Word: poets
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...Decades later, the stirred memory of that photo suggested the plot of Qiu's Red Mandarin Dress, the fifth and latest of his popular, Shanghai-set Inspector Chen detective novels. This time, Qiu's hero, a cop and poet, is on the trail of a serial killer who dresses his female victims in tailored qipao dresses - a macabre gesture freighted with political meaning. As in the previous books, the investigation leads Inspector Chen to a brutal legacy from the past, for even the most vicious of Qiu's criminals are victims of China's bloody history. So, incidentally, are many...
Though the office of the Poet Populist was only introduced to Cambridge last month, the idea of granting public recognition to a poet dates back to antiquity...
...This history of the [poet] laureate is from Roman times,” says Redmond. “But it was always an upper class thing...
According to Redmond, who says that Seattle plans to franchise the idea by helping other cities implement similar initiatives, the Poet Populist program is all about the “hoi polloi...
While Payack may not fit the mold of the classical poet laureate, he says that he has always been enamored with the ancient Greeks and Romans...