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Her first book, Roar and More (Harper, 1956), came out of her senior graphic arts project at Yale to design and print a book on a small press. [ 2 ] Kuskin wrote Paul in 1994, with paintings by Milton Avery , which had originally been created for an abandoned children's book, to go with a (now lost) story by writer H. R. Hays , nearly thirty ...
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.
In 1972 American poet, James A. Wright, nominated Freya's first book of poetry, A Goldenrod Will Grow (Thueson Press, 1971) [3] for a Lamont Poetry Award. Her second book of poetry was Yellow Squash Woman (Thorp Springs Press, 1976). [4] In 1975 American poet, Robert Bly nominated her for a Harvard/Radcliffe Grant, which resulted in the ...
Victoria Chang (born 1970) is an American poet, writer, editor, and critic.She has experimented with different styles of writing, including writing obituaries for parts of her life, including her parents and herself, in OBIT, letters in Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, and a Japanese form known as waka [1] in The Trees Witness Everything.
Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, on April 25, 1939.Growing up, Kooser attended Ames Public Schools for elementary and middle school. When Kooser arrived at Ames High School, his interest diverted from the library, and it went to cars.
Tranströmer was born in Stockholm in 1931 and raised by his mother Helmy, a schoolteacher, following her divorce from his father, Gösta Tranströmer, an editor. [5] [6] He received his secondary education at the Södra Latin Gymnasium in Stockholm, where he began writing poetry.
Thomas Herbert Johnson (April 27, 1902 – January 3, 1985) was an American scholar, teacher, editor, and bibliographer in the field of American literature. His major achievements in letters were threefold: his discovery of the important Puritan poet Edward Taylor (c. 1664 –1729) whose Poetical Works [1] he issued in 1939; his co-editorship of Literary History of the United States [2] (1948 ...
[12] During her teenage years, she began filling books with ''careful rhymes'' and ''lofty meditations", as well as submitting poems to various publications. [2] Her first poem was published in American Childhood when she was 13. [2] By the time she had graduated from high school in 1935, she was already a regular contributor to The Chicago ...