Word: poet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...believe that we can make a poet out of a sow's ear," says Poet-Professor Paul Engle, "not even in Iowa, where we've got some damn fine sows' ears." But Paul Engle, 48, professor of English at the State University of Iowa in Iowa City, has fashioned the best workshop in the nation for young poets in an area surrounded by cows and corn...
This week Engle's Poetry Workshop is commemorating the centennial of the publication of Flowers of Evil by 19th century French Poet Pierre-Charles Baudelaire. High point of the centennial: the publication of Homage to Baudelaire, a book of poems by workshop poets. "The way to praise a poet," Engle explains simply, "is to write a poem...
Zealous Recruiter. For 20 years Iowa-born Poet Engle has fanned the thin flame of poetry down on the farm. He is helped by the fact that the university gives advanced degrees-including a doctorate-in creative writing. Armed with this selling point, Engle recruits fledgling poets with the zeal of a Big Ten football coach wooing a high-school halfback. He gets them jobs on campus, finds them apartments, has even supplied pots and pans for their wives...
...theory, Engle's system of teaching poets is simple. "We believe that if you begin with a person who has talent, you can make a better poet faster by exposing him to real criticism and putting him in contact with a community of poets." After a rugged session in the converted barren barrack that houses the workshop, a few students have felt like quitting. But most recognize the need for criticism. "You can't go on showing your poems to your Uncle Louis all your life," shrugs Phil Levine, 29, who has cracked the Chicago Review. Engle...
...Jade Mountain, an anthology of T'ang Dynasty poetry, translated by Poet Bynner from the texts of Kiang Kang...