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Maya Angelou, reciting her poem, "On the Pulse of Morning", at the 1993 inauguration of President Bill ClintonMaya Angelou, an African-American writer who is best known for her seven autobiographies, was also a prolific and successful poet.
The essay became the basis for a successful spoken word song released in 1997 by Baz Luhrmann, "Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen)", also known as "The Sunscreen Song". [ 4 ] [ 3 ] The song reached number one in Ireland and the United Kingdom and inspired numerous parodies .
"If—" is a poem by English poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936), written circa 1895 [1] as a tribute to Leander Starr Jameson. It is a literary example of Victorian-era stoicism. [2] The poem, first published in Rewards and Fairies (1910) following the story "Brother Square-Toes", is written in the form of paternal advice to the poet's son ...
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote the poem when he was 17 years old and was crossing the Mississippi River on the way to visit his father in Mexico. The poem was first published the following year in The Crisis magazine, in June 1921, starting Hughes's literary career. "The Negro Speaks of ...
Shortly after graduation, she married George Bahlke. After a few peripatetic years, the couple eventually settled in Clinton, New York , where her husband taught at Kirkland College . At an informal writers group, Worth met Natalie Babbitt , whose husband, Samuel Fisher Babbitt, was the president of the university.
After graduation, Boxall worked in several museums: the Wordsworth Trust, the Ashmolean Museum, the Royal Collection, and The Laurence Stern Trust at Shandy Hall. Boxall was a writer-in-residence at Gladstone’s Library in Wales , Hawthornden Castle in Scotland, Château de Lavigny in Switzerland and Cove Park in Scotland.
"Ode to Liberty" is a poem written by Alexander Pushkin. [1] Upon graduation from the Lycee, Pushkin publicly recited the poem, one of several that led to his exile by Tsar Alexander the First . Authorities summoned Pushkin to Moscow after the poem was found among the belongings of the rebels from the Decembrist Uprising (1825).
Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, [1] the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, [2] and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [3]
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