Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sarton, a well-known American poet and novelist, read selections from her latest volume of poetry, Cloud, Stone, Sun, Vine, to a large audience in Allston Burr B last Wednesday afternoon. It was last session of the Wednesday soon Poetry Reading Series. Miss Sarton opened her program with "a poem about coming home" called "Aux Saisons aux Chateaux." She explained that she had just returned from a five-month journey to Japan, India, and Greece. Cambridge, where she spent much of her youth, is one of several places which she considers home...
...third group consisted of "poems about being a poet." These included "Proteus," "At Museau," "A Country Incident," and "The Frog, that Naked Creature...
Accent (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Poet John Ciardi will host a visit to three San Francisco boites -the hungry i, the Roaring Twenties, The Drinking Gourd...
...stone through a bus window, someone else heaved a beer bottle, and in a flash the scene turned into a full-scale riot. White-capped police used truncheons to subdue the antiCommunists, even roughed up Police Chief Erik Gabrielson (whom they failed to recognize in a business suit). Soviet Poet Evgeny Evtushenko, a member of the Moscow delegation, was so upset by the anti-Red rioters that he rushed back to his floating hotel, the white-hulled Gruzia, and dashed off a frenzied poem called Sniveling Fascism, which he later read on Russian...
...program notes notwithstanding. Boubouroche owes its existence to more than the author's general mistrust of women, being in point of fact the dramatization of a true incident. For years Courteline had been living on the other side of a paper-thin wall from the mistress of poet Catulle Mendes, and for as many years had been silent witness to the infidelities she would blithely commit with a hidden lover the minute Mendes had closed the door behind him. Years later Courteline confessed all this to Mendes, who found it very amusing and insisted that the material was too good...