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• Western Ganga literature included Kannada poetry and prose written by royalty, on topics ranging from religion to elephant management?
• Urdu literature is dominated by poetry, often of the ghazal form?
• a cento is a poetic work composed entirely of verses taken from other authors?
• a decasyllabic quatrain is a poetic form in which each stanza consists of four lines of ten syllables, usually with a rhyme scheme of AABB or ABAB?
• according to the framework interpretation of Genesis Chapter One, the first three days of creation are poetically reflected in the last three days of creation?
• Tomás Rivera, a Chicano author, poet, and educator, was the first Mexican American chancellor of the University of California system?
• Thomas Bancroft's Times out of Tune (1658) includes verses against whoring, gluttony, alcoholism, hedonism, lying, pride in clothing, betrayal, ambition, cowardice, and the abuse of poetry?
• poet Robert Hass, a two-term American Poet Laureate, is a neighbor of Nobel laureate Czesław Miłosz?
• British Conservative politician Sir John Loveridge published poetry and exhibited paintings and sculpture after serving 13 years as a member of Parliament?
• Andrew Carroll went on a 1998 nationwide tour sponsored by the Academy of American Poets, distributing 100,000 free poetry books at truck stops, hospital waiting rooms and train stations?
• Charles Wilfred Orr wrote more settings of A. E. Housman's poetry than any other composer?
• Egyptian poet Farouk Shousha has described the decline in the quality of Arabic in Egypt as "an issue of national security"?