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They placed fourth in the 2004 National Poetry Slam and third in the 2006 and 2007 Individual World Poetry Slam. [41] Gibson was the first person to win the Women of the World Poetry Slam in 2008. [42] Andrea has also been appointed as Colorado’s Poet Laureate by Governor Jared Polis. [43]
One of the most popular poems ever written in Russia, Wait for Me was especially popular with the frontoviks (front-line soldiers) in the Great Patriotic War, as Russians call World War II. [3] A number of servicemen cut out the poem from Pravda and mailed it to their girlfriends and wives, who in turn wrote poems declaring that they would wait ...
Emily Brontë (1818–1848), English novelist and poet, best remembered for her novel Wuthering Heights; Frances Browne (1816–1887), Irish poet and novelist; Eliza Cook (1818–1889), English poet; Elizabeth Jessup Eames (1813–1856), American writer of prose and poetry; George Eliot (born Marian Evans, 1819–1880), English novelist and poet
This woodcut by Utagawa Kuniyoshi illustrates her most famous haiku: finding a bucket entangled in the vines of a morning glory, she will go ask for water rather than disturb the flower. Fukuda Chiyo-ni (福田 千代尼, 1703 - 2 October 1775) or Kaga no Chiyo (加賀 千代女) was a Japanese poet of the Edo period and a Buddhist nun . [ 1 ]
[a] Sappho is known for her lyric poetry, written to be sung while accompanied by a lyre. [8] Most of Sappho's poetry is now lost, and what is extant has survived only in fragmentary form, except for one complete poem: the "Ode to Aphrodite". As well as lyric poetry, ancient commentators claimed that Sappho wrote elegiac and iambic poetry.
Akhmatova was born at Bolshoy Fontan, a resort suburb of the Black Sea port of Odessa.Her father, Andrey Gorenko [], was a descendant from a Ukrainian Cossack noble family, a naval engineer, later a civil servant in the rank of collegiate assessor, and her mother, Inna Erazmovna Stogova, was from a Russian pomeshchik (landowner) family with close ties to Kiev. [5]
Perrault's French fairy tales, for example, were collected more than a century before the Grimms' and provide a more complex view of womanhood. But as the most popular, and the most riffed-on, the Grimms' are worth analyzing, especially because today's women writers are directly confronting the stifling brand of femininity they proliferated.
This play, her most famous work, was a 20-part choreopoem — a term Shange coined to describe her groundbreaking dramatic form, combining of poetry, dance, music, and song [18] — that chronicled the lives of women of color in the United States. The poem was eventually made into the stage play, was then published in book form in 1977.