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unusual facts about Poet Laureate



Action poetry

And example is The Art Alley Mural Project, which is a project by Arts Etobicoke that has painted a specially commissioned poem by the City of Toronto’s Poet Laureate on a 1000 square foot wall in an alley in the city of Toronto.

Bruce Dethlefsen

He was WisconsinPoet Laureate for 2011-2012, having been appointed by Governor James Doyle.

E. D. Blodgett

On July 1, 2007 E.D. Blodgett was appointed the post of Poet Laureate for the City of Edmonton, Alberta.

Edward Bridges, 1st Baron Bridges

Born in Yattendon in Berkshire, Bridges was the son of Robert Bridges, later Poet Laureate, and Mary Monica Waterhouse, daughter of the architect Alfred Waterhouse.

Guyhirn

In 1973 the "Friends of the Guyhirn Chapel of Ease" was formed under the presidency of Sir John Betjeman, the Poet Laureate, who on his death was succeeded by well-known author Edward Storey.

Inside Out Festival

Notable events to take place will include a discussion at Kings Place chaired by Michael Portillo entitled 'Art: What's It Good For?', and an introduction by Andrew Motion (Poet Laureate 1999-2009) to his latest book of poems, The Cinder Path, amongst other works.

Lady Elizabeth Cavendish

It is believed she introduced Princess Margaret to Antony Armstrong-Jones in 1951 and although she herself never married, Elizabeth Cavendish did form a close relationship with the writer and future Poet Laureate, John Betjeman that same year and was called by Betjeman's daughter, Candida, her father's 'beloved second wife'.

Michael Marra

He wrote and performed in the show In Flagrant Delicht which was written in collaboration with Scottish Poet Laureate and playwright Liz Lochhead.

Newcastle City Library

The Poet Laureate Andrew Motion was guest of honour at the handover of the new building from the contractors to the City Council.

Sasha Johnson Manning

In 2007 she composed the music for a major new piece, The Manchester Carols, a festive suite of new carols with words by soon-to-be Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy.

The Brothers Frantzich

"The Brothers Frantzich are crammed with spirit; their music flies everywhere." -National Book Award winner and current Poet Laureate of Minnesota, Robert Bly,

The Sot-Weed Factor

A satirical epic set in the 1680s–90s in London and colonial Maryland, the novel tells of a fictionalized Ebenezer Cooke, who is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert, 3rd Baron Baltimore and commissioned to write a Marylandiad to sing the praises of the colony.

It tells the story of an English poet named Ebenezer Cooke who is given the title "Poet Laureate of Maryland" by Charles Calvert.

Victoria and Merrie England

An alternate Jubilee composition, a poem submitted to Sullivan by the Poet Laureate, Alfred Austin, was never set.


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Beauford Delaney

His friends included the "poet laureate" of the period, Countee Cullen, and he would also become the "spiritual father" to the young writer James Baldwin, and a friend of artist Georgia O'Keeffe, writer Henry Miller and many others.

Black Elk Speaks

In the summer of 1930, as part of his research into the Native American perspective on the Ghost Dance movement, the poet and writer John Neihardt, already the Nebraska Poet Laureate, received permission from the Bureau of Indian Affairs to go to the Pine Ridge Reservation with his two daughters to meet an Oglala holy man and shaman named Black Elk.

Bruce Dethlefsen

Executive Order 404, given by Governor Thompson, created the Commission in on July 31, 2000 to recommend candidates for the Poet Laureate of Wisconsin.

Center for Cultural Judaism

A hybrid of literary and scholarly writing, its contributors have included Amos Oz, Ilan Stavans, and A.B. Yehoshua; the former U.S. Poet Laureate, Robert Pinsky; and a host of well-known writers and thinkers.

Concord Poetry Center

The center holds lectures, tributes, panel discussions and public readings by some of the most renowned poets of our time, including former and current Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, current Poet Laureate Donald Hall, and Pulitzer Prize winner Franz Wright as well as many area poets.

David Samuel Margoliouth

Egyptian Poet Laureate Ahmed Shawqi dedicated his famous poem, The Nile, to Margoliouth.

Electric Palace Cinema, Harwich

Poet Laureate, Sir John Betjeman was Patron from 1975 until his death in 1984 whilst film historian, and lecturer on the art of cinema, John Huntley was Patron from 1985–2003.

Eratosphere

The Distinguished Guest forum has hosted and continues to host presentations, and discussions with renowned writers and poets such as Richard Wilbur -- a former US Poet Laureate and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the late Anthony Hecht, Timothy Steele, Charles Martin, X. J. Kennedy and others, and these discussions are permanently archived and accessible online.

Frank Stanton

Frank Lebby Stanton (1857-1927), songwriter and first poet laureate of Georgia

Hieronymus Osius

In 1558 he was crowned poet laureate in Copenhagen by King Christian III of Denmark.

