Sentences with phrase «of young poets»

«On opening night Saturday, June 22nd, Phoenix Military Academy will perform along with a selection of young poets performing their spoken word to viewers as they ride in classic muscle cars, through Wicker Park and Humboldt Park, in a piece titled «Drive by in 5 Acts.»

Many of these young poets and artists had moved to New York in the late 1940s to learn from older downtown painters such as de Kooning, Pollock and Kline, who had worked for decades in isolation and penury.

This award - winning documentary follows three of these young poets and as they tell their story.

McAuley was blind drunk, full of wild slogans about art and politics, and looked wrecked even by the usual standards of young poets.

Amos N. Wilder, whom in 1923 won the Yale Series of Younger Poets annual prize, in 1991 at age ninety - five published his book, The Bible and the Literary Critic.

Andrés Farías (co - writer / director) and Laura Conyedo Barral (co-writer) / Candela (Dominican Republic / Cuba): The lives of three strangers in Santo Domingo — the daughter of a district prosecutor, a lone alcoholic cop, and a drag queen cabaret performer — intertwine on the eve of a hurricane following the murder of a young poet and drug dealer.

Richard Siken has received high praise from fellow poets such as Louise Glück, as well as critics at the New York Times, and has won numerous awards, including the Pushcart Prize and the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.

Not exact matches

Gladwell writes that a disproportionately large number of renowned people, from British prime ministers to famous poets, lost a parent while they were young.

The daughter of the famed poet Lord Byron, Lovelace's mother had her thoroughly schooled in math and sciences as a bulwark against the young woman exhibiting too many of her dad's literary tendencies.

No, the things the young Robert Lowell needed most as a poet were a coherent system of thought, a rich set of symbols, and a powerful collection of truths with which to begin his work.

I once accused the young convert poet Robert Lowell of espousing Catholicism with all the marital fidelity of a gigolo on the make.

«Anyone who does just a little digging on Bethke's YouTube channel or on Google will quickly learn that this young poet is a conservative Christian and member of the Mars Hill Church led by controversial pastor Mark Driscoll,» writes Patheos blogger Brian Kirk, a Missouri - based pastor.

It was Williams the publisher who met a young W. H. Auden, then an agnostic poet, to discuss his Oxford Book of Light Verse, for which he was paid # 100 in 1938.

After a long evening of discussion of Santayana's recent verse play, Lucifer: A Theological Tragedy, the young poet was asked to read a sonnet of his own.

Some of the most applicable advice on this score comes from the poet Rainer Maria Rilke in his Letters to a Young Poet:

He «adores,» he says, such poets as Richard Hugo and Linda Pastan, and as a young poet he began trying to write in the style of his antithesis, Robert Creeley.

The poets, Socrates complains early on in the Republic, thoughtlessly arouse emotions that cloud the citizen's judgment; they present pictures of the gods» behavior that young persons should be shielded from, lest they copy the shameful actions of the immortals.

One of the favorite liberal expressions to come Out of the 1970s was inspired by a misreading of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke's advice in his Letters to a Young Poet, «Do not now seek the answers,..

SLU programs bring in a younger generation of popular evangelical speakers, including Catalyst founder Brad Lomenick, evangelist D. A. Horton, and spoken - word poet Amena Brown.

Beginning with A Crackling of Thorns, which won the Yale Younger Poets Series in 1958, Hollander published over twenty volumes of verse and several works of criticism and anthology.

He expressed his own view of the importance of education to his old poet friend Eobanus in March 1523, in a letter which takes us into the Renaissance world of the humanists: «I do not intend that young people should give up poetry and rhetoric... it is through these studies, as through nothing else, that people are really well prepared for grasping sacred truths, as well as for handling them skilfully and successfully.»

Calling on his own experiences of growing up in California's Central Valley, poet Gary Soto brings to life the joys and pains of young people everywhere.

Steve Coogan has backed Jeremy Corbyn to be prime minister and quoted one of the major English Romantic poets in a bid to get young voters out to vote.

Louise was named young poet of the year in 1989 at the age of 18 and swent on to study English at Christ Church College, Oxford.

Holt was among more than 50 speakers representing the full span of scientific and engineering disciplines, along with physicians, educators, academics, entrepreneurs, musicians, communicators, poets and aspiring young scientists who addressed the wet but enthusiastic thousands who poured onto the National Mall and later marched to the U.S. Capitol.

A collection of personal letters written by the renowned poet Rilke to a young aspiring poet, the book is calming and reassuring.

Okay, I know I always say this little blog is all things Sue, but today I want to introduce you to a talented young friend of mine... Lydia Hol... poet, storyteller, and multi-instrumentalist.

I'm a very opening minded young man with inspirations of being a poet and a musician; I love playing with the guitar; I currently have a janitor job that's full time in Mason; I live in Lebanon, Ohio; I really wan na live and be alive and eventually get away from mainstream society and money all...

