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Robert Pringle (poet)
Robert Thomas Pringle (born 1943) is an American poet, schoolmaster and park ranger. Of Scottish descent and originally from Westerville, Ohio, from 1962 to 1987 Pringle was a schoolteacher, teaching English and biology in high schools. Since then, he has concentrated on poetry, but has also worked as a park ranger at the Inniswood Botanical Garden and Nature Preserve, Inniswood Metro Gardens, as a rural mail carrier, a laboratory technician in bacteriology, a house painter, and as an attendant in a mental hospital.''Cold Front'' (Pudding House Publicationsp. 35/ref> In 1998 he was the joint owner of a herd of Alpine (goat), Alpine goats. His poems have been published in ''Orbis (journal), Orbis, Envoi, Green's Magazine, Onionhead Literary Quarterly, Poetry Motel, Lilliput Review, Psychopoetica'', and ''Pegasus Review''. In 2004 Pringle’s poem "Ricardo Klement Speaks of Border Wars" won the First Prize in the Scottish International Open Poetry Competition. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written), or they may also perform their art to an audience. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as communicating about a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since prehistory, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed over time, resulting in countless poets as diverse as the literature that (since the advent of writing systems) they have produced. History In Ancient Rome, professional poets were generally sponsored by patrons, wealthy supporters including nobility and military officials. For inst ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |