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Janet Campbell Hale was born on January 11, 1946, in Riverside, California. [4] Her father, Nicholas Patrick Campbell, was a Coeur d'Alene Indian who became an American citizen after his service in the U.S. Army in the first world war, [5] and Margaret Sullivan Campbell, a Canadian with an Irish-Canadian father and a Kootenay/Cree mother.
Donna Allegra Simms (December 8, 1953 – January 13, 2020) [1] was an American writer, dancer and electrician. She wrote poetry, short stories, and essays. Twelve of her stories were collected as Witness to the League of Blonde Hip Hop Dancers (2001).
Masini's work has appeared in Best American Poetry 2015, Poetry, American Poetry Review, Ploughshares, TriQuarterly, Paris Review, Ms., KGB Bar Book of Poems, Georgia Review, Parnassus, Boulevard, Open City et al. Masini is a professor of English and teaches poetry as a part of CUNY Hunter College MFA Program in Creative Writing. [2]
Whispering Wind, a boat which raced in the 1958 Star World Championships Whispering Wind, a character in 1998 Hong Kong film The Storm Riders and other related films Mountain of the Whispering Winds, a fictional mountain in 1970 Christmas special Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town
The New York Times named her 2018 collection Transaction Histories one of the 10 best poetry books of the year. [3] In 2020, her book Model City sold hundreds of copies [4] after an enthusiastic review in Frank Skinner's Poetry Podcast. [5] A bilingual version, translated in French by Jérémy Victor Robert, was published in February 2021. [6]
Donna Marie Merritt. Donna Marie Merritt (born 1965) is an American poet and children's author. Writing about such topics as unemployment and cancer, her poetry has been described as “the real thing, [a] moving human experience artfully expressed” by poet Dave Morrison. [1]
Donna Ashworth is a Sunday Times best-selling Scottish poet. She came to prominence in 2020 when her poetry about the UK's COVID-19 lockdown was read in a viral video to raise money for the NHS . She has subsequently been credited with helping poetry sales reach record levels in the UK.
A contrafact is a musical composition built using the chord progression of a pre-existing song, but with a new melody and arrangement.Typically the original tune's progression and song form will be reused but occasionally just a section will be reused in the new composition.