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	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| higher news \| Oxford names poetry professor shortlist
		The shortlist for the position of professor of poetry at Oxford University has been announced, and Christopher Ricks, best known for his writings on the poetry of Bob Dylan, has emerged as a front runner.
		Professor Ricks is known for his works on Victorian verse, English drama, Tennyson, Milton, Keats, TS Eliot, and most recently for his book on the work of Bob Dylan, Dylan's Vision of Sin.
		The professor of poetry gives a public lecture each term and the Creweian Oration at the university's honorary degree ceremony every other year.
	education.guardian.co.uk /higher/news/story/0,9830,1207243,00.html (382 words)

	News: Professor of Poetry
		The current Professor of Poetry, Paul Muldoon, was elected to the Chair unopposed.
		The Professorship of Poetry was established in 1708 following a bequest by Henry Birkhead, a Berkshire landowner.
		The Professor is elected for a period of five years, and is not eligible for re-election.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/040515.shtml (366 words)

	Oxford Poetry: Appendix 3: Oxford Professors of Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Oxford Poetry: Appendix 3: Oxford Professors of Poetry
		A further duty is to set the theme for, and judge, the Newdigate Prize: more diffusely, the Professor is expected to encourage student poetry, and successive holders of the post have often done good turns for Oxford Poetry.
		The Professor is paid almost nothing and is, uniquely among all Oxford's academics, genuinely elected: in principle anybody may stand, though no candidate without close Oxford ties has ever actually won.
	www.gnelson.demon.co.uk /oxpoetry/index/iprof.html (216 words)

	ASU News > Passion for poetry powers professor's pen
		Nevin, who teaches poetry at the West campus, was doing environmental writing for a non-government organization in Madras, India, after he graduated from La Salle University.
		He began to realize that poetry was a distraction for him, and started wondering what would happen if he turned his “distraction” into his life’s work.
		He has won an Academy of American Poets Prize and a poetry fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize.
	www.asu.edu /news/arts/nevin_poetry_082205.htm (487 words)

	Robert Creeley: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Robert Creeley was one of the originators of the "Black Mountain" school of poetry, along with Charles Olsen, Robert Duncan, and Denise Levertov.
		In 1978 he was named David Gray Professor of Poetry and Letters at the State University of New York, and presently he is their Samuel P. Capen Professor of Poetry and the Humanities.
		He was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1987 and received a Distinguished Fulbright Fellowship to serve as the Bicentennial chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland, for 1988-89, and another Fulbright for the University of Auckland, New Zealand, in 1995.
	www.diacenter.org /prg/poetry/87_88/creeleybio.html (297 words)

	(Professor ARTURO)
		Professor ARTURO, a poet and fiction writer from New Orleans, is a Spoken Word artist, educator, performer, editor and speechwriter who received a Master of Arts degree in Writing from Johns Hopkins University and a B.A. degree in English/Journalism from the State University of New York-College at New Paltz.
		As one of the original Broadside poets of the 1960s, Professor ARTURO has collaborated on a medley of projects with a melange of artists including painters, musicians, photographers, dancers, singers, fire eaters, waiters, cab drivers, and other members of the Great Miscellaneous.
		Stamford, CT Professor ARTURO was a performer at The Kwanzaa Celebration for Dannel P. Malloy, Mayor of Stamford, CT.
	www.professorarturo.com (334 words)

	poetry program
		For a quarter-century, the National Poetry Foundation has made the University of Maine a mecca for many of the best-known contemporary poets and scholars of poetry.
		According to Evans, the hope now is to explore the establishment of a poetry and poetics concentration to attract graduate students from across the country.
		Poetry teaches people to read a situation, notice something others haven't, and then articulate that observation in a way that is persuasive and lets others see it too.
	www.umaine.edu /perspective/archives/february/mainpoetry.htm (1437 words)

