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Contrary to popular belief, the poem is not about the death of Field's son, who died several years after its publication. Field once admitted that the words "Little Boy Blue" occurred to him when he needed a rhyme for the seventh line in the first stanza. The poem first appeared in 1888 in the Chicago weekly literary journal America. Its editor ...
Francis Miles Finch was born on June 9, 1827, in Ithaca, New York.He was educated at Yale University, where, according to a contemporary, he was a "thoughtful scholar in the class-room, a prizeman in the essay competitions, an influential editor of the Yale Lit an impressive speaker in the Linonian Society, hail-fellow-well-met on the campus, sedate, impulsive, big-hearted, wise, witty ...
Donald Andrew Hall Jr. [1] (September 20, 1928 – June 23, 2018) was an American poet, writer, editor, and literary critic. He was the author of more than 50 books across several genres from children's literature, biography, memoir, essays, and including 22 volumes of verse.
The work hybridizes several prose and poetry styles as it documents Nelson's multifaceted experience with the color blue, and is often referred to as lyric essay or prose poetry. [1] [2] It was written between 2003 and 2006. [3] [4] The book is a philosophical and personal meditation on the color blue, lost love, grief and existential solitude.
Myfanwy Haycock (1913–1963) was a Welsh poet, illustrator, BBC broadcaster, and journalist. She was born Blodwen Myfanwy Haycock in Pontnewynydd , Wales , near Pontypool , in the traditional county of Monmouthshire , .
Her follow-up book, World Enough: poems (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2010), was selected by Paul Muldoon in The New Yorker as a best poetry book of the year. [3] McLane achieved literary celebrity with the publication of her hybrid criticism-biography My Poets , which Paris Review editor Lorin Stein called "the survey course of my dreams."
2010 Student Poetry Contest Winners :: S-4 Category – Grades 7 & 8. 1st place Maria Abrams, Bedford, NY for the poem "Sentences" 2nd place Domonique, Hampton, VA for the poem "Just Because" 3rd place Heidi Ziegra, Edgecomb, ME for the poem “Blue Jay, Black Cat” 1st Honorable Mention Corey Albright, Bedford NY, for the poem "The Bus"
Joyce Carol Thomas (May 25, 1938 – August 13, 2016) [1] was an African-American poet, playwright, motivational speaker, and author of more than 30 children's books. Background [ edit ]