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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.
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 ...
In for Winter, Out for Spring is a 1991 picture book by Arnold Adoff and illustrator Jerry Pinkney. It is a collection of 28 poems about a girl, Rebecca, and her experiences with her family over a year.
Grimes was born in Harlem, New York. In a conversation with a Reading Is Fundamental interviewer, she stated: "Books were my survival tools. They were how I got by, and how I coped with things.
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 ...
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 Alexander; Lewis Grandison Alexander; Meena Alexander; Will Alexander ...
Selected Poems, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press [17] W. H. Auden, Collected Poems; George Mackay Brown, Selected Poems 1954–1983 [21] Wendy Cope, Serious Concerns; Paul Durcan, Crazy About Women [21] Gavin Ewart, Collected Poems 1980–1991 [21] John Fuller, The Mechanical Body [21] Lavinia Greenlaw, The Cost of Getting Lost in ...
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.