Sentences with phrase «as the poet laureate»

Left - wing critics who had adopted Auden as their poet laureate now deplored his return to the church.

As poet laureate, Hall says he is eager to do his part in the difficult task of popularizing hisart form, so SI asked him to name the five best baseball poems ever written.But the request seems to make him cranky.

WAMC's Hudson Valley Bureau Chief spoke with Robert Kelly about that night and what he has planned as poet laureate.

He says he did not know what to expect from the Dutchess County executive's state of the county speech or from his role as poet laureate.

Greta Gerwig, the one - time mumblecore starlet who wrote and directed the movie, has already established herself as a poet laureate of anxious youth, having co-authored and starred in Noah Baumbach's bittersweet, screwball study of arrested development, Frances Ha.

Natasha Trethewey's term as poet laureate comes to an end; OverDrive partners with Smashwords; Goodreads connects readers with authors; and other news.

There are many paths to success, perhaps one path is as the poet laureate of the Gossip Girl franchise.

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In the era of Woodstock and Port Huron, Haggard was viewed as a kind of counter to Joan Baez, a poet laureate of Richard Nixon's «silent majority» who took a direct shot at the 1960s hippie scene and student protests in his most famous song, «Okie from Muskogee.»

The night will feature live, true and personal stories from gifted storytellers including Jodi Lasseter of North Carolina League of Conservation Voters and Gary Phillips, poet laureate of Carrboro (pictured below), as well as TC Muhammad of Hip Hop Caucus, youth activist Cole Rasenberger and more.

This laudatory documentary recounts the life and work of writer Charles Bukowski, who survived a youth of boozing and fighting on Los Angeles» Skid Row to become famous as the «poet laureate of the gutter» and a hero to the counterculture.

Returning to this desert - dry whimsical world of misfits, along with Ryan, Posey, and Aiken, is James Urbaniak as garbage - man - turned - poet - laureate Simon Grim, who steals every scene he's in with his succinct and deadliest deadpan delivery of Hartley's epigrammatic dialogue.

There's even Jeffrey Dean Morgan as what I can only describe as an action hero version of Andy Daly's Dalton Wilcox character («the poet laureate of the west»).

by Walter Chaw Genre poetry from B - movies» poet laureate, Quentin Tarantino's conclusion to Kill Bill is marked by the filmmaker's carefully - calibrated celluloid insanity, as well as a deceptive maturity that allows a few powerfully - struck grace notes for the cult of femininity and the sanctity of motherhood.

As our national poetry month ends, the 10 - year term for Britain's new poet laureate, Glasgow - born Carol Ann Duffy, begins.

Today, 44 states have acting poet laureates, and April is acknowledged as a time for recognizing the beauty and power of verse.

The first blurb is from Billy Collins, acclaimed poet and former U.S. poet laureate, who describes Gorokova's account of growing up in the Soviet Union as «the Russian equivalent of Angela's Ashes.»

Natasha Trethewey's term as the nineteenth poet laureate of the United States, during which she has been tasked with raising the country's awareness of poetry, comes to an end this month.

The 18th century poet laureate of Scotland, Robert Burns, accurately described the essence of the Border Collie, describing it as «honest» and «faithful».

With words and images at the heart of her practice, and moving between analog and digital modes of assemblage, Stark has been heralded by the Los Angeles Times as «the visual poet laureate of the Internet age.»

Billed as «the most comprehensive survey to date» of the work of Frances Stark (herself billed as «the visual poet laureate of the Internet age» by the Los Angeles Times), MFA Boston's upcoming show brings together pieces from the past 25 years of the Los Angeles - based artist's varied and occasionally shocking career.

His lush mauves, pinks, greens, silvery whites, tea browns and soft yellows establish a lyrical resonance that has led John Canady to refer to Avery as the lyrical poet laureate of American painting.

In 1956, the American poet Randall Jarrell was selected as a consultant in poetry to the Library of Congress (a position now called poet laureate).

[13] It is also the source of the words baccalaureate and poet laureate, as well as the expressions «assume the laurel» and «resting on one's laurels».

The chances are certainly now stacked against the sortof heavy snowfall in cities that inspired Impressionist painters, such as Sisley, and the 19th century poet laureate Robert Bridges, who wrote in «London Snow» of it, «stealthily and perpetually settling and loosely lying».

Now as Arizona's first poet laureate, Rios has a platform for his «poems of public...