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Welcome to Female Poets, a free poet resource guide. We offer free poet information in the form of poet news, poet blog discussion and links to editor reviewed poet web sites.
A poet is someone who writes poetry. This is usually influenced by a cultural and intellectual tradition, and written in a specific language. Some consider the best poetry to be, to some extent, timeless, and to address issues common to all humanity; others are more absorbed by its particular and ephemeral qualities.
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Poet News
We have 10 pages of Poet News Stories.
1.) Art for art's sake; money for God's sake - Times Online
9 hours, 48 minutes ago | Mon Jan 5 13:05:00 PST 2009
 Times Online | Art for art's sake; money for God's sake Times Online, UK - Nothing is going to be done as long as an artist is without funds entirely. The poet TS Eliot was a banker. The poet William Carlos Williams moonlighted as ... |
2.) Through art, diversity, Nancy Hoffman lived life from A to Z - Orlando Sentinel
21 hours, 47 minutes ago | Mon Jan 5 1:06:00 PST 2009
Through art, diversity, Nancy Hoffman lived life from A to Z Orlando Sentinel, FL - A legal secretary, a college teacher, a painter, a poet and a photographer, Hoffman took her first calligraphy class at a folk-art school in North Carolina ... |
3.) "Stamps are the Flags of My Small Country": Poets Writing Letters - Bookslut
16 hours, 58 minutes ago | Mon Jan 5 5:55:00 PST 2009
"Stamps are the Flags of My Small Country": Poets Writing Letters Bookslut, IL - Dignity and confidentiality, central as they were to the human personality, were in that sense more important than poetry, indeed than any art. ... |
4.) An Interview with Clayton Eshleman - Bookslut
16 hours, 48 minutes ago | Mon Jan 5 6:05:00 PST 2009
An Interview with Clayton Eshleman Bookslut, IL - First there was The Complete Poetry of César Vallejo, a culmination of 48 years of translating the Chilean poet. A few months after saw the publication of ... Chelsea: Photo |
5.) All a Pose - Bookslut
16 hours, 54 minutes ago | Mon Jan 5 5:59:00 PST 2009
All a Pose Bookslut, IL - Ironically, Rooney -- a poet, co-founder of Rose Metal Press, and author of a book about Oprah?s book club -- took her first nude modeling gig as a respite ... |
6.) Redbud Arts Council Board Meets For First Time - Tecumseh Countywide News
55 minutes ago | Mon Jan 5 21:58:00 PST 2009
Redbud Arts Council Board Meets For First Time Tecumseh Countywide News, OK - Robinson is a retired teacher and Oklahoma's Cowboy Poet Laurete. Trotter is co-publisher of The Countywide & Sun and has been active in a variety of civic ... |
7.) As the strainer takes in water - The Punch
6 hours, 30 minutes ago | Mon Jan 5 16:23:00 PST 2009
As the strainer takes in water The Punch, Nigeria - He must be very familiar with the subject in question, just as he should have a bit of a poet in his nerves. But the fact is that such a mortal is not ... |
8.) Harold Pinter (1930-2008); Part 2 of His Nobel Acceptance Speech ... - Democracy Now
Over one day ago | Sat Jan 3 22:15:00 PST 2009
 Democracy Now | Harold Pinter (1930-2008); Part 2 of His Nobel Acceptance Speech ... Democracy Now, NY - Part two of the 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance speech of the acclaimed British playwright, poet, actor, and activist Harold Pinter. ... |
9.) A Conversation on the (Re)Emerging Poet: First Books and What's Next - Bookslut
16 hours, 48 minutes ago | Mon Jan 5 6:05:00 PST 2009
A Conversation on the (Re)Emerging Poet: First Books and What's Next Bookslut, IL - Kent State University Press allowed me (encouraged me even) to secure the cover art (and Lylie Fisher was generous to provide it at little cost), ... |
10.) Big rig bards: truckies urged to find their muse - The Age
4 hours, 44 minutes ago | Mon Jan 5 18:09:00 PST 2009
Big rig bards: truckies urged to find their muse The Age, Australia - Dust Poems, an art project by Sydney-based poetry group The Red Room Company, aims to smash the stereotype of truck drivers as brusque burly blokes behind ... |