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...Suddenly you're asked to stop looking at specifics - I mean, I write about saltshakers and knives and forks - and talk like a politician," Collins says. "You're asked to leave right side of brain and live in left side...
...Will Write for Sherry
...consultant to the Library of Congress - which includes giving a reading at the beginning of the term and a lecture or reading at the end of the term, organizing monthly readings and overseeing the library's poetry fellowships and prizes. And, of course, he or she should continue to write poems...
...traveled from court to court. The first de facto laureate was Ben Jonson, who received a pension from King James I in 1616. John Dryden was the first to bear the official title of "laureate," which was bestowed on him in 1670. He received an honorarium of ?100 for writing birthday poems for the royal family. Since then, poets including William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson have held the post in England. Their only duty was to write poems for national occasions. Their compensation: some 60 cases of sherry per annum, for inspiration. (In 1999, the U.K. laureateship became...
...mainly second-language students and students who lost their way in school," Ryan says. "They wanted something that I could help them get: an understanding of the basic elements of grammar, pronouns, those pesky apostrophes. The goal was to write an effective paragraph that was coherent and well supported. We aspired to the semicolon, but that rarely happened...