Sentences with phrase «calling as a poet»

I've recently found my calling as a poet and a painter which requires long hours of solitude.

Not exact matches

With regard to a poet people speak of his having a call; but as for becoming a priest, it seems enough to the generality of men (and that means of Christians) that one has taken an examination.

He cites Botticelli's contemporary, the poet Buonincontri, who upended the classical pantheon in what could be called reverse Santeria, seeing Mercury as «Logos» and Venus as Mary.

I am first defining the poetic function in a negative manner, following Roman Jakobson, as the inverse of the referential function understood in a narrow descriptive sense, then in a positive way as what in my volume on metaphor I call the metaphorical reference.7 And in this regard, the most extreme paradox is that when language most enters into fiction — e.g., when a poet forges the plot of a tragedy — it most speaks truth because it redescribes reality so well known that it is taken for granted in terms of the new features of this plot.

The poem is called Individuality, and the title is significant as it shows how philosophical the poet was in this poem.

It is not simply that poets must work with ordinary words to say their new thing, but some poets are what Paul Van Buren calls «strange ones» for whom the ordinary things of life strike them as wonderful: «the decisive point to be made is that some men are struck by the ordinary, whereas most find it only ordinary.»

There are as many ways of going about this as there are Christian poets, for what a lyric poem offers is a personal focus, and what we get from various poems is what Philip Wheelwright calls «perspectival individuality» on reality.3.

Chief among Franco's artistic preoccupations is homosexuality, which he's explored in project after project, such as a biopic he directed and starred in of Hart Crane, the tortured gay 1920s - era poet, or a 2013 film — called Interior.

The remarkable site pits prominent poets such as Robert Pinsky, Charles Bernstein, and Mary Jo Salter against one other and the clock in what Gordon calls an agon, from the ancient Greek word meaning «contest» or «challenge.»

Once known as the «richest town in the world,» Brookline became known in the nineteenth and early twentieth century as the home of significant figures in the worlds of arts and culture: architect Henry Hobson Richardson, landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, poet Amy Lowell, and novelist Saul Bellow all called Brookline home.

I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter.

«As part of Little A's commitment to the discovery of new literary talent, we're expanding to become a home for emerging poets and their work,» said David Blum, Publisher and Editor - in - Chief of Little A. «We hope this open call for submissions will lead to a new and vibrant showcase for poetry collections.

The story of the wanderings of Ulysses, as he returns to his kingdom of Ithaca after the Trojan War, are ascribed to the blind poet Homer who either wrote, or dictated, the epic poem called THE ODYSSEY.

The atomized letters, «particulate matter» as Argue calls them, are culled from literary classics to thirteenth century poets such as Petrarch.

On Sunday, November 20, CALL artist Emmett Wigglesworth sat down with VoCA Program Committee Member Christie Mitchell to discuss his life, legacy, and prolific career as a muralist, painter, sculptor, fabric designer, and poet in New York City.

On Sunday, November 20, CALL artist Emmett Wigglesworth will sit down with VoCA Program Committee Member Christie Mitchell to discuss his life, legacy, and prolific career as a muralist, painter, sculptor, fabric designer and poet in New York City.

We know we use the word a lot, but this time we can certainly call the event E P I C as the two - hour durational event at the Brooklyn Museum included 2 DJ's, 5 poets, 10 visual artists, 11 performing artists and William Powhida!

Abstract Expressionist painters commonly spoke of being «in» their work, but as the poet Frank O'Hara observed, the Combines» call to explore their every aspect offered viewers a way to be «in» them as well.

The British artists of the First World War are well known, and the Second World War had its roll call of official war artists, but as far as the UK is concerned the Spanish Civil War was «the poets» war», to borrow Stephen Spender's term.

But as happens with most painters working within this style, an emphasis is inevitably drawn to feeling (the poet and MoMA curator Frank O'Hara, writing at the same time when the major painters of the time were working, has a poem called «In Memory of my Feelings»).

Though more closely identified with the San Francisco Beat artists and poets of the late 1950s and early 1960s, DeFeo also looked to the Surrealists a generation older than she, and drew from artists such as Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whom she once called her «north star.

On June 26th at a Chelsea bar called The Park, I was among a group of listeners as poet Jeremy Sigler described the inauguration of an ongoing intermedia event entitled Sculpture, in which a person (or persons) is invited by Sigler's secretary to occupy a darkened room, naked and silent, with Sigler, also naked and silent, for one hour.

During the hour, he called numerous celebrated intellectuals such as composer John Cage, science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke, futurist Herman Kahn, artist Joseph Beuys, novelist Jerzy Kosinski, poet Michael McClure, and asked, in various ways, the following:

Call him a painter, a poet and a dreamer; as a committed communicator, he is all of these and more.

Black Brook 18 radiates like an electric Rothko; Untitled Landscape I is like the largest folk painting ever made, and as magical; Untitled Cityscape 5 combines the mysteries of Goya's black paintings and Hopper's solitude; and Snow Scene 2 shows Katz embodying the state of grace that poet Wallace Stevens called «a mind of winter.»

That is also the topic behind the so - called ut pictura poesis, the Latin expression by the Roman poet Quinto Orazio Flacco which literally translates to: «as in painting so in poetry» — an across all disciplines - approach defined and advocated for centuries by artists and eloquence virtuosos.

His projective poetics was an inspiration to the so - called Black Mountain poets — a loose movement of teachers, such as Robert Duncan and Robert Creeley, and students at Black Mountain College — as well as other experimental poets such as Denise Levertov, who was published in the Black Mountain Review (which Creeley edited), and also Beat poets Allen Ginsberg and Michael McClure.

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).

Creed has developed an artistic voice that is surprisingly expansive and emotional, calling to mind the English Romantic poets of the late 18th and early 19th centuries, who sought to capture the beauty in what William Wordsworth described as «the real language of men».