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Eleanor Farjeon (13 February 1881 – 5 June 1965) was an English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire. [1]Several of her works had illustrations by Edward Ardizzone.
Good for a Laugh: A Guide to Writing Amusing, Clever, and Downright Funny Poems (2003) Writing Winning Reports and Essays (2003) Opening a Door: Reading Poetry in the Middle School Classroom (2003) Top Secret: A Handbook of Codes, Ciphers, and Secret Writing (2004) How to Write Haiku and Other Short Poems (2004) Rhyming Dictionary [with Sun ...
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 ]
A print of Samuel Johnson, based on a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, later used in the 1806 edition of the Lives of the Poets. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1779–81), alternatively known by the shorter title Lives of the Poets, is a work by Samuel Johnson comprising short biographies and critical appraisals of 52 poets, most of whom lived during the eighteenth century.
Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940) is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (now called the Young People's Poet Laureate) from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.
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.
A pre-kindergarten-to-fifth-grade elementary school in Gardiner, Maine, bears her name. Her children's book Tirra Lirra won the Lewis Carroll Shelf Award in 1959. Her home in Gardiner, the Laura E. Richards House, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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 ...