Poetry in Afghanistan has long been a cultural tradition and passion.

Poetry has a long history, dating back to the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh.

, the National Poetry Slam has grown and currently features approximately 80 certified teams each year, culminating in five days of competition.

Conversely, Slam poetry movement founder Marc Smith has been critical of the commercially successful Def Poetry television and Broadway live stage shows produced by Russell Simmons, decrying it as " an exploitive entertainment that diminished the value and aesthetic of performance poetry ".

A number of poets belong to both academia and slam: as noted above Jeffrey McDaniel slammed on several poetry slam teams, and has since published several books and currently teaches at Sarah Lawrence College ; Patricia Smith, a four-time national slam champion, went on to win several prestigious literary awards, including being nominated for the 2008 National Book Award, and being inducted into the International Literary Hall of Fame for Writers of African Descent in 2006 ; Bob Holman founded the Nuyorican Poetry Slam has taught for years at the New School, Bard, Columbia and NYU ; Craig Arnold won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition and has competed at slams ; Kip Fulbeck, a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara competed in slam in the early-1990s and initiated the first spoken word course to be taught as part of a college art program's core curriculum ; and poet / academics such as Michael Salinger, Felice Belle, Javon Johnson, Susan B. Anthony Somers-Willett, Robbie Q. Telfer, Phil West, Ragan Fox, and Karyna McGlynn have devoted much attention to the merging of the poetry slam community and the academic community in their respective works.

The Pulitzer Prize in Poetry has been presented since 1922 for a distinguished volume of original verse by an American author.

In modern times, the title may also be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which has a designated Children's Poet Laureate.

The United States Library of Congress has since 1937 appointed an official Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress until 1984.

Poetry written during the war, which had either been broadcast from London or had circulated illegally, was published as collections in the spring of 1945, and enjoyed a popularity that Norwegian poetry has not seen before or since.

He is a retired Poetry professor from EHESS and a member of the Oulipo group, he has also published poetry, plays, novels, and translated English poetry and books into French such as Lewis Carroll's The Hunting of the Snark.

Among the books that the band has cited as being stylistically influential include William H. Gass's In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer, and Harold Bloom's The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry.

A collection of her verse has appeared in English in " Flora Brovina, Call me by my Name, Poetry from Kosova " in a bilingual Albanian-English Edition, translated by Robert Elsie, New York: Gjonlekaj 2001.

* Poetry of Places in Essex County has Alonzo Lewis's nicely formatted poem High Rock.

Poetry by Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes and Charles Bukowski has focused on the natural beauty of Secaucus.

She has twice won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition.

Mensa also has published a number of books, including Poetry Mensa ( 1966 ), an anthology of poems by Mensans from all over the world, in which languages other than English are represented.

She has received the Canadian Authors ' Association National Poetry Award, the McNally Robinson Award for Manitoba Book of the Year, and the Gerald Lampert Award, and has been twice shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry, as well as the Dillons Commonwealth Poetry Prize.

Poetry has been part of New Zealand culture since before European settlement in the form of Māori sung poems or waiata.

Jacques Chirac ( who said, upon hearing of Senghor's death: " Poetry has lost one of its masters, Senegal a statesman, Africa a visionary and France a friend ") and Lionel Jospin, respectively president of the French Republic and the prime minister, did not attend.

Some ancient poetic traditions ; such as, contextually, Classical Chinese poetry in the case of the Shijing ( Classic of Poetry ), which records the development of poetic canons with ritual and aesthetic importance.

In spite of this oppression, however, the famous Maigue Poets strove to keep alive their ancient Gaelic Poetry in towns like Croom and Bruree.

Poetry, a form of literature older than prose, was in ancient times divided into narrative, dramatic, and lyric forms.

In 1858 he published a 3-volume edition of Thomas Percy's Reliques of ancient English poetry, consisting of old heroic ballads, songs, and other pieces from our earlier poets, authoring a prefatory ' Memoir and Critical Dissertation ' entitled ' Life of Thomas Percy, Bishop of Dromore ; with Remarks on Ballad Poetry.

As with all great literary works of ancient China, the Poetry has been annotated and commented on numerous times throughout history, as well as in this case providing a model to inspire future poetic works.

In 1763, Percy, aiming for the market that Ossian had opened for " ancient poetry " ( see James MacPherson ), published Five Pieces of Runic Poetry from Icelandic, which he translated and " improved.

The poems of the Chuci anthology are mostly of the seven-syllable form, and are formed in a way distinct from the Shijing ( Classic of Poetry ), and helping to form a different source of textual tradition in Chinese literature, representing more of the southern than the northern traditions of ancient times.

