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David Mercier Parsons was born on April 16, 1943, in Villa Rica, Georgia, and is an American author, poet, and educator.Raised in Austin, Texas, he was named by the Texas State Legislature in 2011 to a one-year term as Poet Laureate of Texas, [1] commemorated by the publication of David M. Parsons New & Selected Poems by the Texas Christian University Press.
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.The book recalls in verse his eight-year-long sentence after his arrest for robbery in 1960.
All of which makes for a rarity in contemporary poetry: It's what book clubs call "readable."" [6] David Kirby of The New York Times likened the "whimsy" of Actual Air to the works of poets Mark Halliday and Campbell McGrath , but felt "In their poems, though, whimsy always leads to serious ideas and emotions that don't consistently materialize ...
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Aaron Radford-Wattley reads Masters’s poem, which Masters wrote while on death row at San Quentin State Prison and won him a PEN Award. “Recipe for Prison Pruno,” by Jarvis Jay Masters Skip ...
Solis served 23 years in prison for murdering Louis Dake, a security guard, during an armored truck robbery in 1969. [1] [2] He was given parole in 1992. [3]Following his release, he met Heather Tallchief, who became employed by a security company at his urging.
A former Tennessee teacher who got pregnant after raping a 12-year-old boy pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to 25 years in prison with no parole. On Dec. 20, Alissa McCommon, 39, of Covington ...
Bicycle and Other Poems (1970) is the debut poetry collection by Australian poet and author David Malouf. [ 1 ] The collection consists of 41 poems, several of which were previously published in various Australian poetry and general magazines, with the majority published here for the first time.