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X. J. Kennedy (born Joseph Charles Kennedy on August 21, 1929, in Dover, New Jersey) is an American poet, translator, anthologist, editor, and author of children's literature and textbooks on English literature and poetry.
Lena Kennedy (1914–1986, England, f/nf) Margaret Kennedy (1896–1967, England, f/d) Miranda Kennedy (born 1975, US, nf) Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968, US) Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (born 1954, US) Ted Kennedy (1932–2009, US, Boston) Walter Kennedy (c. 1455 – c. 1508, Scotland, p) X. J. Kennedy (born 1929, US, p/nf/ch)
It is edited by X. J. Kennedy, [1] Dorothy M. Kennedy, and Jane E. Aaron. It is widely used in freshman composition courses at colleges across the United States. The eleventh edition of the book is composed of over seventy essays, one short story, and one poem.
Timothy Steele (born January 22, 1948) is an American poet, who generally writes in meter and rhyme.His early poems, which began appearing in the 1970s in such magazines as Poetry, The Southern Review, and X. J. Kennedy's Counter/Measures, are said to have anticipated and contributed to the revival of traditional verse associated with the New Formalism. [1]
John Kennedy Toole (/ ˈ t uː l /; December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981; he also wrote The Neon Bible. Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were ...
Tama Janowitz, author, Slaves of New York (1986) [27] X. J. Kennedy, noted poet and writer; Francis Rosa, journalist for The Boston Globe [28] Ruth Sawyer, author, winner of the Newbery Medal; Simon Schama, historian, art historian and presenter; Edward Osborne Wilson, entomologist and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author; Marjan Kamali, author
William Joseph Kennedy (born January 16, 1928) is an American writer and journalist who won the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for his 1983 novel Ironweed. Kennedy's other works include The Ink Truck (1969), Legs (1975), Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (1978), Roscoe (2002) and Changó's Beads and Two-Tone Shoes (2011).
In the early 1970s X. J. Kennedy started publishing the short-lived magazine Counter/Measures which was devoted to the use of traditional form in poetry. A few other editors around this time were sympathetic to formal poetry, [8] but the mainstream continued to oppose rhyme and meter.