Sentences with phrase «writers as poets»

Might I suggest that what writers as poets have to offer is a unique penetration of universal issues via carefully chosen particular experiences and persons.

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The official Instagram account for Italian museums is sharing art by women of all walks of life, as «saints and prostitutes, goddesses and commoners, intellectuals and artists, actresses and martyrs, writers and poets, mothers, Madonnas and revolutionaries.»

He observes, however, that «the modernist desire in Frost and Eliot — to preserve an independent selfhood against the coercions of the market, a self made secure by the creation of a unique style — is subverted by the market, not because they wrote according to popular formulas, but because they give us their poems as delicious experiences of voyeurism, illusions of direct access to the life and thought of the famous writer, with the poet inside the poem like a rare animal in a zoo.

She works as a freelance writer by day, poet and fiction writer by whenever life gives her a few free moments.

Mary Karr, one of the writers Gioia mentions, shares this belief as well, confessing, «Poets were my first priests, and poetry itself my first altar.»

The writer's own favorite version, is that of Sir Edwin Arnold which, while not as scholarly as many versions, has caught the spirit of the poet author and rendered it into very beautiful English poetic form.

The following quotes about moms were written as far back as the 18th century and come to us from many well - known authors, song writers, poets and many other influential people.

As part of its Hispanic Heritage Month celebration, the Library of Congress has launched an online selection of recordings from its Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape, a series of audio recordings of renowned poets and prose writers...

Classically trained poets and writers at the time would have been exposed to a few sources that painted ancient Romans as just the sort of people who would vomit just to eat more.

In 1909 a coterie of intellectuals, including writer Franz Kafka, composer Giacomo Puccini, and poet and aviator Gabriele D'Annunzio, flocked to Brescia, Italy, to watch the world's leading aviators as they competed for prizes in speed, altitude, and distance.

Stephen shares his talents as an acclaimed poet / writer, offering insights into the path to wholeness with a potently compelling voice.

It's no easy feat to make a living as a writer, as any aspiring novelist, columnist, or poet will be happy to tell you.

This look at the brief life of troubled American poet Hart Crane is a real one - man show as its star James Franco also serves as writer, director, producer, and editor.

The buzz: Fox President Hutch Parker says his studio spent a year wooing four - time best director nominee Weir («The Truman Show,» «Green Card,» «Dead Poets Society,» «Witness»), who took charge as writer, director and producer.

But there may never have been a project so obviously suited to the actor - poet - writer - philosopher - pretty - plausible - as - a-weed-dealer as The Disaster Artist, which is about the making of the terrible 2003 film The Room.

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.

For however half - baked and half - witted the writer / director / actor / poet / professor / artist can come across as, there's something genuinely unnerving about casting his baby browns and easy grin as those of a bonafide psychopath but, due to a script that is decidedly set to simmer, he never gets to really explore the character's darkest depths to fulfilling — or particularly worthwhile — degree.

Godard is a great poet — and I mean as a writer, of film reviews, etc. — as well as a filmmaker.

As Cuban poet and writer Reinaldo Arenas, Bardem delivers a soulful performance filled with understanding and understatement.

Shrouded in secrecy before its release, Jennifer Lawrence stars as a young woman settling into life with her husband (Javier Bardem), a poet with writer's block.

Thus was born the story of Kennedy's presidency as a golden period, described as «a magic moment in American history, when gallant men danced with beautiful women, when great deeds were done, when artists, writers, and poets met at the White House, and the barbarians beyond the walls held back.»

Elle Fanning will star as the eponymous legendary writer opposite Douglas Booth, who will play the influential English poet Percy Shelley.

I invite local writers — including newspaper reporters, published authors of books, poets, songwriters, bloggers, and journalers — to spend the day talking with and teaching students about their lives as writers.

10 - Oliver Goldsmith: An Anglo - Irish writer and poet, Goldsmith is well - known for his novel The Vicar of Wakefield as well as numerous poems.

Award - winning poet Anthony Anaxagorou will host the Young Writers Showcase, celebrating the talent of the young people engaged with Beyond Words and Cheltenham Festivals First Story as they perform highlights from their professionally published anthologies.

This year's line - up looks to be just as impressive, with manga artist Matthew Lin, novelist Will Kostakis, children's author Tim Harris, writer Ursula Dubosarsky, Indigenous visual poet Kirli Saunders and spoken word artist L - Fresh the Lion all on the bill.

