staff tree
staff tree common name for some temperate members of the Celastraceae, a family of trees and shrubs (many of them climbing forms), widely distributed except in polar regions. These plants typically bear small greenish flowers and have seeds with brightly colored (often orange or scarlet) coats that are exposed when the mature seed pod splits open. Their fruit and brilliant autumn foliage make many species popular as ornamentals. The spindle trees (genus Euonymus ) include the wahoo, or burning bush ( E. alatus, E. atropurpureas ), and the strawberry bush ( E. americanus ), both of E North America, and a Western species ( E. occidentalis ) that is also sometimes called wahoo. The East African plant Catha edulis is the source of khat or qat, a popular Yemeni and East African tealike beverage or masticatory made using the leaves. Khat contains cathinone, a stimulant that is similar chemically to amphetamine, and is illegal in the United States. Several members of the family are valued for their medicinal bark as well as for decoration, e.g., the wahoo and the staff trees of the genus Celastrus and the Amazonian chuchuhuasi or chichuá of the genus maytenus. ( C. scandens is the climbing bittersweet of North America.) Staff trees are classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Celastrales, family Celastraceae.
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Poetry and forms of thinking
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Observer; 11/15/2009; 700+ words
; ...lectures, and crafted some essays on his poetry, short stories and literary criticism...scarcely discussed the intersection of poetry and thinking that animates Gunadasa Amaraekera...one central deficiency in modern Sinhala poetry is the production of pseudo-philosophical...
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Poetry corner
Magazine article from: New Statesman; 1/15/2007; ; 700+ words
; The big poetry prizes, embittered critics claim, are judged by a cabal...fiction, it often seems that, to the media, annual poetry prizes have become the raison d'tre of poetry publishing, rather than a means of drawing attention...
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Poetry slams: the ultimate democracy of art: slam takes poetry out of textbooks and classrooms and onto the streets, where anyone can create, critique, and connect with living words.(performance poetry)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Nuyorican Poets Cafe every Friday night for a poetry show, one of a number of weekly art shows...charge and no guaranteed seating ... for a poetry reading. Of course, Friday night isn't just any poetry reading; Friday night is one of two nights...
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Poetry on video: the sacred and the profane?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 9/2/1994; ; 700+ words
; To some poetry purists, the notion of combining video and poetry may seem an unholy union. Poetry, one of the oldest forms of artistic expression, is often viewed as refined and pure, best appreciated privately or recited among small groups...
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Poetry is essential to politics, and to us.(OPINION)
Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor; 4/11/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...Rouge, LA. -- While observance of April's National Poetry Month might prompt a shrug from the throngs of Americans who no longer read poetry, John Adams never seemed to doubt that poetry mattered. And as the nation prepares to elect another...
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POETRY
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/6/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...can't have failed to notice, National Poetry Day. The nation is positively throbbing...centres and bookshops around the country. Poetry will be blasted over the PA system at...this year; Radio 3 will be broadcasting poetry all day. All this is, without doubt...
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POETRY IN MOTION GAINS SPONSOR, SPAWNS BOOKS
PR Newswire; 5/23/1996; 700+ words
; Barnes & Noble To Sponsor Poetry On Subway And Buses NEW YORK, May 23...week as its first anthology is launched, Poetry in Motion, the popular program presented...buses by MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America, has gained Barnes...
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POETRY IN MOTION IT'S STILL ON THE ENDANGERED LIST, BUT POETRY'S ON THE REBOUND AND IN THE CLUBS, THANKS TO PEOPLE LIKE BOB HOLMAN.(LIFE & LEISURE)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/28/1997; 700+ words
; ...Combine Ed Sanders, Bob Holman and a performance poetry happening all on the springtime fertility festival...Almighty, for which he scouts hot performance poetry talent. Holman is the streetwise poetry impresario who shepherded the explosion of poetry...
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Poetry's 'formative power': teaching poetry in Tasmania 1900-1950.
Magazine article from: Australian Literary Studies; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words
; Poetry has always featured in formal learning programs...Michael illustrates the different functions poetry served during this period. These ranged...was introduced in the nineteenth century poetry met many of these needs, but educators...
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Poetry lovers can enjoy plenty of options in April
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; Poets and poetry lovers have a literary rainbow of entertainment options during National Poetry Month. One of the biggest events - the Chicago Performance Poetry Community Celebration - takes place Friday and Saturday at the Chicago Cultural Center...
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American Poetry
Book article from: American Eras
American Poetry Bryant. In 1818 the young lawer William...x2019; s verse Essay on American Poetry in the North American Review. Not particularly...in or impressed by Brown ’ s poetry, Bryant instead used tye opportunity...
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poetry
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible
poetry ‘All good poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings’ (William...1801). The distinction in modern literature between prose and poetry is difficult to apply to the Bible , but there is a tradition that...
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POETRY
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
POETRY Literary composition in verse form. It...case that to discuss a piece of work as poetry implies evaluating its quality, while to...however, are blurred: the phrase bad poetry may refer to technique and the phrase superb...
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Literature: The New Poetry
Book article from: American Decades
LITERATURE: THE NEW POETRY Peak Period Much of the credit for the...eight periodicals devoted exclusively to poetry were founded during the decade. More...Review , and The Seven Arts , featured poetry prominently, as did the nation's book...
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To Bedlam and Back: The New American Poetry
Book article from: American Decades
TO BEDLAM AND BACK: THE NEW AMERICAN POETRY The New American Poetry Donald M. Allen signaled the beginning of a new era in American poetry early in the decade with the publication of his anthology The New American Poetry, 1945-1960 in 1960...
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