OVA慢速英语：Poet Kay Ryan Named MacArthur Fellow欢乐颂赵启平
女生伤感网名The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation named 22 new MacArthur fellows on Tuesday. They'll receive Genius awards, which come with a no-strings attached grant of $500,000 over five years.
The diver grantees include a journalist, cellist, clinical psychologist, computer scientist and a former poet laureate of the United States, Kay Ryan, who also received a Pulitzer Prize this year. Ryan is well-known for her compact, vivid and accessible ver.
The high honors come as a bit of a surpri to the poet herlf, who was raid in what she calls the "glamor-free, ocean-free, hot, stinky, oil-rich, potato-rich" San Joaquin Valley of California.
"I have to say that I didn't want to be a poet and I still feel pretty embarrasd about it in a lot of situations becau it emed like putting on airs," Ryan says. "But I found that poetry was nonetheless posssing my mind. Like, if I read a book and it was pro, the pro would start rhyming, and it was kind of a little insanity taking me over."
Ryan's poems often explore every day human emotions such as hope, doubt and fear. She has a fluid, soaring imagination, as we e in the poem,"Killing Time."
Time is rubbery.
If you hide it
in the shrubbery嘻哈歌曲
it will wait
will winter and
wash back out
with the rainwater.
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You will find it
on your steps again
like the newspaper.
Time compress.
Stuff it in the
couch corner and
it will spring out
some night or other
写多肉的作文when you have guests.
One of whom guess.
Time stretches.
Then it snaps back
leaving bare patches
人多的词语
that didn't happen.
Abandoned time hardens
like hidden gun.
People feel around.
安全是什么
Sooner or later
it will be found.显示的反义词
Ryan has published ven collections of poetry, beginning with a lf-published volume in 1983. But it wasn't until the mid-1990s that she began to acquire a national reputation. In the meantime, she taught remedial English at a community college in Marin County, California, and lived quietly with her longtime spou, Carol Adair, who died in January 2009.
Unlike many poets of her stature, Ryan has never been interested in the busy academic swirl of conferences and university life, or even in the high visibility her poet laureate post, her Pulitzer Prize and now, her MacArthur Genius grant have given her.
She says she is already "overly visited by the nsation and the ideas of others" and "would like peace from it most of the time."
