's calligramme (1918).]] Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong of Song; fan mounted as album leaf on silk, four columns in cursive script.]] A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and time periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed through the course of literary history, resulting in a history of poets as diverse as the literature they have produced.

French poet Arthur Rimbaud summarized the "poet" by writing,

A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men: the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed—and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and, if demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!

See also

Bard

List of poets

Lyricist

Poet Laureate

Writer

References

Category:Literature Category:Spoken word

Ted Kooser (born 25 April 1939) was an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006.

External links

Official website

Ted Kooser: Online Resources from the Library of Congress

American Life in Poetry, Kooser's syndicated newspaper feature

Author interview in Guernica Magazine (Guernicamag.com)

Ted Kooser biographical summary

Linton Weeks, Washington Post, "Poet Laureate's Prized Words", April 5, 2005, page C1

A review of Delights & Shadows by Ted Kooser.

Television Profile of Ted Kooser - NET Television

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Name	Saul Williams
Background	solo_singer
Birth name	Saul Stacey Williams
Born	February 29, 1972
Genre	Hip hop, Spoken word, poetry, electronic, Industrial hip hop
Occupation	PoetWriterSingerMusicianActorVoice Actor
Instrument	Vocals
Url	Official Site

Saul Stacey Williams (born February 29, 1972) is an American poet, writer, actor and musician known for his blend of poetry and alternative hip hop and for his leading role in the 1998 independent film Slam.

Biography

The youngest of three children, Williams was born in Newburgh, New York. He attended Newburgh Free Academy for high school, where he would originally write his song Black Stacey. After graduating from Morehouse College with a B.A. in acting and philosophy, Williams moved to New York City to earn a Master's Degree at New York University in acting. There, he found himself at the center of the New York cafe poetry scene.

Williams and artist Marcia Jones began their relationship in 1995 as collaborative artists on the Brooklyn performance art and spoken word circuit. Their daughter, Saturn, was born in 1996. His collection of poems S/HE is a series of reflections on the demise of the relationship. [Marcia], a visual artist and art professor, created the cover artwork for The Seventh Octave, images through-out S/HE in response to Williams, and set designed his 2001 album Amethyst Rock Star. Saturn has recently been performing with her father on his 2008 concert tour .

On his birthday, February 29, 2008, Williams married his girlfriend of five years, the actress Persia White. Williams met White in 2003 when he made a guest appearance on the TV show Girlfriends as a poet named Sivad. White has a daughter named Mecca (1993). On January 17, 2009, White announced via her MySpace blog that she and Williams were no longer together.

Williams is a vegan.

Williams lived abroad in Brazil in 1989, and his favorite Brazilian artists are Jorge Ben Jor, Gilberto Gil and João Gilberto.

Career

By 1995, he had become an open mic poet and, in 1996, he won the title of Nuyorican Poets Cafe's Grand Slam Champion. The documentary film SlamNation follows Williams and the other members of the 1996 Nuyorican Poets Slam team (Beau Sia, Mums da Schemer and Jessica Care Moore) as they compete in the 1996 National Poetry Slam held in Portland, Oregon.

The following year, Williams landed the lead role in the 1998 feature film Slam. Williams served as both a writer and actor on the film, which would win both the Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize and the Cannes Camera D'Or (Golden Camera) and serve to introduce Williams to international audiences.

Williams was at this time breaking into music. He had performed with such artists as Nas, The Fugees, Christian Alvarez, Blackalicious, Erykah Badu, KRS-One, Zack De La Rocha, De La Soul, and DJ Krust, as well as poets Allen Ginsberg and Sonia Sanchez. After releasing a string of EPs, in 2001 he released the LP Amethyst Rock Star with producer Rick Rubin and in September 2004 his self-titled album to much acclaim. He played several shows supporting Nine Inch Nails on their European tour in summer 2005, and has also supported The Mars Volta.

Williams was also invited to the Lollapalooza music festival in Summer 2005. The Chicago stage allowed Williams to attract a wider audience. He also appeared on NIN's album Year Zero, and supported the group on their 2006 North American tour. On the tour Williams announced that Trent Reznor would co-produce his next album.

This collaboration resulted in 2007's The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust!. This album was available only at the website niggytardust.com until a physical CD of the album was issued. The physical release included new tracks and extended album artwork. The first 100,000 customers on the website had the option to download a free lower-quality audio version of the album. The other option was for users to pay $5 to support the artist directly and be given the choice of downloading the higher-quality MP3 version or the lossless FLAC version. The material has been produced by Trent Reznor and mixed by Alan Moulder. It was Reznor who said that, after his own recent dealings with record labels, they should release it independently and directly.

As a writer, Williams has been published in The New York Times, Esquire, Bomb Magazine and African Voices, as well as having released four collections of poetry. As a poet and musician, Williams has toured and lectured across the world, appearing at many universities and colleges. In his interview in the book, Words in Your Face: A Guided Tour Through Twenty Years of the New York City Poetry Slam, Williams explained why he creates within so many genres, saying:

Williams is a vocal critic of the War on Terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; among his better-known works are the anti-war anthems "Not In My Name" and "Act III Scene 2 (Shakespeare)". In early 2008, a Nike Sparq Training commercial featured Williams' song "List of Demands (Reparations)".

In a November 2008 interview with Wired.com, Williams talked about his forthcoming projects:

In January 2009, he released "NGH WHT - The Dead Emcee Scrolls with The Arditti Quartet", a reading of his 2006 poetry book of the same name. This collaboration with Thomas Kessler (who also set ,said the shotgun to the head to music) is released with two payment options: listeners may download Chapters 18-22 of the 27-minute composition for free (in mp3 format), or for $6, can download the entire 33-chapter composition in lossless .aif format, along with the isolated vocal and quartet multitrack stems. The entire paid download totals in size at 563 Megabyte.

Saul Williams was the headlining act in the 2009 Brave New Voices Competition.

He currently resides in Paris, France.

Saul has recently released a new song 'Explain My Heart' from his forthcoming album Volcanic Sunlight.

Discography

Albums/EPs

Penny for a Thought / Purple Pigeons (2000)

Amethyst Rock Star (2001)

Not in My Name (2003)

Saul Williams (2004)

The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust! (2007)

NGH WHT - The Dead Emcee Scrolls with The Arditti Quartet (2009)

Volcanic Sunlight (2011)

Guest and compilation appearances

"Twice the First Time" on Eargasms - Crucialpoetics Vol. 1 (1997)

"Elohim (1972)" on Black Whole Styles (1998)

"Ohm" on Lyricist Lounge, Volume One (1999)

"Coded Language" on Coded Language by DJ Krust (1999)

"Spongebob Squarepants" (2001)

"Release" with Lyrics Born and Zack De La Rocha on Blazing Arrow by Blackalicious (2002)

"Time (Jungle) (Temple Of Soul Mix)" on Nublu Sessions, mixed by Wax Poetic (2003)

"Sent from Sandy Shores" (with Sacajawea) on Dreams of Water Themes by Adventure Time (2003)

"Wake up Show Freestyles" by Sway and King Tech (2004)

"Three Fingers" on Enter the Chicken by Buckethead & Friends (2005)

"Sea Lion (Extended)" (with Will Oldham) on "Sea Lion" by Sage Francis (2005)

"Mr. Nichols" on Sound Mirrors by Coldcut (2006)

"April Showers, April Tears" on ¿What by Stuart Davis (2006)

",said the shotgun to the head" on Thomas Kessler by Thomas Kessler (2006)

"Survivalism" and "Me, I'm Not" on Year Zero by Nine Inch Nails (2007)

"Gunshots By Computer" and "Survivalism" on Y34RZ3R0R3M1X3D by Nine Inch Nails (2007)

"Lyrical Gunplay" on Thru by Thavius Beck

"Dance Of The Dead" on The Unbound Project, Vol. 1 a compilation benefit album for Mumia Abu-Jamal

"List Of Demands" on Nike Sparq Commercial

"Black Stacy Remix" ft. Nas

"U Can Do It" (with Maeckes) on "KIDS" by Maeckes (2010)

"Dance or Die" on The ArchAndroid by Janelle Monáe (2010)

Bibliography

The Seventh Octave, 1998, Moore Black Press ISBN 0-9658308-1-0

She, 1999, MTV/Pocketbooks ISBN 0-671-03977-6

,said the shotgun to the head, 2003, MTV/Pocketbooks ISBN 0-7434-7079-6

The Dead Emcee Scrolls, 2006, MTV/Pocketbooks ISBN 1-4165-1632-8

Mentioned in Raine Maida's song "One Second Chance" off his 2007 Solo Album - "The Hunters Lullabye"

Filmography

Downtown 81 (voice) (1981/2000)

Underground Voices (1996)

Slam (1998)

SlamNation (1998)

I'll Make Me a World (1999)

King Of The Korner (2000)

K-PAX (2001)

The N Word (2004)

Lackawanna Blues (2005)

References

External links

Official Site

Saul Williams at Discogs

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Roberto Luongo (; born April 4, 1979) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender for the Vancouver Canucks of the National Hockey League (NHL). He has previously played for the New York Islanders and the Florida Panthers. He plays in the butterfly style of goaltending.

Playing major junior in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL) for the Val-d'Or Foreurs and the Acadie-Bathurst Titan, he won back-to-back President's Cups and holds the league's all-time playoff records in games played and wins as well. Luongo was drafted fourth overall by the Islanders in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft. He is a two-time Vezina Trophy and Lester B. Pearson Award finalist – both with Florida in 2004 and with Vancouver in 2007. He was also a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy in 2007. In 2008, he became the first NHL goaltender to serve as a captain since Bill Durnan in the 1947–48 season. Luongo served in that capacity for two seasons before resigning from the position before the 2010–11 season. His father is an Italian immigrant, born in Santa Paolina, Avellino. while Luongo's mother is an Irish-Canadian who works in marketing with Air Canada. Antonio and Pasqualina married in Montreal after Antonio emigrated there in 1976.

Luongo has two younger brothers, Leo and Fabio, who were also aspiring goaltenders. Fabio made it the furthest out of the two, playing Junior A in the British Columbia Hockey League (BCHL) with the Williams Lake Timberwolves in 2004–05 before succumbing to injuries. He has since become a Junior AAA coach, while Leo is a goaltending coach in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League (QMJHL). Luongo and his family lived in St. Leonard, Quebec, a borough north of Montreal with a strong Italian community, just four blocks away from Martin Brodeur, His father spoke Italian and his mother spoke English with a little French at home.

