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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie (1971) is the first collection of poems by African-American writer and poet Maya Angelou.Many of the poems in Diiie were originally song lyrics, written during Angelou's career as a night club performer, and recorded on two albums before the publication of Angelou's first autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969).
Sam has a medium brought to the house to deal with Murray's presence. Sam finds a cannabis smoking pipe in the house and yells at Max and her friends for leaving it out. Sam chaperones Frankie and her friends to a poetry slam event where they are performing; they perform a poem about "the little white lies we tell our little ones". Phil later ...
A. E. - Herbert Asquith - Maurice Baring - Hilaire Belloc - Laurence Binyon - Edmund Blunden - F. S. Boas - Eva Gore-Booth - Gordon Bottomley - F. W. Bourdillon - Robert Bridges - Rupert Brooke - T. E. Brown - A. H. Bullen - E. K. Chambers - G. K. Chesterton - Padraic Colum - The Marquess of Crewe - Walter De la Mare - Geoffrey Dearmer - John Drinkwater - V. L. Edminson - Michael Field - J. E ...
Roger Joseph McGough CBE FRSL (/ m ə ˈ ɡ ɒ f /; born 9 November 1937) is an English poet, performance poet, broadcaster, children's author and playwright.He presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please, as well as performing his own poetry.
Rodney Marvin McKuen (/ m ə ˈ k j uː ə n / mə-KEW-ən; né Woolever; April 29, 1933 – January 29, 2015) was an American poet, singer-songwriter, and composer.He was one of the best-selling poets in the United States during the late 1960s.
Lyn Hejinian (/ h ə ˈ dʒ ɪ n i ə n / hə-JIN-ee-ən; May 17, 1941 – February 24, 2024) was an American poet, essayist, translator, and publisher.She is often associated with the Language poets and is known for her landmark work My Life (Sun & Moon, 1987, original version Burning Deck, 1980), as well as her book of essays, The Language of Inquiry (University of California Press, 2000).
Edward Hirsch wrote: "There is a sense of quiet amazement at the core of all Kooser’s work, but it especially seems to animate his new collection of poems, Delights & Shadows." Kooser's most recent books are Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems and Red Stilts (2020). He founded and hosted the newspaper project "American Life in Poetry". [12]
The poetry in The Lord of the Rings consists of the poems and songs written by J. R. R. Tolkien, interspersed with the prose of his high fantasy novel of Middle-earth, The Lord of the Rings. The book contains over 60 pieces of verse of many kinds; some poems related to the book were published separately.