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James J. Metcalfe, in a collage of FBI Special Agents from 1934. His poem, "We Were the G-Men," may be seen at center. Metcalf is at center in the far left column. James J. Metcalfe (September 16, 1906 – March 1960) was an American poet whose "Daily Poem Portraits" were published in more than 100 United States newspapers during the 1940s and 1950s.
Richard Joseph Howard (October 13, 1929 – March 31, 2022), [1] adopted as Richard Joseph Orwitz, was an American poet, literary critic, essayist, teacher, and translator. He was born in Cleveland , Ohio, and was a graduate of Columbia University , where he studied under Mark Van Doren , [ 2 ] and where he was an emeritus professor.
Lorca was a famous Spanish poet and playwright who had died in 1936, yet his spirit appears in the supermarket in 1955 when the poem is written. Lorca's works were often classified as surrealistic and were considered to have homoerotic tones. [4] In the final lines of the poem, Ginsberg turns once again to the image of Whitman, asking:
Elias Lieberman was born on October 30, 1883, in St. Petersburg, Russia.At age seven, he emigrated to the United States with his Russian Jewish family. In 1903, he graduated cum laude from the City College of New York, where he joined the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
Alanna Maida, a teacher at Potter Road Elementary School in Framingham since 1992, died unexpectedly at the age of 54. 'She made them feel special.' Longtime Framingham teacher dies unexpectedly at 54
After leaving Columbia in 1960, Berkson started work as an editorial associate at ARTnews, where he continued for the next three years.During the remainder of the 1960s, he was a regular contributor to both ARTnews and Arts, guest editor at the Museum of Modern Art, an associate producer of a program on art for public television, and taught literature and writing workshops at the New School ...
CHICAGO - An 8th grade Chicago Public School teacher passed out, possibly suffering a heart attack in class and died a short time later. It happened Tuesday at Spencer Technology Academy in the ...
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar.He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry.