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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101231:09:43:00

poems and thinking about poems, in particular even with this prize. the love i receive from so many people suggest that there are people reading and there are people that care about what we do. >> do we have any politicians who are poets? >> there's an interesting question. we have those who are writers including our president. i don't know about politicians who are poets. no one knew i was a poet for a long time. >> not literally poets but any whose use of language is so eloquent you look at them and say they could have been a poet, they write with a grace, they write with a sensibility that you think borders on artistry? >> sometimes you hear a great speech and you go, now that was poetry. >> abraham lincoln? >> there we go. >> that's a dismal statement. >> it might be a reflection of the culture. i think our general relationship has changed. so someone that thinks about it as a kind of a material to shape is a rare thing. >> how about president obama? certainly some of his speeches, his books, he gets high praise.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101231:09:46:00

bunch of other poets associated with the group i'm familiar with if we could write something about it. it it was many years before i was able to write this poem about katrina and it's called fish head for katrina. >> fish head for at that tree in a. >> the mouth is rather dead who are not dead, do not dream. a house of damaged translations. task, marry to distraction. as in a bucket left in a storm, acquire singing in the rain like fish acquiring air under water. prayer and sin, the body performs to know it is alive. lit from the inside by reckoning as in a city which is no longer a city. the tongue reaching down a tunnel and the teeth wet as

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101231:09:45:00

that he gave us. >> is poetry perhaps a voice of dissent? we had this conversation with another artist on the show. when you have an oppressive government, artists are the voice that rises up because other forms of -- other voices are perhaps pushed back. >> sure. >> is poetry, can it fill that void? >> i think it does. most people have a sense of dissengs in them and it just so happens the people can shape the message in the most effective way become our artists. and i think that's one of the relationships between poets and politicians. so it is a voice of dissent but it's mostly because maybe writers and artists know how to craft the message more than them being the individuals who have that message. >> you write a poem about katrina and we will ask to you read it for us. can do you that? >> this goes back to the idea what it means to be an artist. in the time shortly after katrina happened, a very good literary magazine asked me and a

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101231:01:43:00

people suggest that there are people reading and there are people that care about what we do. >> do we have any politicians who are poets? >> there's an interesting question. we have those who are writers including our president. i don't know about politicians who are poets. no one knew i was a poet for a long time. >> not literally poets but any whose use of language is so eloquent you look at them and say they could have been a poet, they write with a grace, they write with a sensibility that you think borders on artistry? >> sometimes you hear a great speech and you go, now that was poetry. >> abraham lincoln? >> there we go. >> that's a dismal statement. >> it might be a reflection of the culture. i think our general relationship has changed. so someone that thinks about it as a kind of a material to shape is a rare thing. >> how about president obama? certainly some of his speeches, his books, he gets high praise. is that only because he's being compared to other politicians or do you read them and say they actually are crafted?

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101231:01:42:00

his latest collection won the national book award for poetry. a south carolinian. >> that's rare especially in new york. >> especially a poet. >> surrounded by two word smiths here. i was a mediocre politician. >> i think you've done well. >> you think poetry and politics actually have something in common. in this day and age how does that work? >> we have quite a bit in common. if you are trying to convince people you are worth being heard that's something all artists run into, poets run into to shape a language and what do you want to tell people to make them interested in your methods and, of course, that's something that politicians deal with often. how are you going to shape a message and engage people. >> terrence, poetry has this kind of a stigma attached to it. it seems more and more something that takes place in coffeehouses. how do we make poetry more popular? how do we bring it back? >> if you're a poet, it's pretty popular. there are so many insular worlds. i'm pleased with the number of people i engage that are reading poems and thinking about poems, in particular even with this prize. the love i receive from so many

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101231:09:42:00

i was a mediocre politician. >> i think you've done well. >> you think poetry and politics actually have something in common. in this day and age how does that work? >> we have quite a bit in common. if you are trying to convince people you are worth being heard that's something all artists run into, poets run into to shape a language and what do you want to tell people to make them interested in your methods and, of course, that's something that politicians deal with often. how are you going to shape a message and engage people. >> terrence, poetry has this kind of a stigma attached to it. it seems more and more something that takes place in coffeehouses. how do we make poetry more popular? how do we bring it back? >> if you're a poet, it's pretty popular. there are so many insular worlds. i'm pleased with the number of people i engage that are reading

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101231:01:45:00

dissent? we had this conversation with another artist on the show. when you have an oppressive government, artists are the voice that rises up because other forms of -- other voices are perhaps pushed back. >> sure. >> is poetry, can it fill that void? >> i think it does. most people have a sense of dissengs in them and it just so happens the people can shape the message in the most effective way become our artists. and i think that's one of the relationships between poets and politicians. so it is a voice of dissent but it's mostly because maybe writers and artists know how to craft the message more than them being the individuals who have that message. >> you write a poem about katrina and we will ask to you read it for us. can do you that? >> this goes back to the idea what it means to be an artist. in the time shortly after katrina happened, a very good literary magazine asked me and a b

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101231:01:46:00

bunch of other poets associated with the group i'm familiar with if we could write something about it. it it was many years before i was able to write this poem about katrina and it's called fish head for katrina. >> fish head for at that tree in a. >> the mouth is rather dead who are not dead, do not dream. a house of damaged translations. task, marry to distraction. as in a bucket left in a storm, acquire singing in the rain like fish acquiring air under water. prayer and sin, the body performs to know it is alive. lit from the inside by reckoning as in a city which is no longer a city. the tongue reaching down a tunnel and the teeth wet as windows, set along the highway. where the dead live in the noise of their shotgun houses.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20101230:22:40:00

belligerent behavior jeopardizes peace and stability in asia. >> reporter: and shared a softer side. >> how does anybody describe love? i mean, poets have spent millennia writing about love. >> people may not listen to all the details but they are almost daily reminded of is her work and her engage only the world stage. >> reporter: historian carl anthony, author of america's first families, says clinton's popularity cuts across party and policy. there have been a lot of ugly and nasty things said about her, a lot of roadblocks put in her way, but she never loses sight of the big picture and the big goal. >> reporter: around the world, she championed with had her big goal, women's rights. >> girls are entitled to go to school. girls and women are entitled to get health care. >> reporter: almost alone she took on wikileaks and wasted no time trying to patch up the

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20101108:12:15:00

21st century. this is the partnership that i've come here to build. this is the vision that our nations could realize together. my confidence in our shared future is grounded in my respect for india's treasured past. a civilization that's been shaping the world for thousands of years. indians unlock the intricacies of the human body and the vastness of our universe. it's no exaggeration to say our information age is rooted in indian innovations including the number 0. india -- of course, india not only opened our minds. she expanded our moral imaginations. with religious text that still summoned the faithful to lives of dignity and discipline, with poets who imagined the future

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