Darius Lovehall is a young black poet in Chicago who Velen, also called No Man's Land, is a province situated in northern Temeria, north of its capital Gors Velen.

Fiennes had a splashy introduction to the screen: He was Heathcliff to Juliette Binoche's Cathy in a TV version of Wuthering Heights; he was the German officer in Schindler's List, fully committed to the pathology and vanity of the man; he was a bright young hope with a serious deficiency of character in Robert Redford's Quiz Show; and he was Almasy, a desert poet, a reckless lover, and on his death - bed much of the time in The English Patient.

Maya Dardel (Lena Olin), an internationally respected poet and novelist, announces on National Public Radio that she intends to end her life and that young male writers may compete to become the executor of her estate.

What was born on the streets of the South Bronx has now taken root globally and the young poets of New York have helped to spawn regional dialects everywhere.

Against the backdrop of 19th Century Paris and the famed Montmartre cabaret, this is the story of the doomed love affair between Christian (McGregor), a young poet, and Satine (Kidman), a courtesan and performer at the Moulin Rouge.

On an island off the coast of Italy, a young postman's world is changed when he begins delivering letters to the exiled poet Pablo Neruda.

His Iran Is My Homeland follows a young man who travels to Tehran to publish a history of Persian literature; along the way, five major poets — Sa'adi, Rumi, Hafiz.

He always has a way of bringing out sincere and moving performances from young actors (Dead Poets Society, Witness) and this is probably his best movie.

It is said that this radiant young American is the daughter of a respected poet and model («She was the best - dressed poet, writing transporting little verses in between fashion shoots»).

SYNOPSIS: Based on Boris Pasternak's novel of the same name, this is a love story between poet and doctor Yuri Zhivago and young nurse, Lara.

It's the gentle, groggy call of a young wife whose name is never mentioned (Jennifer Lawrence, increasingly rattled) who wakes up alone in bed, uncertain of the whereabouts of her intense poet husband (Javier Bardem) or her general status in the isolated farmhouse they're renovating.

The story of Mary Shelley (née Mary Wollestonecraft Godwin) is ripe for the biopic treatment, containing as it does young love, romantic poets, disgrace, tragedy and events leading up to the creation of the almighty horror parable, «Frankenstein»; subtitled «or, The Modern Prometheus».

Plot: Living a tranquil, rural lifestyle with her poet husband (Javier Bardem), a young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) begins to feel threatened when the arrival of a mysterious couple (Ed Harris & Michelle Pfeiffer) disrupt her quite country home.

Two other Turkish films from noted auteurs were in the retrospective section: Semih Kaplanoglu's Süt (Milk, 2008), a rich story of a young man's quest to become a poet, done with sharp social observation by the director, but degenerating into hazy symbolism by the end, a device that also marred the director's next film, Mal (Honey, 2010); and Kasaba (Small Town, 1997) by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the director's debut feature, already displaying his steady hand and broad compassion.

Director Volker Schlöndorff had already made three feature films (including his influential 1966 debut, Young Törless) by the time he tackled this project, casting a twenty - four - year - old Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the role of a booze - soaked, womanizing poet who goes on a scorched - earth bender across the German countryside.

A pokey plot thickens around the disappearance of a phlegmatic young poet, Sidney Giblet (Steven Mackintosh), suitor to Hugo and Harriet's daughter, Cleo (Lena Headey, «The Jungle Book»).

Detailing nearly four decades of the poet's life, «A Quiet Passion» follows Dickinson (played in younger years by Emma Bell and for the bulk of the film by a remarkable Cynthia Nixon) as she struggles with religious, proper society, artistic recognition and encroaching death.

Because Mona Lisa Smile is Dead Poets Society with women, it's set in an exclusive same - gendered school in a sepia Fifties past where lockstep cardboard student types get a moment in the sun before succumbing to the role of helpmeet for the bohemian professor, too good for the best and too young to die.

Daveed Diggs (right) and poet, educator and playwright Chinaka Hodge answer questions from young people at the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco.

In a rare series of candid interviews in 1971, the young and — at the time, virtually unknown — New York rock - poet Patti Smith discussed her bittersweet love affair with the Big Apple and...

Set in the Sixties at an exclusive all - boys prep school, The Emperor's Club is immediately recognizable as another iteration of Dead Poets Society, even more so when one realizes that the film features the same quartet of student types (the troubled one, the trickster, the bookish one, the gregarious one — also the same breakdown you'll find in Stand By Me, come to think of it) and the same crinkly - eyed inspirational professor who finds a lesson for young lives in the heartening words of dead versifiers.

It's his own kind of Wizard of Oz adventure and he's accompanied down his yellow silk road by a drunken poet and martial arts master (Jackie Chan, revisiting his famous Drunken Master character), a silent monk (Jet Li), and a young woman (Liu Yifei) with throwing knives and a wicked arm.