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J. Patrick Lewis (born May 5, 1942) is an American poet and prose writer noted for his children's poems and other light verse. [1] He worked as professor of economics from 1974 to 1998, after which he devoted himself full-time to writing.
The poem was widely circulated by readers as well as distributed to millions of new parents by a maker of baby formula. She copyrighted it in 1972, and in 1998 expanded it into a book, co-authored with Rachel Harris, Children Learn What They Live: Parenting to Inspire Values. At the time of Nolte's death, the book had more than 3 million copies ...
"I Am – Somebody" is a poem often recited by Reverend Jesse Jackson, and was used as part of PUSH-Excel, a program designed to motivate black students. [1] A similar poem was written in the early 1940s by Reverend William Holmes Borders, Sr., senior pastor at the Greater Wheat Street Baptist Church and civil rights activist in Atlanta ...
Patricia Smith (born 1955) is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist.She has published poems in literary magazines and journals including TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Paris Review, Tin House, and in anthologies including American Voices and The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry. [1]
Although the "Lucy poems" share stylistic and thematic similarities, it was not Wordsworth but literary critics who first presented the five poems as a unified set called the "Lucy poems". The grouping was originally suggested by critic Thomas Powell in 1831 and later advocated by Margaret Oliphant in an 1871 essay.
The book begins when three-year-old Maya and her older brother are sent to Stamps, Arkansas, to live with their grandmother and ends when Maya becomes a mother at the age of 16. In the course of Caged Bird , Maya transforms from a victim of racism with an inferiority complex into a self-possessed, dignified young woman capable of responding to ...
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Collected Poems 1988: An Arundel Tomb: 1956-02-20: The Whitsun Weddings: And now the leaves suddenly lose strength... 1961-11-03: Collected Poems 1988: And the wave sings because it is moving... 1946-09-14: Collected Poems 1988: Annus Mirabilis: 1967-06-16: High Windows: Ape Experiment Room: 1965-02-24: Collected Poems 1988: Arrival: 1950 (best ...