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Topic: American Poetry

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The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Most admires:Robert Frost,  T S Eliot,  William Butler Yeats
Personality:Nostalgic,  Witty wit humor
Politics:Feminist
Favorite author(s):Dante Alighieri,  Mary W. Shelley,  F. Scott Fitzgerald
Favorite era(s):1990s
Favorite activity(s):Writing stories
Interest(s):Latin
Favorite movie(s):Baraka,  Dead Poets Society
Favorite philosopher(s):Cicero
Favorite quote(s):"Criticism is prejudice made plausible." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
 
 
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor

Her poetry was published by the State Department in their literary exchange with Thailand and their translation program has just issued the first book of American poets in English and Thai in which she appears.
Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Calligraphy of Thought is a Muslim-American poetry collective of poets of various ethnic and artistic backgrounds, using spoken word and poetry to promote social awareness and spiritual growth.
Pete Trengle,
Bass Player

American Poetry Review "Heather McHugh’s poems combine wit and jazzy rhythms with a daring lyric velocity.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Contemporary American Indian poetry draws upon traditional tribal sources as well as influences from current mainstream literary movements.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

Yiddish Poetry in America also created by Craig Abernethy, features work by American Yiddish poets.
Anita Ganesh,
Poet

She was an accomplished writer and was inducted in the “Society of American Poets Emeritus” in 1976 and had short stories published in Readers Digest and McCall Magazine and poetry published in Poetry Digest and Digest of American Poets and Writers.
Online Poetry Classroom - from the Academy of American Poets Poet's Corner - poems searchable by subject Puzzlemaker - An online puzzle generator,including word searches Scriptbuddy - Screenplay formatting tool.
These are recorded (video) talks from the Museum of American Poetics by "poets speaking about the lives and works of other poets or poetry movements they feel passionately about or influenced by in their own writing visions.
Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran

He has also received the Robert Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America, and has served as chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
 
 
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