Word: poets
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...trauma looming over ourselves daily, what could we have been? How come 25% of the Nobel laureates in certain fields are of Jewish origins, and 10% of the arms deals around the world are done by Israelis? Why is my brother or sister in America a great poet or composer or physician whose achievements raise up all of humanity, and I who live here on my sword became a world expert on arms and swords? Is that really my mission, or is that an outcome of the black water with which I water my flowers? To make our contribution...
...Rudyard Kipling's poem "If" to underline his refusal to give in to his critics and to march on through the controversies of December. On Tuesday, coincidentally Kipling's 143rd birthday, Blagojevich threw another press conference. But the embattled governor could have taken a few other words from the poet to heart: "Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors...
...those Harvard students wondering how the first National Poet of Wales gets over her writer’s block, Gwyneth Lewis says pressure is often the way to blow the lid off the can. “It’s amazing how a looming deadline will unfreeze you. Terror is a great loosener.”Three years after serving as the National Poet, Lewis has returned to university life as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow to continue her education as a poet, non-fiction writer, and thinker. Lewis, who studied as a graduate student at Harvard from...
Standing before a crowd of nearly 200 and donning a pair of sunglasses in an already dark room, Gwyneth Lewis—the first National Poet of Wales—belied notions of the tortured poet: in writing good poetry, one must be in a healthy state of mind. Lewis, known for her collection of poetry “Zero Gravity,” spoke on behalf of the Radcliffe Institute during a lecture entitled “The Health of Poetry,” this year’s Julie S. Phelps Annual Lecture...
...like much of America's pie tradition, the original apple pie recipes came from England. These pre-Revolutionary prototypes were made with unsweetened apples and encased in an inedible shell. Yet the apple pie did develop a following, and was first referenced in the year 1589, in Menaphon by poet R. Greene: "Thy breath is like the steeme of apple pies." (500 years later, we have "I'm Lovin' It", thanks to McDonald's and its signature apple pie in an individual-serving sleeve.) Pies today are world-spanning treats, made with everything from apples to avocados. The winners...