Biography EssayMarianne Moore made a new kind of verse, yet she denied that she was a poet. She worked with words: they were her trade. What she wrote was called poetry, she said, because there was no...
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Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was an American poet, editor, reviewer, and translator. Her poetry is an innovative mixture of common and exotic things and creatures, forthright and imaginatively playful.M...
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Marianne Moore made a new kind of verse, yet she denied that she was a poet. She worked with words: they were her trade. What she wrote was called poetry, she said, because there was no other category...
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You won't find any volumes of poetry in Don Scheidt's house.
A retired tax collector who is quick to point out that the IRS is not a very poetic organization, Scheidt does not enjoy readin...
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When you're done loading your iPod with Better than Ezra and Carlos Santana, why not try a little Ezra Pound or William Carlos Williams?Recordings of the poets' works are available for free through...
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Thousands of dissidents silenced under Argentina's military dictatorship — tortured, executed and made to "disappear" in the so-called Dirty War against dissent — are gaining new voice ...
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Slam poetry got a fresh twist when three Victorian-era re-enactors read from such poets as William Wordsworth and Emily Dickinson in a setting that was fitting for the event _ a 19th-century stone ...
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The Louvre is inviting slam poets into its gilded galleries to rap about paintings. If that seems unusual, it is.
With Toni Morrison as guest curator this month, the museum is dreaming up ...
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Emperor Akihito recalled the torch he saw at the opening
ceremony of the National Sports Festival held in Akita Prefecture
last September in a poem recited at the annual New Year Poetry
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New technology designed to thwart DVD theft makes discs unplayable until they're activated at the cash register.A chip smaller than the head of a pin is placed onto a DVD along with a thin coating ...
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Kafka on the Shore, by Haruki Murakami, translated from the Japanese by Philip Gabriel. Alfred A. Knopf, 436 pages, $25.95.This is the way these things happen, don't ask why. Nakata has a mind that...
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Of the two major milestones for
Donald
Hall
in 2006, only one was planned by him: the publication of
Hall
's readings of his own work—featured poetry written between 1946 and 2006. The une...
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