	BBC News \| Entertainment \| 'We have forgotten how to read poetry'
		He said the perception that some poets lived in "ivory towers" came about because people do not have enough background in the form to be able to understand new poems.
		The son of a schoolteacher and a labourer, Mr Muldoon was educated at his local grammar school, where he was introduced to the Irish language and poetry.
		He is the president of the Poetry Society in Britain, and is also known - especially in the US - for writing operas.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/347055.stm (643 words)

	Vanderbilt University Register: English professor delivers poetry to World Trade Center shrine
		Kate Daniels, associate professor of English, solicited poetry and other reflections on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks from her students and her faculty and staff colleagues.
		Visiting assistant professor of English and fiction writer Leah Stewart sent a quotation from James Baldwin's Sonny's Blues: "For, while the tale of how we suffer and how we are delighted and how we may triumph is never new, it always must be heard.
		The transformative power of poetry is not, of course, relegated to the poet who creates the poem.
	www.vanderbilt.edu /News/register/Dec10_01/story5.html (1290 words)

	News: Oxford launches search for next Professor of Poetry
		The University of Oxford is searching for its next Professor of Poetry to follow in the footsteps of Matthew Arnold, WH Auden and Seamus Heaney.
		William Hawkins, professor from 1751 to 1756, was interested in drama and more modern works, and was renowned for quoting extensively (in Latin) from the works of Shakespeare during his lectures.
		More information about the nomination process, and a full list of the Professors of Poetry, can be found on the web at: www.admin.ox.ac.uk/councilsec/gov/poetry.shtml or contact the University Press Office on 01865 280528.
	www.admin.ox.ac.uk /po/040212.shtml (401 words)

	Poetry
		Includes discussions of the various types of poetry, as well as how to teach poetry in the classroom.
		Online lectures, articles and interviews on the craft of writing poetry, as well as articles about reading poetry and audio recordings of well-known poets reading their work.
		Encourages the development of new poetry curricula and teaching strategies by high school language arts teachers.
	www.colegiobolivar.edu.co /library/poetry.htm (520 words)

	Hartwick English Professor Published in Poetry Magazine (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Carol Frost, writer in residence and professor of English at Hartwick, published three poems, "Redfish," "To Fisherman," and "Pelican," in the March 2005 edition of Poetry.
		Poetry is the oldest monthly magazine devoted to poetry in the English language.
		Its mission is "to print the best poetry written today, in whatever style, genre, or approach," and it has presented work by nearly every significant poet of the century, including T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, and William Carlos Williams.
	www.hartwick.edu /x11402.xml (255 words)

	Stephen Dunn 2001 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Poetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dunn, of Port Republic, a Trustee Fellow in the Arts and Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing, is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including Loosestrife; New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994; Landscape at the End of the Century; and Between Angels.
		Dunn's poetry draws from the tapestry of individual experiences to the reflective rhetoric that surrounds it.
		At Princeton University, Yusef Komunyakaa won the 1998 prize for poetry, John McPhee won the 1999 Prize for general non-fiction literature, and Charles Kenneth Williams, won the 1998 Prize for poetry.
	www2.stockton.edu /sdunn (688 words)

	UNH Professor Receives International Poetry Award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Simic has been a professor of English at the University of New Hampshire for 30 years.
		Simic will receive the major international poetry prize in December, shortly before the anniversary of Bienek's death.
		Gleiwitz was the site of a fake attack by SS troops in Polish uniforms in the fall of 1939, an event that triggered the outbreak of World War II.
	www.unh.edu /news/news_releases/2003/july/em_20030718simic.html (214 words)

	Psychology professor expands poetry portfolio \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		He was in an honors English class and encouraged by his professor to continue writing.
		Every other year, he adds a class in poetry to the curriculum for graduate psychology students.
		Eulert is active with a monthly poetry group in Santa Ysabel.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050908/news_m1m08tfram.html (519 words)

	Professor's poetry reading features theme of women's lives
		Becker will be reading poems from the three most recent of her five published poetry collections, all published by University of Pittsburgh Press, and new poems from her sabbatical during the 2000-2001 academic year while she was the William Steeple-Davis Artist-in-Residence.
		One of the themes of the poetry according to Becker is "the lives and works of visual artists and how artists fit into the social and cultural milieu of their times." Other recurring themes in the work are women's lives, friendships, family lives, and animals both domestic and wild.
		In 2000 she received the Atherton Teaching Award, which she was "extremely honored and pleased to win." The award is university-level with professors nominated by department and then put forward by college.
	www.collegian.psu.edu /archive/2001/10/10-12-01tdc/10-12-01darts-6.asp (483 words)

	San Francisco State University :: The Poetry Center
		Recently, he was writer in residence at Brown University, and in fall 2005 was Roberta C. Holloway Visiting Professor in Poetry at the University of California, Berkeley.
		Born in Neukirchen, Germany, in 1980, Nora Gomringer is one of the leading slam poetry performers on the European scene.
		He is the author of the collection of poetry CRIBS (Tinfish, 2005), Transpacific Displacement (2002), and Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry (1997), and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound's The Pisan Cantos.
	www.sfsu.edu /~poetry/eventCalendar.html (1224 words)

	The New Paltz Oracle - Poppin’ Professor Publishes Poetry
		Crawford has written poetry since age 10, but until now has never put his poems together in a book, content instead with submitting his work to academic quarterlies and literary magazines: His poetry has appeared in a number of journals, including The Massachusetts Review, The Southern Poetry Review and The Viriginia Quarterly Review.
		Crawford’s poetry contains plenty of imagery relating to the sea (the very first poem in I Explode is titled “There Is a Ship”) but Crawford believes his experience in the Navy had little influence on his poetry.
		Crawford believes working as an English professor influenced his poetry by enlarging his experience of everything from literature and humanities to students and family.
	oracle.newpaltz.edu /article.cfm?id=2401 (729 words)

	Faculty celebrate poetry professor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Along with honoring poetry, the event remembered DeLaura, who suffered a fatal heart attack at the age of 74 on April 9.
		English professor and Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences Rebecca Bushnell said that though she was initially fearful to work with DeLaura, she quickly grew to love and respect him.
		English professor and DeLaura's former student Vicki Mahaffey, who read several short segments of poems to the audience, said she carries with her a set of memorized poems that she learned from the professor.
	www.writing.upenn.edu /~wh/news/delaura.html (379 words)

	Harvard Gazette: George Steiner named Norton Professor
		He will deliver the Norton Lectures at the University next fall and plans to examine "the act of teaching, from the Platonic Socrates to Wittgenstein and Ionesco." Currently an Extraordinary Fellow of Churchill College at the University of Cambridge, Steiner is an internationally renowned scholar of Western culture, language, and intellectual history.
		In recommending Steiner's selection as Norton Professor, the Harvard search committee called him "one of the most eminent intellectuals of his generation." The committee said: "With his truly remarkable fluency in many languages, and his deep learning in the literatures and philosophies of various cultures, Steiner is one of the world's greatest comparatists.
		The Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry was established in 1925 in memory of Harvard's first Professor of Fine Arts, who taught the subject from 1874 to 1898.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/03.15/04-steiner.html (446 words)

	SUCO professor given poetry award (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		ONEONTA — To the contemporaries of poet Donald Petersen, winner of The New Criterion Poetry Prize, his work is meticulous as well as timeless.
		Petersen, 73, professor emeritus of English at SUCO, was awarded the inaugural New Criterion award and $3,000 for his recently published book of selected poems, "Early and Late" (Ivan R. Dee, publisher, 2001).
		Petersen, whose poems have appeared since the 1950s in "Poetry," "Furioso" and the "Paris Review," as well as in "The New Criterion," accepted the award and read from the book Oct. 10 in Manhattan at the Grolier Club of New York, an organization founded in 1884 that aims to cultivate the study of literature.
	www.thedailystar.com /news/stories/2001/12/04/suco.html (860 words)

