in reading, on platforms, even in the large auditorium of the Y.M.H.A., Poetry Center nights, his voice was intimate, thoughtful, and a trifle shy.

In this third year at the university, Hans, in 1797, was awarded the first important token of recognition, a gold medal for his essay on `` Limits Of Poetry And Prose ''.

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.

What would become the influential Poetry Magazine was founded in 1912 by Harriet Monroe, who was working as an art critic for the Chicago Tribune.

T. S. Eliot's first professionally published poem, " The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock ," was first published by Poetry.

A week later the work was performed with a full cast at the Poetry Centre in New York.

His first appearance was planned to be at a rehearsal of Under Milk Wood at the Poetry Centre.

Brinnin, who was director of the Poetry Centre, did not travel to New York but remained in Boston to write.

A volume of the best pieces, entitled The Poetry of the Anti-Jacobin, was published in 1800.

Nash was regarded respectfully by the literary establishment, and his poems were frequently anthologized even in serious collections such as Selden Rodman's 1946 A New Anthology of Modern Poetry.

In high school, Ray Bradbury was active in both the Poetry Club and the Drama club, continuing plans to become an actor but becoming serious about his writing as his high school years progressed.

Ayo was instrumental in the hosting, and setting up of the Poetry Slams both in Manchester ( and Liverpool ).

The current ( 2012 ) Women of the World Poetry Slam Champion is Dominique Ashaheed, who was also part of Denver's Slam Nuba in 2011.

Cristin O ' Keefe Aptowicz, slam poet and author of Words In Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, was quoted in an interview on the Best American Poetry blog as saying:

* Hal Sirowitz ( who was on the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team in 1993 ) won an NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 1994

* Jeffrey McDaniel ( who was on numerous DC and California slam teams in the mid to late 1990s ) won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2003

* Adrienne Su ( who was on the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Poetry Slam team in 1991 ) won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2007

* Cristin O ' Keefe Aptowicz ( who was on the NYC-Urbana Poetry Slam team in 1998, 2001, 2003 and 2010 ) won a NEA Fellowship in Poetry in 2011

In Poetry in Making he recalled that he was fascinated by animals, collecting and drawing toy lead creatures.

Poetry for a Persian is nothing less than truth and beauty.

Best known for his novels including Brave New World and a wide-ranging output of essays, Huxley also edited the magazine Oxford Poetry, and published short stories, poetry, travel writing, film stories and scripts.

“ Clark Ashton Smith: Beauty Is for the Few ,” chapter 2 in Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry.

Category: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners

In 1586 Angel Day dedicated The English Secretary, the first epistolary manual for writing model letters in English, to Oxford, and William Webbe praised him as " most excellent among the rest " of ourt poets in his Discourse of English Poetry.

Lessing is important as a literary critic for his work Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry.

Radcliffe also provided an aesthetic for the genre in an influential article " On the Supernatural in Poetry ", examining the distinction and correlation between horror and terror in Gothic fiction

Category: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners

* Poetry ( see that article for an extensive list of sub-genres and types )

Poetry can be a powerful vehicle for satire.

" Poetry and letter writing, for instance, became a central component of rhetorical study during the Middle Ages.

He received the 1947 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel for his novel All the King's Men ( 1946 ) and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1958 and 1979.

Category: Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners

As of 2011, four poets who have competed at National Poetry Slam have won National Endowment of the Arts ( NEA ) Fellowships for Literature:

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.

Henry Taylor, winner of the 1985 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, competed in the 1997 National Poetry Slam as an individual and placed 75th out of 150.

" He took swipes at Harold Monro, whose Poetry Review had published him and given him reviewing work.

He returned to poetry in 1960, and his first book, " Into the Stone and Other Poems ", was published in 1960 and " Drowning with Others " was published in 1962, which led to a Guggenheim fellowship ( Norton Anthology, The Literature of the American South ) Buckdancer's Choice ( 1965 ) earned him a National Book Award for Poetry

Ammons, whose Collected Poems 1951-1971 won a National Book Award in 1973 and whose long poem Garbage earned him another in 1993 ; Theodore Roethke and his The Waking ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1954 ); James Merrill and his epic poem of communication with the dead, The Changing Light at Sandover ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1977 ); Louise Glück for her The Wild Iris ( Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, 1993 ); W. S.

According to Merrill, the spirits ordered him to write and publish the next two installments, Mirabell: Books of Number in 1978 ( which won the National Book Award for Poetry ) and Scripts for the Pageant in 1980.

W. B. Yeats had the highest praise for Turner's poetry, saying that it left him " lost in admiration and astonishment ", and included some of it in his Oxford Book of Modern Poetry ( while omitting several authors very much better known today for their verse, such as Wilfred Owen ).

Sepehri ’ s love affair with Kashan and its plains did not keep him from traveling and exploring the world, which inspired his Poetry, painting, and vision toward life.

" On these walks he often carried with him Oscar Williams ' A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry ( 1946 ), and Hill speculates: " there was probably a time when I knew every poem in that anthology by heart.

They find him attempting to make a Poetry society, where he makes a rule that all of the people in the society must make a piece of poetry every week.

The John Tripp Spoken Poetry Award was founded to commemorate him.

Dr. Peabody used to call him ' a man of the beatitudes ', ministering not alone to the spiritual but to the physical needs of his flock, having studied medicine for that purpose ," according to Colonial Prose and Poetry.

His love for poetry lead him to become an active member of the Poetry Recital Society.

From 1950 to 1952 he was the first Gregory Poetry Fellow at Leeds University, making him the first resident university poet in the United Kingdom.

The Kenneth Slessor Prize for Poetry is named after him.

Until Chau was five, his father was typically away from home, teaching in other villages, so his mother raised him and taught him to recite passages from the Classic of Poetry, from which he absorbed Confucian ethics and virtues.

And tho ' this, probably the first Essay of his Poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the Prosecution against him to that degree, that he was oblig'd to leave his Business and Family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.

His " Once a Tailor " brought him the 1996 " Halil Kocagoz Poetry Award ".

In Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry, author Scott Huler relates that Dalrymple's voyages had convinced him that a standard scale for measuring the speed of wind at sea would be of great value to sailors, and that he had included Smeaton's scale in his work Practical Navigation, which was written around 1790 but never published.

Thanks to a reference to him in the preface of Kokin Wakashū he is listed as one of the Six best Waka poets and also one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.

Thanks to a reference to him in the preface of Kokin Wakashū he is listed as one of the Six best Waka poets and one of the Thirty-six Poetry Immortals.