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poetry

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Literary and oral genre rooted in the compressed and cogent imaginative awareness or associations of experiences, ideas, or emotional responses and arranged under an organized criterion of meaning, conscious and unconscious expression, symbolism, formal or informal pattern, sound, and rhythm. The genre encompasses narrative, dramatic, satiric, didactic, erotic, and personal forms.

Found in 50 Collections and/or Records:

Book of poems written by students, c. 1980 - 1999

 Item — Box 01061: [Barcode: 10128000000866]
Identifier: 001 002 000 07 0004
Scope and Contents From the Series: The General Student Work and Projects series includes representative essays, poetry, artwork, academic presentation programs, and compilations of student-created content. These consist of several cookbooks created by a grade-level or classroom of students, handmade science books, literary magazines created by Lower School classrooms, and scrapbooks of class trips and memories. Informal and formal publications of poetry are included, notably the 1995 and 1997 publications of "Poems for Life,"...
Dates: c. 1980 - 1999

Class VI anthology of prose and poetry, 1983 - 1984

 Item — Box 01084: [Barcode: 10128000001096]
Identifier: 001 002 000 21 0035
Scope and Contents From the Series: The General Student Work and Projects series includes representative essays, poetry, artwork, academic presentation programs, and compilations of student-created content. These consist of several cookbooks created by a grade-level or classroom of students, handmade science books, literary magazines created by Lower School classrooms, and scrapbooks of class trips and memories. Informal and formal publications of poetry are included, notably the 1995 and 1997 publications of "Poems for Life,"...
Dates: 1983 - 1984

Commencement speech / Sharon Olds, 1996

 Item — Box 01094: [Barcode: 10128000001195]
Identifier: 001 003 000 07 0018
Scope and Contents From the Series: Commencement Records include commencement ceremony invitations, programs, scripts, and transcriptions of speeches given. Each year, a commencement guest speaker is invited to deliver words of wisdom and inspiration to the graduating senior students; correspondence with prospective guest speakers and the speaker's biographical information and or curriculum vitae may be in this record series. Also of note are sheet music and lyrics for a Nightingale commencement song. Invitations include the...
Dates: 1996

Essay, "The Art of Spoken Word Poetry" / Shaquinah Taylor, 2003 May 22

 Item — Carton 10001: [Barcode: 10128000005048]
Identifier: B10001_F15_3
Scope and Contents From the Series:

As early as the 1970s, Class XII students have had the option to create an Independent Study Project (also called an Independent Senior Project, or ISP). Students select a subject of their choice, the parameters of the project, and how their learning will be exhibited, whether it be a final essay, analysis, play, artistic creation, or combination of these things. Presentations are given in the spring.

Dates: 2003 May 22

Faith O'Grady and Mary Allen "Poetry Project" file. Photocopies of letters from famous people to Nightingale students enclosing their favorite poems for "Poems for Life" book project. Includes photocopy of page from "Lifelines" book, 1993 - 1994

 File — Box 01149: [Barcode: 10128000001427]
Identifier: 001 002 000 47 0001
Scope and Contents

Includes fifty letters/poems. Authors of the letters include Brooke Astor, Rudolph Guiliani, Mario Cuomo, Anna Quindlen, Jason McManus, Angela Lansbury, Allen Ginsberg, Stephen Sondheim, E.L. Doctorow, Kurt Vonnegut, Elie Wiesel, Dick Riley, Wendy Wasserstein, Geraldine Ferraro, Diane Sawyer, Isabella Rossellini, Edward Koch, David Mamet, David N. Dinkins, Ally Sheedy, Dan Elish, Yo-Yo Ma, among others.

Dates: 1993 - 1994

"Independent voices. Original works of poetry by students of New York City independent schools", 2011

 Item — Box 01170: [Barcode: 10128000001518]
Identifier: 001 002 000 07 0019
Scope and Contents From the Series: The General Student Work and Projects series includes representative essays, poetry, artwork, academic presentation programs, and compilations of student-created content. These consist of several cookbooks created by a grade-level or classroom of students, handmade science books, literary magazines created by Lower School classrooms, and scrapbooks of class trips and memories. Informal and formal publications of poetry are included, notably the 1995 and 1997 publications of "Poems for Life,"...
Dates: 2011

Invitation to Celebrating New York, an evening of poetry with George Plimpton and Susan Kinsolving, 2003

 Item — Box 04046: [Barcode: 10128000002573]
Identifier: 004 007 000 11 0062
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Parents Association hosts and supports several events each year. Records, ephemera, and photographs from these events are included in this series. Over the years, events have included the school Fair (as late as the 1960s, the Fair was organized by the student Social Service Committee, but Fair planning transferred to the Parents Association sometime after), Fathers Who Cook fundraiser, author nights and book fairs (early book fairs were hosted by the Alumnae Association), theater...
Dates: 2003

Joining / Elizabeth Adler '10. Poem for September 11th assembly, 2002 Sep

 Item — Box 01147: [Barcode: 10128000001401]
Identifier: 001 002 000 31 0005
Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists mainly of photographs and programs. with some sound recordings and video recordings associated with Morning Meetings (and its predecessor, Prayers), assemblies, assembly speakers and performances, and other guest speakers hosted by the school. Speakers appearing in this series' photographs include actors and filmmakers, authors, writers, media commentators, activists, psychiatrists and psychologists, and politicians. Some notable speakers include civil rights activists...
Dates: 2002 Sep