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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.
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
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 ...
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. ... These poems would be best read aloud ...
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)
Marcus Wicker (born July 9, 1984) [1] is an American poet. He is the author of the full-length poetry-collections Silencer—winner of the Society of Midland Authors Award and Arnold Adoff Award for New Voices—and Maybe the Saddest Thing, selected by D. A. Powell for the National Poetry Series.
In 1854, Poems: Second Series appeared; also a selection, it included the new poem Balder Dead. Arnold was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857, and he was the first in this position to deliver his lectures in English rather than in Latin. [8] He was re-elected in 1862.
Allott published Selected poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1953); Five Uncollected Essays of Matthew Arnold (1953); and The Poems of Matthew Arnold (1965). He also published Robert Browning : Selected Poems (1967). Allott's Collected Poems was published posthumously in 1975. He was a witty and popular lecturer, with a great affection for cats.