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Hughes is the daughter of the poets Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Her mother was an American novelist and poet, and her father was the British poet laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Her mother died by suicide when Hughes was almost three; her father died of a heart attack while being treated for cancer.
Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio, to Ray Dove, one of the first African-American chemists to work in the U.S. tire industry (as a research chemist at Goodyear), and Elvira Hord, who achieved honors in high school and would share her passion for reading with her daughter.
Monet was nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry for her collection My Mother Was a Freedom Fighter. [17] A starred review in Publishers Weekly praised Monet's "stunning and evocative language" as she "strikingly illustrates the passage from girlhood to womanhood".
Letter consists of 28 short essays, which includes a few poems and a commencement address, and is dedicated to "the daughter she never had". [2] Reviews of the book were generally positive; most reviewers recognized that the book was full of Angelou's wisdom and that it read like words of advice from a beloved grandmother or aunt.
This week is National School Choice Week, and there's a lot to celebrate. ... Among school parents, 8 percent picked charter schools, 13 percent chose homeschooling, 12 percent favored religious ...
In 1776, our founding fathers established life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness as the foundational principles of American society. That’s why we celebrate the day these rights were ...
The poem "Song" was an inspiration for Bear McCreary's composition When I Am Dead, published in 2015. [43] Two of Rossetti's poems, "Where Sunless Rivers Weep" and "Weeping Willow", were set to music by Barbara Arens in her All Beautiful & Splendid Things: 12 + 1 Piano Songs on Poems by Women (2017, Editions Musica Ferrum).
Tim McGraw and Hill welcomed their second daughter, Maggie, in August 1998. Now 25 years old, Maggie McGraw graduated from Stanford University in 2020 — the same year that her younger sister ...