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Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa, on April 25, 1939.Growing up, Kooser attended Ames Public Schools for elementary and middle school. When Kooser arrived at Ames High School, his interest diverted from the library, and it went to cars.
In 1972 American poet, James A. Wright, nominated Freya's first book of poetry, A Goldenrod Will Grow (Thueson Press, 1971) [3] for a Lamont Poetry Award. Her second book of poetry was Yellow Squash Woman (Thorp Springs Press, 1976). [4] In 1975 American poet, Robert Bly nominated her for a Harvard/Radcliffe Grant, which resulted in the ...
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 ...
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.
The author himself read the poem. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton said of the poem, "Edwin Markham's Lincoln is the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and the greatest that ever will be written." Later that year, Markham was filmed reciting the poem by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Sidney Clopton Lanier [1] (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States Army as a private, [2] worked on a blockade-running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer.
Henri Cole was born in Fukuoka, Japan, to an American father and French-Armenian [1] mother, and raised in Virginia, United States.His father, a North Carolinian, enlisted in the service after graduating from high school and, while stationed in Marseilles, met Cole's mother, who worked at the PX.
A poem of his was read at Anna Lindh's memorial service in 2003. [11] Tranströmer went to Bhopal immediately after the gas tragedy in 1984, and alongside Indian poets such as K. Satchidanandan, took part in a poetry reading session outside the plant. [12]