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	Poetry: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		Poetry, the art of creating poems, also known as verse, may be defined in opposition to prose, which is language which is meant to convey meaning, with lesser emphasis on mood, word choice, and exact form of expression.
		Poetry is as old as human speech and is a compressed form of speech (and song) in an imaginative manner that at its best evokes and releases human emotions and intuition.
		Also, the vocabulary of poetry tends to be larger and more obscure than that of prose, because poets are apt to take greater liberties with the language and to retain old words and invent new words in order to express themselves within the structure of their poetry.
	www.encyclopedian.com /po/Poetry.html (745 words)

	The American Poet Laureate
		The full title of the laureate position is "The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress." The Librarian of Congress, in consultation with literary critics, former poets laureate, and others distinguished in poetry, appoints the Poet Laureate, who may serve from one to three years.
		The poet occupying the position is given much freedom in his or her activities with only one main requirement: that the poet give an annual lecture and reading of his or her work.
		Poetry's purpose is to engage the soul with truth on the most inner level-not to propagandize a political stance.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/modern_US_Poetry/109162 (488 words)

	Poet Laureate Timeline - Poetry (Library of Congress)
		She is known for her lyric poetry in the English Romantic tradition.
		Jarrell was known for his essays and poetry criticism, regarded as engaging and dazzling and instrumental in establishing Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop and William Carlos Williams as significant American poets.
		He was a poet of traditional verse forms and metric, avoiding the poetic movements of his time.
	www.loc.gov /poetry/laureate.html (918 words)

	About the Position of Poet Laureate - Poetry (Library of Congress)
		The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress serves as the nation's official lightning rod for the poetic impulse of Americans.
		The Poet Laureate is appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress and serves from October to May. In making the appointment, the Librarian consults with former appointees, the current Laureate and distinguished poetry critics.
		The Laureate gives an annual lecture and reading of his or her poetry and usually introduces poets in the Library's annual poetry series, the oldest in the Washington area, and among the oldest in the United States.
	www.loc.gov /poetry/about_laureate.html (426 words)

	Poets Laureate of the United States of America.
		In the United States of America, the post of "Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry" was established in 1985, copying the title from the Poets Laureate of Britain.
		Before that, from 1937 to 1985, the Librarian of Congress had authority to appoint someone to Library of Congress Poetry Position, the post of "Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress." The name was changed by an act of Congress in 1985.
		Poet Laureate Billy Collins and former U.S. Poet Laureate Richard Wilbur (with others) signed an anti-war petition in January 2003, opposing the administrations intended invasion of Iraq.
	www.baymoon.com /~ariadne/poets/poets.laureate.usa.htm (1084 words)

	American Life In Poetry
		The Poetry and Literature Center in the Library of Congress administers the office of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a position which has existed since 1936 when the late Archer M. Huntington endowed the Chair of Poetry there.
		The Poet Laureate suggests poets to read in the Library's literary series and plans other special events during his or her term in office.
		Librarian of Congress James H. Billington announced the appointment of Ted Kooser to be the 13th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress on August 12, 2004.
	www.americanlifeinpoetry.org /sponsors.html (802 words)

	Tanya Angell Allen on Poet Laureats
		And although she was appointed long before the current change in poetry’s stature, Gwendolyn Brooks was the poet laureate of Illinois from 1969 to her death in 2000.
		Although we have had national poet laureates since 1937 it wasn’t until 1986 that the position’s title was changed from the “Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress” to “Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry,” a change in semantics that elevated the national position’s stature and also contributed to the state position’s rise in respectability.
		He did such a dynamic job that Connecticut’s third poet laureate, Marilyn Nelson, complained at length during a recent AWP panel on state poet laureates that because of Connelli, the expectations of her were overly-high.
	www.n2hos.com /acm/poetlaureatereport.html (2921 words)

	PoetryFoundation.org: The Poetry Foundation
		The Poetry Foundation has formed a partnership with the Library of Congress to support the "American Life in Poetry" project, an initiative of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress Ted Kooser.
		The Poetry and Literature Center in the Library of Congress administers the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a position which has existed since 1936 when the late Archer M. Huntington endowed the Chair of Poetry there.
		Since then, many of the nation's most eminent poets have served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress and, after the passage of Public Law 99-194 (Dec. 20, 1985), as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
	www.poetryfoundation.org /foundation/release_033105.html (878 words)

