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As I see it: Ali was pure poetry both in and out of the ring

Edit Belfast Telegraph 11 Jun 2016
Ten years ago I interviewed Seamus Heaney. He spoke admiringly of a number of poets - Yeats, of course, but also Elizabeth Bishop, Gary Snyder, Wallace Stevens and ... Muhammad Ali. His face creased with delight as he quoted the poem Ali delivered extempore at a lecture in Harvard in 1975. "Me? Whee!". Nobody, perhaps, has ever made egotism so attractive as Ali. Nobody has dissed others so charmingly and so without rancour ... ....

No Map Could Show Them by Helen Mort

Edit Huffington Post 07 Jun 2016
Elizabeth Bishop's question, 'Are they assigned, or can the countries pick their own colours?', is a key reference point for much of this collection, as Mort considers the female mountaineers of history and how they have gone beyond their 'assigned' paths. I wonder if Mort is deliberately putting herself at a perpendicular intersection with Bishop's North and South in the line 'Due west, due east, you are / x-marks-the-spot'....

Poster poems: buildings

Edit The Guardian 03 Jun 2016
From Louis MacNeice at the British Library to Elizabeth Bishop’s Filling Station, some poets are good at recording life’s often unnoticed settings ... In Filling Station, Elizabeth Bishop visits an even more typically modern building, but to different ends. Although she recognises the grimy, oil-saturated reality of her surroundings, Bishop can also see ......

New film series at BAMPFA coincides with language of literature

Edit The Examiner 30 May 2016
Starting this Wednesday, and lasting through just five days, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), will present the film series, “Auteur, Author ... Two films are screened on June 3rd, beginning with a 2015 documentary on poet Elizabeth Bishop, titled Welcome to This House, followed by the John Huston-directed 1972 movie, Fat City ... ....

Boston's Secret Sidewalk Poems Add Some Cheer to Rainy Days

Edit CityLab 19 May 2016
Mass Poetry. As East Coast cities continue to endure an unending spell of rain, many locals have started to forget that the sun even exists ... Outside the Hyde Park Library, pedestrians can stumble across “Water” by Elizabeth McKim ... Related Story ... It’s also a chance to expose Boston residents to the rich history of their city, which was once home to poets like Sylvia Plath, Elizabeth Bishop, and e. e. cummings....

Poem of the week: Yangtze by Sarah Howe

Edit The Guardian 02 May 2016
Yangtze. The moon glimmers. in the brown channel ... Is this a voice from the Chinese “side” of her literary inheritance? Perhaps, but it also recalls an American poet still setting an example for later generations, Elizabeth Bishop ... It’s a moment reminiscent of the concluding stanza of Bishop’s One Art, where the speaker has to force herself, publicly, to write down the dreaded phrase admitting that losing her lover feels “like disaster” ... ....

The creator of ‘Mad Men’ started out as a poet

Edit New York Post 26 Apr 2016
Before he wrote for “The Sopranos” and created “Mad Men,” Matthew Weiner wrote poetry. “Writers were revered in my house and poets were at the top,” says Weiner, the son of a doctor and a lawyer. His all-boys high school introduced him to T.S ... (info at poets.org) ... Here’s what’s in his library ... by Elizabeth Bishop ... Bishop’s kind of formal, but this book has one of her most personal poems, “In the Waiting Room,” about her childhood ... ... by W.S....

Virtual Reality Reminds Users What It's Like to Be Themselves

Edit The Atlantic 20 Apr 2016
Phil McCarten / Reuters. From my first encounter with VR, at an exhibition in Chicago’s Navy Pier in the early 1990s—a mist of possibility has surrounded the technology. “This is just a prototype,” I was told in various booths and studios over the years. But the era of prototypes has finally ended ... You become an astronaut, for example, or a refugee ... I thought of the words of the child in Elizabeth Bishop’s poem, “In the Waiting Room.” ... ....

Charlotte Hodes film selected for the UK’s first film festival launched by the Crafts Council and Crafts magazine (University of the Arts London)

Edit Public Technologies 19 Apr 2016
Questions of Travel follows Elizabeth Bishop's poem Questions of Travel (1956), deconstructing the binaries of 'here' and 'there' to develop the idea of travel as a metaphor for the creative process ... Bishop's phrase 'must we dream our dreams and have them too?' is central to our exploration of anxieties about empirical thinking and the workings of the imagination....

Free Assistance To Help Transform Practice/Get Ready for MACRA (Georgia Academy of Family Physicians)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Apr 2016
(Source. Georgia Academy of Family Physicians). Dear Georgia Academy of Family Physician Members, ... QualityImpact, the COSEHC Practice Transformation Network (PTN) along with the ABFM's PRIME Support and Alignment Network (SAN), will serve providers in the Southeastern U.S ... CMS's message is clear ... Elizabeth Bishop, the PRIME SAN Program Manager (ebishop@theabfm.org) to learn more about their additional benefits ... Thank you,. Mitzi B ... (noodl....

Cursed Legacy: The Tragic Life of Klaus Mann by Frederick Spotts review

Edit The Irish Times 16 Apr 2016
Klaus Mann, the second of the six children of novelist Thomas Mann, was born in Munich in 1906. Thomas Mann came from a long line of Hanseatic merchants; Klaus’s mother was from a rich and cultured Jewish family in Munich who had become Protestant a generation earlier. All of the Mann children had difficulty with their famous father, who was distant, severe and hard working ... Colm Tóibín’s most recent book is On Elizabeth Bishop ....

Unobtrusive Genius

Edit Huffington Post 11 Apr 2016
The best exhibition of visual art currently on display in London is not at the National Gallery or the Tates, but at the Victoria and Albert Museum ... Photo courtesy of the Victoria & Albert Museum, London ... Like other great experimental artists, including the photographer Eug�ne Atget, the director John Ford, and the poet Elizabeth Bishop, Strand's mastery of technique was so complete that he was able to make his technique invisible ... ....

Poster poems: nursery rhymes

Edit The Guardian 01 Apr 2016
The rhythms and imagery of childhood verses have inspired poets from Robert Louis Stevenson to Elizabeth Bishop ... Elizabeth Bishop’s Visits to St Elizabeths uses the iterative structure of The House that Jack Built to record a series of visits to Ezra Pound in the hospital where he was incarcerated, having been found psychologically unfit to stand trial on charges of treason....
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