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Shane L. Koyczan / ˈkɔɪˌzæn /, [ 2] born 22 May 1976, is a Canadian spoken word poet, writer, and member of the group Tons of Fun University. He is known for writing about issues like bullying, cancer, death, and eating disorders. He is most famous for the anti- bullying poem “ To This Day ” which has over 25 million views on YouTube.
For Colored Girls is a 2010 American drama film adapted from Ntozake Shange 's 1975 original choreopoem for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. Written, directed and produced by Tyler Perry, the film features an ensemble cast which includes Janet Jackson, Whoopi Goldberg, Phylicia Rashad, Thandiwe Newton ...
for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf is a 1976 work by Ntozake Shange. It consists of a series of poetic monologues to be accompanied by dance movements and music, a form which Shange coined the word choreopoem to describe. [ 5] It tells the stories of seven women who have suffered oppression in a racist and ...
The poem was created as part of a friendly competition in which Shelley and fellow poet Horace Smith each created a poem on the subject of Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II under the title of Ozymandias, the Greek name for the pharaoh. Shelley's poem explores the ravages of time and the oblivion to which the legacies of even the greatest men are ...
The list of poems by Philip Larkin come mostly from the four volumes of poetry published during his lifetime: [ 1][ 2] The North Ship (July 1945) The Less Deceived (November 1955, dated October) The Whitsun Weddings (February 1964) High Windows (June 1974) Philip Larkin (1922–1985) also published other poems.
ISBN. 978-1-250-78099-7. We Are Water Protectors is a 2020 picture book written by Carole Lindstrom and illustrated by Michaela Goade. Written in response to the Dakota Access Pipeline protests, the book tells the story of an Ojibwe girl who fights against an oil pipeline in an effort to protect the water supply of her people.
In Flanders Fields. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
The Purple Flower by Marita Bonner, is a one-act play typically considered to be Bonner's masterpiece. [1] Not set in any specific place or time, it is a metaphor for racial issues in the U.S. [2] Bonner was born on June 16, 1899, in Boston, Massachusetts. She had short stories and essays published in Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life and ...