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Cherry Natural (born Marcia A. Wedderburn, 1960) is a Jamaican dub poet, author, motivational speaker and self-defense instructor. She has published three books of poetry and in received the Mutabaruka Award for Best Spoken Word Poet at the International Reggae & World Music Awards in 2019.
They [note 1] have one sister, Laura, who is mentioned in a poem "The Moon Is a Kite". [4] Growing up in a Baptist home and attending local schools, they later attended Saint Joseph's College of Maine. [5] [6] Moving with a girlfriend, Gibson lived for a time in New Orleans, and later the two moved in 1999 to Boulder, Colorado, where they ...
The demand for her poems became so great that her books are still selling steadily after many printings, and she has been acclaimed as "America's beloved inspirational poet laureate". [2] [3] Helen Steiner Rice's books of inspirational poetry have now sold nearly seven million copies. Her strong religious faith and the ability she had to ...
Matthew Joseph Thaddeus Stepanek (July 17, 1990 – June 22, 2004), known as Mattie J.T. Stepanek, was an American poet (or, as he wanted to be remembered, "a poet, a peacemaker, and a philosopher who played") [2] who published seven best-selling books of poetry and peace essays.
Anne Sexton was born Anne Gray Harvey in Newton, Massachusetts to Mary Gray (Staples) Harvey (1901–1959) and Ralph Churchill Harvey (1900–1959). She had two older sisters, Jane Elizabeth (Harvey) Jealous (1923–1983) and Blanche Dingley (Harvey) Taylor (1925–2011). She spent most of her childhood in Boston.
Annie Johnson Flint was born on 25 December 1866 in a small town Vineland, New Jersey. Her father was of English descent, and her mother was Scottish. [3] She lost both parents in her early childhood. [1] After completing high school, she spent one year at a training school for teachers. [1] She then started teaching a primary class. [3]
R. B. Lemberg [a] (born Rose Lemberg, [b] September 27, 1976) is a queer, bigender, and autistic [1] author, poet, and editor of speculative fiction. [2] [3] Their [n.b. 1] work has been distributed in publications such as Lightspeed, Strange Horizons, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and Uncanny Magazine, and stories have been featured in anthologies such as Sisters of the Revolution: A Feminist ...
Purvis (née Forten) was born in 1814 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [2] [3] She was one of the "Forten Sisters." [4] Her mother was Charlotte Vandine Forten and her father was the African American abolitionist, James Forten. Sarah Louisa Forten Purvis's sisters were Harriet Forten Purvis (1810–1875), and Margaretta Forten (1808–1875).