Word: poets
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...short while on Inauguration Day, a poet, not a President, will hold the world's attention. Alexander, Barack Obama's choice to compose and read a poem on the occasion of his swearing in, spoke to TIME about writing for the moment...
...faculty member of the University of Chicago in the early 90s, poet Elizabeth Alexander worked closely with President-elect Barack Obama, whom she regarded as unusually brilliant...
...current Radcliffe fellow and National Poet of Wales Gwyneth Lewis said, “Poems don’t come if you put pressure on yourself, and this has to be the most pressurized commission that anybody could imagine...she must feel exposed as well as invigorated...
...Never forget that in reading, you’re seeing the things you want to make, made beautifully,” she said. “[Also remember] that being a poet is not something you choose because you want a career, it’s something you choose because you have to and you’re called to make...
Kept in the basement of the Asiatic Society library, a colonnaded marble building in Mumbai's colonial heart, is perhaps the Indian financial capital's least heralded relic: one of the two oldest surviving manuscripts of Italian poet Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. Its some 450 richly illustrated pages, dating from the 1350s, are bound and wrapped in red silk. Though the book rarely goes on display, Society staff insist the medieval text is in excellent condition. It came to Mumbai in the possession of a 19th century British antiquarian grandee, the imperially named Mountstuart Elphinstone, and has stayed...