Tag: American poets

I did my undergraduate degree at Vermont College in poetry, my exploration there of the genre of writing satisfying, particularly all the knowledge I gained about American poets I write about on The Diary of an Improvateur.

Edna St. Vincent Millay wrote “There Isn’t a Train I Wouldn’t Take.” I share her love of riding the rails and during one trek to Croton-on-Hudson, I pay homage to the poet who met her husband Eugen there one fateful summer. One of my favorite cultural institutions in New York City is the Morgan Library & Museum. One bitter January night, I made my way there to hear Paul Auster speak about the influence Edgar Allan Poe had had on his writing. It was worth the effort even in the brutal cold.

Frank O’Hara was a prolific poet and I delve into his mid-century era in a post celebrating furniture inspired by that time. The New York School of Poets, of which he was a member, were important figures in the development of a poetry that is uniquely American. I present so many other poets here on the blog so I hope you’ll stop by and enjoy the ways in which I present them.

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A Backward Glance on rue de Varenne

The narrow sidewalks push their black iron batons up out of the ground to protect the buildings hemming them; the rain turns the cobblestones to…

Classical and Modern architecture meet at Yale

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Touching Literary History

Saxon Henry September 7, 2016 American poets dead poets society famous writers keeping diaries libraries memoirs nonfiction writers novelists Paris Petrarch poetry salonniere The Literary Adventurer Yale University

I will once again be touching literary history soon, as the Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library at Yale University reopened yesterday following a 16-month…

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Find Your Red Carpet Style

Saxon Henry February 10, 2016 actors and actresses American poets authenticity decorating history design industry leaders famous writers fashion influences interiors Groundbreakers lighting New York City nobility nonfiction writers poetry popular movies

“Find Your Red Carpet Style,” urged Currey & Company’s Brand Ambassador Denise McGaha during a presentation in the company’s Manhattan showroom last week. The point…

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God’s Articulate Finger

Saxon Henry December 28, 2015 American poets authenticity books of letters cathedrals to explore dead poets society Florence Italy Michelangelo New York City nobility painters poetry Renaissance Rome

Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel In this last entry of the year, I wanted to share a piece of my own creative writing to say…

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The Tides In Our Veins

Saxon Henry June 15, 2015 American furniture manufacturers American poets Atlanta authenticity design narratives documentaries famous writers High Point Market libraries lighting literary design encounters poetry summer reading list The Literary Adventurer

The Tides in Our Veins One of the most evocative trips I can remember taking as a young woman was a four-day escapade to Carmel,…

Charles Eames and Eero Saarinen smoking cigarettes at Cranbrook.

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The End of an Era

Saxon Henry April 1, 2015 American furniture manufacturers American poets authenticity dead poets society design industry leaders famous writers High Point Market libraries lighting New York City poetry salonniere Yale University

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern. A voiceover of Don Draper reciting…

Study for plate XIV of the Différents vues de Pesto

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Love Among the Ruins

Saxon Henry March 16, 2015 American poets architectural storytelling cathedrals to explore dead poets society design industry leaders Emotionality of Architecture Groundbreakers Italy libraries London New York City poetry Rome The Literary Adventurer

How would it feel to spend your life so absorbed by crumbling architecture and disintegrating stone you could bring them vibrantly back to life with…

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Poetry and Ceramics in Savona

Saxon Henry March 10, 2015 American poets dead poets society decorating history France Italy painters Parma poetry Renaissance royal palaces Venice

The 16th-century poetry that sprung from Savona made a strong impression on Thomas William Parsons when he found verses inscribed on a statue of the Madonna near the…

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Dream of Venice

Saxon Henry December 10, 2014 actors and actresses American poets architectural storytelling authenticity design industry leaders Emotionality of Architecture Henry James Italy nonfiction writers novelists Peggy Guggenheim poetry Venice

When JoAnn Locktov asked me to contribute a poem to the book she was planning to publish in collaboration with photographer Charles Christopher, I didn’t…

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Rooms of Their Own

Saxon Henry November 18, 2014 American furniture manufacturers American poets books of letters dead poets society design industry leaders design narratives famous writers High Point Market keeping diaries lighting nonfiction writers novelists painters set decoration Virginia Woolf writing desks

A private place in which to write… As someone whose life is spent working with words for at least a part of every day, I find…