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 ''.

Poetry was for him ...' a morbid secretion ', as the pearl is for the oyster.

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 is often separated into lines on a page.

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.

Elms occur often in Pastoral Poetry, where they symbolise the idyllic life, their shade being mentioned as a place of special coolness and peace.

Poetry is often included in the ceremony as well, because while it is inadequate by itself, it works together with aid in spiritual contemplation.

Her poetry is often requested and read on the BBC Radio 4 programme ' Poetry Please ' and one of her poems was chosen by Judi Dench and Michael Williams in their joint BBC Radio 4 ' With Great Pleasure '.

Poetry was still the dominant literary medium and its practitioners were poor scholars, often educated in the classics at obscure local schools and themselves often schoolmasters by trade.

The Classic of Poetry (), translated variously as the Book of Songs, the Book of Odes, and often known simply as its original name the Odes or Poetry (), is the earliest existing collection of Chinese poems and songs.

Dulah would return to Santa Monica many times, often after having spent the initial summer months at the Art colony of Santa Fe in New Mexico, which was started by Alice Corbin Henderson, editor of the magazine Poetry, and wife of Indian motif painter William Penhallow Henderson.

Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the poets of the New American Poetry and Black Mountain College.

He is considered to be one of the five most famous modern Persian ( Iranian ) poets who have practised " New Poetry " ( a kind of poetry that often has neither meter nor rhyme ).

" 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.

He was often compared with Alexander Pushkin, and is considered perhaps the most important poet of the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

Poetry readings often involve several readers ( often called " featured poets " or " featureds "), although normally one poet is chosen as a " headliner.

His poetry is compassionate and often succinct and aphoristic " … PQR ( Poetry Quarterly Review ).

Though often noted for his connection to grunge and punk rock, Bernstein saw himself primarily as a poet and his live performances in Seattle, such as his regular readings at the Dogtown poetry theater and Red Sky Poetry Theater, were influential in Seattle, and he is credited as a major influence by many local poets from his era.

Poet and literary critic Thomas Holley Chivers, who often accused other writers of stealing poems, said that the only thing Bryant " ever wrote that may be called Poetry is ' Thanatopsis ,' which he stole line for line from the Spanish.

He returned to South Africa and was based at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where he often contributed to the annual Poetry Africa Festival hosted by the University and supported activism against neo-liberal policies in contemporary South Africa through working with NGOs.

He was often compared with Alexander Pushkin, and the whole Silver Age of Russian Poetry was sometimes styled the " Age of Blok.

Though associated with any number of literary traditions and schools, Duncan is often identified with the New American Poetry and Black Mountain poets.

It administers several programs: National Poetry Month ; online educational resources, including free poetry lesson plans for high school teachers ; the Poetry Audio Archive, a collection of over 700 recordings dating back to the 1960s ; and the website Poets. org.

Other favorite events include ; Chinese New Year: Red or Dead Tour, Stripper Bingo, Goodwill Hunting, Brides of March, Rest Stop at the Shamrock, Mondo Croquet, the Nuclear Family Picnic, the Ice Cream Anti-Social, Kindergarten Art in the Pearl, the Great Pumpkin Shoot, Spam Poetry Readings, Mutant Toy Workshops and SantaCon.

Wright has been anthologised in works such as The Best American Poetry 2008 as well as the late Czeslaw Milosz's anthology of favorite poems, Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of Image, and American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets.