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Amanda Gorman. Amanda S. C. Gorman[ 1] (born March 7, 1998) [ 2] is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate.
Nikki Giovanni. Yolande Cornelia " Nikki " Giovanni Jr.[ 1][ 2] (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, [ 2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social ...
He registered for his U.S. copyright in 1927 using the poem's first phrase as its title. The April 5, 1933 issue of Michigan Tradesman magazine published the full, original text on its cover, crediting Ehrmann as its author. In 1933, he distributed the poem in the form of a Christmas card, [ 1] now officially titled "Desiderata."
August 14, 2024 at 6:49 PM. Aub’s Lounge, a banana bread and poetry lounge near Howard Amon Park in Richland, will offering a free creative writing workshop Saturday, Aug. 17 in conjunction with ...
José García Villa[ 1] (August 5, 1908 – February 7, 1997) was a Filipino poet, literary critic, short story writer, and painter. He was awarded the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, [ 2][ 3] as well as the Guggenheim Fellowship in creative writing by Conrad Aiken. [ 4] He is known to have introduced the ...
Louise Simone Bennett-Coverley or Miss Lou OM, OJ, MBE (7 September 1919 – 26 July 2006), was a Jamaican poet, folklorist, writer, and educator.Writing and performing her poems in Jamaican Patois or Creole, Bennett worked to preserve the practice of presenting poetry, folk songs and stories in patois ("nation language"), [2] establishing the validity of local languages for literary expression.
Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson (17 June 1867 – 2 September 1922) [ 1] was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is often called Australia's "greatest short story writer". [ 2]
Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah(né Springer; 15 April 1958 – 7 December 2023) was a British writer, dub poet, actor, musician and professor of poetry and creative writing. He was included in The Timeslist of Britain's top 50 post-war writers in 2008. In his work, Zephaniah drew on his lived experiencesof incarceration, racism and his ...