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Adoff and Hamilton eventually moved to Yellow Springs, Ohio, where Adoff lived until his death in 2021. [1] [2] [3] "I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim.
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 poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
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
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)
Lee Mallory (poet) Judy Malloy; Tom Mandel (poet) Edwin Markham; Clive Matson; Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel; John S. McGroarty; Rachel McKibbens; Jane Mead; Robert Mezey; Jace Miller; May Merrill Miller; Deborah A. Miranda; Janice Mirikitani; K. Silem Mohammad; Rusty Morrison; Leila Mottley; List of municipal poets laureate in California; Carol ...
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 ...