	UH professor mixes poetry, baseball in his new book - The Honolulu Advertiser - Hawaii's Newspaper
		Among the things that captivate the widely published poet and University of Hawai'i professor of art and American studies: art, history, poetry and — of course — the St. Louis Cardinals.
		Stanton, author of the recently released "Cardinal Points: Poems on St. Louis Cardinals Baseball" (McFarland Press) says he is fascinated by the "aesthetics of the athletic moment" and the challenges involved with re-creating that moment in words.
		He is fascinated with the ability of poetry to capture the essence of things, and the similar ability of baseball to speak to larger truths.
	the.honoluluadvertiser.com /article/2003/May/30/il/il02a.html (731 words)

	Rowan professor's poetry bridges two cultures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In an era of free verse and spoken word "slams," it may be difficult to argue that poetry is a science.
		The soft-spoken professor and poet was thrilled to receive the first national Dasarathi Award for Poetry from the American Telugu Association's annual meeting in Chicago last year.
		Science is hardly the only subject Chandrupatla tackles in his poetry, as a sample of his English-language work attests.
	www.courierpostonline.com /columnists/cxri020105a.htm (656 words)

	JCU Professor Wins Poetry Award The Carroll News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		John Carroll University English professor and poet George Bilgere counts his family and world travels among the inspirations for his life’s work.
		And he was chosen by U.S. Poet Laureate and friend Billy Collins as the winner of the University of Akron Poetry Prize and also the 2002 Witter Bynner Fellowship.
		He said that when he won the University of Akron Poetry Prize, it created a spark of fame for him.
	www.carrollnewsonline.com /index.php?id=327 (509 words)

	Guest Editor Paul Muldoon, The Best American Poetry 2005
		Paul Muldoon was born in Country Armagh, Northern Ireland, in 1951, and was educated in Armagh and at the Queen’s University of Belfast.
		In 1999 he was elected to a five-year appointment as Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford.
		His main collections of poetry are New Weather (1973), Mules (1977), Why Brownlee Left (1980), Quoof (1983), Meeting the British (1987), Madoc: A Mystery (1990), The Annals of Chile (1994), Hay (1998), Poems 1969-1991 (2001), and Moy Sand and Gravel (2002), which received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize.
	www.bestamericanpoetry.com /pages/editors/?id=2005 (209 words)

	Seamus Heaney: Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heaney is the author of numerous collections of poetry, three volumes of criticism, and The Cure at Troy, a version of Sophocles' Philoctetes.
		He is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994.
		A resident of Dublin since 1976, he spends part each year teaching at Harvard University, where he was elected the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in 1984.
	www.diacenter.org /prg/poetry/87_88/heaneybio.html (116 words)

	The Harvard Crimson :: News :: George Steiner Appointed Norton Professor of Poetry
		George Steiner, an internationally renowned scholar and literary critic, has been appointed the 2001-2002 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, the University announced this week.
		Steiner, who said he was offered the position about a month ago, will deliver a series of six lecture at Harvard in the fall focusing on meaning and language, which have been some of the central concerns of his work.
		As the Norton Professor, Steiner will deliver six lectures this fall, dealing with many of the same concerns about meaning and language that his body of work reflects.
	www.thecrimson.com /article.aspx?ref=103622 (541 words)

	Kenyon College - Janet McAdams, Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry and Associate Professor of English
		Janet McAdams, Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry and Associate Professor of English
		Janet McAdams joined the Kenyon faculty as the first Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetry, after having taught at the University of Oklahoma.
		Her courses at Kenyon are grounded in cross-cultural poetics and include American Indian literature and poetry writing.
	www.kenyon.edu /x8008.xml (251 words)

	Poetry: James Fenton (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This lengthy essay on Fenton describes the poet’s life, work, literary significance, influences, and place as one of the foremost poets of his generation.
		The Strength of Poetry is a collection of Fenton’s lectures delivered while he was professor of poetry at Oxford from 1995 to 1999.
		In 1994, he was appointed Professor of Poetry at Oxford University and published Out of Danger, a collection of poetry.
	www.bedfordstmartins.com /litlinks/poetry/fenton.htm (311 words)

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