Word: poeme
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...Most of my poems are usually inspired by conversations," she says. "Someone may say one word or one sentence that just sparks a whole poem. I write about it to say how I am feeling and how I am thinking as best...
...example, Brown recalls the origin of "Georgia," a poem from her recent show. The poem explores a young man's struggle to reconcile his love for his mother with his hatred for the slave master who raped his grandmother, she says...
...premiere of the Russian classic, "The Pirate" (Le Corsaire). This brilliant and colorful production was aided by a $100,000 grant from The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation, which is dedicated to maintaining public awareness of Nureyev's artistic legacy. The tale of Le Corsaire is based on an 1814 Byron poem and was revived in 1868 by the great ballet choreographer and master Marius Petipa. The current Boston Ballet production is based on choreography by Konstantin Sergeyev and was staged by Anna-Marie Holmes (the soon-to-be Artistic Director of Boston Ballet) and Natalia Dudinskaya and Vadim Desnitsky...
Ginsberg's work helped shape the 1950s Beat generation, primarily through the impact of his epic beat poem "Howl!," published in 1956, and other poems that also dealt with the gritty details of his homosexuality and communist origins...
...William Wordsworth caught a glimpse of the future in the making. In one of his most celebrated sonnets, he laments that "The world is too much with us," that humanity has become "out of tune" with the vast magnificence of the natural world. He ends the same poem with a passionate cry against civilization itself...