Word: poetes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...reading featured professional poet Clayton Valli, who presented six poems in American Sign Language...
...There are so many creative uses of the hands," Valli said, speaking through an interpreter. "The poet's challenge is to decide how to use all of these tools to make...
...power balance of the Cold War. Once again, a foreign dictator had seemingly misread the character of the U.S. and of a U.S. President. At Vienna and later, Khrushchev had sized up Kennedy as a weakling, given to strong talk and timorous action. The U.S. itself, he told Poet Robert Frost, was "too liberal to fight." Now, in the Caribbean, he intended to prove his point. And Berlin would surely come next...
...speaking only when spoken to. But what she said was often brilliant. "Other students would turn to her and say, 'O.K., Gayl, what's the answer?' She always had the answer," remembers her 11th-grade English teacher, Sue Ann Allen. Gayl came to the attention of the Lexington-born poet Elizabeth Hardwick, who became an early mentor and arranged for a college scholarship. But as an adult Gayl resisted most offers of friendship. In Ann Arbor, she lived like a nun, alone in a threadbare apartment behind a grocery store...
Everyone knows Allen Ginsberg was a great poet. Did he also have ESP? Here is a poem he wrote...