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Joy Harjo (/ ˈ h ɑːr dʒ oʊ / HAR-joh; born May 9, 1951) is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author.She served as the 23rd United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor.
Hilda Conkling (1910–1986) had her poems published in Poems by a Little Girl (1920), Shoes of the Wind (1922) and Silverhorn (1924). Abraham Cowley (1618–1667), Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe (1628), Poetical Blossoms (published 1633). Maureen Daly (1921–2006) completed Seventeenth Summer before she was 20. It was published in 1942.
One Crazy Summer is a historical fiction novel by American author Rita Williams-Garcia, published by Amistad in 2010. The novel is about Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern, three sisters, visiting their mother in Oakland, California , during the summer of 1968.
The terms "nursery rhyme" and "children's song" emerged in the 1820s, although this type of children's literature previously existed with different names such as Tommy Thumb Songs and Mother Goose Songs. [1] The first known book containing a collection of these texts was Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book, which was published by Mary Cooper in 1744 ...
"Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" is a poem for children written by American writer and poet Eugene Field and published on March 9, 1889. [citation needed] The original title was "Dutch Lullaby". The poem is a fantasy bed-time story about three children sailing and fishing among the stars from a boat which is a wooden shoe. The names suggest a sleepy ...
Harjo accredits her poem "I Give You Back" from her collection She Had Some Horses with inspiring her to write and publish Crazy Brave. She stated that she originally wanted to start the plot of the book at a much later point in her life, and that the poem gave her the courage to include earlier traumatic parts of her childhood. [18]
Porter was first introduced to poetry while flipping through the back of her English language arts book in class. She picked up books from the library, books of poetry and pieces that usually were short, the length she felt she could read. She was also introduced to poems by Robert Frost, particularly "Desert Places". She believed she was ...
The lyrics of the song vary considerably. British versions of this rhyme differ significantly, perhaps because many of the allusions in the rhyme were unknown to British children at the time. [1] Common versions include: I am a pretty little Dutch girl, As pretty as I can be, be, be, And all the boys in the baseball team Go crazy over me, me, me.