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Ai told Farnsworth that she got the idea from watching a The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Carson had told a joke that inspired Ai to write the poem. After she decided to write the poem, she found a biography on Hoffa and studied it before writing the piece. Ai said that she often reads biographies before writing a poem on an historical ...
Ai (Florence Anthony, 1947–2010), US poet; Ama Ata Aidoo (1940–2023), Ghanaian novelist, poet, playwright and academic; Conrad Aiken (1889–1973), US poet and author; Aganice Ainianos (1838–1892), Greek poet; Akazome Emon (956–1041), Japanese poet and historian; Mark Akenside (1721–1770), English poet and physician
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
If you’re an aspiring poet who doesn’t know your sonnets from your stanzas, a new Google AI app could transform you into a legendary wordsmith. Verse by Verse is described by the Big G as ...
Salinas is regarded as "one of the founding fathers of Chicano poetry in America." [6] While a student at California State University Fresno Salinas published his first book, Crazy Gypsy, which sold well and earned him a reputation as both "a Chicano poet and as one of the leaders of the 'Fresno School' of poets, which included Gary Soto, Ernesto Trejo, Leonard Adame and others."
Sydney Elliott Napier (1870–1940) poet and writer; John Shaw Neilson (1872–1942) Philip Neilsen (born 1949) poet and children's author; Hume Nisbet (1849–1923) Scottish-Australian author and artist; Oodgeroo Noonuccal (Kath Walker) (1920–1993) Indigenous Australian poet and human rights activist
A Shropshire Lad is a collection of 63 poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman, published in 1896.Selling slowly at first, it then rapidly grew in popularity, particularly among young readers.
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate) [1] [2] [3] is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, typically expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. Albertino Mussato of Padua and Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) of Arezzo were the first to be crowned poets laureate after the classical age ...