	Billy Collins – Poet Laureate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Some consultants have suggested and chaired literary festivals and conferences; others have spoken in a number of schools and universities and received the public in the Poetry Room.
		The poetry and literature reading series at the Library of Congress is the oldest in the Washington, D.C. area, and among the oldest in the United States.
		The Poetry and Literature Center administers the series and is the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a position which has existed since 1936, when the late Archer M. Huntington endowed the Chair of Poetry at the Library of Congress.
	www.barclayagency.com /lc_press.html (819 words)

	PoetryFoundation.org: The Poetry Foundation
		The Children’s Poet Laureate award will be given to a living American writer in recognition of a career devoted to writing exceptional poetry for the young child.
		“Children’s poetry is an underrecognized branch of the poetry world that is largely unknown to writers and readers of poetry for adults,” said John Barr, president of the Poetry Foundation.
		The Poetry Foundation seeks to be a leader in shaping a receptive climate for poetry by developing new audiences, creating new avenues for delivery, and encouraging new kinds of poetry through innovative literary prizes and programs.
	www.poetryfoundation.org /foundation/release_091806.html (524 words)

	For the Media
		Poetry and Politics provides a forum to discuss the role of the poet and poetry in contemporary life.
		A: The position of poet laureate is an honor given to an individual writer in recognition of a high level of achievement in the art of poetry.
		Typically, the mission of the poet laureate is to develop a greater appreciation for the writing and reading of poetry—a duty poets laureate have pursued in different ways, including workshops, special reading series, school programs, conferences, and appearances on public television.
	www.nhwritersproject.org /poetryandpolitics/media.htm (982 words)

	Poet Laureate Billy Collins
		Billy Collins, the Library's Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry for 2001- 2002, read from his work on Thursday, December 6.
		A poet of plenitude, irony, and Augustan grace." --The New Yorker.
		He teaches at Lehman College of the City University of New York and at Sarah Lawrence College and was recently appointed named the U.S. Poet Laureate.
	www.yenra.net /poet-laureate (596 words)

	Library of Congress Press Release: Pinsky Poet Laureate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Poet and essayist Katha Pollitt writes in The New York Times Book Review that The Figured Wheel "will remind readers that here is a poet who, without forming a mini-movement or setting himself loudly at odds with the dominant tendencies of American poetry, has brought into it something new—beginning with his first volume.
		The poetry and literature reading series at the Library of Congress is the oldest in the Washington area, and among the oldest in the United States.
		The Poetry and Literature Center administers the series and is the home of the Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry, a position that has existed since 1936, when the late Archer M. Huntington endowed the Chair of Poetry at the Library of Congress.
	www.poems.com /offlcpr.htm (968 words)

	RensSearch: National Poetry Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry : from the Poetry and Literature Center of the Library of Congress.
		Poetry Society of America has a good collection of links to sites for poets, both dead and alive, and organizations supporting and promoting poetry.
		Poet's Corner : "collection of activities and information to complement classroom topics :biographies of well-received poets; a timeline of events that traces the poetry movement; selected poems and the concepts behind them." Includes Biographies, Poems, and a Timeline.
	www.lib.rpi.edu /dept/library/html/resources/references/poetry.html (649 words)

	Poetry Magazine, Interview of Robert Pinsky by producer Grace Cavalieri, April Poetry Month 2003
		He is a Professor in the Graduate Program of Boston University and serves an unprecedented third term as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry at the Library of Congress.
		RP: The poetry I love, poetry as I understand it, has a peculiarly intimate and widely available power because the medium of a poem in my understanding of the art is not words.
		Poetry is kind of booming and I sometimes think that is in reaction to the quite wonderful mass media.
	www.poetrymagazine.com /archives/2003/April03/pinsky_interview.htm (2514 words)

	tympan
		Title VI: Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry - Recognizes that the position of Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (CPLC) is equivalent to that of Poet Laureate of the United States.
		Directs the Librarian of Congress to appoint a PLCP pursuant to the same procedures as established on the date of enactment of this Act for the CPLC.
		It's funny to say about Cosmopolis, though, precisely because of the flaunting of poetry in the narrative (the protagonist's wife is even said to be a poet, though he thinks her poetry is "shit").
	tympan.blogspot.com /2003_06_22_tympan_archive.html (2214 words)

	Poet Laureate
		The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress seeks to raise the national consciousness to a greater appreciation of poetry.
		Appointed annually by the Librarian of Congress, the Poet Laureate serves from October to May. The Librarian consults with former appointees, the current Laureate, and distinguished poetry critics before making the appointment.
		In 1985, by an act of Congress, the name was changed from Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress to the Poet Laureate.
	www.literacyrules.com /laureate.html (205 words)

	Poet Laureate Donald Hall to Lecture : UVM The View
		Poet Laureate Donald Hall will present the Templeton Lecture in Spirituality and Medicine on Tuesday, Oct. 24.
		The author of 15 books of poetry, including 1955’s Exiles and Marriages and the recent White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946—2006, Hall is also the author of several children’s books, including Ox-Cart Man, which won the Caldecott Medal, and 20 books of prose.
		Hall was appointed 14th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry of the Library of Congress in June.
	www.uvm.edu /theview/article.php?id=2138 (321 words)

	Poet Laureate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Polish neolatin poets were appointed as poeti laureati by popes: Klemens Janicki (1540) and Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1623).
		As of 2006, the U.S. Poet Laureate is Donald Hall.
		The Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate is appointed as an officer of the Library of Parliament.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Poet_Laureate (1553 words)

	Poetry
		In addition to supporting the Poet Laureate’s activities and interests, the Center sponsors an annual series of public poetry and fiction readings, lectures, symposia, occasional dramatic performances, and other literary events." The PLC also administers several prestigious poetry prizes and maintains an archive which contains sound recordings of over 2,000 poets reading their own work.
		Poets' house is a literary center and poetry archive located at 72 Spring Street in Manhattan.
		The Poets' House library is free and open to the public.
	www.ccm.edu /library/subweb_poetry.htm (832 words)

	Phillips Exeter Academy \| CANCELLED - Poet Louise GlÃ¼ck to Open Lamont Poetry Series
		Her honors include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), the M.I.T. Anniversary Medal (2000), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
		In the fall of 2003, she replaced Billy Collins as the Library of Congressâ 12th Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry and is the third woman to hold the position.
		Each visiting poet is photographed and asked to present the library with a manuscript poem, which is framed and hung on the fourth floor of the library.
	www.exeter.edu /gw/news_events_3762.aspx (547 words)

	Holden named state poet laureate
		According to the Kansas Arts Commission, the creation of a poet laureate post began in response to numerous requests received by the commission and the governor's office suggesting the creation of such a position.
		Typically, the mission of a poet laureate is to develop a greater appreciation for the writing and reading of poetry.
		The Kansas Poet Laureate guidelines for nominations states the selected recipient must have produced work of the highest caliber and critical acclaim and have contributed substantial service to the development of literary arts in Kansas.
	www.mediarelations.k-state.edu /WEB/News/InView/11305Holden.html (522 words)

	Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More - Louise Glück
		She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, Averno (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The Seven Ages (2001); and Vita Nova (1999), winner of Boston Book Review's Bingham Poetry Prize and The New Yorker's Book Award in Poetry.
		Her honors include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, a Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize, the MIT Anniversary Medal and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts.
		In the fall of 2003, she replaced Billy Collins as the Library of Congress's twelfth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
	www.poets.org /poet.php/prmPID/82 (299 words)

	poet laureate — Infoplease.com
		Poets Laureate of England - Poets Laureate of England Edmund Spenser 1591–1599 Samuel Daniel 1599–1619 Ben Jonson...
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		Poets Laureate - Poets Laureate appointed by letters patent.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/ent/A0839443.html (463 words)

	Literacy Rules! Is there a Poet in the house?
		To me a great poet makes me want to read a poem over and over again, each time seeing something new.
		Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
		For me, this singular magic happens when I sense that the poet wrote deeply and with great care about a strong emotion.
	www.literacyrules.com /poet3b.html (146 words)

	Who needs a poet laurate?
		The Congress recognizes that the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress has for some time occupied a position of prominence in the life of the Nation, has spoken effectively for literary causes, and has occasionally performed duties and functions sometimes associated with the position of poet laureate in other nations and societies..
		The Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry shall be appointed by the Librarian of Congress pursuant to the same procedures of appointment as established on December 20, 1985, for the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress.
		Thought by many to be Britain's leading female poet (though what her sex has to do with it is hard to imagine), Duffy was born in Glasgow in 1965, studied philosophy at Liverpool University, and is poetry editor of Ambit.
	www.houstonm.demon.co.uk /intrevbks/laureates.html (2873 words)

	Yaddo Poet Donald Hall is the Nation’s New Poet Laureate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Donald Hall has been appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, it was announced Wednesday by Librarian of Congress James H. Billington.
		He is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a five-year term as Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, where he has lived for 30 years.
		Hall is the 16th Yaddo poet to serve the Library of Congress as either Consultant in Poetry or Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry (the title changed in 1986).
	www.yaddo.org /yaddo/DonaldHall.shtml (314 words)

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