Not surprisingly, Mr Forbes's anthology finds little room for the quieter, subtler poets of the century: Rainer Maria Rilke, for example, has no entries.
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This includes the inter-weaving of written words with moving images and sound, in which the poets can create online "performances" for their work, says the centre's director, Loss Pequeno Glazier.
Although construction will continue for another five years, the first Shanghai artists, poets, scholars and musicians have already begun visiting and staying for short residencies.
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The National Trust for Scotland (NTS) and Historic Scotland commissioned ten Scottish poets to write new works about the famous site and the surrounding landscape in partnership with Creative Scotland and the Scottish Poetry Library.
In the Arab world it is customary for poets to praise those in power.
Heaney had spearheaded the campaign for Hughes to be remembered in Poets' Corner.
During an early scene in the 1989 film, Dead Poets Society, Keating (played by Robin Williams) sets the tone for the rest of the movie when he asks his students to read the introduction to their poetry textbook.
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Famed for its proto-brutalist facade and spatial ambiguities, and for exciting morbid thoughts from poets and novelists throughout the 20th century, the building distills qualities that have elevated Hawksmoor, known mainly by the Victorians as an assistant to Christopher Wren, to his modern-day status as a cultish demigod an architect's architect and an enigmatic weaver of literary spells.
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In any case, her attention to poetry has been a boon for all poets, says Stephen Young, program director at the Poetry Foundation, based in Chicago.
My poetry was known of but was not a difficulty for the Killary locals there had never been a shortage of poets out there.
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Mr Garner has pointed to Kurdistan, whose 4m people have grown accustomed to freedom and where statues of poets long since replaced bronze Saddams, as a model for the rest of the country.
Like poets before him, he yearned for Greece and effected a transfer to the Special Operations Executive in Cairo with a view to going on there.
Mr Anderson said that because the library was "a historic and important city gem, we want there to be an event which highlights the city's reputation for producing much-loved playwrights, storytellers, songwriters, poets and authors".
The campus has its jocks, stoners, and poets, but what it is famous for are budding entrepreneurs, engineers, and computer aces hoping to make their fortune in one crevasse or another of Silicon Valley.
An unorthodox, but potentially rewarding, place to look for a fresh perspective on these questions is to ask, what do poets, those unelected legislators of the world, think about private equity and hedge funds?
Many Arab poets write about the violence in the Middle East - there's a famous poem "Lament for the June sun" which described the Arab defeat in the Six Day War of 1967 where the poet Al-Bayyati berates the leaders of the Arab world.
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