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Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. [1] She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. [ 2 ]
The song was first recorded in 1930 by Lucille Bogan, one of the classic female blues singers. [2] Bogan recorded it as a mid-tempo, twelve-bar blues, featuring her vocal with piano accompaniment. In 1934, Tampa Red recorded "Black Angel Blues" for Vocalion Records. The song was performed at a slower tempo and featured prominent slide-guitar ...
Lucille Bogan (née Anderson; April 1, 1897 – August 10, 1948) [1] was an American classic female blues singer and songwriter, among the first to be recorded. She also recorded under the pseudonym Bessie Jackson. Music critic Ernest Borneman noted that Bogan was one of "the big three of the blues", along with Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith. [2]
Wakely earlier recorded the song as "Oklahoma Blues." This one (with "City") is a little shorter, but has the same words and tune. [253] "Oklahoma City Blues" – Neal Pattman, 1999. [254] (Wakely's and Pattman's songs are two completely different compositions.)
Soprano Renée Fleming was known for "her operatic performances and recitals of classical art songs". [1] Mehldau's playing often encompassed classical music, while Fleming was interested in being a jazz vocalist from her time at college. [2] Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the poems collected in The Book of Hours around the turn of the twentieth century.
"Medusa", a poem by Louise Bogan; Medusa: A Tiger by the Tail, a 1983 novel by Jack L. Chalker; ... a song by Times of Grace from Songs of Loss and Separation, 2021
The poets for whom Adams acted as a mentor included Louise Glück, recipient of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature and former United States Poet Laureate. [9] [10] Fantasy writer, poet and editor Lin Carter attended her Poetry Workshop while studying at Columbia University. [11] Marcella Comès Winslow painted a portrait of Adams in 1947. [12]
Lord Weary's Castle, Robert Lowell's second book of poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 when Lowell was only thirty. Robert Giroux, who was the publisher of Lowell's wife at the time, Jean Stafford, also became Lowell's publisher after he saw the manuscript for Lord Weary's Castle and was very impressed; he later stated that Lord Weary's Castle was the most successful book of ...