Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...group is the best commercial-singing ensemble largely because of what an adman calls "the cutting edge of Jamie's voice." All four singers deliver their words with the sort of enunciation that makes poets out of admen. "Their words seem to be coming from a foot outside of their mouths in a kind of bas-relief," says one such poet...
...three judges, members of the Summer School faculty, will choose the winners on the basis of the general quality of a body of work. Each poem should be identified with the poet's pen name. A sealed envelope with the nom de plume on the outside and the poet's name and address inside should accompany the entry...
...What I love is near at hand, / Always, in earth and air," Theodore Roethke wrote in the title poem of this last collection. What he loved was growing things (no important U.S. poet since Thoreau has been less citified) and their textures. What he celebrated was his love for his young wife (now 38, she had been his student at Bennington College, where he taught English). And what he feared was death...
...Sentence. As the proceedings droned on, telegrams and letters arrived from the poet's prestigious friends -Composer Dmitry Shostakovich, Lenin Prizewinning Authors Samuel Marshak, Kornei Chukovsky and many others-protesting the absurdity of the trial. Such public boldness among artists took not only courage but conscience, but their protests were in vain. Brodsky was sentenced to five years of "useful labor." His job: carting manure at a camp near Archangel...
...upper Mississippi in modern times, a six-mile feature of the Dubuque summer festival. The tug Coal Queen took an early lead, but the Mary soon pulled ahead, leaving the excursion liner Julie N. Dubuque II to finish third. Owner of the Coal Queen was Iowa's poet of the pajama game, Author-Playwright Richard Bissell, 51, a Harvardman you can always tell will go along gamely with whatever the city fathers dream up. His wife vowed they would win next year, and Bissell grimaced, "Hope springs eternal, but those new engines are going to cost...