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Winifred Emma May (4 June 1907 – 28 August 1990) was a poet from the United Kingdom, best known for her work under the pen name Patience Strong.Her poems were usually short, simple and imbued with sentimentality, the beauty of nature and inner strength.
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 "If Life were slumber on a bed of down," Poems Composed or Suggested during a Tour in the Summer of 1833 1835 In the Channel, between the coast of Cumberland and the Isle of Man 1833
Profile and poems of Yusef Komunyakaa, including audio files, at the Poetry Foundation. Biography at ibiblio; Views on Poetry Archived 2008-07-06 at the Wayback Machine; Biography; Profile and poems at Poets.org; Video of Yusef's reading, 3/09/09, at the Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena, CA, as featured on Poetry.LA; Yusef Komunyakaa Papers ...
Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940) is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (now called the Young People's Poet Laureate) from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.
In the fall of 2001, HarperCollins Children’s Books honored the 20th anniversary of the book with a special edition release that featured a separate CD of 11 poems performed by the beloved poet. [8] It was the first children's book to break onto the Adult New York Times Best Sellers list where it remained for 181 weeks. [8]
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
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About Catrin she wrote a poem under her name. Clarke worked as an English teacher, first at the Reardon-Smith Nautical College and later at Newport College of Art . In the mid-1980s she moved to rural Ceredigion , West Wales, with her second husband, after which she spent some years teaching creative writing at the University of Glamorgan .