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The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.
One section of Connor's 2006 anthology Things Unsaid is dedicated to de Larrabeiti; de Larrabeiti's 1992 book Journal of a Sad Hermaphrodite is dedicated to Connor, and includes one of his poems. Connor has published nine volumes of poetry. His work is anthologized in British Poetry since 1945.
James J. Metcalfe, in a collage of FBI Special Agents from 1934. His poem, "We Were the G-Men," may be seen at center. Metcalf is at center in the far left column. James J. Metcalfe (September 16, 1906 – March 1960) was an American poet whose "Daily Poem Portraits" were published in more than 100 United States newspapers during the 1940s and 1950s.
British critic Stan Smith, in his essay "'Hard As the Metal of My Gun': John Cornford's Spain", [13] undertakes a detailed reading of "Full Moon at Tierz" that brings out its complexity and ambivalence. The poem begins with a Marxist and modernist vision of history as a mountain glacier where "[t]ime was inches, dark was all" until it reaches ...
He was a four time recipient of Pulitzer Prize, and was widely referred as an esteemed poet. [2] Kennedy had asked Frost to read "The Gift Outright" and Frost had agreed, but upon viewing the arrangements for the inauguration, spent the evening before the ceremony composing this new poem as preamble to the requested poem. [3]
Jul. 24—NEW LONDON — Joshua Brown made it clear when he was named the city's poet laureate earlier this year that he was looking inspire tough conversations. He's done just that.
The full title of the poem is Trivia, or The Art of Walking the Streets of London, and it takes its name from the Latin word for "crossroads" and from the "goddess of crossroads," Diana, whom the poet invokes in the opening stanza. The poem, written in heroic couplets, is loosely based on Virgil's Georgics, yet attains a Horatian satirical manner.
Around 8 p.m., it was nearing the end of Rob’s shift and he needed to take out the trash. “Hey, mind if I take my jacket back?” he asked Kim. Kim slid out of the blue parka and handed it to Rob.