 "Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, OH)")
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The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio, Terry Pluto column: Racial shift in baseball is complex.
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Byline: Terry Pluto
Jul. 27--CLEVELAND -- Frank Robinson was 11 years old when Jackie Robinson broke the color line in Major League Baseball.
The year was 1947, and baseball was king. In some cities, a strong argument could be made that boxing was the second most popular sport -- ahead of pro basketball and football.
Any discussion about the decline of black players in the major leagues must begin with a history lesson. There is so much behind the numbers that show blacks make up 8.6 percent of big-league players today.
That compares with ...
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The Style Invitational
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...the turn of the century by one Adelaide Crapsey, a humongously sensitive Vassar...several books of cinquains by Miss Crapsey, a hugely tragic figure, and...examples above were written by Miss Crapsey between 1911 and 1913. The rules...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Your LIFE: POETRY CORNER; ONE of Britain's most successful female poets, selects a poem for women and discusses its meaning...(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; Byline: Carol Ann Duffy THE LONELY DEATH BY ADELAIDE CRAPSEY In the cold I will rise, I will bathe In waters...under my chin. CAROL ANN SAYS: The American poet Adelaide Crapsey (1878-1914) died of tuberculosis at only 37...
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ASK THE POETESS
Magazine article from: Poetry
; ...poetess of the twentieth century, Sara Teasdale or Adelaide Crapsey? - WONDERING DEAR WONDERING - A usage note at dictionary...and bad. It's true that few poems surpass Ms. Adelaide Crapsey's subtly apostrophe'd lines from her cinquain...
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Ask the poetess.(COMMENT)
Magazine article from: Poetry
; ...poetess of the twentieth century, Sara Teasdale or Adelaide Crapsey?--WONDERING DEAR WONDERING--A usage note at...and bad. It's true that few poems surpass Ms. Adelaide Crapsey's subtly apostrophe'd lines from her cinquain...
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 "Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)")
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ON THE LOCAL WEB.(Business)(InterNET page)
Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
; ...well as guest writings by others. The poetry sections are wonderful; if you have any interest in poetry, make sure to check out the sections on the Crapsey Cinquain, a form of poetry developed by Adelaide Crapsey between 1911 and 1913.
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HARDCOVERS IN BRIEF
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...Montague Summers. Alone in the Dawn: The Life of Adelaide Crapsey , by Karen Alkalay-Gut (University of Georgia...verse, who died from tuberculosis at 36, firmly sets Crapsey in her time and place (turn-of-the-century upstate...
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 "The Record (Bergen County, NJ)")
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TEACHER GIVES CHILDREN POETIC LICENSE
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
; ...a book of children's poems. Then she spoke about Adelaide Crapsey, the young New England woman who invented cinquains...rhyme, and I will use a special form,'" she quoted Crapsey as saying. "So she chose syllables, just like haiku...
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The father of us all
Magazine article from: Parnassus : Poetry in Review
; ...lost in cyberspace. Each time I visited, JL was in the throes of a new poetic enthusiasm: "fivers" modeled on Adelaide Crapsey's, a Catullan love poem, a lampoon of American politicians (the oafish George Bush JL particularly detested...
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More than an Anthill.(George Antheil)
Magazine article from: The New Leader
; ...stuff empty and pretentious. When the youth came back after a while with Five Songs for Soprano and Piano After Adelaide Crapsey, Bloch took him on. Two years later, he had to quit for lack of funds before he could finish his First Symphony...
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Of Thee I Sing
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post
; ...thumping rants, Richard Wright's "Selected Haiku," 19 specimens as decorous and reticent as the cinquains of Adelaide Crapsey, of which there is a tidy plot in Volume 1. American Poetry's near hundred pages of "Biographical Notes" offer...
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