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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. ...
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.
The obituary poets were, in the popular stereotype, either women or clergymen. [12] Obituary poetry may be the source of some of the murder ballads and other traditional narrative verse of the United States, and the sentimental tales told by the obituary poets showed their abiding vitality a hundred years later in the genre of teenage tragedy ...
She met poet Arnold Adoff while living in New York City, [7] and married him in 1960. The two later returned with their children to live on the farm where Hamilton was raised. [3] Adoff supported the family by working as a teacher, so Hamilton spent her time writing and had two children. In 1967, Zeely was published, the first of more than 40 ...
Tintagel is a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax. It is his best-known work, and was for some years the only piece by which the composer was known to many concert-goers. The work was inspired by a visit Bax made to Tintagel Castle in Cornwall in 1917, and, although not explicitly programmatic, draws on the history and mythology associated with the ...
George Arnold (June 24, 1834 – November 9, 1865) was an American author and poet. He was born in New York City on June 24, 1834. After briefly attempting a career as a portrait painter, he turned to writing and became a regular contributor to Vanity Fair and The Leader. A contemporary of Walt Whitman, Arnold was likewise a patron of Pfaff's ...
Pages in category "20th-century American poets" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 2,422 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .