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A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator (thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written), or they may also perform their art to an audience.
Ecopoetry is any poetry with a strong ecological or environmental emphasis or message. Many poets and poems in the past have expressed ecological concerns, but only recently has there been an established term to describe them; there is now, in English-speaking poetry, a recognisable subgenre of poetry, termed Ecopoetry, which can, on occasions, form a major strand of a writer's career ...
1997: Paul Hamlyn Award for Poetry; 2004: Cholmondeley Award; 2007: British Book Awards Decibel Writer of the Year (shortlist) for We Brits; 2007: Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature [11] 2009: Centre for Literacy in Primary Education poetry award for The Young Inferno. [12] 2012: Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry [13]
To be a 'school' a group of poets must share a common style or a common ethos. A commonality of form is not in itself sufficient to define a school; for example, Edward Lear, George du Maurier and Ogden Nash do not form a school simply because they all wrote limericks. There are many different 'schools' of poetry.
Five high school students, based everywhere from Florida to Utah have been selected as this year's National Student Poets, a program founded more than a decade ago. The student poets, each of whom ...
The Oxford American — A quarterly journal of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, photography, and music from and about the South. The Southern Review — The famous literary journal focusing on southern literature. storySouth — A journal of new writings from the American South. Features fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and more.
William Wordsworth (pictured) and Samuel Taylor Coleridge helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature in 1798 with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads. In English literature, the key figures of the Romantic movement are considered to be the group of poets including William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and the much older ...
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha is a poet, essayist, and translator. She is co-founder of the Institute for Middle East Understanding and the author of five works of poetry: Letters from the Interior (Diode Editions); the 2018 Washington State Book Award winner Water & Salt (Red Hen Press); the 2016 Two Sylvias Press Prize winner Arab in Newsland (Two Sylvias Press), [1] Kaan and Her Sisters (Trio House ...