Sentences with phrase «american poetry»

There is much to read at Natalie Czech's solo New York debut, and most of it is American poetry; there is also plenty of opportunity to gaze, since Czech's choice medium is photography.

Trumpeter - composer Marquis Hill's new body of work takes inspiration from the connection he has with African American poetry.

Sound & Sense: Poetic Musings in American Art explored the connections between American poetry and painting, sculpture, and decorative arts from the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art.

Frank O'Hara, who in 1960 curated Frankenthaler's first museum show, wrote about the new American poetry that: «It may be... that poetry brings forth the intangible quality of accidents which are all too concrete and circumstantial».

Taking place in his chosen hometown, the exhibition affords a unique opportunity for Giorno's contributions to be recognized within the canons of American poetry and art history, and celebrates the artist's 80th birthday.

His circle of friends and collaborators is diverse and comprised of the leaders in American poetry, film, painting and photography.

For his first solo show with the New York gallery, from February 17 through April 10 he is presenting new works with such inspirations as Surrealist literature, Latin American poetry, and Jean - Paul Sartre.

He was a major force in innovative American poetry from the 1950s to his death in 2004, as well as a significant experimental composer, performer, filmmaker, and visual artist.

Broadside Press is the oldest African American publisher of African American poetry in the United States.

Lawrence Holgerson is a noted collector of modern American poetry.

With these words the eminent poet Robert Bly beseeched Coleman Barks, then a teacher of 20th - century American poetry, to take on the task of rescuing Rumi's poetry from obscurity and allowing the music of this 13th century Afghan mystic to play its ancient melody for the American...

No specialized scholarly knowledge of American poetry is required.

As you develop and practice advanced strategies for studying American poetry ourselves, you also will gain rich new resources for the classroom.

High school English teachers can find numerous one - and two - day activities that weave together American poetry and ocean life in this curriculum from the Education Resources Information Center.

Then he told us about Walt Whitman, the wild man of American poetry whose energy and sensuality and wide experience of the human condition were dramatically different from Emily Dickinson's.

There was an equally strong Catholic presence in American poetry, which included Marie Howe, Franz Wright, Paul Mariani, Mary Karr, Carolyn Forché, Kevin Hart, Dana Gioia, Martha Serpas, Orlando Ricardo Menes, Janet McCann, Bruce Bond, Lise Goett, Jerry Harp, Madeleine DeFrees, and Timothy Murphy.

In 2014 he won the Aiken - Taylor Award for lifetime achievement in American poetry.

The new poems are often quite abstract and essayistic; they may be as direct and sustained in their exploration of theological issues as any significant American poetry in decades.

These writers represented nearly every aesthetic in American poetry.

And A.M. Juster is the best senior civil servant of whom American poetry can boast.

I cherish the vision of what could have been a great moment in American poetry.

Not exact matches

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

It combines the accuracy of the New American Standard (NAS) and the readability of the New International Version (NIV) with the poetry and dignity of the King James Version (KJV).

And part of the answer may reside, as well, in the Roman republican element in Astrue, which seems to have foreordained him to become the best translator of Latin poetry into a recognizable American idiom.

Dillard re-enacts the journey of many 19th - century English and American romantics who sought to construct a poetry of nature that was actually a record of their own interior lives stimulated or prompted by encounters with nature.

The Swallow Anthology of New American Poets edited by David Yezzi Swallow Press, 360 pages, $ 19.95 In his introduction, editor and contributor David Yezzi suggests that this collection reconciles the traditional division in the poetry world between those who prefer classical forms and those who....

Gioia's latest essay, «The Catholic Writer Today,» published in the December 2013 issue of First Things, bears a striking resemblance to his Atlantic essay on poetry: Like its predecessor, it takes in a wide sweep of literary history, pointedly details a deplorable situation — «Catholicism currently enjoys almost no positive presence in the American fine arts» — and seeks to rally those who care to action.

, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture.

His poetry collection, Interrogations at Noon, won the 2002 American Book Award.

American cheese for me please The way you talk about this stew is cross between romantic poetry and new age smut; which is the best kind of food writing.

February 21: Explore invention, dance, poetry, art - making, and short films at the Mary Baker Eddy Library's Untold American Stories / Black History Month (Boston)

The performance was «science poetry,» says Marco Cattaneo, the editor of Le Scienze, the Italian version of Scientific American, based in Rome.

There is always the perfect person just for you, with that being said I love football which I still play (not the American one) love poetry listening and writing, among other things.

I'm A 35 years old Native American who loves poetry and Having fun I'm not looking for anything serious just want to have some adult fun with a sexy woman

The excitement of the Beat Generation (TM) s rebellion against the social conservatism of the 1950 (TM) s is highlighted by the famous Beat public poetry reading gs that jump - started social awareness and impacted the tone and character of American culture.

Michael Altman's, American Songwriter is a kaleidoscopic musical road trip down a million mile highway of poetry, philosophy and life featuring Nashville hit songwriter, Danny Darst.

Albert Maysles, who died on March 6 at the age of 88, was an American treasure, a documentary filmmaker for whom anything was a potential subject, simply because it happened, and who discovered poetry in the...

The Harlem Renaissance from 1918 - 1929 and the rebirth of African American culture and intelligence through art, poetry, and the written word were explored through the eyes of racism, homophobia, and age discrimination.

I credit Harmony Korine and David Gordon Green with first finding the poetry in destitution in this new American cycle, with maybe Gus Van Sant (with his Drugstore Cowboy and My Own Private Idaho) acting as the accidental primogenitor.

African American Wedding Readings brings together a unique collection of original and previously published poetry, prose, verse, songs, and love letters by African Americans that celebrate the joyous occasion of marriage.

Scott's film aims for some kind of ironic poetry of American Exceptionalism, the characters do little to get their hands dirty directly, and yet suffer all the consequences.

Plenty of children, however, probably will be bored, unfortunately, and unwilling or unable to appreciate the poetry of the presentation, which should be evident for the niche audience that Sony Pictures Classics targeted in the film's limited North American theatrical release.

He makes his way across a bleak black & white landscape with the help of a poetry - loving Native American (Gary Farmer) who decides that this William Blake is the William Blake — even if he is a «stupid fucking white man.»

In 1996, April was named National Poetry Month by the Academy of American Poets to celebrate poetry across the country.

One girl recited poetry about the African American poet Phillis Wheatley, who isn't in the play, and another reworked the rapper Drake's piece «5AM in Toronto» to depict the Boston Massacre.

African American History Through the Arts: In this collection from ArtsEdge, students can explore black history through the lens of a variety of artistic disciplines, including music, poetry, and dance.

New is a scholar in the fields of American Poetry and American Literature and the author of numerous writings on theology and innovation in poetry, how poetry «sees,» and the works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Susan Howe, and others.

The Favorite Poem Project Seeks to improve poetry's place in American classrooms by encouraging active, engaging poetry lessons that emphasize a direct, vocal connection to poems.

His essays on race and education regularly appear in The New Yorker and The Atlantic; he was the 2014 National Poetry Slam champion; and his debut collection of poetry, Counting Descent, won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association.

She has won Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council in both poetry and fiction and is one of the few American writers listed as both a poet and a writer in the Directory of American Poets and Writers.