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"The Weight" was written by Robbie Robertson, who found the tune by strumming idly on his guitar, a 1951 Martin D-28, when he noticed that the interior included a stamp noting that it was manufactured in Nazareth, Pennsylvania (C. F. Martin & Company is situated there) and he started crafting the lyrics as he played.
In 1976, Gilpin was awarded the Walt Whitman Award by the Academy of American Poets for her book of poems titled The Hocus-Pocus of the Universe. She was selected by William Stafford. [2] Her work was also published in the magazine Poetry. [3] Gilpin later wrote another book of poetry, titled The Weight of a Soul, which was published ...
Marcus Amaker (born October 29, 1976, in Las Vegas, Nevada) is the first poet laureate of Charleston, South Carolina. [1] He has ten published books and, in 2021, was named an Academy of American Poets Fellow.
Anne Michaels (born 15 April 1958) is a Canadian poet and novelist whose work has been translated and published in over 45 countries. Her books have garnered dozens of international awards including the Orange Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Lannan Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for the Americas.
The poet Hayden Carruth has written that Logan was responsible for "creating a new lyricism" through his poetry. Logan taught at many colleges and universities including Saint John's College in Annapolis, University of Notre Dame , Saint Mary's College in California, and, finally at the State University of New York, Buffalo .
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After training for a career in music as a singer along with his brother who was a pianist, Cuney decided he had a poor singing voice and never performed professionally. [1] His writing, however, was very much influenced by his love of music. His poems are strongly rhythmic, often written in ballad form or original forms reminiscent of blues songs