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Poets Laureate Of Missouri
This is a list of Poets Laureate of Missouri. See also *List of U.S. states' Poets Laureate References List of Missouri Poets Laureate from the Library of Congress External links Application for poet laureate {{Global Poets Laureate, state=autocollapse poets Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ... American Poets Laureate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet Laureate
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age, respectively in 1315 and 1342. In Britain, the term dates from the appointment of Bernard André by Henry VII of England. The royal office of Poet Laureate in England dates from the appointment of John Dryden in 1668. In modern times a poet laureate title may be conferred by an organization such as the Poetry Foundation, which designates a Young People's Poet Laureate, unconnected with the National Youth Poet Laureate and the United States Poet Laureate. The office is also popular with regional and community groups. Examples include the Pikes Peak Poet Laureate, which is designated by a "Presenting Partners" group from within the community, the Minnesota poet l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Missouri
Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With more than six million residents, it is the List of U.S. states and territories by population, 19th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, Springfield, Missouri, Springfield and Columbia, Missouri, Columbia; the Capital city, capital is Jefferson City, Missouri, Jefferson City. Humans have inhabited w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Bargen
Walter Bargen (born c. 1945) is an American poet, the first Poet Laureate of Missouri, a position which he held from February 13, 2008 to January 2010. Biography Born to an American father and a German mother, Bargen's childhood was spent traveling back and forth between Germany and the United States. In the early 1950s, he lived and played in the ruins of Mannheim-Heidelberg. In the 1960s, he settled in Missouri, working as a construction foreman, writing poetry on the side as a way of exploring the confusion caused by World War II. He wrote his first poem in high school, and has since been published in approximately one hundred magazines. His first book was published in 1980, ''Fields of Thenar''. In the 1990s, he wrote several works about Missouri, such as one volume which focused on the Missouri River. Awards * 1991, National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers suppo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Clewell
David Clewell (February 11, 1955 – February 15, 2020) was an American poet and creative writing instructor at Webster University. From 2010–2012, he served as the Poet Laureate of Missouri. Life Clewell was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1955 and attended Highland Park High School, in nearby Highland Park, where he first developed an interest in poetry. He graduated from University of Wisconsin with a B.A. in English. In 1979, he moved to St. Louis, Missouri and earned an M.F.A. in writing from Washington University in St. Louis. In 1985, Clewell began teaching in the English Department at Webster University. A year later, he started the Webster University Visiting Writers Series, which he still coordinated until his death. As an instructor at Webster University, Clewell taught courses on 19th- and 20th-century literature, as well as poetry workshops and seminars. In 2010, Missouri Governor Jay Nixon noted that Clewell "has a unique perspective on contemporary American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Trowbridge (poet)
William Trowbridge is an American academic and poet who was a Poet Laureate in the American state of Missouri. Trowbridge holds a B.A. in Philosophy and an M. A. in English from the University of Missouri and a Ph.D. in English from Vanderbilt University. He served as Poet Laureate of the State of Missouri from 2012 to 2016. Trowbridge is a Distinguished University Professor Emeritus at Northwest Missouri State University, where he was an editor of ''The Laurel Review''/GreenTower Press from 1986 to 2004. He has given readings and workshops at schools, colleges, bookstores, and literary conferences throughout the United States. He teaches in the University of Nebraska low-residency MFA in writing program. His poems have appeared in Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Crazyhorse, The Georgia Review, Boulevard, The Southern Review, Columbia, Colorado Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Epoch, and New Letters. Trowbridge lives in Lee's Summit, Missouri with his wife Sue. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Examiner (Missouri)
''The Examiner'' is the daily newspaper of eastern Jackson County, Missouri, including Independence, Blue Springs and Grain Valley. It is published five days a week – Tuesday through Saturday – and its webpage is at www.examiner.net. ''The Examiner'' was first published as a weekly newspaper in 1898 by Col. William Southern. The daily edition began publication as ''The Independence Examiner'' May 16, 1905. The official ''Examiner'' website was launched in 1996. The paper was formerly owned by Stauffer Communications, which was acquired by Morris Communications in 1995. Morris sold the paper, along with 13 others, to GateHouse Media in 2007. |
List Of U
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Poets Laureate Of Missouri
This is a list of Poets Laureate of Missouri. See also *List of U.S. states' Poets Laureate References List of Missouri Poets Laureate from the Library of Congress External links Application for poet laureate {{Global Poets Laureate, state=autocollapse poets Missouri Missouri is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking List of U.S. states and territories by area, 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee ... American Poets Laureate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of People From Missouri
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Poets
This is an alphabetical list of internationally notable poets. A Ab–Ak *Aarudhra (1925–1968), Indian Telugu poet, born Bhagavatula Sadasiva Sankara Sastry * Jonathan Aaron (born 1941), US poet * Chris Abani (born 1966), Nigerian poet * Henry Abbey (1842–1911), US poet *Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1872–1958), US poet and fiction writer * Siôn Abel (fl. 18th c.), Welsh balladeer *Lascelles Abercrombie (1881–1938), English poet and literary critic * Arthur Talmage Abernethy (1872–1956), US journalist, minister, scholar; first North Carolina Poet Laureate * Sam Abrams (born 1935), US poet, editor and critic * Seth Abramson (born 1976), US poet * Kosta Abrašević (1879–1898), Serbian poet *Dannie Abse (1923–2014), Welsh poet in English *Kathy Acker (1947–1997), US experimental novelist, punk poet and playwright *Diane Ackerman (born 1948), US author, poet and naturalist * Duane Ackerson (1942–2020), US writer of speculative poetry and fiction *Milton Acorn (1923 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
