography, “The Lowells of Massachusetts,” the poet Amy Lowell has just died and her lover Ada Dwyer Russell builds a bonfire to burn Amy’s letters. Review | Meet America’s most extraordinary family: The Lowells 2017-04-18T04:00:00Z

Kaufman was among those lucky poets who looked like a poet; he seemed his own voice made dryly manifest. Two Poets With Alert and Nimble Eyes on American Life 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z

But, you know, what was always inspiring to me was the whole through line of Rimbaud and the poet and the fake suicide, that was the only way to sort of have artistic freedom. ‘Eddie and the Cruisers’ was a massive ‘80s flop. How did it become a beloved cult film? 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z

Carter intended the work to be a symphonic portrait of the poet Hart Crane, with specific reference to his poem The Bridge. Eilliott Carter: music of storms and stillness 2013-06-07T08:00:27Z

He worked alongside Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a 1972 version of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas' "Under Milk Wood", as well as more than 30 other feature films. Beatles film actor Victor Spinetti dies 2012-06-19T12:05:30Z

"There are tens of thousands of people today who will be feeling personally bereaved because he had great presence," said prominent Belfast poet Michael Longley. Ireland mourns 'keeper of language' poet Seamus Heaney 2013-08-30T17:44:08Z

The poet Langston Hughes was a courtly man with a slow fuse. ‘Selected Letters of Langston Hughes’ 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z

Our last stop was at the former home of Hannes Hafstein, a poet and the first minister for Iceland in the early 1900s. In Iceland, a Literary Tour Explores Rich History 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z

Horrified by the deceptions perpetrated by novelists, dramatists, historians and biographers, the reading public turns in desperation to poets. Review | ‘Dead Souls’ is a witty, sharp, cruel critique of literary culture. But it’s not for everyone. 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z

It heightened the presence of the petite 22-year-old poet behind the large podium with the presidential seal, drawing the viewer’s eyes from her sunny yellow coat up to her face as she recited her work. We Can’t Stop Thinking About Amanda Gorman’s Headband 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z

Years ago, the poet Susan Wheeler had a poem in The New Yorker. Steve Martin Likes Books in the ‘I Can’t Put This Down’ Genre 2020-10-29T04:00:00Z

I wanted to be a poet, and I wrote shockingly bad poetry. Robert Macfarlane: 'Paths are human; they are the traces of our relationships' 2012-05-26T23:05:33Z

She describes her father, a businessman, as a self-made academic and sometime poet; her mother is a nurse and a midwife. Wangechi Mutu: A New Face for the Met 2019-09-05T04:00:00Z

That hasn’t deterred Joshua Rivkin, a poet and essayist, from trying. A Life of Cy Twombly Brings a Poet’s Eye to the Artist’s Mythic Work 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z

Celan, a Romanian-born poet who survived the Holocaust, troubled notions of bearing witness in poetry, a medium he felt—like his Jewish heritage and the German language in which he wrote—was indelibly traumatized. The Apocalyptic Visions of Ariana Reines 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z

Any fears of a dull, worthy affair were soon banished as she grinningly describes "collaborating with people who are dead" and fleshes out the music with tales of the poets' lives. Natalie Merchant 2010-05-26T21:15:00Z

In “Soirée Musicale” he looks like a Romantic poet; in “Interplay” he’s an eager, innocent kid full of brio. Dance Review: Robbins and Balanchine Cleanse the Palate at City Ballet 2013-05-29T21:44:32Z

“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

This picture-book biography conveys poet Cummings’ lifelong ambition to capture the world in words. Best children’s books of 2015 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

He wrote to a friend after finishing these pieces that he’s tried to be a poet, à la Schumann, but that it doesn’t sound like Schumann. ‘The Great Czech Piano Cycle’ Arrives at Carnegie Hall 2023-01-29T05:00:00Z

Through her friend the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, she met Rodin and found his drawings inspiring. Paula Modersohn-Becker and Her Thwarted Ambitions 2016-02-25T05:00:00Z

The references to famous poets were an interesting feature which showed that the author knew a lot about the subject he was writing about. The Green Man by Michael Bedard - review 2012-08-25T14:00:00Z

It seems built out of pine, not mahogany, as if heeding the poet A.R. A Rousing Novel Follows a Brigade of Black Soldiers in the Civil War 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z

Neruda's body was exhumed in 2013 for a fourth time in an effort to clear up four decades of suspicion about how the poet died in the days after Chile's military coup. The remains of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda have been reburied Tuesday at his favorite home in a Chilean town overlooking the Pacific Ocean 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

For decades, on and off, the poet Robert Lowell suffered from extreme bipolar disorder; he composed many of his best verses while stark raving mad. 10 New Books We Recommend This Week 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z

The poet, who was awarded the prestigious Israel Prize for literature in 1985, died in 2010 at the age of 96. Songs give new life to Holocaust victims' poetry 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z

Glatt, a poet whose most recent novel was “A Girl Becomes a Comma Like That,” knows just how to peel away the pretensions of modern life. ‘The Nakeds’: A young, broken girl and her nudist family 2015-06-09T04:00:00Z

In each episode, Limón shares a brief reflection drawn from her life, then reads a new poem she has selected for the day, chosen from a variety of poets. Ada Limón explores "what it looks like to have America in the room" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z

The library provides an office and allows each poet to define the job however he or she would like. Charles Wright, former U-Va. professor and author, is named new U.S. poet laureate

I’m the rapper, I’m the poet, I’m the silver-tongued devil,” he said. Matthew McConaughey Shifts Gears 2012-07-06T23:59:02Z

This week, Neruda's family members, politicians and fans paid homage to the beloved poet at Chile's Congress. The remains of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda have been reburied Tuesday at his favorite home in a Chilean town overlooking the Pacific Ocean 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z

As part of his internship, he received tutoring from a local poet and made his first real attempt at writing. Javier Zamora Carried a Heavy Load. He Laid it to Rest on the Page. 2022-09-05T04:00:00Z

Maggie and James don’t just want to talk God with another believer; they want to talk God as poets. Jamie Quatro’s First Novel Centers on Religious and Sexual Passion 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

The selectors write a report on the books chosen, and the poets write a short piece about their book. What the Poetry Book Society means to poets 2011-04-05T08:56:01Z

Adrienne Rich was a major American poet, cultural critic, essayist and activist. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

Do we deserve a poet whose mantra is, “I’m the daughter of Black writers who are descended from Freedom Fighters who broke their chains and changed the world”? Amanda Gorman clearly has talent. But there’s more to her meteoric rise. 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z

It traces the career of Merrill, the poet, from his pampered childhood — his father was a co-founder of Merrill Lynch — through his success as a writer of coy, formal, witty American verse. About That Ouija Board: How Langdon Hammer Summoned a Poet’s Spirit 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

People from many constituencies are interested – poets, poetry lovers, students of Romanticism, students of left-wing and anti-colonial movements and many more besides. Owning manuscripts is one thing: owning the contents is quite another 2010-07-23T14:19:00Z

This time he has a ghostly companion in the shape of Edward Thomas, the Georgian poet who wrote so compellingly about the Icknield Way before dying on the fields of France. Holiday reading: The best books to pack this summer 2013-06-29T07:00:51Z

We've rustled up a list of the remaining attractions that pleased our critics most: "Black Nativity": This annual Intiman Theatre jamboree is an African-American retelling of the Nativity story by poet Langston Hughes. A list of holiday shows still on stage in Seattle 2010-12-23T21:28:13Z

It concerned a priest struggling to choose between his vocation and the saving of a troubled female poet. A Widow's Story: A Memoir by Joyce Carol Oates ? review 2011-03-19T00:06:04Z

His often impressionistic lyrics reflected the influence of poets like Paul Verlaine, from whom the man born Thomas Miller took his stage name. Tom Verlaine, Influential Guitarist and Songwriter, Dies at 73 2023-01-28T05:00:00Z

Moon, stars, trees, birds, a wheelbarrow, a ship, a shadow: For poets, the material world offers an array of subjects to explore in verse. Best children’s books for April: Poetry edition 2015-03-31T04:00:00Z

Of course, the source of a borrowed line doesn't have to be a poet. Poster poems: Licence to steal 2013-02-08T11:22:08Z

Very quickly we learn that Henry’s poet husband, Simon, is terminally ill, and Madeline drags heartache in with her canvas. Life is short, so touch the painting 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z

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

Alastair was also an accomplished and highly regarded poet in his own right. Postscript: Alastair Reid (1926-2014) 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z

Jarmusch acknowledged even he struggles to describe the film's combination of working-class and creative life, inspired partly by the Paterson poet and doctor William Carlos Williams. Jim Jarmusch has debuted his reliably idiosyncratic bus driver-poet drama "Paterson" at the Cannes Film Festival, which enthusiastically responded to the film's gentle rhythms 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z

Collected Poems will introduce readers to a poet of supreme skill and great intellectual curiosity. Collected Poems 1935-92 by FT Prince - review 2012-10-12T21:55:07Z

She remembers fondly what the poet – who died aged 88 in February – thought of Holzer's projections. Jenny Holzer: drawn to the dark side 2012-06-04T17:36:01Z

Every year, The New Yorker publishes approximately a hundred original poems, by longtime contributors and by emerging poets, in the original English and in translation. The Year in Poems 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

“The border used to be an actual place,” wrote poet Albert Dios, “but now, it is the act of a thousand imaginations.” In Yuri Herrera's hard-boiled 'The Transmigration of Bodies,' dirty work is providence 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

As Shakespeare wrote long ago, “the lunatic, the poet, and the lover/ Are of imagination all compact.” Review | Kay Redfield Jamison puts Robert Lowell on the couch in an exhilarating biography 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z

The poet/photographer/filmmaker, we learn, can only obtain genuine happiness in the transcendent world of the imagination. At 101, Portuguese director gets benefit of doubt 2010-05-14T07:07:00Z

Displays to illustrate the story of the all-Black cavalry regiment, local poet performing original work inspired by the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, noon-4 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-01-24T01:18:50Z

"As a commercially profitable publisher, Faber is more than capable of investing in a small number of poets each year," he said. Withdrawal of Poetry Book Society funding sparks outcry 2011-04-04T14:48:48Z

Now the poet laureate's "fierce intellectual determination" is set to be rewarded with the PEN/Pinter prize. Carol Ann Duffy wins PEN/Pinter prize 2012-07-12T23:06:02Z

The California Arts Council is now accepting nominations for California poet laureate. Help wanted: Next California poet laureate 2015-02-24T05:00:00Z

Within years, she became the most prominent African American poet of the 18th century. 14 Books Coming in March 2023-03-01T05:00:00Z

An award-winning poet and translator, Phillips reveals his love of tennis on every page. A Poet Who Loves Tennis Follows the Grand Tour, in Prose 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

I was very much seen as a performance poet before then. 'Most poets are not just poets' 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z

Having a book picked out by the selectors has always been a milestone for poets, signalling achievement or progress. What the Poetry Book Society means to poets 2011-04-05T08:56:01Z

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 1656, this poet and natural philosopher published A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding, and Life, a work that prefigured Rousseau’s Confessions. The man who made America: Reason, religion and the brilliant mind of John Locke 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z

The iconoclastic filmmaker Jim Jarmusch’s latest project, “Paterson,” starring Adam Driver as a New Jersey bus driver and unrecognized poet, was inspired by William Carlos Williams’s epic poem of the same name. Celebrating Two Centuries of Thoreau 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

Such noble lines even William McGonagall — widely revered as the worst poet in British history — would be proud to have penned. Review | What’s the worst novel ever? It might be this 19th-century train wreck. 2018-08-21T04:00:00Z

This little shop’s odd moniker is apt, given the creative pursuits of its trio of owners: an artist and poet, a mixologist and a former fashion magazine editor. Khmer-Inspired Shopping by Angkor Wat 2015-02-18T05:00:00Z

Countess Madeleine, a young widow who lives in a chateau outside Paris with her brother, the Count, is being courted by the composer Flamand and the poet Olivier. Music Review: Words or Music: Why Choose? 2011-03-29T22:23:23Z

SAT Royal Scottish Country Dance Society dancing, music, poetry to celebrate the life of Scottish poet Robert Burns, 7 p.m. Community calendar: Martin Luther King Jr. holiday events, fairs, festivals 2013-01-19T00:13:52Z

“When you think of the American poets who have not gotten the Nobel, it’s daunting,” she said. Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

Ponsot is a personal, esoteric poet, like no one but herself. Ben Lerner considers the hatred of poetry; Marie Ponsot celebrates its joys 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z

This poet turns over in his mind the things he wishes he’d done differently. Review: Men of Letters, John Updike and Jim Harrison, and Their Poems 2015-12-22T05:00:00Z

Far from the control of famed surrealists such as Salvador Dalí, René Magritte and the poet André Breton, a group of female European emigres created a distinct, subversive and surprising world of their own. The surrealist muses who roared 2010-06-18T07:34:00Z

Everywhere I went, people radiated toward me. I commissioned a sidewalk poet to write about my virtual boyfriend. Twitter is for lovers 2012-09-19T00:00:00Z

When the poets were shown reacting to news events, viewers were uncertain about the details of the stories, and the filmmakers thought they needed a solution. Bowery Club Poets Take Issue With Documentary 2018-05-01T04:00:00Z

The story of Eleanor Roosevelt’s long friendship with Pauli Murray, a black woman born in 1910 who was a poet, memoirist, lawyer, activist and Episcopal priest. Reader’s Guide to This Fall’s Big Book Awards 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z

The poet Edward Hirsch, in response to Montherlant’s edict, once wrote: “I don’t believe that only sorrow/and misery can be written.” A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman on the Road to Happiness 2020-03-10T04:00:00Z

I see so many kids that I’ve photographed who are writers or poets or painters, and they’re having such a hard time getting started. T Magazine: Weber on the Web 2011-10-11T15:55:48Z

Co-sponsored by the Hill Center, the Library of Congress and The Washington Post, this quarterly series of conversations explores the work of America’s greatest living poets. A great poet, even without James Franco’s endorsement 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

I wasn’t depressive, and I wasn’t even a poet, but at age 20 it was easy to feel a connection. My Mademoiselle Summer 2013-07-19T20:55:07Z

Among the pieces in the exhibit is an iconic oil portrait of the poet from 1900. In Ireland, All Yeats, All Year 2015-08-12T04:00:00Z

Beginning as a poet who worked closely with the late Joseph Brodsky, she completed a master’s degree in art history at the prestigious Courtauld Institute in London before turning to literary fiction. Review | Reading Nicole Krauss’s ‘To Be a Man’ feels like talking all night with a brilliant friend 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z

This week's poem, "The Two Deserts", is by a writer I consider to be among the great Victorian poets, equal to Tennyson in musicality and to the Brownings in intellect and humanity. Poem of the week: The Two Deserts by Coventry Patmore 2011-03-28T11:18:29Z

I am a poet and nonfiction writer of Armenian ancestry and have been to Armenia five times in the past decade. My Armenia 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z

The latest installment brings together Ms. Olds, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and author of the collection “Stag’s Leap,” and Ms. Nixon, the Tony- and Emmy-winning actress, who has also dabbled in directing. Spare Times for Dec. 11-17 2015-12-11T05:00:00Z

Cave Canem is a yearly retreat for black poets where there are workshops with a group of faculty members and readings. Meet our new U.S. Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith 2017-06-14T04:00:00Z

This is partly because Wells, with the unaffected precision of a lyric poet, is very nearly reinventing the language of film, unlocking the medium’s often dormant potential to disclose inner worlds of consciousness and feeling. ‘Aftersun’ Review: A Father and Time 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z

But as a poet, Grass risks even more in suggesting a political solution. Make kids memorize poetry 2012-06-13T02:00:00Z

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

But the poet may have been right after all; whatever small measure of aureate glimmer and substance here is, ultimately, fleeting. Review: Stuck in Maine in ‘Nothing Gold Can Stay’ 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z

Soon after publishing the poem “Crossing Half of China to F--- You” on her blog in 2014, Yu Xiuhua rose from obscurity to become one of the most widely read poets of her generation. Review | Poet Yu Xiuhua became a viral sensation. Her first book-length collection in English translation deserves to bring her an even bigger audience. 2021-09-28T04:00:00Z

Also watching were New Roads students — including a group of third-graders who recognized the poet. Amanda Gorman learned the power of poetry early on 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z

In an 1818 letter to his brother, he wrote, “I think I shall be among the English poets after my death.” Review | Two centuries after John Keats’s death, his famous odes are still sparking new discussions 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z

Artistically, he's a specialist, the poet of the heart of Saturday night – "the dark, warm narcotic American night," he calls it in Putnam County. Tom Waits: 'I'm a night-owl reporter' – a classic interview from the vaults 2012-08-07T16:41:06Z

But all the squirrel haiku poets — many of whom included terrific artwork — have our appreciation for their creativity, insight and sense of humor. Haikus explored the highs and lows of life as a squirrel 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

There were punk bands, poets and artists-without-portfolio milling around the blocks below 14th Street east of Broadway, and at a certain point some of them decided to start making movies. | 'Blank City': That ?80s Moment When Nothing and (Almost) Everything Mattered 2011-04-05T22:33:40Z

The chief character is the monster poet Mittenhofer, who creates art by destroying those around him, specifically his younger girlfriend and his own godson who, fatally, fall in love. Aida; Elegy for Young Lovers; O Sonho 2010-05-01T23:07:00Z

Eliot, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1948, was considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. T.S. Eliot's summer house for sale for $1.3 million 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z

As if to make the point explicit, Hirsch refers to a number of other poets and artists who have lost children and written about the experience. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z

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

She researched the poets and memorized the poems. D.C. students give a voice to poetry for national Poetry Out Loud contest 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z

A group of year eight children from two Manchester schools will be tweeting about the festival on a dedicated account, after receiving lessons in tweeting from the poet, comedian and Radio 4 presenter Kate Fox. Manchester prepares for its first children's book festival 2010-06-30T13:08:00Z

In addition to your own writing, you’ve also extensively translated the work of contemporary and classical poets from China and Japan. By the Book: Gary Snyder 2019-04-25T04:00:00Z

He quoted the Spanish poet and philosopher Miguel de Unamuno in describing the need to do more to connect with residents, particularly in poor neighborhoods: “The freedom of the people is in their culture.” Gustavo Dudamel, Superstar Maestro, Meets New York 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z

A boy searches for his missing mother, a Chinese American poet who left the family years earlier. Washington Post hardcover bestsellers 2022-10-26T04:00:00Z

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

Grand Central Publishing announced Wednesday that the novel would be written by Ed Falco, an award-winning author and poet. A new offer: 'Godfather' prequel being written 2011-05-04T17:10:10Z

We swim in a stew of ready-made metaphors; the would-be poet need only skim the surface, rearrange a few bits, and the superficial reader will nod approvingly. ‘Here I Throw Down My Heart’: poems that force a fresh look 2012-12-07T00:49:04Z

THE Lower East Side was once frontier territory, where new immigrants settled alongside poets and artists, punk musicians and anarchists, everyone needing rock-bottom rent. 10 Galleries to Visit on the Lower East Side 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The Sudanese American poet’s intimate collection mixes nostalgia and resistance to question the complexities of history, homemaking and nationality. Ten books that explain the complicated nostalgia of being a child of diaspora 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z

Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as the fictional Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Regeneration by Pat Barker 2012-06-29T10:01:35Z

She invited four poets, including her sister, to read at her show, giving them no parameters except that the poems should tell women’s stories. Wrestling With Politics at New York Fashion Week 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z

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

Its president, Michael D. Higgins, is a former arts minister; he’s also a poet. Television: ‘Vikings’ Made in Ireland, ‘Thrones’ in Northern Ireland 2012-07-27T19:09:41Z

On the wall, a life-size portrait of the great Welsh poet looks silently over his shoulder at Jones. Dylan Thomas biopic stars pay homage to the poet's favorite New York haunt 2015-06-15T04:00:00Z

She lost two babies and a toddler of her own and became a young widow when her husband, the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, drowned while sailing in a storm. Review: In ‘Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,’ a Monster to Love 2017-12-27T05:00:00Z

This is the task chosen by Brian Turner, an Iraq War veteran and an acclaimed poet whose poem “The Hurt Locker” provided the title for the Oscar-winning film. Review: ‘My Life as a Foreign Country’ by Brian Turner

For him, poetry was “the most democratic art,” as he says in an essay about the West Indian poet Derek Wolcott. 25 Great Books by Refugees in America 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

The poet Victoria Chang tweeted: "Michael Derrick Hudson submits poems as Yi-fen Chou because he thinks it's easier to get published. He's wrong on so many levels." Best American Poetry under fire for including poet who faked being Chinese 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z

Its lords were, according to the poet Frédéric Mistral, “warriors all, vassals never.” Back to Provence 2011-06-17T18:55:00Z

It covered 30 years of correspondence between the two Pulitzer-winning poets. Saskia Hamilton, Poet Who Edited Another Poet’s Letters, Dies at 56 2023-06-18T04:00:00Z

Between Odette's olfactory introductions, poets took to the stage to read. Penning Perfumes: when scent and poetry mix 2012-06-14T15:49:53Z

In the book the celebrated specialist in the made-up discipline of symbology, Robert Langdon, is in Florence, birthplace of Italian poet Dante Alighieri. Dan Brown's Inferno: a secret I had to hide from all prying eyes 2013-05-13T23:01:05Z

Just as the playwrights I admire most can’t separate the poet from the political thinker, I can’t compartmentalize myself as a critic. Embattled and emboldened: Arts and culture in the age of Trump 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z

The poet Carl Sandburg called him America’s tuning fork, and for good reason. Pete Seeger’s New York Roots 2015-06-16T04:00:00Z

“Xiaobo has gone. It would be easier to die than to live,” she said in a phone conversation, in 2018, with Liao Yiwu, a dissident friend and poet living in exile in Berlin. The Widow of a Nobel-Winning Chinese Dissident Rebuilds Her Career as an Artist 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

Throughout “The Maidens,” Michaelides quotes from the melancholy poetry of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, one of Cambridge’s most celebrated poets. Review | ‘The Silent Patient’ was a huge hit. Next we have ‘The Maidens.’ Don’t believe the hype. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z

The life of a poet, painter, or performer is seldom an easy one. Artists report high job satisfaction 2013-09-05T12:20:00Z

In 1968, he became a full-time poet, journalist, reviewer and broadcaster. Poet Porter dies at the age of 81 2010-04-23T17:06:00Z

The poet and activist Sonia Sanchez, 87, a leading figure of the Black Arts Movement, has been awarded the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, the prize trust said on Thursday. Sonia Sanchez Wins the Gish Prize 2021-10-07T04:00:00Z

Derek made it clear that a good poet must know the exact reason for each of her lines, and he had absolute faith in the deliberateness of the writers he admired. The Problem with Poetry Students, and Other Lessons from Derek Walcott 2017-03-25T04:00:00Z

The collection, which was donated by Ashbery’s husband, David Kermani, convey the traces of the poet’s thought, and also of his hand. For John Ashbery’s Personal Library, a Spot on the Shelves at Harvard 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z

Throughout “The Prose of the Trans-Siberian” are intimations of war, and a year after its publication the Swiss poet had signed up for the French Foreign Legion. Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z

In the middle ages its supreme poet Dante made the Tuscan dialect of Florence the literary language of Italy. Shostakovich meets Michelangelo the lover 2013-06-29T08:00:49Z

“It is candid and uncompromising, and it signals this poet wants to be understood.” Louise Glück Is Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z

For the next five decades, apart from brief stints as a janitor, he made his living as a poet. The Homegrown Language of Les Murray 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z