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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.
Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well.
Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, [2] Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social and philosophical themes.
Kirby was raised in "the rural south" [1] by a polyglot "medievalist college professor" father [2] with an obsessive passion for the works of Chaucer [3] and a "farm-girl" mother [4] turned elementary school teacher [3] who "taught him how to shoot her single-shot .22 and paid him ten cents for every cottonmouth moccasin he knocked off" in aid of protecting the horses and sheep [4] on their ...
The poet was one of seven featured writers to give a reading at the American Literature Association Conference held in San Francisco in May 2012. Ciento: 100 100 Word Love Poems was nominated for a Northern California Book Award in 2012 under the poetry category. [11]
Aileen Lucia Fisher (September 9, 1906 – December 2, 2002) was an American writer of more than a hundred children's books, including poetry, picture books in verse, prose about nature and America, biographies, Bible-themed books, plays, and articles for magazines and journals. Her poems have been anthologized many times and are frequently ...
Ai told Farnsworth that she got the idea from watching a The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson had told a joke that inspired Ai to write the poem. After she decided to write the poem, she found a biography on Hoffa and studied it before writing the piece. Ai said that she often reads biographies before writing a poem on an historical ...
Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Mary Queen of Scots. (Landing at the Mouth of the Derwent, Workington) 1833 "Dear to the Loves, and to the Graces vowed," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 Stanzas suggested in a Steamboat off St. Bees' Head, on the coast of Cumberland 1833