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In 2012, he won the World Slam Poetry Competition, becoming the youngest ever winner. [1] Unlike other poets, his poems are based on feelings and emotions. In 2014 Baker began performing as a speaker for TED. [4] His talk ‘A love poem for lonely prime numbers’ has over 2 million views. [6] [7] A collection of his own poetry, The Sunshine ...
Despite his late start, he was a frequent contributor to magazines and anthologies and eventually published fifty-seven volumes of poetry. James Dickey called Stafford one of those poets "who pour out rivers of ink, all on good poems." [8] He kept a daily journal for 50 years, and composed nearly 22,000 poems, of which roughly 3,000 were ...
A Wall Street Journal story in May 2020 described it as "keeping the realities of life's ugliness from young innocents" and noted that the poem has gone viral after catastrophes such as the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting, the May 2017 suicide bombing at a concert in Manchester, England, the 2017 mass shooting in Las Vegas, and the coronavirus ...
1864: The Quest of the Sangraal: Chant the First, Exeter; (part of an unfinished Arthurian poem) 1869: The Cornish Ballads and Other Poems, (new ed., with an introduction by C. E. Byles, 1908) 1870: Footprints of Former Men in Cornwall (a collection of papers) 1975: Selected Poems: Robert Stephen Hawker. Ed. Cecil Woolf
Vachel Lindsay in 1912. While in New York in 1905 Lindsay turned to poetry in earnest. He tried to sell his poems on the streets. Self-printing his poems, he began to barter a pamphlet titled Rhymes To Be Traded For Bread, which he traded for food as a self-perceived modern version of a medieval troubadour.
From 1969 to 1971, Ai attended the University of California at Irvine's M.F.A program where she worked under the likes of Charles Wright and Donald Justice. [10] [11] She is the author of No Surrender, (2010), which was published after her death, Dread (W. W. Norton & Co., 2003); Vice (1999), which won the National Book Award; [5] Greed (1993); Fate (1991); Sin (1986), which won an American ...
John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States.Frequently listed as one of the fireside poets, he was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert Burns.
Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co. "Selected Poetry of John Hoskyns (1566-1638)". Representative Poets Online. Archived from the original on 11 November 2007. Woolrych, Humphry William (1869). Lives of Eminent Serjeants-At-Law of the English Bar. Wm. H. Allen & Co.