Luongo graduated from Antoine de St-Exupéry in Montreal, a Francophone high school, in 1996. His father taught all his sons soccer and Luongo played until he was 14, at which point he decided to concentrate on hockey. Although he initially had the desire to play in net, his parents wanted him to develop his skating first. Several years later, after Luongo was cut from a peewee team, he made the switch to goaltender. At 11 years old, his team's usual goaltender did not show up and after begging his mother, still hesitant about Luongo playing the position, he went in net and posted a shutout.

By 15, Luongo was playing midget with Montreal-Bourassa, the same team that produced NHL Quebecer goalies Brodeur and Félix Potvin. Luongo has credited Hall of Fame goaltender Grant Fuhr as his inspiration growing up, citing an admiration for his "spectacular glove saves". He had the opportunity to first meet Fuhr before a game against the Calgary Flames during his rookie season with the Islanders. He began his junior career in the 1995–96 season with Val-d'Or and posted six wins in 23 games played. As the team's starting goaltender the following season in 1996–97, he improved to a team-record 32 wins

At the 1997 NHL Entry Draft, Luongo was selected in the first round, fourth overall, by the New York Islanders. The pick originally belonged to the Toronto Maple Leafs but was traded to the Islanders in exchange for Wendel Clark, Mathieu Schneider and D. J. Smith.

Upon his draft, Luongo continued to play junior with the Foreurs in 1997–98. He recorded 27 wins and a 3.09 goals against average (GAA). His seven shutouts tied Nick Sanza's QMJHL record, set in 1974–75 (Adam Russo later tied it as well in 2002–03). He started the season with Val-d'Or but was traded to the Acadie-Bathurst Titan during the 1999 World Junior Championships for the remainder of the 1998–99 season. He went on to lead the Titan to his second consecutive President's Cup championship with a 2.74 GAA in 23 games. He finished his QMJHL playoff career with the all-time league record in games played (56), minutes played (3,264:22), wins (38) and shots faced (1,808). The following season, he made his professional debut with the Lowell Lock Monsters, the Islanders' American Hockey League (AHL) affiliate. Early in the season, Luongo was called up to the Islanders on November 22, 1999, after a shoulder injury to backup Wade Flaherty. He made his NHL debut six days later on November 28, stopping 43 shots in a 2–1 win against the Boston Bruins. Nearly a month after Luongo's debut in New York, Potvin was traded to the Vancouver Canucks on December 19 in exchange for backup goaltender Kevin Weekes. Milbury told the media, "You can't do that in the NHL. You have to prepare yourself." Luongo defended himself by saying he did not divert from his usual game day routine by looking at just one apartment. Consequently, Milbury traded Luongo to the Florida Panthers along with centre Olli Jokinen for winger Mark Parrish and centre Oleg Kvasha that same day on June 24, 2000.

Approaching his third NHL season, Luongo agreed on a four-year contract extension with the Panthers on September 13, 2001. After appearing in 58 games in 2001–02, Luongo suffered a torn ligament in his right ankle in a game against the Montreal Canadiens on March 20, 2002. he finished with a 16–33–4 record, a 2.77 GAA and .915 save percentage. Luongo returned in 2002–03 to a heavier workload, playing a 65-game season. He had a franchise record-setting shutout streak that lasted 144:51 minutes; it was snapped on January 20, 2003, against the Montreal Canadiens. He also recorded his first 20-win season with a 20–34–7 record, 2.71 GAA and .918 save percentage. The Panthers continued to struggle, however, finishing 13th in the East.

In his fourth season with the Panthers, Luongo emerged with his first Vezina Trophy and Lester B. Pearson Award nominations as the top goaltender and top player as selected by the players, respectively. Playing in 72 games, he set NHL marks for most saves and shots faced in a single season with 2,303 and 2,475, respectively. Both marks were previously set by former Islanders teammate Félix Potvin in 1996–97 as a Toronto Maple Leaf. and set a Panthers franchise record, breaking Vanbiesbrouck's .924 mark, set in 1993–94. He was named to the Second NHL All-Star Team, but lost the Vezina Trophy to fellow Montreal-native Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils, while Martin St. Louis of the Tampa Bay Lightning won the Pearson Award. Despite Luongo's success, however, the Panthers failed to qualify for the playoffs once more.

forward Peter Bondra scores on Luongo.|alt=An ice hockey player wearing a blue jersey following through on a shot against a goaltender wearing a white jersey from close proximity. The goaltender's left blocker and pad are outstretched as he watches the puck go in the net behind him.]] Due to the 2004–05 NHL lockout, Luongo was inactive, with the exception of two international tournaments, the 2004 World Cup and the 2005 World Championships. With the NHL set to resume in 2005–06, Luongo was without a contract. After negotiations failed, the Panthers filed for arbitration on August 11, 2005.

Vancouver Canucks (2006–present)

Prior to the start of the 2006–07 season, Panthers general manager Mike Keenan traded Luongo to the Vancouver Canucks on June 23, 2006. He was packaged with defenceman Lukáš Krajíček and a sixth round draft pick (Sergei Shirokov) in exchange for forward Todd Bertuzzi, defenceman Bryan Allen and goaltender Alex Auld. Immediately following the deal, Vancouver signed Luongo to a four-year, $27 million deal. General manager Brian Burke had coined the term "goalie graveyard" during his tenure in Vancouver to describe the club's goaltending fortunes. Discharged from the hospital on game day, Luongo recorded a shutout that night against the Montreal Canadiens on January 16, 2007. He finished the season with a 35–29–9 record, 2.38 GAA and .917 save percentage.

