poetry

He fretted whenever he thought its editors were cooling toward his fiction or poetry, though there was no way the magazine’s demand could keep pace with Updike’s constant supply.

If it read enough poetry, eventually it would figure out that “sweet” and “sour” have related meanings—that their vectors are both in the “taste” cluster in vector space—while “because” and “fermented” do not.

Nearby is poetry written in Anne’s hand, as well as postcards from Anne and her sister, Margot, to a neighbor in their former hometown of Frankfurt.

If I were guessing I would think she edited literary novels or was a professor of French poetry.

Historically, mumming saw groups dress up in masks and costume, going from house to house to perform poetry, theatre, music and dance.