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Toomer's father soon abandoned his wife and his young son, returning to Georgia seeking to obtain a portion of his late second wife's estate. Nina divorced him and took back her maiden name of Pinchback; she and her son returned to live with her parents in Washington D.C. Angered by her husband's abandonment, Nina's father insisted that they use another name for her son and started calling him ...
Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author, playwright, and civil engineer.He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem "One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration.
Traits of the Aborigines of America (1822), a poem; A Sketch of Connecticut Forty Years Since (1824) Poems (1827) Evening Readings In History (1833) Letters to Young Ladies (1833), one of her best-known books; Sketches (1834) Poems (1834) Zinzendorff, and Other Poems (1836) Poetry for Children (1836) Olive Buds (1836) Letters to Mothers (1838 ...
Poems of Today was a series of anthologies of poetry, almost all Anglo-Irish, produced by the English Association. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Poems of Today (1915, first series)
The author himself read the poem. Dr. Henry Van Dyke of Princeton said of the poem, "Edwin Markham's Lincoln is the greatest poem ever written on the immortal martyr, and the greatest that ever will be written." Later that year, Markham was filmed reciting the poem by Lee De Forest in his Phonofilm sound-on-film process.
Pity the Beautiful (2012) marked Gioia’s return to poetry and included two chilling poems, “Special Treatments Ward,” which describes a terminal ward in a children’s hospital, and “Haunted,” a dramatic monologue in equal parts of a love story and a ghost story. “Haunted” was turned into a ballet-opera by composer Paul Salerni.
Jews in America (1936) America Was Promises (1939) The Irresponsibles: A Declaration (1940) The American Cause (1941) A Time to Speak (1941) American Opinion and the War: the Rede Lecture (1942) A Time to Act: Selected Addresses (1943) Freedom Is the Right to Choose (1951) Art Education and the Creative Process (1954) Poetry and Experience (1961)
James J. Metcalfe, in a collage of FBI Special Agents from 1934. His poem, "We Were the G-Men," may be seen at center. Metcalf is at center in the far left column. James J. Metcalfe (September 16, 1906 – March 1960) was an American poet whose "Daily Poem Portraits" were published in more than 100 United States newspapers during the 1940s and 1950s.