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Dorothy Keeley was born in Chicago on March 13, 1896, to James Keeley, managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and Gertrude Keeley. The youngest of four girls, Aldis was educated privately, and attended the prestigious Miss Porter's School. When she was 17, Aldis attended Smith College for two years before returning to Chicago.
Aileen Lucia Fisher (September 9, 1906 – December 2, 2002) was an American writer of more than a hundred children's books, including poetry, picture books in verse, prose about nature and America, biographies, Bible-themed books, plays, and articles for magazines and journals. Her poems have been anthologized many times and are frequently ...
Barbara Wersba (b. 1932) born in San Francisco, California and raised in New York City during her teen years, has published nine children's books including two books of children's poetry. [ 34 ] Charles Lamb (1775–1834), best known for his Essays of Elia and for the children's book Tales from Shakespeare, co-authored with his sister, Mary ...
The magazine, which had begun publishing the year before in Chicago, Illinois, quickly became the "principal organ for modern poetry of the English-speaking world" publishing the early works of poets who became the major influences on the development of twentieth-century literature (including T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, H.D., Wallace Stevens ...
Girls and Boys Come Out to Play 'Boys and Girls Come Out to Play' Great Britain 1708 [36] The first two lines appeared in dance books in 1708. Goosey Goosey Gander: Great Britain 1784 [37] The earliest recorded version of this rhyme is in Gammer Gurton's Garland or The Nursery Parnassus published in London in 1784. Green Gravel: United Kingdom ...
Much of Carl Sandburg's poetry, such as "Chicago", focused on Chicago, Illinois, where he spent time as a reporter for the Chicago Daily News and The Day Book. His most famous description of the city is as "Hog Butcher for the World/Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat/Player with Railroads and the Nation's Freight Handler,/Stormy, Husky, Brawling ...
Lucy Flower Technical High School for Girls is a historic school building at 3545 W. Fulton Boulevard in the East Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago, Illinois. It was built in 1927 as a larger home for the school of the same name, which was founded in 1911. Named for Lucy Flower, the
Mayor Harold Washington; and, Chicago, the I Will City, Brooks Press, 1983. The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems, David Co., 1987. Winnie, Third World Press, 1988. Report from Part Two, Third World Press, 1996. In Montgomery, and Other Poems, Third World Press, 2003. Several collections of multiple works by Brooks were also published. [19]