On September 30, 2008, prior to the start of the 2008–09 season, Vancouver Canucks general manager Mike Gillis and head coach Alain Vigneault named Luongo the 12th captain in team history, replacing the departed Markus Näslund. The decision was unconventional, as league rules forbid goaltenders from being captains. Centre Ryan Kesler was chosen along with Mitchell and Öhlund as the third alternate captain.

A month into the 2008–09 season, Luongo began a shutout streak that lasted three games against the Nashville Predators, Phoenix Coyotes, and the Minnesota Wild, akin to the feat he accomplished in the same month of November the previous year. The front-loaded deal, which will expire by the time Luongo is 43 and includes a no-trade clause, sees him make $10 million in 2010–11, then approximately $6.7 million annually through to 2017–18, $3.3 million and $1.6 million the subsequent two seasons, before tailing off to $1 million for the final two years. When asked after the Canucks' elimination whether he thought he should remain team captain, he told reporters he did not think it was an issue. However, Gillis, who appointed him captain two seasons prior, asserted it was a topic to be addressed in the off-season. On September 13, 2010, Luongo confirmed he was stepping down, stating "Serv[ing] as captain...in a Canadian city for a team with such passionate fans is a privilege and an experience I will always take pride in. I will continue to be a leader on this team and support my teammates the same way I always have while focusing on our ultimate goal." Centre Henrik Sedin, who won the Hart Trophy in the off-season, was named Luongo's successor in a pre-game ceremony to the Canucks' season-opener. ending his tournament debut with a 1.44 GAA in two games. Canada finished in fifth place.

During his next appearance at the 2003 World Championships in Finland, Luongo began the tournament as backup to the Phoenix Coyotes' Sean Burke. He earned wins against Latvia in the preliminaries and Switzerland in the qualifying round. During the semifinals against the Czech Republic, Luongo replaced Burke after he left the game with a lower-body injury eight minutes into the second period. Luongo allowed four goals in relief, but earned the win as Canada defeated the Czechs 8–4. Despite Luongo's medal round efforts, Burke was named the Best Goaltender for the tournament, as he played in the majority of Team Canada's games. With Slovakia's goaltender pulled and down by a goal, the puck bounced to Demitra by the side of the net. Out of position, Luongo managed to get his glove on the puck, deflecting it away from the net and preserving the win. Luongo suffered one during the 2008–09 season and missed 24 games.

An athletic goaltender, Luongo is known for having quick reflexes, Allaire is known to be a strong proponent of the butterfly style. Observers also note the strong concentration, competitiveness and mental aspects of his game. On the other hand, his puck-handling skills have been described as a weakness.

His style began to be directed during his midget years with Allaire and Montreal-Bourassa goaltending coach Mario Baril. Luongo sent tapes of his play to Allaire during his rookie season in the QMJHL and his former goaltending coach advised him to be more aggressive and come out of the net more to cut off angles and challenge shooters. Later in his NHL career, the Canucks hired a new goaltending coach, Roland Melanson, prior to the 2010–11 season. Working with Melanson, Luongo began playing deeper in his crease against Allaire's original advice, allowing him to maintain positioning for rebounds. Prior to his third season with Vancouver, he was named Markus Näslund's successor as team captain and the first goaltender to be named a captain in 59 years. Teammate Mattias Öhlund, who served as alternate captain to Luongo for one season, described him as a vocal leader, General manager Mike Gillis described his commitment level as "unprecedented", adding that "he'd be a great example for our younger guys," at the time of the captaincy announcement. He served in that capacity for two seasons before stepping down prior to the 2010–11 season.

Personal life

While playing with the Florida Panthers, Luongo met his wife, Gina Cerbone, at a team hangout called the Pizza Time Trattoria. Gina is the daughter of the Italian restaurant's owner, Umberto Cerbone, Luongo proposed to Gina under the Bridge of Sighs in Venice in 2004. However within a month of moving into a new home in Florida, Luongo was traded to Vancouver. They subsequently moved into the Vancouver neighbourhood of Yaletown, while spending Luongo's off-seasons in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Luongo had been chosen as a starting goaltender for the 2008 NHL All-Star Game, but he chose not to attend in order to be with Gina, who was pregnant with Gabriella at the time and had returned to Florida. He also sponsors a spectator's box in Rogers Arena that is reserved for underprivileged children to attend Canucks games. At the end of games in which he has been named one of the three stars, he has been known to give away his goalie stick to a fan in the crowd. In the summer of 2009, he hosted the Roberto Luongo Golf Open to benefit Montreal Children's Hospital, Sainte-Justine Hospital, and a senior centre network in Saint-Léonard.

In addition to being an avid golfer, Luongo also enjoys playing poker.

Career statistics

Regular season

{| BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" width="95%" |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" |   ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |   |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP ! W ! L ! T ! OTL ! MIN ! GA ! SO ! GAA ! SV% |- ALIGN="center" | 1994–95 | Montreal-Bourassa | QAAA | 25 | 10 | 14 | 0 | — | — | 94 | — | 3.85 | — |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1995–96 | Val d'Or Foreurs | QMJHL | 23 | 6 | 11 | 4 | — | 1201 | 74 | 0 | 3.70 | .878 |- ALIGN="center" | 1996–97 | Val d'Or Foreurs | QMJHL | 60 | 32 | 21 | 2 | — | 3302 | 171 | 2 | 3.10 | .902 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1997–98 | Val d'Or Foreurs | QMJHL | 54 | 33 | 19 | 0 | — | 3043 | 157 | 7 | 3.09 | .899 |- ALIGN="center" | 1998–99 | Val d'Or Foreurs | QMJHL | 21 | 6 | 10 | 2 | — | 1476 | 77 | 1 | 3.93 | .902 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1998–99 | Acadie-Bathurst Titan | QMJHL | 22 | 14 | 7 | 1 | — | 1342 | 74 | 0 | 3.31 | .914 |- ALIGN="center" | 1999–00 | Lowell Lock Monsters | AHL | 26 | 10 | 12 | 4 | — | 1517 | 74 | 1 | 2.93 | .908 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1999–00 | New York Islanders | NHL | 24 | 7 | 14 | 1 | — | 1292 | 70 | 1 | 3.24 | .908 |- ALIGN="center" | 2000–01 | Louisville Panthers | AHL | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 178 | 10 | 0 | 3.38 | .917 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2000–01 | Florida Panthers | NHL | 47 | 12 | 24 | 7 | — | 2628 | 107 | 5 | 2.44 | .920 |- ALIGN="center" | 2001–02 | Florida Panthers | NHL | 58 | 16 | 33 | 4 | — | 3030 | 140 | 4 | 2.77 | .915 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2002–03 | Florida Panthers | NHL | 65 | 20 | 34 | 7 | — | 3627 | 164 | 6 | 2.71 | .918 |- ALIGN="center" | 2003–04 | Florida Panthers | NHL | 73 | 25 | 33 | 14 | — | 4252 | 172 | 7 | 2.43 | .931 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2005–06 | Florida Panthers | NHL | 75 | 35 | 30 | — | 9 | 4305 | 213 | 4 | 2.97 | .914 |- ALIGN="center" | 2006–07 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 76 | 47 | 22 | — | 6 | 4490 | 171 | 5 | 2.29 | .921 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2007–08 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 73 | 35 | 29 | — | 9 | 4232 | 168 | 6 | 2.38 | .917 |- ALIGN="center" | 2008–09 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 54 | 33 | 13 | — | 7 | 3181 | 124 | 9 | 2.34 | .920 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2009–10 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 68 | 40 | 22 | — | 4 | 3899 | 167 | 4 | 2.57 | .913 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" align="center" | NHL totals ! 612 ! 270 ! 254 ! 33 ! 35 ! 34938 ! 1496 ! 51 ! 2.57 ! .918 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" align="center" | QMJHL totals ! 180 ! 85 ! 70 ! 9 ! — ! 8892 ! 554 ! 10 ! 3.30 ! — |}

Playoffs

{| BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="1" CELLSPACING="0" width="95%" |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" |   ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |   |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Season ! Team ! League ! GP ! W ! L ! MIN ! GA ! SO ! GAA ! SA ! SV% |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1996 | Val d'Or Foreurs | QMJHL | 3 | 0 | 1 | 68 | 5 | 0 | 4.41 | — | — |- ALIGN="center" | 1997 | Val d'Or Foreurs | QMJHL | 13 | 8 | 5 | 777 | 44 | 0 | 3.39 | — | — |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1998 | Val d'Or Foreurs | QMJHL | 17 | 14 | 3 | 1019 | 37 | 2 | 2.17 | — | — |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1998 MC | Val d'Or Foreurs | QMJHL | 3 | 0 | 3 | 180 | 19 | 0 | 6.33 | — | — |- ALIGN="center" | 1999 | Acadie-Bathurst Titan | QMJHL | 23 | 16 | 6 | 1400 | 64 | 0 | 2.74 | — | — |- ALIGN="center" | 1999 MC | Acadie-Bathurst Titan | QMJHL | 3 | 0 | 3 | 180 | 11 | 0 | 3.67 | — | — |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2000 | Lowell Lock Monsters | AHL | 6 | 3 | 3 | 359 | 18 | 0 | 3.00 | 222 | .919 |- ALIGN="center" | 2007 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 12 | 5 | 7 | 847 | 25 | 0 | 1.77 | 427 | .941 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2009 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 10 | 6 | 4 | 618 | 26 | 1 | 2.52 | 278 | .914 |- ALIGN="center" | 2010 | Vancouver Canucks | NHL | 12 | 6 | 6 | 707 | 38 | 0 | 3.22 | 362 | .895 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" align="center" | NHL totals ! 34 ! 17 ! 17 ! 2172 ! 89 ! 1 ! 2.46 ! 1093 ! .919 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" align="center" | QMJHL totals ! 56 ! 38 ! 15 ! 3264 ! 150 ! 2 ! 2.75 ! — ! — |}

International

{| BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="3" CELLSPACING="0" ID="Table3" width=75% |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff" |   ! rowspan="99" bgcolor="#ffffff" |   |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! Year ! Team ! Event ! GP ! W ! L ! T ! SO ! GAA |- ALIGN="center" | 1995 | Québec | U17 | colspan=6 | Stats unavailable |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 1998 | Canada | WJC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.89 |- ALIGN="center" | 1999 | Canada | WJC | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1.93 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2001 | Canada | WC | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1.44 |- ALIGN="center" | 2003 | Canada | WC | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.98 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2004 | Canada | WC | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2.32 |- ALIGN="center" | 2004 | Canada | WCH | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2.82 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2005 | Canada | WC | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1.50 |- ALIGN="center" | 2006 | Canada | Oly | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1.51 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#f0f0f0" | 2010 | Canada | Oly | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.76 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! ALIGN="center" colspan=3| Junior int'l totals ! 10 ! 4 ! 2 ! 1 ! 0 ! 2.22 |- ALIGN="center" bgcolor="#e0e0e0" ! ALIGN="center" colspan=3| Senior int'l totals ! 23 ! 17 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 1.94 |}

Awards and achievements

QMJHL

NHL

_{*Named as starter but did not play.}

International

Vancouver Canucks

Records

Val-d'Or Foreurs

Most wins in a season – 32 in 1996–97

QMJHL

Most shutouts in a season – 7 in 1997–98 (tied with Nick Sanza, 1974–75; Adam Russo, 2002–03) Most wins in a single playoffs – 16 in 1999 (tied with Michel Morisette, 1982; Eric Fichaud, 1994; Eric Lafrance, 2003; Jonathan Bernier, 2007; Ryan Mior, 2008) Most games played all-time, playoffs – 56 from 1995–99 (surpassed Marc Denis, 43 games played, 1994–97) Most minutes played all-time, playoffs – 3,264:22 from 1995–99 (surpassed Marc Denis, 2,518:07, 1994–97) Most wins all-time, playoffs – 38 from 1995–99 (surpassed Robert Desjardins, 30, 1984–87) Most shots faced all-time, playoffs – 1,808 from 1995–99 (surpassed Manny Fernandez, 1,351, 1991–94)

NHL

Most saves in a single season – 2,303 in 2003–04 (surpassed Félix Potvin, 2,214 in 1996–97) Most shots faced in a single season – 2,488 in 2005–06 (surpassed himself, 2,475 in 2003–04)

Most home games played in a single season – 41 in 2006–07

Most regular season overtime wins all-time – 49 (as of 2008–09)

Florida Panthers

Longest shutout streak – 144:51 minutes in 2002–03 Most shutouts in a season – 7 in 2003–04 (surpassed himself, six shutouts in 2002–03) Most wins in a season – 35 in 2005–06 (surpassed John Vanbiesbrouck, 27 wins in 1996–97) Most games played all-time – 318 Most shutouts all-time – 26 (surpassed John Vanbiesbrouck, 13 shutouts) Highest save percentage in a season – .921 in 2006–07 (surpassed Dan Cloutier, .914 in 2003–04) Longest shutout streak – 242:36 minutes (2008–09) (surpassed himself, 184:20 minutes in 2007–08) Most shutouts in a season – 9 in 2008–09 (surpassed Dan Cloutier – 7 in 2001–02) Most shutouts all-time – 24 (surpassed Kirk McLean, 20)

Transactions

June 21, 1997 – Selected by the New York Islanders in the first round, fourth overall, in the 1997 NHL Entry Draft.

January 8, 1999 – Signed by the New York Islanders to a three-year, $2.775 million contract. June 24, 2001 – Traded to the Florida Panthers along with Olli Jokinen in exchange for Mark Parrish and Oleg Kvasha. August 25, 2005 – Granted a one-year, $3.2 million contract with the Florida Panthers by arbitration. June 23, 2006 – Traded to the Vancouver Canucks along with Lukáš Krajíček and a sixth-round selection in the 2006 NHL Entry Draft (Sergei Shirokov) in exchange for Todd Bertuzzi, Bryan Allen, and Alex Auld. June 29, 2006 – Signed a four-year, $27 million contract with the Vancouver Canucks. September 2, 2009 – Signed a 12-year, $64 million contract extension with the Vancouver Canucks.

Notes

References

External links

Roberto Luongo's Hockey Canada Profile

Roberto Luongo Hockey Reference Profile

Roberto Luongo at HockeyGoalies.org

Roberto Luongo's goalie masks at GoaliesArchive.com

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Name	Rik Mayall
Birth name	Richard Michael Mayall
Birth date	March 07, 1958
Birth place	Harlow, Essex, England
Active	1980–present
Genre	Black comedy, physical comedy
Influences	John Cleese
Influenced	David Walliams, Richard Herring
Spouse	Barbara Robbin (1985-present; 3 children)
Family	John Mayall (father) & Gillian Mayall (mother)

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Richard Michael "Rik" Mayall (born 7 March 1958) is an English actor, writer and comedian. He is known for his comedy partnership with Adrian Edmondson, his over-the-top, energetic portrayal of characters, and as a pioneer of alternative comedy in the early 1980s.

Early life

Mayall, the second of four children, was born in Harlow, Essex

Quad bike accident

On 9 April 1998, Mayall was injured after crashing a quad bike near his home in Devon. Mayall's daughter Bonnie and her cousin had asked him to take them for a ride on the bike — a Christmas gift from his wife — but he refused due to rain, and went alone. Mayall's wife Barbara looked out the window and saw him lying on the ground with the bike, believing he was joking. He was in a coma for several days. Mayall was airlifted to Plymouth's Derriford Hospital, with two hematomas and a fractured skull. During the following 96 hours, Mayall was kept sedated to prevent movement which could cause pressure on his brain. His family was warned he could die or have brain damage.

