Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as poets by others. A poet may simply be a writer of poetry, or may perform their art to an audience.

The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, either expressing ideas in a literal sense, such as writing about a specific event or place, or metaphorically. 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.

History

In Ancient Rome, professional poets were generally sponsored by patrons, wealthy supporters including nobility and military officials. For instance, Gaius Cilnius Maecenas, friend to Caesar Augustus, was an important patron for the Augustan poets, including both Horace and Virgil.

Philippine President announces separation from US

Edit Lancaster Online 20 Oct 2016

BEIJING (AP) — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced that his country is separating from the U.S. in a speech before a Beijing economic forum on Thursday, after handing China a major diplomatic victory, agreeing to resume dialogue on their South ... ....

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Alec Baldwin at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, on January 23rd, 2010.

[VIDEO]: Stephen Baldwin: My Brother As Donald Trump On SNL Isn't 'Very Funny'

Edit WorldNews.com 20 Oct 2016

Everyone’s a critic and no one has more critics than Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump. Now, the man who portrays Trump on NBC’s Saturday Night Live – Alec Baldwin – is getting negative feedback for his portrayal of the New York real estate mogul. As expected, the criticism is coming from Trump himself, but also someone very close to Baldwin – his younger brother Stephen ... "He’s got the voice down very well....

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Trump Campaign Chairman Paul Manafort talks to reporters on the floor of the Republican National Convention at Quicken Loans Arena, Sunday, July 17, 2016, in Cleveland.

Trump National Political Director No Longer Active In Campaign: Politico

Edit WorldNews.com 20 Oct 2016

More bad news for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump late Thursday afternoon as Politico reported Jim Murphy, Trump’s national political director, is no longer playing an active role on the campaign, according to three sources briefed on the move. "I have not resigned but for personal reasons have had to take a step back from the campaign.” – Trump national political director Jim Murphy statement to POLITICO....

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Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton walks off stage as Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump puts his notes away after the third presidential debate at UNLV in Las Vegas, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016.

Clinton crushes Trump, wins final US presidential debate: poll

Edit Deccan Chronicle 20 Oct 2016

Las Vegas. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has won the third and final presidential debate with her Republican rival Donald Trump by an impressive 13 percentage points after a feisty fight, according to a latest poll. Overall 52 per cent of those who watched the debate said Clinton did the best job, while 39 per cent said Trump was the winner, CNN said, releasing the results of its unscientific poll ... Read ... ....

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In this frame grab taken from video provided by the Syrian anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), 5-year-old Omran Daqneesh sits in an ambulance after being pulled out or a building hit by an airstirke, in Aleppo, Syria, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016.

‘This Is a Forged Picture’: Bashar Assad Disputes ‘Boy in the Ambulance’ Account

Edit Time Magazine 20 Oct 2016

“May I show you a picture?”. That was the question posed to Syrian President Bashar Assad in an interview with Swiss media released this week. “Of course,” Assad replies. At this point, the pair had spoken for nine minutes. Assad blamed the armed opposition (his name for them ... The interviewer reaches into his pocket ... 17 after local medical personnel said an airstrike destroyed his family’s home ... Dr ... ....

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Listen to Common's New Song, 'Home'

Edit New York Magazine 21 Oct 2016

Hip-hop artist, actor, poet, producer, and handsome person, Common, has just released the third single from his forthcoming album, Pitchfork reports. "Home" features vocals from Bilal, a frequent collaborator and go-to vocalist who has recently hopped on tracks for Kendrick Lamar and Mac Miller, among others. And it's been a ... More » ... ....

Madavoorpara opened for visitors

Edit The Hindu 21 Oct 2016

The protected monument of Madavoorpara was opened for visitors on Thursday after completion of the first stage restoration work ... Mr ... Mayor V. K ... Premkumar, and poet Murugan Kattakada spoke. ....

Ossian, the ‘Homer of the North’, and the truth behind the world’s greatest literary hoax

Edit The Independent 21 Oct 2016

Could it be that Macpherson, also a poet, had adapted Irish folklore to create Scottish legends that would be taken seriously by a British elite obsessed by Classical Greece and Rome? Literary giant Samuel Johnson certainly thought so, ......

