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"Whitey on the Moon" is a spoken word poem by Gil Scott-Heron, released as the ninth track on his debut album Small Talk at 125th and Lenox in 1970. Accompanied by conga drums, Scott-Heron's narrative tells of medical debt and poverty experienced at the time of the Apollo Moon landings .
Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.
"E=MC 2 " is a speculative poem written by American advertising executive and television advertising pioneer Rosser Reeves. It was published in the September, 1961 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. The poem describes the end of the Earth (possibly from a nuclear war) as observed by aliens on a distant planet.
Hayden Carruth was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and grew up in Woodbury, Connecticut. [1] He graduated from Pleasantville High School in Pleasantville, New York with the class of 1939 as vice president of the senior class; he was credited with the "prettiest hair."
Max Chapnick, a postdoctoral teaching associate at Northeastern University, believes he found about 20 stories and poems written by Louisa May Alcott under her own name as well as pseudonyms for ...
Those who disagree with the verdict are shouting that it's just more proof America is doomed. They couldn't be more wrong. Planted in hope: Flag Day reminds us of America's place and promise
American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders is a 1993 poetry anthology edited by Eliot Weinberger.First published by Marsilio Publishers, it joined two other collections which appeared at that time: From the Other Side of the Century: A New American Poetry, 1960-1990 (1994; edited by Douglas Messerli) and Postmodern American Poetry, a 1994 poetry anthology edited by Paul Hoover.
SpaceX has temporarily grounded its Falcon 9 rockets after it suffered a malfunction during the launch of a rescue mission for two astronauts stranded aboard the International Space Station.