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John Gallaher was born in Portland, Oregon in 1965, but he was adopted by a family living in Houston, Texas in 1968. He received his MFA from Texas State University and his Ph.D from Ohio University, where he worked for a time as an assistant editor of The Ohio Review. [3]
The Mississippi Poetry Society was founded in 1932 when eleven charter members met at Belhaven College in Jackson, Mississippi. The society was established as the Belhaven Poetry Society and elected Elizabeth Newman of the Belhaven English Department as the first president. Early meetings were held in the municipal Art Gallery. [1] The ...
Modernist poetry is a broad term for poetry written between 1890 and 1970 in the tradition of Modernist literature. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Schools within it include already 20th-century Acmeist poetry , Imagism , Objectivism , and the British Poetry Revival .
Laurel is a city in and the second county seat of Jones County, Mississippi, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 17,161. [4] Laurel is northeast of Ellisville, the first county seat, which contains the first county courthouse. It has the second county courthouse, as Jones County has two judicial districts.
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These verses are then divided into syllable groups depending on the number of total syllables in a verse: 4+3 for 7 syllables, 4+4 or 5+3 for 8, 4+4+3 or 6+5 for 11 syllables. The end of each group in a verse is called a "durak" (stop), and must coincide with the last syllable of a word.
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William Alexander Percy (May 14, 1885 – January 21, 1942) was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee (Knopf 1941) became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Senator from Mississippi elected by the legislature. In a largely Protestant state, the younger ...