In his manifesto The Birth of the Sixth Art, published in 1911, he argued that cinema was a new art, " a superb conciliation of the Rhythms of Space ( the Plastic Arts ) and the Rhythms of Time ( Music and Poetry )", a synthesis of the five ancient arts: architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry ( cf.

Poetry likewise had its prototypes, each genre tracing its origins to an ancient progenitor.

" Philodemus ’ On Poems, in particular, opens a window onto a lost age of scholarship — the period between Aristotle ’ s Poetics and Horace ’ s Art of Poetry, the works which define classicism for the ancient and modern worlds ," Janko has written.

Li Si proposed that all histories in the imperial archives except those written by the Qin historians be burned ; that the Classic of Poetry, the Classic of History, and works by scholars of different schools be handed in to the local authorities for burning ; that anyone discussing these two particular books be executed ; that those using ancient examples to satirize contemporary politics be put to death, along with their families ; that authorities who failed to report cases that came to their attention were equally guilty ; and that those who had not burned the listed books within 30 days of the decree were to be banished to the north as convicts working on building the Great Wall.

The Poetry Foundation's biography on Williams notes the following source: With roots in his 1926 poem entitled " Paterson ," Williams took the city as " my ' case ' to work up.

Poetry in Persian life is far more than a common ground on which -- in a society deeply fissured by antagonisms -- all may stand.

F.S.C. Northrop, in his discussion of The `` Functions And Future Of Poetry '', suggests this: `` One of the things which makes our lives drab and empty and which leaves us, at the end of the day, fatigued and deflated spiritually is the pressure of the taxing, practical, utilitarian concern of common-sense objects.

He did not speak about his poetry in public until 1933 when he gave a lecture, " The Name and Nature of Poetry ", in which he argued that poetry should appeal to emotions rather than to the intellect.

Complete copies have laid in the three page essay " The Price of Poetry ", on Smith's verse, by David Warren Ryder, which was printed to accompany the book.

The tour, which began in front of an audience of a thousand at the Kaufmann Auditorium of the Poetry Centre in New York, took in about 40 venues.

Five months later came the publication of Poems, the first volume of Keats's verse, which included " I stood tiptoe " and " Sleep and Poetry ," both strongly influenced by Hunt.

T. S. Eliot attacked the reputation of Kubla Khan and sparked a dispute within literary criticism with his analysis of the poem in his essay " Origin and Uses of Poetry " from The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( 1933 ): " The way in which poetry is written is not, so far as our knowledge of these obscure matters as yet extends, any clue to its value ...

Poetry ( from the Greek poiesis — — with a broad meaning of a " making ", seen also in such terms as " hemopoiesis "; more narrowly, the making of poetry ) is a form of literary art which uses the aesthetic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, the prosaic ostensible meaning.

The Public Address events include Informative Speaking, Persuasive Speaking, Rhetorical Criticism, and After Dinner Speaking ; the Limited Preparation events include Impromptu Speaking and Extemporaneous Speaking ; and the interpretation events include Poetry, Prose, Dramatic Interpretation, Dramatic Duo Interpretation ( in which at least one dramatic piece is presented by two speakers working together ), Duo Interpretation ( in which two speakers present a scene or scenes from any source ), and Programmed Oral Interpretation ( in which speakers use material from multiple genres with a common theme ).

Poetry, such as Sappho's, written in quantitative verse, is difficult to reproduce in English which uses stress-based meters and rhyme compared to Ancient Greek's solely length-based meters.

Plath typed up Hughes ' manuscript for his collection Hawk In The Rain which went on to win a poetry competition run by the Poetry centre of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of New York.

" Poetry reveals being in the way in which, if it is genuine poetry, it commences something new.

One such example is the Mead of Poetry, a mead of Norse mythology crafted from the blood of the wise being Kvasir which turns the drinker into a poet or scholar.

Bono began a short music career with the band Ceremony, which released one album, Hang Out Your Poetry, in 1993.

Other examples are the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate which is designated by a " Presenting Partners " group from within the community ; the Poet Laureate chosen by the League of Minnesota Poets ; the Northhampton Poet Laureate chosen by the Northhampton Arts Council, and the Martha's Vineyard Poet Laureate chosen by ten judges representing the Martha's Vineyard Poetry Society.

In 1992, the appointment was increased to a two-year term, and beginning in 1998 the appointments were made from list of nominees presented by the Poetry Society of Virginia ; which was established at the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1923.

Poetry already exhibited a modernist style, which was prevalent through the 50's and early 60s.

Poetry can be said to be in a crisis state, unlike newer novels, which often are published in large quantities as the month's book for book clubs.