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"I Am – Somebody" is a poem often recited by Reverend Jesse Jackson, and was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students. [ 1 ] A similar poem was written in the early 1940s by Reverend William Holmes Borders , Sr., senior pastor at the Greater Wheat Street Baptist Church and civil rights activist in Atlanta ...
I Am" (or "Lines: I Am") [1] is a poem written by English poet John Clare in late 1844 or 1845 and published in 1848. It was composed when Clare was in the Northampton General Lunatic Asylum [ 2 ] (commonly Northampton County Asylum, and later renamed St Andrew's Hospital), isolated by his mental illness from his family and friends.
A Balliol rhyme is a doggerel verse form with a distinctive metre.It is a quatrain, having two rhyming couplets (rhyme scheme AABB), each line having four beats. They are written in the voice of the named subject and elaborate on that person's character, exploits or predilections.
Elias Lieberman was born on October 30, 1883, in St. Petersburg, Russia.At age seven, he emigrated to the United States with his Russian Jewish family. In 1903, he graduated cum laude from the City College of New York, where he joined the Phi Beta Kappa fraternity.
George Anthony Stanley (born 1934), is a Canadian poet associated with the San Francisco Renaissance in his early years. In 1971, he became a resident of British Columbia.. He has published many books of poetry, both in San Francisco and in Canada.
Mary TallMountain (June 19, 1918 – September 2, 1994) was a poet and storyteller of mixed Scotch-Irish and Koyukon ancestry. [2] Her works deal with the interplay of Christianity with indigenous beliefs and the difficulties of her own life.
He also wrote a large number of informal epistolary poems at a time when that form was unfashionable. Hugo's The Real West Marginal Way is a collection of essays, generally autobiographical in nature, that detail his childhood, his military service, his poetics, and his teaching.
Felix Dennis was born on 27 May 1947 in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, the son of a part-time jazz pianist who ran a tobacconist's shop.He grew up poor in northeast Surrey, for a time living in his grandparents' tiny terrace house in Thames Ditton, not far from his birthplace, with his mother, Dorothy, and brother Julian.