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Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...
David Walker (September 28, 1796 – August 6, 1830) [a] was an American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist. Though his father was enslaved, his mother was free; therefore, he was free as well ( partus sequitur ventrem ).
Wallace Stevens (October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was an American modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as an executive for an insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut.
Pound photographed in 1913 by Alvin Langdon Coburn. Ezra Weston Loomis Pound (30 October 1885 – 1 November 1972) was an American poet and critic, a major figure in the early modernist poetry movement, and a collaborator in Fascist Italy and the Salò Republic during World War II.
In later life Roberts's creative industry was impressive, but he gained repute as a name-dropping bore, [8] [9] the Canadian writer David Watmough dubbing him as "an irascible old fart". [10] According to an obituary, his main personal trait was "magnetic egocentricity" – so fascinated by himself and his doings as to succeed uncannily in ...
Her first volumes of poetry, “Black Feeling, Black Talk” in 1968 and “Black Judgement,” in 1968, were unapologetically bold, militant and powerful calls to racial and social justice.
It was widely believed that the poem wasn't written by Dickinson, but by Charles Dickens, with the poem found in the late author's desk. When Dickinson published The Children and Other Verses in 1889, it included a letter from Dickens' son Charles Dickens, Jr. where he insisted the poem was written by Dickinson and not his father. [3]
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.