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December 8, 1915. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
University of Strathclyde. Genre. Fiction, Poetry. Spouse. Thiyagarajah Arasanayagam. Children. 2. Jean Arasanayagam (born Jean Solomons; 2 December 1931 [1] – 30 July 2019) was a Sri Lankan poet and fiction writer. She wrote her books in English, and they have been translated into German, French, Danish, Swedish and Japanese.
William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician of Latin American descent closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land (1922). In his five-volume poem Paterson (1946–1958), he took Paterson, New Jersey as "my ...
Birthplace at 17 Joyce Kilmer Avenue, New Brunswick. Kilmer was born December 6, 1886, in New Brunswick, New Jersey, [5] the fourth and youngest child, [note 1] of Annie Ellen Kilburn (1849–1932), a minor writer and composer, [4] [6] and Dr. Frederick Barnett Kilmer (1851–1934), a physician and analytical chemist employed by the Johnson and Johnson Company and inventor of the company's ...
Robert William Service (16 January 1874 – 11 September 1958) was a Scottish-Canadian poet and writer, often called "the Bard of the Yukon ". Born in Lancashire of Scottish descent, he was a bank clerk by trade, but spent long periods travelling in the west in the United States and Canada, often in poverty. When his bank sent him to the Yukon ...
Robert Hayden. Robert Hayden (August 4, 1913 – February 25, 1980) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. [1] He was the first African-American writer to hold the office.
Jean "Binta" Breeze MBE (11 March 1956 – 4 August 2021) [ 1 ][ 2 ] was a Jamaican dub poet and storyteller, acknowledged as the first woman to write and perform dub poetry. [ 3 ] She worked also as a theatre director, choreographer, actor, and teacher. She performed her work around the world, in the Caribbean, North America, Europe, South ...
Jane Hirshfield (born February 24, 1953 [1]) is an American poet, essayist, and translator, known as 'one of American poetry's central spokespersons for the biosphere' and recognized as 'among the modern masters,' 'writing some of the most important poetry in the world today.'. A 2019 elected member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences ...