Word: poeme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Your Waco, Tex., man, who squirts a jet of poison gas at Tom Johnson and Newton D. Baker, two really great men, brings to mind a little poem, towit: "A little dog barked at the big red moon That smiled in the evening sky. The neighbors smote him with rocks and shoon- But still he continued his ragful tune. And he barked 'till his throat was dry. But, soon 'neath the hill that obstructed the west, The moon sank out of sight; And the little dog said, as he laid down to rest, "Well, I scared...
...such complete concession to the beauty of the whole, that Washington, dull musically, waxed enthusiastic and fairly hugged itself in the thrill of a new discovery. It was a Faust rejuvenated, lifted well out of the operatic rut, a Faust as true to the spirit of Goethe's poem as to Gounod's music. There was no portly prima donna past her prime to parade as the guileless Marguerita, no heroic stage devil preposterously horned and tailed, no paunchy, heroic Faust singing to the gallery. All that had been discarded. Instead, the curtain went up on one Faust...
...safely to Paris, there occurred an immediate and overwhelming outburst of bad poetry. Even the more hardened practitioners of this difficult art found their emotions titillated; more than 3,000 of them sent verses to a prize contest conducted so as to determine who had written the best poem about Lindbergh. The three prizewinning poems, and the 97 next best now appear in a book: The Spirit of St. Louis. Five hundred dollars, the first prize, was very appropriately awarded to child-prodigy Nathalia Crane. She expressed 14-year old enthusiasm in a thoroughly competent narrative poem, The Wings...
...prize is offered for the best Manuscript Poetry Prize, and anyone who is a citizen of the United States is eligible for the award. A single poem will not be considered for this prize, and the total number of lines of poetry written must not exceed 700. All manuscripts must be sent not later than May 1 to Manuscript Poetry Book Prize, 122 East 76th Street, New York City...
...prizes are offered to the undergraduate in any college who submits the best poem or group of poems, the number of lines not to exceed 200. These poems must be submitted not later than May 15 to Witter Bynner, 342 Buena Vista Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico...