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January 0 or 0 January is an alternative name for December 31.January 0 is the day before January 1 in an annual ephemeris.It keeps the date in the year for which the ephemeris was published, thus avoiding any reference to the previous year, even though it is the same day as December 31 of the previous year.
National Poetry Writing Month (also known as NaPoWriMo) is a creative writing project held annually in April in which participants attempt to write a poem each day for one month. NaPoWriMo coincides with the National Poetry Month in the United States of America and Canada.
National Poetry Month was inspired by the success of Black History Month, held each February, and Women's History Month, held in March.In 1995, the Academy of American Poets convened a group of publishers, booksellers, librarians, literary organizations, poets, and teachers to discuss the need and usefulness of a similar monthlong holiday to celebrate poetry. [3]
When you go home, tell them of us and say For your tomorrow, we gave our today. He was the author of an item in The Times , 6 February 1918, page 7, headed "Four Epitaphs" composed for graves and memorials to those fallen in battle – each covering different situations of death.
Audio: April Bernard reads "Beagle or Something" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine from Romanticism: Poems (2009) Audio: April Bernard reads "Heimatlos" Archived 2010-05-20 at the Wayback Machine from Romanticism: Poems (2009) "Beagle or Something". The New Yorker. April 30, 2007. "Song of Yes and No", Baruch College "That's What I ...
Samuel Ullman (April 13, 1840 – March 21, 1924) was an American businessman, poet, humanitarian, and religious leader. He is best known today for his poem "Youth," [1] which was a favorite of General Douglas MacArthur. The poem was on the wall of MacArthur's office in Tokyo when he became Supreme Allied Commander in Japan.
Birthday Letters is a 1998 poetry collection by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes.Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards, including the Whitbread Book of the Year, the Forward Poetry Prize for Best Collection, and the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry in 1999. [1]
The poem's opening lines are renowned for their evocation of patriotic nostalgia: [3] Oh, to be in England / Now that April’s there Browning makes sentimental references to the flora of an English springtime , including brushwood , elm trees and pear tree blossom and to the sound of birdsong from chaffinches , whitethroats , swallows and ...