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...deceased President’s official memorial in Washington D.C., and a true testament to the belief of John F. Kennedy ’40 that progress in the arts is more than valuable—it is utterly integral to progress as a nation. Paying tribute to the poet Robert Frost less than a month before his assassination, Kennedy declared: “I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist...
DIED In her job as a reporter for KATV in Little Rock, Ark., Anne Pressly traveled throughout the state interviewing the likes of former Governor turned presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, poet Maya Angelou and, by chance encounter, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was in Arkansas shopping at a hunting-equipment store. Most recently, she landed a small role as a conservative commentator in Oliver Stone's George W. Bush biopic. Pressly was found severely beaten in her home on Oct. 20, and she succumbed to her injuries several days later. A fund created in her name to apprehend the killer...
...worse than this,” Kalmaroff said, holding up a copy of “How Fiction Works.” “Vigorous writing. A little fierce but never snarky.” Waiting in line for his book to be signed, fan and aspiring poet Daniel E. Pritchard said, “He gets into it. He talks about why they [books] work and why they don’t.” “I think he’s the best in his field,” he added...
...poems about Byzantium, the Irish poet William Butler Yeats seemed drawn to the city's stylized art because it provided a release from the restraints of his own frailties. Yeats longed to exchange the "fury and mire of human veins" for the "changeless metal" of the city's mechanical golden birds, whose beauty he felt to be permanent. There is historical evidence that the Byzantines, too, revered artifice while denigrating the human flesh: self-castration was a popular means of purification, and mutilation a prevalent form of punishment - one Emperor even wore a gold nose as a result...
While literary references ooze from Komunyakaa’s poems, they are surprisingly readable and unpretentious. Yet there is still a clear wall between the poet and the reader. As Komunyakaa once said, “Poetry is a kind of distilled insinuation. It’s a way of expanding and talking around an idea or a question...