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Arnold Adoff (July 16, 1935, in Bronx, New York – May 7, 2021, in Yellow Springs, Ohio) was an American children's writer. In 1988, the National Council of Teachers of English gave Adoff the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. He has said, "I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words.
The poetry is formatted in eye-catching designs that encourage effective reading, whether by adults or by middle-graders who will be able to handle this themselves." [ 1 ] School Library Journal wrote "While the meanings are readily accessible, it will take sophisticated readers to read these poems alone. ...
Clifton's work features in anthologies such as My Black Me: A Beginning Book of Black Poetry (ed. Arnold Adoff), A Poem of Her Own: Voices of American Women Yesterday and Today (ed. Catherine Clinton), Black Stars: African American Women Writers (ed. Brenda Scott Wilkinson), Daughters of Africa (ed. Margaret Busby), and Bedrock: Writers on the ...
Heo Nanseolheon (1563–1589), Korean female poet of the mid-Joseon dynasty; Nicoletta Pasquale (fl. 1540), Sicilian Italian poet; Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke (1561–1621), among first Englishwomen to gain a literary reputation; Gaspara Stampa (1523–1554), Italian poet; Joana Vaz (c. 1500 – post–1570), Portuguese court poet and ...
2017 Myra Cohn Livingston Award for Poetry for Garvey's Choice; 2017 Laura Ingalls Wilder Medal; 2017 Children's Literature Legacy Award; 2018 Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for Middle Graders for One Last Word; 2018 Claudia Lewis Poetry Award for One Last Word; 2018 Lee Bennett Hopkins Poetry Award for One Last Word
In 2017, Gorman became the first youth poet to open the literary season for the Library of Congress, and she has read her poetry on MTV. [ 11 ] [ 36 ] She wrote "In This Place: An American Lyric" for her September 2017 performance at the Library of Congress, which commemorated the inauguration of Tracy K. Smith as Poet Laureate of the United ...
Linda Addison (poet) Kim Addonizio; Jacob Adler (writer) Warren Adler; Arnold Adoff; Mary Hunt Affleck; Lester Afflick; James Agee; Marjorie Agosín; Salvador Agron; Jack Agüeros; Ai (poet) Conrad Aiken; Salman Akhtar; Sandra Alcosser; Dorothy Aldis; Jonathan Aldrich; José S. Alegría; Charles Alexander (poet) Elizabeth Alexander (poet) Kwame ...
Arnold Adoff – In for Winter, Out for Spring; John Ashbery, Flow Chart; Gwendolyn Brooks, Children Coming Home; Robert Creeley, Selected Poems 1945-90 [23] Billy Collins, Questions About Angels (ISBN 0-8229-4211-9), the winner of the National Poetry Series competition in 1993; Paul Hoover, The Novel: A Poem (New Directions)