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"This Be The Verse" is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971, was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows.
Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer.He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration.
Victoria Chang is an American poet, writer, editor, and critic. She has experimented with different styles of writing, including writing obituaries for parts of her life, including her parents and herself, in OBIT, letters in Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief, and a Japanese form known as waka [1] in The Trees Witness Everything.
The poem was the subject of the third episode of the first season of Poetry in America with Elisa New (2018–), which first aired on April 1, 2018. The program featured then former Vice President of the United States Joe Biden, as well as the renowned poets Elizabeth Alexander and Angela Duckworth.
Opening his poem with verse by Pablo Neruda, Patten's poem argues that it is the act of remembrance which offers family members the best antidote to the anguish of loss. In tackling the subject of grief, Patten views poetry as performing an important social function: "Poetry helps us understand what we’ve forgotten to remember.
"Welcome to Holland" is a prominent essay, written in 1987 by American author and social activist Emily Perl Kingsley, about having a child with a disability.The piece is given by many organizations to new parents of children with special needs issues such as Down syndrome.
Of his parents Harper once remarked, "My parents did not have much money, but they had a great record collection." [ 4 ] This would of course later influence his work, blending poetry with jazz. His younger brother Jonathan Paul was born in 1941 and died in a motorcycle accident in 1977.
Nick Kenny's poem, "Pirate's Moon," illustrated by Richard Bassford. Nicholas Aloysius Kenny (February 3, 1895 in Astoria, New York - December 1, 1975 in Sarasota, Florida ) was a syndicated newspaper columnist, a song lyricist and a poet who wrote light verse in the Edgar Guest tradition.