Sentences with phrase «own poet laureate»

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

Sailing Alone Around the Room, a sort of greatest - hits album by this former U.S. poet laureate, shows off the dazzling effects of his verse.

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.»

It is a sobering thought that Richard Wilbur, the two - time Pulitzer Prize - winning poet (1957, 1989) who was named poet laureate of the United States in 1987, is now ninety years old.

Recently, MoMA's first poet laureate, Kenneth Goldsmith, received national attention for teaching a course at the University of Pennsylvania titled «Wasting Time on the Internet.»

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.

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.

Cian: I found out about the People's Assembly about three years ago trawling the internet and I came across this guy called Stephen Morrison - Burke who was the [Birmingham] poet laureate and he presented the poem in the first People's Assembly event that Tony Benn was a part of.

The poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, the national poets of the four nations of the UK and the children's laureate Chris Riddell have chosen work to be included in the project.

Hundreds of writers have denounced the ban, including poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, AL Kennedy, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Ian Rankin, Irvine Welsh and Joanna Trollope.

«The poet laureate of the Tennessee Jews» is how The New York Times recently referred to Skidmore College professor Steve Stern.

Earlier this year, Bard College professor Robert Kelly was appointed Dutchess County's first poet laureate.

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

A trio of Ramapo poets: Marty Levine, Diane Weber and Harry Waitzman, will be joined by Rockland County's own poet laureate, Dan Masterson, on Wedesday, April 10, 7 p.m. at the community room of the New City Library.

Gordon Brown has already called into the book festival to see Carol Ann Duffy, the poet laureate, speak at a children's event — and Michael Moore, secretary of state for Scotland, is holding a reception in honour of the festival on 31 August.

Cuomo announced that, separately from the selections, Joseph Tusiani has been named poet laureate emeritus, recognizing his contributions to American and Italian literature.

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.

famous for her confessional writings and tempestuous relationship with husband Ted Hughes (Daniel Craig), England's poet laureate.

That these two are make - believe is pretty obvious (snippets of Byatt's horrible «Victorian» poems prove less Tennyson (the actual poet laureate in 1859) than «moony fifteen - year - old»); more surprising is the fact that besides being fictional, LaBute's historical lovers don't appear to have a pulse.

On the one hand, the picture is a heaving - bosoms bodice - ripper circa 1859 featuring fictional poet laureate Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam) and his correspondence - inspired love affair with fictional lesbian poet Christabel LaMotte (Jennifer Ehle).

Shore knows he's become an object of ridicule; Shyamalan thinks he's become a national treasure — or at least the poet laureate.

Roland Michell (Aaron Eckhart) is an American who has come to England to help with research involving poet Randolph Henry Ash (Jeremy Northam), the poet laureate to Queen Victoria and the subject of a centenary celebration of his love poems.

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.

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.

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»).

Modern cinema's poet laureates of working - class marginalization and spiritual crises, Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne are also bona fide motion - picture makers whose works bristle with the kind of propulsive thrust t...

The Kid with a Bike: Modern cinema's poets laureate of working - class marginalization and spiritual crises, Jean - Pierre and Luc Dardenne are also bona fide motion - picture makers whose works brim with t...

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.

Two - time poet laureate of the United States Billy Collins gives us our «recommended dietary allowance» of poetry, accompanied by animated videos of five of his poems.

Taylor Mali is sort of the poet laureate of teachers — he was a teacher for nine years and reached fame with his incredible piece «What Teachers Make.»

The hope of the new U.S. poet laureate is simple but profound: On every day of the school year, in every school in America, children will hear one poem read aloud.

That's a new award that we haven't had before and she is an amazing youth from Harvard College, a national youth poet laureate, and a spoken word artist.

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

Maybe it's because they serve longer terms (prior to Motion's appointment, the position was for life), but it seems like British poets laureate get a lot more press than their American counterparts.

The United States has a new poet laureate, Neil Gaiman is miffed with Amazon, and Judge Cote adds yet another case against Apple and the big five publishers.

Harshman is the poet laureate of West Virginia, and his poetry books include Green - Silver and Silent and the chapbook Rose of Sharon.

Poetry requires acts of exquisite selection and distillation that Smith, poet laureate of the United States, performs with virtuosity and passion throughout her profoundly affecting fourth collection.

These new collections will open your eyes to the ways a skilled poet can conjure fresh meaning from our familiar language.POET AT PLAYNamed England's poet laureate in 2009, Carol Ann Duffy writes linguistically extravagant poems that mix an...

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.»

A former United States poet laureate reflects on his career, and how his experiences of love, partnership, and aging helped shape the curatorial process for his newest collection.

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

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.

Illinois legislature revives «Amazon tax»; an open letter to Librarian of Congress James Billington; the state of Washington's new poet laureate; and other news.

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

First LA Poet Laureate The city of Los Angeles has elected its first poet laureate, Eloise Klein Healy.

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

Many a famous face has graced the Windsor during her history, including President Franklin D. Roosevelt, labor leader Eugene V. Debs, boxing champion John Sullivan, baseball greats Ty Cobb and «Shoeless Joe» Jackson, poet laureate Robert Bly, former President Constantinescu of Romania, entertainer Pat Boone, Chief Justice William Jennings Bryan, comedienne Rachel Feinstein, musicians John Orth and Blake Schwarzenbach, and in recent years Martin Sheen and his family.

Later, Kenneth Goldsmith, the Ubuweb founder who has been dubbed the MoMA poet laureate, provided a discourse on Brion Gysin's recipe for hash fudge, which became an unexpected legacy of Alice B. Toklas.

His monotype collaboration, with poet laureate Robert Pinsky, of Dante's Inferno confronts states of