After five days doctors felt it safe to bring Mayall back to consciousness. In his 2005 spoof biography, Mayall claims he "rose from the dead". During Mayall's hospitalisation, the Comic Strip special Four Men in a Car was broadcast for the first time. The film involves Mayall's character being hit by a car. Mayall believed he was held hostage at the hospital. After transfer to hospital in London, he took a taxi home but was taken back that day after being sedated. He was to take medication for a year to prevent epileptic seizures. Mayall stopped taking it. He had epileptic seizures. During one, he bit through his tongue. He is now on medication for life. Mayall returned to work with voice-over work. His first post-accident job was in the 1998 Jonathan Creek Christmas special, as DI Gideon Pryke. Mayall and Edmondson have joked about this event in stage versions of Bottom, Edmondson quipping: 'If only I'd fixed those brakes properly'. The pair wrote the first draft of their feature film Guest House Paradiso while Mayall was hospitalised. They planned to co-direct but Edmondson took on the duties himself.

Recognition

In the 2005 poll The Comedian's Comedian, Mayall was voted among the top 50 comedy performers of all time.

In 2008, Mayall was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters (DLitt) from the University of Exeter.

In the 2010 poll "Top 100 Stand-Up Comedians", Mayall was placed 91.

Filmography

Johnny English Reborn (2011)

Just For the Record (2010)

Cutey and the Sofaguard (2010)

Filthy Rich & Catflap,

Valiant (2005)

Chaos & Cadavers (2003)

Chilly Dogs (2001)

Kevin of the North

(2000)

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A Monkey's Tale (1999)

Le château des singes / The Castle of Monkeys

(1999)

Escape to Watership Down (1999)

Journey to Watership Down (1999)

Winter on Watership Down (1999)

(1998)

The Canterville Ghost (1997)

Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997)

Carry On Columbus (1992)

Drop Dead Fred (1991)

Full Bottom (3-Disc Series) (1991)

Blackadder Goes Forth (1989)

Mr Jolly Lives Next Door (1987)

(1987)

Eat the Rich (1987)

The New Statesman (4-Disc Series) (1987)

The Black Adder (1983)

The Young Ones (3-Disc Series) (1982)

An American Werewolf in London (1981)

Shock Treatment (1981)

References

External links

Unofficial Website

Interview with Rik Mayall on Theatre.com

(http://www.scribd.com/doc/37736644/Hound-Dawg-Issue-10-RIK-MAYALL-INTERVIEW)

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__NOTOC__ Frank Mills (born June 27, 1942 in Toronto, Ontario), is a Canadian pianist and recording artist, best known for his solo instrumental hit "Music Box Dancer".

Mills grew up in Verdun, Quebec for five years. He started in Engineering, switched to a B.Sc. programme, then Arts and finally with the Department of Music. He entertained his fraternity brothers (Delta Upsilon) with songs from ragtime to a new artist Bob Dylan. The fraternity piano had thumbtacks on every hammer and produced a unique sound. In the late 1960s became a member of The Bells. He left the band in 1971 just before it had international success with the single "Stay Awhile."

Mills worked as a pianist for CBC-TV and recorded his first solo album, Seven Of My Songs, which produced the hit single "Love Me, Love Me Love." The song made its debut on the Canadian charts in October 1971 and early the following year peaked at #46 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #8 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart His followup single, a cover of Ricky Nelson's "Poor Little Fool" made Top 25 in Canada but stalled at #106 in the U.S.

Mills released an album in 1974 that featured "Music Box Dancer", but it was not a hit initially. When he re-signed with Polydor Records Canada in 1978, the label released a new song as a single, with "Music Box Dancer" on the B-side. The single was sent to easy listening stations in Canada, but a copy was sent in error to CFRA-AM, a pop station in Ottawa. The program director played the A-side and couldn't figure out why it had been sent to his station, so he played the B-side to see if the record was mistakenly marked. He liked "Music Box Dancer" and added it to his station's playlist, turning the record into a Canadian hit. Iconic Ottawa Valley radio personality Dave "50,000" Watts gave the record extensive airplay on the station. The album went gold in Canada, which prompted Polydor in the US to release the album and single.

In Nashville, news producer Bob Parker at WNGE-TV began playing the song over the closing credits of the newscast. Nashville DJs quickly latched on and both the single and album were hits. The million-selling Gold-certified single reached #3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the spring of 1979 as well as #4 on the Billboard Easy Listening chart, while the album reached #21 on the Billboard Top Album chart and also went gold. Polydor awarded a gold record to TV station WNGE for breaking the single in the U.S.

It was Mills' only U.S. Top 40 pop hit; the follow-up, another piano instrumental titled "Peter Piper", peaked at #48 on the Billboard Hot 100 although it was a popular Top 10 hit on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Mills managed one final Adult Contemporary chart entry, "Happy Song", which peaked at #41 at the beginning of 1981.

Mills won two Juno Awards in 1980 for "Peter Piper", one for Composer of the Year and one for Instrumental Artist of the Year. He again won in the latter category in 1981.

He continued to release albums until the early 1990s, and in 2010 announced a Christmas tour with Canadian singer Rita MacNeil.

Sheet music

Music Box Dancer

The sheet music version of "Music Box Dancer" has sold in excess of 3 million copies. It is published by Music Box Dancer Publications which is a subsidiary of Mayfair Montgomery Publishing.

Other

Somewhere a Child Is Sleeping: A Christmas Song (SATB with Piano)

Film and television appearances

"Music Box Dancer" was for a while, the theme song of the local Los Angeles CBS half hour TV documentary show "2 on the Town" back in 1979 through the early 1980s.

"Music Box Dancer" has been heard on an episode of The Simpsons and in the Kill Bill movies. It was used as the theme tune to the BBC2 golf programme, A Round with Alliss.

There is a song in the musical Hair called Frank Mills, although the number has nothing to do with this artist.