Jazzschool

Jazz poet laureate Ishmael Reed enrolled in 1998 at the age of 60 to learn jazz piano.

Kul Gautam

In school, Gautam achieved good marks, voraciously read Nepali literature, wrote essays and poems, and was recognized as a “Bal Kabi” or young poet-laureate by the district commissioner of Palpa.

Mar Thoma VIII

They were Maramon Palakunnathu Abraham Malpan (Syriac), Konattu Varghese Malpan (Syriac), Kozhikode Kunjan Assan (Sanskrit), Poet Laureate Chekottu Kuruvilla Assan (Malayalam) and from Kochi Mose Esarphathi (Hebrew & Greek) were the first teachers of this first education institution in Kerala.

Masonic Lodge Officers

In 1787 the lodge appointed Robert Burns as 'Poet Laureate', an investiture later immortalised in a painting by Stewart Watson, the original of which hangs in the Grand Lodge of Scotland building in Edinburgh.

Many years later (in 1905), the office of Poet Laureate in this lodge was awarded to Rudyard Kipling, who was made an honorary member for that purpose.

Michael E. Marks

Named the Poet Laureate of the Society of the 9th Infantry Division (United States) (SONID), Marks' work hangs in the Titan Missile Museum in Sahuarita, Arizona and has been featured in numerous books, magazines and newspapers around the world, to include Stars and Stripes (newspaper) and The Washington Times.

North Carolina Poet Laureate

Changes to the position began in 1997 when Governor Jim Hunt appointed Fred Chappell as poet laureate changing the term of office from a lifetime appointment to a term of five years.

Pentalogy

The idea was widely imitated, the number five being seen as having mystical significance; for example, the 16th-century poet Faizi, the poet laureate of Akbar's court, attempted a work on the same scale, but completed only three of the intended five parts.

Rabindra Nritya Natya

Rabindra nritya natya is the term given to the three dance-dramas composed by Bengal's poet laureate Rabindranath Tagore: Chitrangada, Chandalika and Shyama.

Snettisham railway station

In 1962 the poet laureate John Betjeman visited Snettisham station as part of a 10 minute documentary film detailing the journey from King's Lynn to Hunstanton.

Sybertooth

Some of the authors published by Sybertooth include Leacock medal winner Donald Jack, poet laureate of Sackville, NB Douglas Lochhead, K.V. Johansen, cartoonist Steven Appleby, Leacock medal winner and broadcaster Max Ferguson, Shelagh Rogers, Rae Bridgman, PG Wodehouse scholar Norman Murphy, and Paul Marlowe.

Tyrtaeus

There are English verse translations by Richard Polwhele (1792) and imitations by H. J. Pye, poet laureate (1795), and an Italian version by F. Cavallotti, with text, introduction and notes (1898).

United States Poet Laureate

Rita Dove, considered the first activist poet laureate, brought together writers to explore the African diaspora through the eyes of its artists, championed children's poetry and jazz with poetry events and read at the White House during Bill Clinton's first state dinner.

Vincent Godfrey Burns

He was appointed Poet Laureate of Maryland in 1962, by Governor J. Millard Tawes.

Voce Chamber Choir

In March 2009, Voce performed the London premiere of Peter Maxwell Davies’ setting of the poem ‘The Five Acts of Harry Patch’, by poet laureate Andrew Motion, accompanied by the London Mozart Players.

Wendy Repass

Eddie from Ohio, Anton Chenko, producer of Suzanne Vega's "Solitude Standing", Daemon recording artist Kristen Hall, The Marshall Tucker Band, Indigo Girls, and Matthew Sweet, Dave Matthews Band, former US Poet Laureate Rita Dove, John McCutcheon, producer Kevin McNoldy, drummer Stuart Gunter of Clare Quilty, bass by Andy Waldeck of Earth to Andy and violin by former National Symphony Orchestra member Ann Marie Simpson.

Western New Mexico University

Kenneth Wayne Brewer, American poet, longtime scholar, and former Poet Laureate of Utah.

Word – University of Aberdeen writers festival

Names appearing at the Festival included Nobel laureate Alasdair Gray, Alexander McCall Smith, Louis de Bernières, Seamus Heaney, Ian Rankin, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, Lionel Shriver, and Irvine Welsh, as well as a packed series of events for young readers.

World Poetry Day

It was generally celebrated in October, sometimes on the 5th, but in the latter part of the 20th Century the world community celebrated it on 15 October, the birthday of Virgil, the Roman epic poet and poet laureate under Augustus.

Yankton, South Dakota

Previous authors include former United States poet laureate Ted Kooser, American Book Award winner Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, David Lee, and William Kloefkorn, among others.