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American writer Hayden Carruth in his review said, "Ali speaks for Kashmir in a large, generous, compassionate, powerful and urgent voice ... Few poets in this country have such a voice or such a topic". [21] Edward Said noted that "this is poetry whose appeal is universal". [21] John Ashbery called Shahid "one of America's finest younger poets ...
John Holmes (January 6, 1904 – June 22, 1962), born John Albert Holmes Jr., was a poet and critic. [1] [2] [3] He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and both attended and taught at Tufts University where he was a professor of literature and modern poetry for 28 years.
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.
11. "Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk." 12. "That’s the history of the world. His story is told, hers isn’t." 13. "If we can just convince other people to get ...
Maya Angelou's brilliant writing has touched hearts and impacted readers around the world.. The late writer, activist, and poet had a penchant for capturing the most precious moments of human ...
In 2013, Alyan's poetry collection, Atrium, received an award from the Arab American National Museum. [12] [13] In 2018, she won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, an award given to writers whose writing is believed to promote peace. [14] [15] She was also a visiting fellow at the American Library in Paris in the fall of 2018.
An edition of collected poetry was published only after Carman's death, due greatly to the persistence of his literary executor, Lorne Pierce." [5] During the 1920s, Carman was a member of the Halifax literary and social set, The Song Fishermen. In 1927 he edited The Oxford Book of American Verse. [16]
Whitfield was born April 10 or 12, 1822, in Exeter, New Hampshire, to Nancy (Paul) of Exeter and Joseph Whitfield, who escaped from slavery in Virginia. [2] His mother Nancy was the daughter of Caesar Nero Paul, a man of African descent who was enslaved at the age of fourteen as a house-boy in the Maj. John Gilman House, and later became free in 1771 after capture in the French and Indian Wars ...