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William Stafford (poet) William Edgar Stafford (January 17, 1914 – August 28, 1993) was an American poet and pacifist. He was the father of poet and essayist Kim Stafford. He was appointed the twentieth Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1970. [1]
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (sister) Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. [ 2 ] Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community.
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.
When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision. " When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision, " originally published in College English in the fall of 1972, [1] is an essay by American feminist, poet, teacher, and writer Adrienne Rich (1929–2012). It discusses several concepts needed by women writers to enable them to overcome the conditioning of a ...
In 1928 he graduated from high school and successfully passed the difficult entrance exams to law school at University of Athens. He read in the newspapers of the suicide of the poet Karyiotakis. In 1929 Elytis took a sabbatical between high school and university and decided secretly that he must only become a poet.
Alan Katz focuses on writing humor for kids. Among his 50 books are picture books, song parody books, poetry books, middle grade chapter books, early readers, even a few board books and game ...
The earliest known English poem is a hymn on the creation; Bede attributes this to Cædmon (fl. 658–680), who was, according to legend, an illiterate herdsman who produced extemporaneous poetry at a monastery at Whitby. This is generally taken as marking the beginning of Anglo-Saxon poetry.
John Berryman. John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry. His 77 Dream Songs (1964) won the 1965 Pulitzer ...