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Philip Milito

Draft article on Philip Milito

Philip Milito (February 28, 1953 – June 16, 2016) was an American poet, born and raised in the Northeast Bronx. He produced thousands of poems. He also contributed numerous critical commentaries to The Canadian Encyclopedia and Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds.^[1] His poetry is notable for its evocative imagery, the struggle with God and the human condition, its occasional biting humor, and its dark vision. His often quoted poem Twice-Poisoned Dog^[2] reflects his worldview, at least in part: “We desire the way / A twice-poisoned dog / Eyes a third piece of meat.” He was particularly interested in, and felt a kinship with, society’s outcasts, a subject that he explored in depth in his book-length poem, Wails of the Wraecca, which was inspired by the old English Anglo-Saxon poem The Wanderer.

Early Years Milito attended St. Lucy’s School, PS 89, JHS 135, Christopher Columbus High School, and Hunter College.

Milito developed a strong interest in poetry and music as a teenager and began to compose original poems and lyrics. He also became an accomplished harmonica player. After leaving Hunter College, Milito moved to the Los Angeles area, but he returned to New York City in 1978 and worked at a variety of odd jobs while he continued to write and occasionally publish. In 1988, he began to work at the Mid-Manhattan Library, a branch of the New York Public Library in Manhattan, and a year later joined the staff of the Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature at the New York Public Library on 42nd Street and Fifth Avenue, where he served a specialized reading public for nearly 20 years, before retiring in 2008 to write full time.

Influences Milito read both widely and deeply, and his eclectic literary taste found a home in the work of many writers and musicians, chief among them Bob Dylan and Kenneth Rexroth. Other influences included James Agee, W. H. Auden, Charles Baudelaire, William Blake, Charles Bukowski, Leonard Cohen, James Joyce, Malcolm Lowry, Kenneth Patchen, Arthur Rimbaud, and Walt Whitman, to name only some of those he read continually throughout his lifetime.

Death In May 2015, Milito was diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer. He died on June 16, 2016, in Astoria, New York, at Mt. Sinai Hospital of Queens.

Milito’s later work is available on the blog that he kept, which contains hundreds of poems written from 2008 to just a week before his death^[3]. A collection of selected poems is currently being compiled, with plans for future publication in progress.

SELECTED WORKS BY PHILIP MILITO The Moon Hidden by Clouds. (1994; revised and reissued 2016). “We desire,” in Bleeding Hearts, ed. Michelle Lovric (London: Aurum Press, Ltd., 1998).^[4] Wails of the Wraecca (New York: The Anarchist Press, 1999). “Ephelia, by Maureen E. Mulvihill,” Book Review, Seventeenth Century News (Spring-Summer 2004): 119–123. Banned Books: Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds, Revised Edition, ed. Margaret Bald (New York: Facts on File, July 2011).^[5] Contributed entries (comprehensive book summaries, detailed censorship history, recommended reading) for: • Karen Armstrong, The Battle for God. • Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code. • Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl. • Jyette Klausen, The Cartoons That Shook the World. • Shahrnush Parsipur, Touba and the Meaning of Night. • Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials trilogy: The Golden Compass; The Subtle Knife; The Amber Spyglass. Canadian Encyclopedia Online — www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en (Toronto: Institut de Historica-Dominion, 2011). Contributed biographical and critical essays on Canadian poets: • Richard Thomas Greene • Anne Simpson • Anne Compton • Rita Wong • John Pass • Judith Fitzgerald • John Steffler • John Terpstra • Carmine Starnino • Robert Hillies • Barry Dempster • Douglas Lochhead • Patrick Friesen

Citations 1. http://thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/ 2. http://twicepoisoneddog.blogspot.com 3. http://philmilitodayblog.blogspot.com 4. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1090536.Bleeding_Hearts 5. https://www.amazon.com/Banned-Books-Literature-Suppressed-Religious/dp/0816062692 Sianb1234 (talk) 00:40, 23 April 2018 (UTC)Sianb1234[reply]

References

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Please read Wikipedia:Your first article and Help:Referencing for beginners. Maproom (talk) 07:10, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

B Bush

May 15, 2010 Sewanee: The University of the South TE Doctorate[10

Last line before foot notes TE should be TN. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:243:701:2CE9:2845:FD69:694D:3AAC (talk) 01:50, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's been fixed (in Barbara Bush): Noyster (talk), 08:41, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ancestry

My name is Jerry Story. My 16th Grandfather is Robert Arden

Story. The name changed from Arden to Story following War of the Roses.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.181.229.212 (talk) 02:26, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And what does that have to do with editing Wikipedia? --Orange Mike | Talk 02:30, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Wiki Delete question --Bluebob ;) — Preceding unsigned comment added by XXMasterGrammer56Xx (talk • contribs) 15:57, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Diana, Princess of Wales

Should reference number 47 have the publisher - BBC - written in italics? I note that many of the other publishers in the citations from newspapers/books seem to be. Thanks 175.33.22.145 (talk) 03:42, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The publisher parameter does not automatically italicise the content whereas the 'work' and 'website' parameters do. Italics are meant for things such as newspapers, magazines, films etc. I.e. a 'work' in the creative sense. In this case the BBC is an 'organisation' and therefore not normally italicised. If you'd used website and (say) bbc.co.uk then it would have rendered in italics. Eagleash (talk) 06:33, 23 April 2018

THANKS 175.33.22.145 (talk) 07:25, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Help:Cite errors/Cite error included ref

Hello,

I'm working on creating a page and seemed to have misunderstood the process of citing. I thought I was following citation guidelines but the reference portion of the page came out like this: [1] Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "LoC" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "LoC" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "LoC" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "LoC" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "LoC" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "LoC" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "LoC" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "LoC" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page). Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; name "LoC" defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).

What might I have done wrong? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Performaphage (talk • contribs) 15:51, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, Performaphage. It looks as if you have defined multiple citations (which is fine) but given them all the same name (which is not). If you would tell us which page this was on, we could look. The only content page you appear to have edited is Draft:CultureHub, which you started after this message. I'm guessing you must have edited a page without logging in (which is fine) but we can't find it unless you tell us. --ColinFine (talk) 16:05, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ISIS

On the Islamic state of Iraq and the levent along the side it says that "state opponents" and "non-state opponents", I don't think that those words (that i put in quotes) are the proper words, but i can not edit that to make it correct because it has a lock on it. Could you guys fix that please to help me better understand ISIS.

XXMasterGrammer56Xx (talk) 15:56, 23 April 2018 (UTC)XXMasterGrammer56Xx[reply]

Hello, XXMasterGrammer56Xx. Please make your suggestion on the talk page Talk:Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. It will help if you indicate what you think is wrong with those words, or what they should be changed to, because I have no idea what you think is wrong. --ColinFine (talk) 16:08, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Page Deleted

Hello There, In 2014 I tired to edit the page of my late grandfather. I'm not sure how this all works, but the page was created by someone at some point non of my family and i would like to add more details to his life. instead of where he was born and where he died.

Can someone help me please? — Preceding unsigned comment added by FCosway (talk • contribs) 16:48, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@FCosway: Can you provide a link or at least a pagename so someone can look at the current situation? You seem to indicate that the page was deleted. Have you seen that information anywhere? Please sign your posts on talk pages by typing four tildes (~~~~).

Or is this to do with Wikipedia talk:Articles for creation/Vic Sutton. If so, click on that link and you will find a link to a page where you can request restoration of the page and also a link to the Admin. who deleted it, who may be able to help. Eagleash (talk) 17:00, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

(edit conflict) Hello, FCosway. Wikipedia works rather differently from how many people expect it to. It is the norm that articles are written by people who are not family of the subject: friends, relatives, and associates of a subject are discouraged from directly editing an article about the subject. If you wish to suggest improvements to the article about your grandfather, you are welcome to suggest them on the article's talk page - if you add {{edit request}} (with the double curly brackets) it will put your suggestion on a list of waiting edits. Secondly, we require that all information be found in reliably published sources. If information you want to add has been published somewhere, it can be added (it will be helpful if you identify the sources, but another editor might be able to find them). But if it is only from your personal recollection, or from unpublished papers, I'm afraid we can't use the information. --ColinFine (talk) 17:03, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Needs Urgent action on Unsocial elements trying to delete or edit false at my page

Moved here from Wikipedia talk:Help desk/Archives -- John of Reading (talk) 17:25, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Kindly Guide me how we can stop or take action against some unsocial Elements who are doing wrong false edition at my page which was recently created by name Bappusaheb Bhosale , I will request to guide me about the same . Thank you B Bhosale (talk) 16:43, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

The article Bappusaheb Bhosale was deleted by a community discussion (this one) because it did not comply with the sourcing requirements of WP:BIO (in-depth coverage in reliable secondary sources). You may appeal the deletion at this page, or may ask for the page to be restored to Draft space so you can work on it to try to fix the problems that led to it being deleted. No urgent action is required, and nor are the users involved "unsocial elements"; they are merely normal editors performing normal tasks. Also, your name is the same as the article - although I note you did not write the original article, this is just to note you should not be writing about yourself. Black Kite (talk) 17:47, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Conflict of interest

Hi! Is there a page where i can report COI? I would do it myself but i have no experience with it, or admin rights to enforce it. Thank you --Ben Stone 20:38, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Benstown: Check out WP:COIN. I haven't used it myself, so read the guidelines there before making a report. RudolfRed (talk) 20:44, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Edit toolbar icons

The icons have changed. When did that happen, and can I go back to the icons I'm familiar with?--Bbb23 (talk) 22:33, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's announced in Wikipedia:Village pump (technical)#Tech News: 2018-17:

The icons in the 2010 wikitext editor have changed. [1]

I don't know a way to go back. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:08, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks, PrimeHunter.--Bbb23 (talk) 23:13, 23 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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