Sentences with phrase «of poetry collections»

EMANUEL XAVIER, an LGBT History Month Icon and Gay City News Impact Award recipient, is the author of the poetry collections Radiance, Nefarious, Americano, Pier Queen, If Jesus Were Gay and the novel Christ Like.

She is also the author of poetry collections Instructions for Killing the Jackal (Black Lawrence Press) and All the Bayou Stories End with Drowned (forthcoming, Black Lawrence Press).

Works that have been previously published are usually acceptable to editors of poetry collections.

We encounter poetry every day, of course, in its most populist forms — song lyrics, advertising — but the meager sales of poetry collections would indicate that few of us are curling up by the fire with a volume of verse.

Many literary journals publish reviews of poetry collections, provided you are willing to send a free book.

The volume also sponsored a veterans» writing competition, judged by Dr. Jenny Yang Cropp (author of the poetry collection String Theory, Assistant Professor at Southeast Missouri State University), Justin Dambach (photographer and videographer), Brandon Hobson (Pushcart Prize winner and author of Where the Dead Sit Talking), Dr. Joel P. Rhodes (Professor of History at Southeast Missouri State University), and Amanda Woods (Acting Director of the Office of Military and Veterans Services at Southeast Missouri State University).

There are so many directions you can take based on the theme of your poetry collection.

Plum is a peach of a poetry collection, a thoroughly engaging potpourri set off by magnificently rich illustrations.

She is the author of poetry collection Lessons on Expulsion and a young adult novel I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, a 2017 finalist for the National Book Award for Young People's Literature.

You won't get rich from the sales of your poetry collection.

She owned a well - worn copy of his poetry collection A Few Days and titled these paintings after the eponymous poem in 1985.

Michael Dumanis is the author of the poetry collection My Soviet Union, winner of the Juniper Prize for Poetry.

Derrick Brown is a noted slam poet and original member of the group The Poetry Revival, and Jason Bayani is author of the poetry collection «Amulet» and is a member of the Asian - American slam poetry trio, The Proletariat Bronze.

Matvei Yankelevich is the author of the poetry collection Alpha Donut, and a novella in fragments, Boris by the Sea.

Not exact matches

His other books included a volume of novellas, «The River Swimmer»; the poetry collections «Songs of Unreason» and «Returning to Earth»; and a memoir about food, «The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand.»

The Author correctly says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years» but she forgot the most important thing - the bible is mostly a work of fiction.

Ms. Boyd's review of Graber's poetry collection gave us one such occasion to stretch our poetic sympathies.

The Bible is a collection of stories, history, genealogies, poetry, songs, parables, testimonies and wise sayings.

I started with Anne of Green Gables, like most kids in Canada, but that initial sojourn turned into the entire series of eight (now nine, depending on who you ask) and then all of the Emily books, the one - offs and novels, the short - story collections and rare volume of poetry, the journals and the letters.

Were poetry something worthy of the name, perhaps it wouldn't be regarded by readers as dimly as the electric chair is by convicts Some hope for poetry» without the quotation marks» is rendered by the publication of David Yezzi's collection Azores.

You get together and try to make sense of the Christian bible, as if it were a guidebook for living instead of a motley collection of old myths, political writing, poetry, and history.

Not only the collection of poetry itself but even the physical book itself.

And I've gone back to my English major roots which have helped me see Scripture as a collection of various genres — from poetry to history to stories to philosophy to law.

books i read A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver — The latest collection of poetry from Mary Oliver.

But this beautiful and frustrating collection of stories, letters, laws, poetry, and prophecies certainly does.

When you consider the sheer weight of his life's work — nearly 50 works of nonfiction, 20 of fiction, and four collections of poetry — it's hard to believe the man ever left his desk.

The Bible is, in reality, a complex collection of historical documents, written over the course of at least 1,500 years, which represents various literary genres (everything from history to parables, poetry to pastoral letters and legal code to visions of the future), worldviews, languages, cultures, agendas and opinions.

The collection contains courtly poetry from her early years, elegant verse addressed to patrons and even in some cases to portraits of patrons — proof that Sor Juana could play the witty court games as skillfully as anyone.

He is the author of five collections of poetry, most recently 99 Poems: New & Selected, (2016).

In volume and in literary quality, the Old Testament is one of the world's great collections of the poetry of war.

Your statement that the bible is «an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own.»

Oh, and the «writings / scriptures / call them what you will» span a thousand years or more, are a collection of letters, poetry, history, etc..

Indeed, the whole thing seems to be a miscellaneous collection of poetry arranged in an artificial, rather than logical fashion.

The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own.

Not all Christians read the Bible literally but take much of it to be collections of folktales, poetry, and history that sometimes illustrate how difficult it can be to navigate through life and grapple with the questions of where we come from, where we're going, and how we are to live in the meantime.

The first, can appear the model of pure a priori thought, disengaged from the world of experience; the second, a massive collection of detailed descriptions and theories about the enormous variety of material phenomena, but with no intelligible unity; and the third an obscure and generally unrigorous rhapsody of affirmations and aspirations, at one end couched in the languages of politics and sentimentality, and at the other in the terms of a cosmic poetry unregulated by science or philosophy.

It is instead a widely varying collection of poetry, history, proverbs, moral directives, parables, letters and wondrous visions.

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....

No attentive reader of this collection of religious poetry can fail to notice how much of it is written in the first person singular.

She says «The Bible is an ancient collection of letters, laws, poetry, proverbs, histories, prophecies, philosophy and stories spanning multiple genres and assembled over thousands of years in cultures very different from our own.»

Gioia has published five full - length collections of poetry, as well as eight chapbooks.

There is nothing in the New Testament, for example, to parallel the large collections of «observations on life and the world - order,» which we call the wisdom literature of the Hebrew Scriptures, or its extensive range of liturgical poetry, or the detailed corpus of its laws on what we would regard as secular matters.

In the collection there is found included a great variety of literary forms, prose narratives, fables, fairy tales, much poetry of various sorts, a good deal of ballad form, reported sayings on many subjects, and fragments of epics.

Its poetry is of higher rank than that of most other collections.

There is no doubt that he was fond of poetry, and that he referred to this particular collection many times in his reported sayings.

Her first book, a poetry collection called Wind Rhymes will be published at the end of September.

Poetry of a Hobo Mama is a moving and essential collection of poetry that captures the journey of mothering from inception and loss, to birth and child development.

He added that the prestige associated with the prize saw the 184 entries of collections of poetry in various sizes and of diverse themes and set the stage for the stiff competition.

For their prizes, each was given a branded VFL Ghana bag containing; an android kiddy tablet, 10 exercise books, an Ewe — English Dictionary, Epistles to my Bubune (collections of letters), The Bloody Ingrate (story book), Nsempiisms (A collection of poetry, storytelling and satire), Love brewed in the African Pot (Africa's sensational film hit — Now a comic strip), This is Ghana (Tourism book), a food flask, a cutlery set, a portable radio set and a watch.

If genetics strikes you as inherently impersonal, check out this online collection of poetry and short prose inspired by the human genome.