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  2. John Ciardi - Wikipedia

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    John Anthony Ciardi (/ ˈ tʃ ɑːr d i / CHAR-dee; Italian:; June 24, 1916 – March 30, 1986) was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf ...

  3. Ted Kooser - Wikipedia

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    Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, on April 25, 1939.Growing up, Kooser attended Ames Public Schools for elementary and middle school. When Kooser arrived at Ames High School, his interest diverted from the library, and it went to cars.

  4. Kim Ok (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Kim Ok was born in Jeongju, North Pyeongan Province, Joseon in 1896. In his childhood, he was trained in traditional Chinese classics in seodang (village school), and then enrolled in Osan School, founded by Yi Seung-hun, to receive modern middle school education.

  5. Philip Levine (poet) - Wikipedia

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    Beginning with They Feed They Lion, typically Levine's poems are free-verse monologues tending toward trimeter or tetrameter. [19] The music of Levine's poetry depends on the tension between his line-breaks and his syntax. The title poem of Levine's book 1933 (1974) is an example of the cascade of clauses and phrases one finds in his poetry. [16]

  6. Mark Van Doren - Wikipedia

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    Mark Van Doren (June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972) was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers and thinkers including Thomas Merton, Robert Lax, John Berryman, Whittaker Chambers, and Beat Generation writers such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

  7. Thomas Herbert Johnson - Wikipedia

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    His achievements in letters were threefold: his discovery of the Puritan poet Edward Taylor (c. 1664 –1729), whose Poetical Works [1] he issued in 1939; his co-editorship of Literary History of the United States [2] (1948, 3 vols.) of which he compiled the entire third volume, the Bibliography; and his editions of the writings of Emily ...

  8. Larry Eigner - Wikipedia

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    Despite his impairments, Eigner's mother, Bessie, was an advocate for his education. Eigner began writing poetry around the age of 8, which he transcribed to his mother and brother, Richard. He attended middle school at Massachusetts Hospital School and completed high school and some college (at the University of Chicago) through correspondence.

  9. Karla Kuskin - Wikipedia

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    Karla Kuskin (née Seidman) (July 17, 1932 – August 20, 2009) was a prolific American author, poet, illustrator, and reviewer of children's literature. [2] Kuskin was known for her poetic, alliterative style.