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Nikki Giovanni. Yolande Cornelia " Nikki " Giovanni Jr.[ 1][ 2] (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. One of the world's most well-known African-American poets, [ 2] her work includes poetry anthologies, poetry recordings, and nonfiction essays, and covers topics ranging from race and social ...
1929. Letters to a Young Poet (original title, in German: Briefe an einen jungen Dichter) is a collection of ten letters written by Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) to Franz Xaver Kappus (1883–1966), a 19-year-old officer cadet at the Theresian Military Academy in Wiener Neustadt. Rilke, the son of an Austrian army ...
Lavinia Norcross Dickinson (sister) Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Little-known during her life, she has since been regarded as one of the most important figures in American poetry. [ 2 ] Dickinson was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, into a prominent family with strong ties to its community.
Invictus. Portrait of William Ernest Henley by Leslie Ward, published in Vanity Fair, 26 November 1892. " Invictus " is a short poem by the Victorian era British poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903). Henley wrote it in 1875, and in 1888 he published it in his first volume of poems, Book of Verses, in the section titled "Life and Death ...
Kenn Nesbitt (born February 20, 1962)in Berkeley, California. He grew up in Fresno and San Diego and attended National University in San Diego, also done education with Mission bay high school , Le Jolla High school and kirk elementary school is an American children's poet. [ 1][ 2][ 3] On June 11, 2013, he was named Children's Poet Laureate ...
Amanda Gorman. Amanda S. C. Gorman[ 1] (born March 7, 1998) [ 2] is an American poet and activist. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate.
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat. " The Owl and the Pussy-Cat " is a nonsense poem by Edward Lear, first published in 1870 in the American magazine Our Young Folks [ 1] and again the following year in Lear's own book Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets. Lear wrote the poem for a three-year-old girl, Janet Symonds, the daughter of Lear's ...
Other books written by her as a teenager are: The Lampo Circus (2008), Von Gobstopper's Arcade (2009), Halo (2010) and Hades (2011). Margery Allingham (1904–1966) had her first novel, Blackkerchief Dick, about smugglers in 17th century Essex, published in 1923, when she was 19. Jorge Amado (1912–2001) had his debut novel, The Country of ...