#Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic dies at 84

#Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic dies at 84

“Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Charles Simic dies at 84” Charles Simic, the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet who awed critics and readers with his singular art of lyricism and economy, tragic insight and disruptive humor, has died at age 84. The death of Simic, the country’s poet laureate from 2007-2008, was confirmed Monday by executive editor Dan Halpern…

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#Get cameras in the Supreme Court and other commentary

#Get cameras in the Supreme Court and other commentary

“Get cameras in the Supreme Court and other commentary” Pollster: Get Cameras in the Supreme Court “Now is the time to build long-term trust in the Supreme Court by permitting cameras in the courtroom,” argues Robert Green at The Hill. Sen. Ben Sasse rightly flagged the “jackassery” of his colleagues in the televised confirmation hearings…

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#Dante’s Divine Comedy to float among the stars

#Dante’s Divine Comedy to float among the stars

“#Dante’s Divine Comedy to float among the stars” ROME, June 10 – Italian epic poet Dante is going to heaven – again. Dante, Italy’s greatest poet, divided his monumental Divine Comedy into three parts – Hell, Purgatory and Paradise. The allegory representing a soul’s journey to God is one of the world’s most influential works of literature. Now,…

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#Poet uses 17 syllables to describe 9 million people of NYC

#Poet uses 17 syllables to describe 9 million people of NYC

“#Poet uses 17 syllables to describe 9 million people of NYC” Peter Goldmark has held many highly impressive jobs, including head of Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, president of the Rockefeller Foundation, program director at the Environmental Defense Fund, and publisher of the International Herald Tribune. Now he can add “author and…

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#Publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti dead at 101

#Publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti dead at 101

“#Publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti dead at 101” SAN FRANCISCO — Lawrence Ferlinghetti, the poet, publisher, bookseller and activist who helped launch the Beat movement in the 1950s and embodied its curious and rebellious spirit well into the 21st century, has died at age 101.  Ferlinghetti, a San Francisco institution, died Monday at his home,…

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#Amanda Gorman recites poem at Super Bowl 2021

#Amanda Gorman recites poem at Super Bowl 2021

“#Amanda Gorman recites poem at Super Bowl 2021” Amanda Gorman, the country’s first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, made history again Sunday by becoming the first person to recite a poem during a Super Bowl pregame ceremony. Gorman, a 22-year-old Harvard graduate who last month became the youngest person to write a poem for a presidential…

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