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"Beasley Street" is a poem by the English poet John Cooper Clarke. Dealing with poverty in inner-city Salford, Cooper Clarke has said that the poem was inspired by Camp Street in Lower Broughton. [1] It has a relentless theme of squalor and despair: The rats have all got rickets They spit through broken teeth The name of the game is not cricket
Monday Night Poetry Series – Founded by David Lehman and Star Black, this legendary series has lasted more than a decade and features an impressive slate of major contemporary poets in its fall and spring seasons. The series spawned a book, The KGB Bar Book of Poems, in 2000. Currently, the event is hosted by John Deming, Jada Gordon, Susan ...
The City Lights Pocket Poets Series is a series of poetry collections published by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and City Lights Books of San Francisco since August 1955. The series is most notable for the publication of Allen Ginsberg 's literary milestone " Howl ", which led to an obscenity charge for the publishers that was fought off with the aid ...
Lillian Morrison (October 27, 1917 – January 27, 2014) was an American poet, author, and librarian. [1] Morrison was particularly noted for her works aimed at children and featuring sports or athletic endeavors; of her childhood, she remarked, "Mine was a city childhood and our playground was the street.
The City Lore office on First Avenue on the Lower East Side houses archives containing over 100,000 images, hundreds of oral histories, and traditional music and poetry performance tapes. [3] The archives are part of the ongoing documentation project featured on City of Memory, a participatory online story map of New York City .
"Faces in the Street" (1888) is a poem by Australian poet Henry Lawson. [1] It was originally published in The Bulletin on 28 July 1888. [2] It was subsequently reprinted in several of the author's other collections, other newspapers and periodicals and a number of Australian poetry anthologies. [1]
The book shares its title with the popular video game Dance Dance Revolution. Hong explained in an interview, Hong explained in an interview, "I kept coming back to the broader concepts of the game, its phrasing, and realized the title was an appropriate fit for the narrative I was creating for my new collection.
Barrow Street is an annual American poetry magazine founded in 1998 [1] and based in New York City. The small journal publishes prominent poets and its poems have been reprinted in anthologies such as The Best American Poetry series .