contemporary poetry

collocation in English

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contemporary
adjective
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/kənˈtem.pər.ər.i/us
/kənˈtem.pə.rer.i/
existing or happening now, and therefore ...
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poetry
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpəʊ.ɪ.tri/us
/ˈpoʊ.ə.tri/
poems in general as a form ...
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He writes and teaches about literacy, pedagogy,contemporarypoetry, and teacher-research.
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He edited nearly 60 anthologies ofcontemporarypoetryand was himself a poet of considerable talent.
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Nearly all of his works are headed by a quotation ofcontemporarypoetry, or by a prose quotation of a philosophical nature.
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The award is presented annually to an outstanding collection ofcontemporarypoetrycharacterized by a fresh sensibility ("shinsen na kankaku").
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She writes poetry and fiction since her early years and has dedicated her time to the development of cultural projects that promote femalecontemporarypoetryinternationally.
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Each volume was stated to be an attempt to introducecontemporarypoetryto the general reader.
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His regular courses included creative writing and modern andcontemporarypoetry.
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Three of these were new magazines devoted tocontemporarypoetry.
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Essays have appeared in 17 anthologies and journals ofcontemporarypoetryand poetics.
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When you go back 30 years, you see that poetics that now are widely accepted as foundational forcontemporarypoetrywere harshly rejected then.
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Reflecting thoughts incontemporarypoetryappear as a sequence of recitative (rec) and aria, sometimes just an aria, and in choral movements.
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Many of his poems are present in antologies ofcontemporarypoetryfor children, also in school-books and educational reading-books.
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Contemporarypoetryextolled the virtue of manorial life.
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He has also written oncontemporarypoetry, art, and the problems of interpretation.
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This was in order to mirror long and short syllables used in classical poetry, which incontemporarypoetrywould be stress accents.
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Waldman is also the editor of several volumes relating to modern, postmodern, andcontemporarypoetry.
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Their mutual aim is to publish excellentcontemporarypoetrywhich reaches a wide audience and readership.
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Bhatt has been recognized as a distinctive voice incontemporarypoetry.
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His and are included in 25 anthologies ofcontemporarypoetry.
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