Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
Thompson has also co-edited anthologies on multiple subjects: poetry by and for refugees, multiracial education, HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora, and racial identity. Thompson's works have been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association for University Women, the Ford Foundation ...
Billy-Ray Belcourt is a poet, scholar, and author from the Driftpile Cree Nation.. Belcourt's works encompass a variety of topics and themes, including decolonial love, grief, intimacy and queer sexuality, and the role of Indigenous women in social resistance movements.
[15] While it is difficult to ascertain from these oral traditions whether the authors of early texts were male or female, precolonial native poetry certainly addresses issues relevant to women in a sensitive and positive way, for example the Seminole poem, 'Song for Bringing a Child Into the World.' [16] In fact, native poetry is a separate ...
Her poetry has been extensively published in translation, including substantial collections in French and German. [2] The 2015 Poetry Competition 'A Poem for Ireland' shortlisted her 1991 poem 'The Statue of the Virgin at Granard Speaks' in the final ten poems. [3] Meehan is a judge for the 2020 Griffin Poetry Prize. [4]
His work with translations of German and South American poets, as well as the poetry and aesthetic position of Robert Bly, had considerable influence on his own poems; this is most evident in The Branch Will Not Break, which departs radically from the formal style of Wright's previous book, Saint Judas.
Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses (1901), a collection entirely of Henley's, [46] with the title major work, and 16 additional poems, including a dedication to his wife (and epilogue, both penned in Worthing), the collection is composed of 4 sections; the first, the title piece "Hawthorn and Lavender" in 50 parts over 65 pages. [46]
Lowe enjoyed the work of her church, having among other duties taught a class of young women in the Sunday School for many years. At the time of the forming of the Women's National Alliance, the union that Lowe started became a branch, and with the assistance of many women in the parish, it grew to be a large and important organization.