Word: poetes
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...DeWolfe 38: Digital cable was finally installed in the bedroom of Keith M. Radford ’02. This installation featured a reading by former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, a choral rendition of “10,000 Men of Harvard,” and a rerun of The Facts of Life in which Tootie eats a danish...
...patronize the shop, but so do laborers, MBTA workers, post office workers, guards and those who have never even considered going to college. Poetry evidently has a wider appeal than is sometimes obvious. Solano has an idea about that: “Once a person has found even one poet or poem that really touches him or her, eventually a love of poetry works away at the person...
...arose the constructed angst of a group of young urban lyricists. Hailing from the East Coast communities of Crooklyn, Mo’ Money Manhattan, the Boogie-Down Bronx and Illidelphia, or from across the wheated plains in the West Coast’s LBC, Compton and El Barrio, these poets raged with urban fury against “the man,” “the money,” “playa hatas” and “baby mamas.” The martyred poet Biggie Smalls, a victim of the rap game himself, once...
...fulfillment, eternal bliss and invaluable community service. Plus, it’s a great way to meet women and not have sex with them. Most importantly, the priesthood is a pretty stable industry. Recessions, corporations and governments come and go, but religion is here to stay. As the wise poet Horatius Lucretius Quintus wrote, “Amice, semper populi sacerdotum egent,” which translates, “Dude, people always need priests...
...religious scholars, going back at least seven generations. Their forefathers all memorized the Koran, and the house where they were born in Larik, on the left bank of the river Indus, was on Mullah Street, so called because of their family's traditional profession. But their father, a poet, rebelled. He threw off his religious mantle and started a school for girls. As a child, Attiya was surrounded by the rhythms and cadences of his poetry, and she followed in his footsteps, writing in her native Sindhi about the injustices women face in an Islamic society. Her mother was married...