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Gill's work was first published when she was 12 years old. [4] Gill has published eight volumes of poetry, including Your Soul Is A River (2016), Wild Embers: Poems of rebellion, fire and beauty (2017), Fierce Fairytales: & Other Stories to Stir Your Soul (2018), Great Goddesses: Life lessons from myths and monsters (2019), Your Heart Is The Sea (2019), The Girl and the Goddess (2020), Where ...
Signature. Jorge Luis Borges's voice. Recorded 1962. Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (/ ˈbɔːrhɛs / BOR-hess; [2] Spanish: [ˈxoɾxe ˈlwis ˈboɾxes] ⓘ; 24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator regarded as a key figure in Spanish-language and international literature.
He registered for his U.S. copyright in 1927 using the poem's first phrase as its title. The April 5, 1933 issue of Michigan Tradesman magazine published the full, original text on its cover, crediting Ehrmann as its author. In 1933, he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card, [1] now officially titled "Desiderata." [2]
Lekhnath Paudyal. Lekhnath Paudyal (Nepali: लेखनाथ पौड्याल; December 28 1884–1966) is regarded as the founding father of modern Nepali poetry literature (Kabi Shiromani) in the twentieth-century. [1][2] His most important contribution is believed to be to the enrichment and refinement of the language rather than to ...
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born on June 7, 1917, in Topeka, Kansas, and was raised on the South Side of Chicago, Illinois. She was the first child of David Anderson Brooks and Keziah (Wims) Brooks. [2] Her father, a janitor for a music company, had hoped to pursue a career as a doctor but sacrificed that aspiration to support getting ...
Sharon Olds. Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, [1] the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, [2] and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [3] She teaches creative writing at New York University and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU.
Song, Poetry, and Language (1978) Fight Back: For the Sake of the People, For the Sake of the Land (1980) A Poem is a Journey (1981) From Sand Creek: Rising In This Heart Which Is Our America (1981) Changing the Routine: Selected Short Stories (1982) Blue and Red (1982) The Importance of Childhood (1982) This America (1983) A Good Journey (1984)
George Leslie Norris (21 May 1921 – 6 April 2006), was a prize-winning Welsh poet and short story writer. He taught at academic institutions in Britain and the United States, including Brigham Young University. Norris is considered one of the most important Welsh writers of the post-war period, and his literary publications have won many prizes.