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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.
The best love poems offer respite and revivify; they remind me that I, too, love being alive. Soon the lilacs will bloom, but so briefly. Even more reason to seek them out and breathe in deep.
Cervantes considers herself "a Chicana writer, a feminist writer, a political writer" (Cervantes). Her collections of poetry include Emplumada, From the Cables of Genocide, Drive: The First Quartet and Ciento: 100 100-Word Love Poems, and Sueño: New Poems, are held in high esteem and have attracted numerous nominations and awards. [6]
The poem is one of five surviving poems by Sappho which is about "the power of love". [8] It expresses the speaker's desire for the absent Anactoria, [ 9 ] praising her beauty. [ 4 ] This encomium follows the poet making the broader point that the most beautiful thing to any person is whatever they love the most; an argument that Sappho ...
Brian Jones (10 December 1938 – 25 June 2009) was a British poet.He was educated at Ealing County Grammar School for Boys and Selwyn College, Cambridge.. Jones' first major collection, Poems (consisting of his first book, The Madman in the Reading Room and thirty-seven other poems), was published in 1966, and proved to be successful.
Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, to Ernest Burdette and Ann Jeanette Miller Williams.He was educated in Arkansas, first enrolling at Hendrix College in Conway and eventually transferring to Arkansas State University in Jonesboro, where he published his first collection of poems, Et Cetera, while getting his bachelor's degree in biology.
The first poetry workshop she attended was led by John Holmes. Sexton felt great trepidation about registering for the class, asking a friend to make the phone call and accompany her to the first session. She found early acclaim with her poems; a number were accepted by The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine and the Saturday Review.
First edition (publ. Knopf) The Cinnamon Peeler is a lyric poem by Canadian writer Michael Ondaatje.The poem is about love, but also about writing. The speaker of the poem travels through vastly different temporalities, wishing for different outcomes in a subjunctive past, and settling on the hope given to him as he is in dialogue with his memory.