Sentences with phrase «career as a poet»

Burgess» text, enhanced by Di Giacomo's collage illustrations, lyrically explores Cummings» life, from his childhood to his career as a poet.

Kathleen has authored two novels and several literary biographies, and began her career as a poet.

Burgess's text, enhanced by Di Giacomo's collage illustrations, explores Cummings» life from his childhood to his career as a poet.

The English art historian Edward Lucie - Smith, who began his career as a poet and an acolyte of Concrete Poetry, recently said of Montgomery's work simply, «Yes to this, and yes again.»

He moved to New York City in 1957 to pursue a career as a poet.

Peter Schjeldahl began his writing career as a poet and a follower of such New York School greats as John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch and the rest of their crowd.

He was born in Brussels in 1924 and began his artistic career as a poet and filmmaker before he decided to become a visual artist.

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But many days, she feels conflicted about her choice and what it's meant for her career as a professor and poet.

Dorfman became the most well - regarded user of the Polaroid 20x24 camera, taking a range of intimate portraits and during her career she befriended artists and poets as she assembled an incredible portfolio.

During his career as a stand - up comedian and actor, Williams starred in serious roles in movies like Dead Poets Society, Awakenings, Good Morning Vietnam, August Rush and Insomnia.

Like the Staten Island educator at the center of this film, The Kindergarten Teacher pushes boundaries and crosses lines as it navigates its way through a tricky story of a five - year - old boy (newcomer Parker Sevak), who shows an unreal gift for poetry, and his teacher, Lisa (a career - best performance by Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also one of the film's producers), who struggles in her adult - education class to be a poet as well, if only to add a bit of culture to a home life that offers her little by way of intellectual stimulation.

Dyslexia affects all walks of life and many dyslexics go on to have successful careers as actors, chefs, dancers, poets, scientists, computer technicians, teachers or indeed anything they choose to be.

Before this, though, Stevens lived and worked in New York City and began a separate career as a published poet in the modernist tradition.

While nonfiction authors might be rightly concerned with traffic to their site (as a part of their platform — overall visibility and reach), novelists, poets, and other creative writers should probably treat their site as a critical tool underpinning career - long marketing and promotion efforts, but not necessarily as an end in itself — unless you're generating content, blogging, or doing something to attract attention, which we're about to discuss.

Two of the world's largest publishers, Random House and Penguin, are discussing a merger; novelist Rick Moody was the victim of a ring of hackers and identity thieves; Donald Hall provides thoughts on the ubiquitous public poetry reading, and rich details from his career as an acclaimed poet; and other news.

One of the foremost American figurative painters of the twentieth century, Neel is known for her portraits of family, friends, and neighbors as well as the writers, poets, and other cultural and political figures she encountered in a career spanning the 1920s to the 1980s.

He has been described as an «artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist» and the exhibition will explore all possible facets of his career to date alongside a variety of work created specifically for the RA.

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.

Printmaking was an integral part of Finlay's career as a philosopher, sculptor and poet, and his lifelong creative relationship with language, politics, philosophy and mythology is highlighted in his printed works, which were often made in collaboration with other artists.

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.

Jackson credited her grandfathers — highly successful businessmen — for her entrepreneurial spirit, and her paternal grandmother and uncle — an artist and a poet, respectively — for her interest in art and her career as a collector and gallery owner.

Born in Brussels in 1924, Marcel Broodthaers was 40 when he added art to his career as a writer, art critic and poet, by performing a very decisive act: he dipped his collection of poetry Le Pense - Bête into plaster.

Marcel Broodthaers (1924 — 1976), the Belgian surrealist - conceptualist - minimalist, was a poet, photographer, filmmaker, and artist who throughout the 12 years of his very short career challenged the role of art, the artist and the art institution, and is now recognized as one of the most important artists of the last century.

A selection of recent paintings demonstrate the rich and bold palette that has gained international attention in recent years for an artist who has a long, successful career as a writer and poet.

Another influence on intellectual and creative thought has been the highly regarded Evening Lecture Series program, a forum for major artists, thinkers, critics, art historians and poets, as well as emerging and middle career individuals.

He was a painter, sculptor, poet and stage designer among other talents — his career included involvement in Fluxus performance during the 1960s, as well as Copenhagen's «eks - skolen» art school, set up in defiance of the city's traditional arts education.

Also on view are sculptures Edwards has made in Senegal over the past decade, as well as a selection of maquettes and prototypes reflecting his long career in public sculpture, and rarely exhibited works on paper, including sketchbooks and collaborations with the artist's late wife, the celebrated poet and performer Jayne Cortez.

An avant - garde musician and poet known as Captain Beefheart, Don Van Vliet relinquished his musical career in 1982 to concentrate almost exclusively on his drawing and painting.

Alejandro Anreus (b. 1960, Havana): Though he began his career as an artist, Anreus is now an art historian and poet, and is professor of art history at William Paterson University.

Jane enjoyed a prolific and accomplished career until her death in 2014, in the company of her poet friends from the New York School as well as artists from the Second Generation New York School.

This catalogue is the first publication to survey Wachtel's career, and features 40 color plates of works from the 1980s through today, as well as an insightful overview by curator Reto Thuring, an essay by poet and critic Quinn Latimer, and a conversation between Wachtel and curator Johanna Burton.

The poet and founder of the online avant - garde repository UbuWeb, Kenneth Goldsmith, is the keynote speaker of Frieze Talks, the fair's conversation series; he is perhaps as famous for inspiring young actors to upend their careers (earlier this year he encouraged Shia LaBeouf to declare his retirement from public life and #stopcreating) as for his long championing of «uncreativity» (he once spent months retyping a copy of The New York Times).

Including full - color plates of over sixty works spanning York's career, a new essay by poet and art critic Bruce Hainley, plus earlier essays by Fairfield Porter and Calvin Tomkins, an extensive chronology, a complete bibliography, and a detailed catalogue of works, this publication is a testament to, as Hainley puts it, York's «pursuit of lyric intensity while negotiating a point - blank confrontation with history — all in stealth relation to the leopard - alive instant at the end of the brush.»

The poet Charles Reznikoff spent part of his career as a contributor to the Corpus Juris and became fascinated with... [more]

The poet Charles Reznikoff spent part of his career as a contributor to the Corpus Juris and became fascinated with browsing through the law reports looking for cases involving «injury (death, assault, theft) due to primitive violence; injury due to negligence, particularly those caused by machinery..., and unusual characters or places — unusual and yet characteristic of the time.»