References

External links

Official site

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Birthdate	March 22, 1941
Birthplace	New York City, New York, United States
Occupation	Professor, Poet, Author, Anthologist
Nationality	American
Notable works	The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning

Billy Collins (born William James Collins March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.

External links

The Library of Congress. Collins Online Resources

Biography

Billy Collins Biography at PoetryFoundation.org

Griffin Poetry Prize biography (2004 judge and award emcee)

Billy Collins biography at poets.org

Audio and video

Audio: Billy Collins reading at the 2003 Key West Literary Seminar

Audio: Billy Collins lecture and reading at the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar: "Dear Reader"

11 animated poems read by Billy Collins

Collins at Open-Door Poetry

33 poems read aloud by Billy Collins, no charge (Creative Commons)

Billy Collins reads "My Jacket is Polished Gray" from The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation

Interviews

Littoral, the Journal of the Key West Literary Seminar">"The Pleasures of Disorientation": 2009 Interview on Littoral, the Journal of the Key West Literary Seminar

Q&A; With Billy Collins

Author interview with Collins in Guernica Magazine (Guernicamag.com)

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Name	Anne Sexton
Alt	Head and shoulders monochrome portrait photo of Anne Sexton, seated with books in the background
Caption	Anne Sexton photographed by Elsa Dorfman
Birthdate	November 09, 1928
Birthplace	Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Deathdate	October 04, 1974
Deathplace	Weston, Massachusetts, United States
Occupation	Poet
Nationality	American
Children	Linda Gray Sexton, Joyce Ladd Sexton
Genre	Confessionalism
Influences	W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Lowell

Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts – October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts) was an influential American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her suicidal tendencies, long battle against depression, and various intimate details from her own private life, including her relationship with her husband and children.

Early life and family

Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts to Mary Gray Staples and Ralph Harvey. She spent most of her childhood in Boston. In 1945 she enrolled at Rogers Hall boarding school, Lowell, Massachusetts, later spending a year at Garland School.

Sexton's poetic life was further encouraged by her mentor W.D. Snodgrass, whom she met at the Antioch Writer's Conference in 1957. His poem, "Heart's Needle", Some critics regard her dependence on alcohol as compromising her last work. However, other critics see Sexton as a poet whose writing matured over time. "Starting as a relatively conventional writer, she learned to roughen up her line [...] to use as an instrument against the politesse of language, politics, religion [and] sex [...]." Transformations (1971), which is a re-telling of Grimm's Fairy Tales, is one such book.

Subsequent controversy

Following one of many suicide attempts and breakdowns, Sexton worked with therapist Dr. Orne. He diagnosed her with what is now described as bipolar disorder, During the writing of the Middlebrook biography, Linda Gray Sexton stated that she had been sexually assaulted by her mother. For use in the biography, Dr. Orne had given Diane Middlebrook most of the tapes recording the therapy sessions between Orne and Anne Sexton. The use of these tapes was met with, as the New York Times put it, "thunderous condemnation". Middlebrook received the tapes after she had written a substantial amount of the first draft of Sexton's biography, and decided to start over. Although Linda Gray Sexton collaborated with the Middlebrook biography, other members of the Sexton family were divided over the book, publishing several editorials and op-ed pieces, in The New York Times and The New York Times Book Review.

Controversy continued with the posthumous public release of the tapes (which had been subject to doctor-patient confidentiality). They are said to reveal Sexton's inappropriate behavior with her daughter Linda, her physically violent behavior toward both her daughters, and her physical altercations with her husband.

Yet more controversy surrounded allegations that Anne Sexton had had an affair with the therapist who replaced Dr. Orne in the 1960s. and Linda Sexton) to be the catalyst that eventually resulted in her suicide.

Sexton's works

Poetry and Prose (collections and novels)

Uncompleted Novel-started in the 1960s

To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

The Starry Night (1961)

All My Pretty Ones (1962)

Live or Die (1966) - Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1967

Love Poems (1969)

Mercy Street, a 2-act play performed at the American Place Theatre (1969)

Transformations (1971) ISBN 0-618-08343-X

The Book of Folly (1972)

The Death Notebooks (1974)

The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975; posthumous)

45 Mercy Street (1976; posthumous)

Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters, edited by Linda Gray Sexton and Lois Ames (1977; posthumous)

Words for Dr. Y. (1978; posthumous)

No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews and Prose, edited by Steven E. Colburn (1985; posthumous)

Children's books

all co-written with Maxine Kumin

1963 Eggs of Things (illustrated by Leonard Shortall)

1964 More Eggs of Things (illustrated by Leonard Shortall)

1974 Joey and the Birthday Present (illustrated by Evaline Ness)

1975 The Wizard's Tears (illustrated by Evaline Ness)

References

Further reading

Middlebrook, Diane Wood (1991). Anne Sexton: A Biography. Reprinted by Vintage Books, 1992. ISBN 0679741828

External links

Poems by Anne Sexton at PoetryFoundation.org

Anne Sexton's Gravesite

Anne Sexton at home (video)

of Anne reciting some poetry, and some home movie excerpts. From an Arts Review program from the early 1990s.

Hear & Now interview with daughter Linda Gray Sexton and Robert Clawson who managed the Sexton's experimental band "Anne Sexton and Her Kind."

Anne Sexton's papers at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin

Anne Sexton's art collection at the Harry Ransom Center at The University of Texas at Austin

Spanish translations, Raúl Racedo, Argentina.

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