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Poet Laureate Defined
A poet honored for his artistic achievement or selected as most representative of his country or area; in England, a court official appointed by the sovereign, whose original duties included the composition of odes in honor of the sovereign's birthday and in celebration of State occasions of importance.
Sidelight: The term comes from an old custom of presenting laurel wreaths to university graduates in rhetoric and poetry. In France, distinguished writers are crowned with a wreath when honored by election to the Académie française.
(See Occasional Poem)
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U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins To Be At Covenant College
Published January 9, 2009, 6:51 am, The Chattanoogan
Covenant College presents a poetry reading by U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins on Wednesday, Jan. 21, at 8 p.m. in the chapel auditorium of its Lookout Mountain campus. The event is free and open to the public, and Mr. Collins will be on hand following the presentation for a book-signing.
Linked by ink
Published January 8, 2009, 11:03 pm, Santa Fe New Mexican
Nebraska native Willa Cather got the idea for her historical novel Death Comes for the Archbishop in 1925 while holed up at La Fonda, just down the street from St. Francis Cathedral, which was built by the pioneer Archbishop Jean-Baptiste Lamy. The archbishop was a model for Cather's novel's protagonist, and a 1908 biography about Lamy's vicar, the Rev. Joseph Machebeuf, offered details about ...
A lasting tribute set in stone
Published January 8, 2009, 10:25 pm, Cleveland Jewish News
The few square feet or inches on the face of a tombstone are precious territory upon which to immortalize someone. The CJN asked readers to tell us about unique tributes they had inscribed on the tombstones of loved ones.
Simple stage for classic poem
Published January 8, 2009, 1:09 pm, The Japan Times
If soaring words and soulful music are what you seek from theatergoing, then look no further than "Enoch Arden," the first program in Tokyo-based production company Total Stage Produce's series, titled "A Link Between Words/Language and Music." This performance-recital of the great 19th-century English Poet Laureate Alfred Tennyson's moving work of the same name is staged by TSP in the ...
Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet regains citizenship
Published January 7, 2009, 9:31 pm, Guardian Unlimited
Turkey is restoring the citizenship of its most famous 20th century poet Nazim Hikmet over 50 years after it branded him a traitor. Hikmet, a communist who died in exile in Moscow in 1963, was imprisoned in Turkey for more than a decade. He was stripped of his Turkish nationality in 1951 because of his communist views, but despite a ban on his poetry which remained in place until 1965, ...
Tim Footman: Where have all the poems gone?
Published January 6, 2009, 5:04 am, Guardian Unlimited
Chronology prevented me from witnessing Adrian Mitchell's searing rendition of his polemic To Whom It May Concern (better known by its refrain: "Tell me lies about Vietnam") at London's Albert Hall in 1965. I was there, however, for the return match in 1984. Mitchell, who died at the weekend , raged against the Falklands war, and then proceeded to do the Vietnam poem all over again. He ...
Poet Adrian Mitchell dies, aged 76
Published January 4, 2009, 7:38 am, Guardian Unlimited
The poet and playwright Adrian Mitchell, in whom the legacies of Blake and Brecht coalesce with the zip of Little Richard and the swing of Chuck Berry, has died of heart failure at the age of 76. In his many public performances in this country and around the world, he shifted English poetry from correctness and formality towards inclusiveness and political passion. Mitchell's original plays ...
On Poetry: Inaugural poems
Published January 4, 2009, 7:02 am, Traverse City Record-Eagle
In honor of the inauguration of Barack Obama, I offer this poem I wrote when President Clinton took office in 1997. Miller Williams -- the poet Clinton chose to give the inaugural poem -- had been one of my professors at the University of Arkansas. In the poem, I jokingly pout because Clinton didn't ask me, instead.
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Published January 4, 2009, 1:06 am, Wandsworth Guardian
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Yale poet prepares for inauguration tribute
Published January 3, 2009, 11:10 pm, Cape Cod Times
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Elizabeth Alexander was a toddler in a baby stroller when her parents took her to hear Martin Luther King's historic "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington.
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- Prairie Home Companion - November 30, 2002 - Audio: Live from the Town Hall on West 43rd Street in New York City, with U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins
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- Ted Hughes - Poetry Archive: The moors, industrially-s carred surroundings were keys of his imagination: unflinching observation of the natural world, the shaping, often damaging, presence of man. Strong dissenting tradition; critique of utilitarian rationalism of Western culture.
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