Word: poem
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...Show at which amateur poets compete for small cash prizes and the much richer reward of having their work heard by an enthusiastic public. The poetic abilities of many contestants may be open to debate, but the audience is always in top form. On a typical evening a rambling poem about using nuclear weapons to blow up political banquets brings raucous cheers. A watery ode to existentialism ("Nothing that is worth having actually is . . .") draws equally good-natured jeers...
...page. But optimists argue that any interest will inevitably translate into greater respect for the truly gifted. "People prize the spoken word," says S.X. Rosenstock, vice president of Poetry Society of America, West. "Whether it's Beat poetry or Dante, they want to hear it. Speaking any poem is a statement of your freedom...
Henry Louis Gates Jr., chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, has been writing a lot lately for the New York Times Book Review. His most pleasantly surprising submission, however, came last week with a clever poem that, no doubt, bears many messages about literature and modern culture. Let us know if you figure out what they...
...Emperor Hirohito startled his assembled advisers on Sept. 6 by asking an imperial question. In the midst of a fervent debate over when and how to go to war, the Emperor, who traditionally never spoke during such gatherings, suddenly pulled out and read in his high-pitched voice a poem by his revered grandfather Emperor Meiji...
Opening for the Dins, the Yale Redhot & Blue performed an inconsistent set, but they did show promise in the a capella innovation department. A spunky "42nd Street," a stylized "Summertime" and a student-composed version of the William Butler Yeats poem, "When You Are Old," provided refreshing angles to old songs. Hopefully, the group will return to Harvard in the near future...