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Blanco reading his poem "One Today" at the second inauguration of President Barack Obama, 2013. Between 1999 and 2001, Blanco traveled extensively through Spain, Italy, France, Guatemala, Brazil, Cuba, and New England. This wanderlust of travel exploring the meaning of home resulted in his second book of poems Directions to The Beach of the Dead.
Kooser's most recent books are Kindest Regards: New and Selected Poems and Red Stilts (2020). He founded and hosted the newspaper project "American Life in Poetry". [ 12 ] In 2020, Kooser chose Kwame Dawes , a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets , to be his successor as of January 1, 2021. [ 13 ]
Theodore Huebner Roethke (/ ˈ r ɛ t k i / RET-kee; [1] May 25, 1908 – August 1, 1963) was an American poet. He is regarded as one of the most accomplished and influential poets of his generation, having won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1954 for his book The Waking, and the annual National Book Award for Poetry on two occasions: in 1959 for Words for the Wind, [2] and posthumously in ...
Her first book, Roar and More (Harper, 1956), came out of her senior graphic arts project at Yale to design and print a book on a small press. [ 2 ] Kuskin wrote Paul in 1994, with paintings by Milton Avery , which had originally been created for an abandoned children's book, to go with a (now lost) story by writer H. R. Hays , nearly thirty ...
Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. [2] He won the 2007 National Book Award [3] and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry [4] for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. [5]
5 Books to Give Your Middle School Girl Hearst Owned "Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Middle school is a notoriously awkward and ...
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the American Civil War, Dunbar began writing stories and verse when he was a child.
Her 2005 volume of poetry American Sublime was one of three finalists for the Pulitzer Prize of that year. [18] Alexander is also a scholar of African-American literature and culture and recently published a collection of essays entitled The Black Interior. [8] Alexander received the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Lifetime Achievement Award in ...