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Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni Jr. [1] [2] (June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024) was an American poet, writer, commentator, activist and educator. One of the world's best-known African-American poets, [2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social issues to children's literature.
Lucille Clifton (born Thelma Lucille Sayles, in Depew, New York) [6] grew up in Buffalo, New York, and graduated from Fosdick-Masten Park High School in 1953. [7] She attended Howard University with a scholarship from 1953 to 1955, leaving to study at the State University of New York at Fredonia (near Buffalo).
Carrie Underwood, singer-songwriter (Checotah High School, Oklahoma, Class of 2001) [11] John Wayne, actor, Academy Award winner (Glendale High School, California, Class of 1924) Otto Warmbier, (Wyoming High School, Wyoming, Ohio, Class of 2013) [12] Keith Whittington- William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Politics at Princeton University.
Markham then attended San Jose Normal School (now San Jose State University) graduating in 1872, and wrote the poem "The Man with the Hoe". [3] The house in which he wrote the poem was preserved and moved to the city's History Park, and now serves as a poetry center. He went by "Charles" until about 1895, when he was about 43, when he started ...
25. "500 kids left school that day because I was there." 26. “We all have a common enemy, and it is evil.” 27. “I would dream that this coffin had wings, and it would fly around my bed at ...
In 2017, Gorman became the first youth poet to open the literary season for the Library of Congress, and she has read her poetry on MTV. [ 11 ] [ 36 ] She wrote "In This Place: An American Lyric" for her September 2017 performance at the Library of Congress, which commemorated the inauguration of Tracy K. Smith as Poet Laureate of the United ...
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.
An addict who has taken it both with and without a prescription described the “high” off the first few doses as akin to drinking a really strong cup of coffee. The medication “helps with the mental state, you know, it helps me feel regular and it’s not like I’m taking it to get high,” another addict explained to researchers in 2011 ...