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"Mother to Son" is a 1922 poem by American writer and activist Langston Hughes. The poem follows a mother speaking to her son about her life, which she says "ain't been no crystal stair". She first describes the struggles she has faced and then urges him to continue moving forward.
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" is a poem by American writer Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote the poem when he was 17 years old and was crossing the Mississippi River on the way to visit his father in Mexico. The poem was first published the following year in The Crisis magazine, in June 1921, starting Hughes's literary career. "The Negro Speaks of ...
One special way to show your appreciation for your mom is with a heartfelt Mother's Day poem, like the 25 below. Some are from famous poets, like Edgar Allan Poe , while others are lesser-known.
Sonia Sanchez (born Wilsonia Benita Driver; September 8, 1934) [1] is an American poet, writer, and professor. She was a leading figure in the Black Arts Movement and has written over a dozen books of poetry, as well as short stories, critical essays, plays, and children's books.
[4] She was born in Newton, Iowa, and married Arthur Jehu Stanley in 1900, living thereafter in Lincoln, Kansas. Her poem was written in 1904 for a contest held in Brown Book Magazine, [5] by George Livingston Richards Co. of Boston, Massachusetts [2] Mrs. Stanley submitted the words in the form of an essay, rather than as a poem. The ...
[4] Regarded as traditionalist rather than an innovator, Jennings is known for her lyric poetry and mastery of form. [4] Her work displays a simplicity of metre and rhyme shared with Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis and Thom Gunn, all members of the 1950s group of English poets known as The Movement. [4]
"Come Up from the Fields Father" is a poem by Walt Whitman.It was first published in the 1865 poetry volume Drum-Taps.The poem centers around a family living on a farm in Ohio who receives a letter informing them that their son has been killed, and chronicles their grief, particularly that of the boy's mother.
Mário Raul de Morais Andrade (October 9, 1893 – February 25, 1945) was a Brazilian poet, novelist, musicologist, art historian and critic, and photographer.One of the founders of Brazilian modernism, he virtually created modern Brazilian poetry with the publication of his Paulicéia Desvairada (Hallucinated City) in 1922.