Yucatan spearheads Aidan O'Brien team as Capri swerves Doncaster date

Edit Belfast Telegraph 21 Oct 2016

Aidan O'Brien's chief hope at Doncaster in edging closer towards the record number of top-level winners in a calendar year is Yucatan after Capri was not declared for the Racing Post Trophy on Saturday ... Independent.ie ... William Haggas' Rivet returns to the scene of his Champagne Stakes success, while Charlie Appleby runs Bay Of Poets ... ....

Bestselling writers enriched by architectural treasure (RMIT - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology)

Edit Public Technologies 21 Oct 2016

(Source. RMIT - Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology) ... Heaven on earth for a writer,' Kaminsky said ... Residencies have been undertaken by local and international writers including award-winning playwright Hannie Rayson, Stella Prize winner Carrie Tiffany, Indigenous poet and activist Lionel Fogarty, US nonfiction writer Robin Hemley, Hong Kong based writer Xu Xi and screenwriter Robyn Winslow ... Story ... Edited. Wendy Little ... (noodl....

The Day at the Races: Russians, Lukas and ‘Confederate grey’ at Keeneland

Edit Lexington Herald-Leader 21 Oct 2016

Thursday’s figures. On-track attendance, 8,594; on-track betting, $660,236.10; total betting including simulcast, 7,108,812.08. This day last year. On-track attendance, 11,592; on-track betting, $862,719; total betting including simulcast, $5,311,961. Coming up ... Renown won the $100,000 Grade III Sycamore Stakes, putting a twist to tradition for the renowned Voss family of horse trainers from Elkton, Md ... The owners must be poets ... ....

Poet Laureate Jury (City of Olympia, WA)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Oct 2016

Selection process to begin for Olympia's First Poet Laureate. The public is invited to view the jury process for Olympia's first Poet Laureate on Thursday, October 27 at 10 a.m., in Room 200 of The Olympia Center, 222 Columbia St NW. The purpose of this jury is to determine one local poet ......

Celebrating 30 years, Dodge Festival mixes poetry with social justice

Edit NJ dot com 20 Oct 2016

The Dodge Poetry Festival celebrates its 30th year with social justice programming in Newark with poets like Martin Espada ... Dodge Poetry Festival will partner with the Academy of American Poets and explore similar political and social justice themes. ... "This is in essence about the poet citizen.". Espada will join other poets Oct ... Several of this year's notable attending poets -- including former U.S....

250th birth anniversary celebrations of Tyagayya

Edit The Hindu 20 Oct 2016

Information and Public Relations Minister Palle Raghunatha Reddy has said the 250th birth anniversary celebrations of saint-poet Tyagayya would be organised at Avanigadda on Thursday....

Woman murdered

Edit The Hindu 20 Oct 2016

2,500. Pavayee was staying alone at her house in Rayarpalayam ... Poet remembered. The 128th birth anniversary of Ramalingam Pillai, poet, was observed here on Wednesday ... Asia Mariam paid floral tributes to the picture of the poet at his house on Senthamangalam Road. The poet’s grand child R.A ... ....

Poet Elizabeth Acevedo to perform on campus (Indiana University Southeast)

Edit Public Technologies 20 Oct 2016

(Source. Indiana University Southeast). Poet Elizabeth Acevedo will perform on the IU Southeast campus on Wed., Oct. 26 at 12.15 p.m. in the UC Commons ... She holds a B.A ... Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in Puerto Del Sol, Callaloo, Poet Lore and others ... Ms ... What advice or encouragement do you have to offer aspiring poets?. Keep reading ... Original documenthttps.//now.ius.edu/2016/10/poet-elizabeth-acevedo-to-perform-on-campus/....

Nobel notes

Edit The Spectator 20 Oct 2016

This is a consistent blind spot for the Committee, since Bob’s as much a poet as Barry is black. (About half at best.) Or, to use Norman Mailer’s line, ‘If Dylan’s a poet, I’m a basketball player.’ Indeed, it seems we’ve now reached the literati’s culminating effort in its long campaign to ‘deconstruct outdated conceptions of literature’....

Are Dylan’s songs ‘Literature’?

Edit Mail Guardian South Africa 20 Oct 2016

Bob Dylan has won this year’s Nobel Prize for literature. The media has reported on this surprising choice by asking musicians, poets and writers whether his songs are literature ... So are song lyrics a type of literature or, more specifically, poetry? The English poet, Glyn Maxwell, thinks not ... Dylan has avoided taking on the mantle of “poet” ... Nevertheless, he famously took the name of a Welsh poet (Dylan Thomas) for his pseudonym ... ....