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Frances Mary Frost (August 3, 1905 – February 11, 1959) was an American poet, novelist, and children's writer. She was the mother of poet Paul Blackburn . [ 1 ]
Renowned poet, activist, author and professor Nikki Giovanni has died. She was 81. “The acclaimed poet, Black Arts Movement icon whose poems of wit, wonder, and wisdom were celebrated in ...
Frances Dean Smith was born Frances Elizabeth Dean, in San Rafael, California, on March 19, 1922. During her childhood her family moved to the East Coast, where she grew up. [1] She married Wray Smith while living on the East Coast. They had four daughters, Patricia, Irene, Sara, and Ruth, and eventually divorced.
Louise Glück, the former US Poet Laureate and 2020 Nobel Prize awardee whose poems considered and revealed truths about love, loss and survival, has died at 80.
Since Frost was one of the President's favorite poets, Davis concluded his report with a passage from this poem but was overcome with emotion as he signed off. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] At the funeral of former Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau , on October 3, 2000, his eldest son, Justin , rephrased the last stanza of this poem in his eulogy: "The ...
The writer had a long and successful career and won the Booker Prize for her 1990 novel Possession.
William Morris Meredith Jr. (January 9, 1919 – May 30, 2007) was an American poet and educator. He was Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980, [1] and the recipient of the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.
Lascelles Abercrombie, FBA (9 January 1881 – 27 October 1938) [1] was a British poet and literary critic, one of the "Dymock poets". After the First World War he worked as a professor of English literature in a number of English universities, writing principally on the theory of literature.