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The Writer's Almanac is a daily podcast and newsletter of poetry and historical interest pieces, usually of literary significance. Begun as a radio program in 1993, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it is hosted by Garrison Keillor and was produced and distributed by American Public Media through November 2017.
The Metropol' Almanac is a collection of uncensored texts by famous writers, self published in Samizdat in Moscow in December 1978. [1] The collection was organized by Vasily Aksyonov, and counted with contributions from a number of Soviet writers, such as Fazil Iskander, Andrei Bitov, Andrei Voznesensky, Bella Akhmadulina and Vladimir Vysotsky, and one contribution from abroad, made by John ...
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. [3] She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain poets and by the political context of the Vietnam War, which she explored in her poetry book The Freeing of the Dust.
"School Prayer" is a poem written by American poet and naturalist Diane Ackerman; [1] it is the first of 50 poems in Ackerman's book I Praise My Destroyer, [2] which was published in 1998. "School Prayer" is a pledge to protect and revere nature, in every form it may appear.
As Poet Laureate, Collins instituted the program Poetry 180 for high schools. Collins chose 180 poems for the program and the accompanying book, Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry—one for each day of the school year. Collins edited a second anthology, 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day to refresh the supply of available poems. [16]
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The Old Farmer's Almanac, a popular annual publication in existence since 1792, copied the format used in the Ames' Almanack. This included page headings with the corresponding zodiac sign; left margin noting movable feasts, lines from a poem relevant to that month; phases of the moon; weather predictions; and anniversaries. [11]
Several of his poems, including "One of the Locals", were read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac. [4] A chapter dedicated to Starck's poetry, “Clemens Starck: ‘poems in my head, a hammer in my hand,” is within Durable Goods: Appreciations of Oregon Poets, [5] written by Erik Muller and published by Mountains & Rivers Press in 2017.