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For her collection of poems, Letter to a Comrade, she won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition in 1938. She was chosen by Stephen Vincent Benét, who commended Davidman for her "varied command of forms and a bold power." [4] In 1939, she won the Russell Loines Award for Poetry for this same book of poems.
In 1976, Gilpin was awarded the Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets for her book of poems titled The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe. She was selected by William Stafford. [2] Her work was also published in the magazine Poetry. [3] Gilpin later wrote another book of poetry, titled The Weight of a Soul, which was published ...
I got divorced in 2013 after a 13-year marriage to a man in the military. I was 37 years old, and as I found myself transitioning from life as a married woman in a big house with a fenced-in ...
Veneklasen's poem appeared occasionally in newspaper obituaries, commonly lacking attribution, and often with the decease substituted for "I". In 1963 and 1964, the Aiken Standard and Review in South Carolina ran a poem by frequent contributor M. L. Sullivan titled "Footprints". This was a bit of romantic verse that moves from sadness at "lone ...
In her poem "Sepia Fashion Show" in Diiie, for example, the last lines ("I'd remind them please, look at those knees / you got a Miss Ann's scrubbing") is a reference to slavery, when Black women had to show their knees to prove how hard they had cleaned. Sylvester states that Angelou uses this technique often in her poetry, and that it elicits ...
On this episode of the Money Confidential podcast, host Stefanie O’Connell Rodriguez talks with attorney and wealth expert Tasha Cochran of One Big Happy Life for advice on how people can get ...
A couple who married, divorced, then reunited got engaged live on TODAY on Feb. 14, 2024. Feelings often linger for many former couples: In one past survey, about 40% of divorced people regretted ...
Brad E. Leithauser (born February 27, 1953) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and teacher.After serving as the Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College and visiting professor at the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, he is now on faculty at the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars.