Sentences with phrase «younger poets who»

Michael Gothard stars in this 1967 film about a young poet who hires a marketing company to turn his suicide into a mass - media event.

Albert Markovski (Jason Schwartzman) is an intense young poet who works with an ecological group called «Open Spaces».

In the novel, a young poet who lives on the bridge uses his imagination to resurrect the bridge's architect and the life of the bridge itself, which was one of the wonders of the world.

Not exact matches

«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.

Go with Rainer Maria Rilke, too, who on August 12, 1904 wrote from Sweden to a young poet he never met (what a good Elijah person he was!)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A callow college grad (Callum Turner) romances an older woman (Kate Beckinsale) who happens to be dating his father (Pierce Brosnan), all while a gruff poet (Jeff Bridges) dispenses advice to the lovelorn young man.

Amour Fou (Unrated) Costume drama, set in Berlin in the Romantic Era, about a young poet (Christian Friedel) who enters a suicide pact with a terminally - ill socialite (Schnoeink) after failing to convince his kissing cousin (Sandra Hueller) to do so.

The setup is straightforward: Jennifer Lawrence plays a young woman married to a celebrated poet, who is played by Javier Bardem.

These skills will help young people from the most avid poet to the student of English who is simply experimenting with a new art form.

Music teachers, for example, are often talented conductors and producers who are able to express their personal interests while engaging young musicians, and English teachers may be poets or authors in their spare time and inspire the next JK Rowling in the classroom.

The editors have carefully chosen something to appeal to everyone: anonymous murder ballads dating back centuries; the immaculately crafted first person monologues of Victorian poets Robert Browning and Thomas Hardy; Tony Barnstone's contemporary sonnets dedicated to pulp fiction themes; and Philip B. Williams's incendiary tale of a cross-dressing young man who guns down his parents.

WRITERS IN THE SCHOOLS RESIDENCY Writers in the Schools (WITS), a program of Seattle Arts & Lectures, is looking for creative writers — poets, fiction writers, creative nonfiction writers, cartoonists / graphic novelists, and playwrights — who are passionate about teaching the power and pleasure of writing to young people and who are excited to collaborate with public school teachers.

The youngest great poet in history, who quit literature altogether at 19 to become an opportunistic African «trader» in guns, among other commodities, Rimbaud set and often exceeded the practice of flouting all propriety, which avant - gardists have followed ever since.

In the acknowledgments in Augustown, Kei Miller reveals that the novel was inspired by a story told to him by fellow poet Ishion Hutchinson, who had his dreadlocks cut off by a teacher when he was a young boy in Jamaica.

Seeking out poets who offer many diverse viewpoints enables us to show young readers both the similarities and the differences that make the human landscape so dynamic and interesting.

Jason Taylor, its narrator, is a sensitive young stutterer and secret poet in Thatcherite England who recounts the personal revolutions of his 13th year.

Through twenty - four sonnets, two Connecticut poets imagine the voices of selected «Little Misses of Color» to tell the courageous story of Prudence Crandall, who opened her nineteenth century academy to young African American women.

Bridey Sullivan, a young American woman who has fled a peculiar and traumatic upbringing in Washington State, takes up with a queer British couple, the poet Milo Rollack and Eton drop - out Jasper Lethe.

Recently I joined a writer's group of single young adults who are all poets.

The award was named for William Faulkner, who used his Nobel Prize funds to create an award for young writers, and is affiliated with PEN (Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists), the international writers» organization.

Who knows, someone in your very class could be the Pablo Naruda of videogame narrative, a digital poet, taking our youngest medium to new heights.

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.

He was also the reluctant guardian of the young «bad boy» poet Lord Byron, who fell out with him after Howard refused to introduce him in the House of Lords.

Among the main female protagonists that inspired this research are Balkis Sharara, Rifat Chadirji's wife who in 1979 carried copies of his works into and out of Abu Ghraib allowing him to author three of his seminal books while in the prison; artist Nuha al - Radi whose diaries of 1990/91 describe the dynamics in the lives of Baghdad's people beyond the news coverage; an unknown young woman who stands out in the festivities of the gymnasium's 1990 new year concert; Fahrelnissa Zeid who was herself an artist (most recently the subject of a major exhibition at Tate Modern) and the wife of the Iraqi Ambassador in London when Le Corbusier received a telegram confirming the approval of his first design proposal for Baghdad; poet Iman Mersal who paid a solidarity visit to Baghdad under siege in 1993; Zaha Hadid whose architectural drawings influenced the imagination of architectural students in the 1990s; and others.

The title of this brief reflection is cobbled together from Philip Guston's 1978 letter to Ross Feld, a younger poet and critic who had written appreciatively of Guston's signal 1970 show, which marked his leap (or return) to figuration after years building a solid legacy of moodily lyrical abstractions.

«There are so many different lives,» said Schnabel, who has made two films in his career about artists who died young: Basquiat and the Cuban poet Reinaldo Arenas (Before Night Falls).

Both were aspiring poets to begin with; Rosenberg had a snappy prose style but Greenberg was a master rhetorician and he certainly did make a profession of being an art critic, and therefore became a model for the professionals who emerged in the 1960s — young art historians, mostly.

Lee Ufan, Korean Lee Woo - Hwan, (born June 24, 1936, Haman, South Kyŏngsang [Gyeongsang] province, Korea [now in South Korea]-RRB-, Korean artist, critic, philosopher, and poet who was a prominent theorist and proponent of the Tokyo - based movement of young artists from the late 1960s through the early»70s known as Mono - ha (Japanese: «School of Things»).

He was encouraged to leave London by Larry Rivers — who said he was «stifling» — as well as by modernist poets Frank O'Hara and John Ashbery, and he admits to feeling buoyed by a group of young black artists also pursuing abstraction against a charged American political backdrop.