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Committed to Memory: 100 Best Poems to Memorize (1996), editor; The Work of Poetry (1997) criticism; The Poetry of Everyday Life (1998) criticism; Figurehead and Other Poems (1999) poems; Sonnets. From Dante to the present (2001), Everyman's library pocket poets. Picture Window (2003) American Wits: An Anthology of Light Verse (2003), editor ...
Edward Hirsch wrote: "There is a sense of quiet amazement at the core of all Kooser’s work, but it especially seems to animate his new collection of poems, Delights & Shadows." Kooser's most recent books are Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems and Red Stilts (2020). He founded and hosted the newspaper project "American Life in Poetry". [12]
Karla Kuskin (née Seidman) (July 17, 1932 – August 20, 2009) was a prolific American author, poet, illustrator, and reviewer of children's literature. [2] Kuskin was known for her poetic, alliterative style.
I Remember has inspired many homages, none more notable than OuLiPian Georges Perec's Je me souviens which was dedicated to Brainard. [3] Poet Kenneth Koch was the first to utilize I Remember in the classroom as a prompt in teaching children to write poetry. The simplicity of the form has had great appeal to both writers and teachers, and most ...
Alexander was born in Harlem, New York City, and grew up in Washington, D.C. She is the daughter of former United States Secretary of the Army and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Chairman Clifford Alexander Jr. [6] and Adele Logan Alexander, a professor of African-American women's history at George Washington University and writer.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond.
Sidney Clopton Lanier [1] (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, [2] worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer.
The author himself read the poem. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton said of the poem, "Edwin Markham's Lincoln is the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and the greatest that ever will be written." Later that year, Markham was filmed reciting the poem by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process.