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Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
All the Room (1964) is the third poetry collection by Australian poet David Rowbotham.It won the Grace Leven Prize for Poetry in 1964. [1]The collection consists of 49 poems, the majority of which were previously published in various Australian poetry and general magazines, with some published here for the first time.
All of which makes for a rarity in contemporary poetry: It's what book clubs call "readable."" [6] David Kirby of The New York Times likened the "whimsy" of Actual Air to the works of poets Mark Halliday and Campbell McGrath, but felt "In their poems, though, whimsy always leads to serious ideas and emotions that don't consistently materialize ...
David Trinidad (born 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American poet. David Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in the San Fernando Valley . He attended California State University, Northridge , where he studied poetry with Ann Stanford and edited the literary journal Angel’s Flight .
Aaron Radford-Wattley reads Masters’s poem, which Masters wrote while on death row at San Quentin State Prison and won him a PEN Award. “Recipe for Prison Pruno,” by Jarvis Jay Masters Skip ...
Prison Stories, styled as Prison Stories: A Collection of Short Storie[s], is a collection of prison stories by Nigerian writer Helon Habila. " Love Poem ", which is among the stories included in the collection, won the 2001 Caine Prize for African Writing .
A federal judge sentenced Anna Rene Moore to 90 months in prison, a harsher sentence than that requested by the government and a federal public defender. An actor, her boyfriend and a multimillion ...
David Mercier Parsons was born on April 16, 1943, in Villa Rica, Georgia, and is an American author, poet, and educator.Raised in Austin, Texas, he was named by the Texas State Legislature in 2011 to a one-year term as Poet Laureate of Texas, [1] commemorated by the publication of David M. Parsons New & Selected Poems by the Texas Christian University Press.