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State State poem Citation/Year Florida "I am Florida" by Allen Autry Sr. 2010 [1] Indiana "Indiana" by Arthur Franklin Mapes: 1963 [2] [3] Kentucky "My Old Kentucky Home" by Stephen C. Foster [4] Louisiana "America, We The People" by Sylvia Davidson Lott Buckley (State judicial poem) 1995 [5] "Leadership" by Jean McGivney Boese (State Senate ...
A Local Habitation (poetry, 1972) Stitch and Stone (1975) Wednesday Early Closing (memoirs, 1975) The Lake District (anthology, 1978) The Shadow of Black Combe (poetry, 1978) Sea to the West (poetry, 1981) Selected Poems 1940-1982 (poetry, 1982) Norman Nicholson's Lakeland (anthology ed. Irvine Hunt, 1991) Collected Poems (ed. Neil Curry, 1994)
David Mercier Parsons was born on April 16, 1943, in Villa Rica, Georgia, and is an American author, poet, and educator.Raised in Austin, Texas, he was named by the Texas State Legislature in 2011 to a one-year term as Poet Laureate of Texas, [1] commemorated by the publication of David M. Parsons New & Selected Poems by the Texas Christian University Press.
The "Lake Poet School" (or 'Bards of the Lake', or the 'Lake School') was initially a derogatory term ("the School of whining and hypochondriacal poets that haunt the Lakes", according to Francis Jeffrey as reported by Coleridge) [1] that was also a misnomer, as it was neither particularly born out of the Lake District, nor was it a cohesive school of poetry.
The Poetry Society of Oklahoma (PSO) is a non-profit state-level poetry association in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.The organization is affiliated with the National Federation of State Poetry Societies (NFSPS), and promotes poetry, conducts monthly and annual contests, publishes poetry books and organizes periodic meetings, workshops and festivals.
Langston Hughes didn't spend much of his childhood in Missouri, but the poet's presence lingers. Hughes, one of our truest American compasses, entered the world on the first day of February 1901 ...
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Recollections of the Lake Poets is a collection of biographical essays written by the English author Thomas De Quincey.In these essays, originally published in Tait's Edinburgh Magazine between 1834 and 1840, De Quincey provided some of the earliest, best informed and most candid accounts of the three Lake Poets, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey, and others in ...