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Poet Defined
A writer of poetry; one who learns and creatively practices the art of versification, to transfer words and meaning into the heightened expression of poetry, using selective arrangements of syntax, sound, forms, rhythm, and imagery.
Sidelight: The successful poet must be a diligent student of language -- sensitive to sounds and rhythms -- and a student of technique, through the knowledge of what forms of expression have worked effectively for other poets, past and present, in order to develop, master, and expand his or her art.
Sidelight: In "The Philosophy of Composition," Poe wrote, "The fact is, that originality (unless in minds of very unusual force) is by no means a matter, as some believe, of impulse or intuition. In general, to be found, it must be elaborately sought. . . . "
Sidelight: The poet does not have to be the speaker of a poem, but can create a persona which is perceived to be distinct from the writer.
(See also Bard, Metrist, Poetaster, Sonneteer, Versifier, Wordsmith)
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News and Features for Lake Isabella, California
Published September 8, 2008, 8:22 am, Kern Valley Sun
What do you call someone who has just turned 90? No, this isn’t the punch line of a joke, it’s a serious question. Someone fortunate enough to have reached the ninth decade of life is called a nonagenarian.
North-east celebs to attend launch of Fit Like, Yer Majesty?
Published September 8, 2008, 6:09 am, Aberdeen City Council News
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Published September 8, 2008, 5:15 am, PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance
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Utah Kid Poet Published in National Magazine
Published September 7, 2008, 9:19 pm, FOX 13 Utah
He is only 10 years old, but Spencer Pavich Conlin is already a published poet. A homework assignment started it all, and now his poem “Shadow” is featured in national magazine. Spencer was encouraged to submit the poem to Highlights magazine by his mother. At first, it seemed impossible, but readers can read the poem in the September issue of the magazine. Fox 13’s Andrea Fujii has the story.
Local poet writes 10th book
Published September 7, 2008, 9:09 pm, The Daily Item
SELINSGROVE -- Local poet Gary Fincke has a talent for making the unfamiliar feel like home. Fincke tunes all of his keen senses on and doesn't ever shut them off in his newly-released full-length book of poetry, "The Fire Landscape."
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Published September 7, 2008, 7:00 pm, CBS News
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Alice Fulton explores family-based fiction in new book
Published September 7, 2008, 1:19 pm, Cornell News Service
For her first work of fiction, poet and Cornell professor of English Alice Fulton had to look no further for inspiration than her own Irish Catholic family and her hometown of Troy, N.Y.
So long, brilliant Penny Poet
Published September 7, 2008, 8:36 am, Portsmouth Herald
Poet Robert Dunn died last Sunday. The day he passed away, we were moving some old bookcases when a fragile green pamphlet floated to the floor like a leaf. Turns out it was a tiny collection of Robert's poems. The eight-page hand-sewn booklet is titled...
Acclaimed native shares tragedies, struggles in work
Published September 7, 2008, 4:45 am, Hattiesburg American
Home for poet and Gulfport native Natasha Trethewey is complicated. "I love this place. Yet this place has made an outsider of me," she said. Trethewey's latest collection of poetry "Native Guard," published in 2006, confronts this conflicting sense of displacement and what she calls "nostos," the Greek word for homecoming. The book takes its name from the first regiments of Louisiana Native ...
Ad Astra: Daldorph champions social justice
Published September 6, 2008, 10:10 pm, Lawrence Journal-World
Brian Daldorph came to Kansas University’s English department almost 20 years ago and has become a permanent resident of Kansas. He contributes to Kansas belles-lettres in many ways: He writes; he organizes readings; and he is a writing class instructor at the Douglas County Jail — featured in Poet’s Market 2008. He advocates for writers by publishing Coal City Review, a nationally recognized ...
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- "That slight uncertainty which makes us sure" -- Lyric Grace and the Poetry of Richard Wilbur by Leslie Monsour | Poetry at Able Muse | Symposium Issue: Richard Wilbur's work is endowed with a thriving, generous intelligibilit y, his poems have real meanings; their intentions are not lost in the ungrammatical quagmire, opaque language, and haphazard constructions that have been a way of life in poetry for some time. When a poet?s work confuses, it is called ?difficult.? Difficult, perhaps, but, more likely, careless, unfinished, or selfish. The truth must dazzle gradually, but it must dazzle. Over the years, creative writing programs seem to have cultivated a chic opacity of strange, obscure, fantastical language, aimed at achieving some sort of hybrid experience with the poem, as if poetry were a mind-altering drug, and the poet its pusher.
- The Richard Wilbur Forum
- Richard Wilbur page | Poetry Foundation: Richard Wilbur "is a poet for all of us, whose elegant words brim with wit and paradox," announced Librarian of Congress Daniel J. Boorstin when the poet succeeded Robert Penn Warren to become the second poet laureate of the United States. Elizabeth Kastor further quotes Boorstin in her Washington Post article: "He is also a poet's poet, at home in the long tradition of the traveled ways of the great poets of our language. . . . His poems are among the best our country has to offer."
- A Voice That Stands Alone - review of Richard Wilbur's poetry collection - The New York Sun
- Richard Wilbur (poet) | portion of videod interview | Peoples Archive
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