Word: poetes
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Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian poet and political dissident Wole Soyinka delivered the second of three lectures before a crowd of about 200 at Emerson Hall yesterday...
...hope [the judges] saw something in the work that was valuable and worth supporting," he said. "My work as a poet challenges and nourishes my work as a teacher of poetry...
...poet Robert Frost asked whether the world would end in fire or ice. Four years ago, Taylor and other geophysicists found evidence that the answer may be both. The message, extracted from an ice core taken in Greenland, at the opposite end of the earth, was that climate can change dramatically over short periods of time. Roughly 11,500 years ago, Greenland suddenly chilled, and then 1,500 years later, it suddenly warmed. The speed of the last change--an 18[degree] warming in some places in as little as three years--was fast enough, a meteorologist wryly commented...
DIED. ALLEN GINSBERG, 70, quintessential beatnik poet; of a heart attack brought on by chronic liver disease; in New York City. Forming the trinity of the 1950s Beat Generation along with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg first raged into public view in 1956 with Howl, a profane tirade that railed against a conformist society and dealt, rather graphically, with his homosexuality. In the '60s and '70s, he was active in both the hippie and antiwar movements. His poetry prefigured punk and New Age, encompassing protest and psychedelics, drawing inspiration from yoga, Buddhism, Native American mysticism, the Torah and fellow...
...Ambiguity is fine if you're talking about [poet] Wallace Stevens, but ambiguity is not fine if you're talking about shoving people down stairs," he said...