Featuring extracts of medieval drama, epic poetry, dream visions and riddles alongside over 20 articles exploring themes such as gender, faith and heroism written by poets, academics and writers including Simon Armitage, Hetta Howes and David Crystal, Discovering Literature: Medieval offers unprecedented access to the British Library's collections and provides contemporary scholarly insight for young people and learners across the world.

Writers, poets, lawyers and speakers are among those that Howard Gardner sees as having high linguistic intelligence.

She has won Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council in both poetry and fiction and is one of the few American writers listed as both a poet and a writer in the Directory of American Poets and Wwriters listed as both a poet and a writer in the Directory of American Poets and WritersWriters.

And I think once that cage that they have in their minds around how they define poetry is unlocked, it opens up room for them to think of themselves as writers and as poets.

Psychologists, writers, philosphers, and poets are among those that Gardner sees as having high intrapersonal intelligence.

This blog is to review books I have read or is going to be reading, and to interview authors, writers, poets.Also It's going to be about new and upcoming books, as well as old ones, and to share info about being a aspiring writer, author, poet.

I write poetry and consider myself a poet as well as an author and writer and for that matter, also a journalist.

Landmark works include early editions of French writers such as the poet Clement Marot and the historian Philippe de Commynes; the first editions of major scientific texts including Christian Huyghens» Horologium oscillatorium (Paris, 1673) and Pierre de Fermat's collected works (Toulouse, 1679), among many others.

The dabbling poet and short story writer, who'd been raised in the same mining village as D H Lawrence, and who had made his living in the oil industry, broadcasting, banking, and as an international management consultant in fields ranging from parliaments to law enforcement, suddenly found himself struck by the idea that this fascinating country — in such a complex state of temporal and national limbo — would make an extraordinary setting for a crime thriller.

It also does not include authors who use the internet as a medium for publishing work directly for Australian and international readerships, for example a number of Australian poets, literary and other writers.

As a writer and poet, he has a long string of extremely minor successes.

Our members include novelists, historians, journalists, and poets — traditionally and independently published — as well as literary agents and representatives of writers» estates.

And writer and poet Cody Sisco cinched the risk factor which, everyone agreed, will be a key part of any effort in profit - sharing as self - publishing grows.

However, this might change soon, as my friend the writer, poet and creative thinking coach Orna Ross has just recommended to me a voice - activated writing software package that sounds a great way of speeding up the writing part.

Writing as though we are observing Shakespeare and his circle of friends, patrons, managers, and fellow actors and writers, Ackroyd is able to see Shakespeare's genius from within, so we feel that Ackroyd the writer merges with Shakespeare the writer, the poet, the man; and thus with great sympathy and clarity we experience the way in which Shakespeare worked.

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The Good Hart Residency Program offers two - to three - week residencies to poets, fiction writers, and creative nonfiction writers in Good Hart, Michigan, a rural town on the scenic route known as the «Tunnel of Trees,» within walking distance to...

The conference offered panels and talks for poets, fiction writers, and nonfiction writers, as well as one - on - one pitch sessions with agents for writers who are working on book - length manuscripts.

Agents will represent poets as long as they're also novelists, or at least short story writers.

Or is it, as Philip Jones writes at The FutureBook, «A boon for serial writers, a nightmare for poets»?

I write because history shows us — heck, The Daily Show and Roxane Gay and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and thousands of journalists and bloggers and working poets and writers literally show us every day — that it's the best weapon against hopelessness and despair and loneliness, mightier than tear gas and homophobia and injustice and corrupt politicians and fracking and every other evil in the world, and every bit as necessary for reaching our human potential as oxygen is for continued function of the brain.

Expert: Carolyn Howard - Johnson I like to think of myself as a writer of fiction and a poet.

In the world of literature, writers famous for shunning the limelight include the novelists J. D. Salinger and Harper Lee, but American poet, Emily Dickinson, unknown as a writer in her lifetime, may have been seriously agoraphobic.

There is talk of Samuel Beckett (a writer both men count as a major influence) and Kafka, of whether there are any contemporary poets producing important work (Auster says yes, Coetzee is not so sure), and a bit of dishing about such high - profile writers as Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen.