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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.
Booklist, in a review of In for Winter, Out for Spring, wrote "Adoff has worked with many fine illustrators, but never has his poetry been more radiantly expressed than in Pinkney's watercolor and colored-pencil art. ... The poetry is formatted in eye-catching designs that encourage effective reading, whether by adults or by middle-graders who ...
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 ...
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 ...
(ed.) The open boat and other stories by Stephen Crane.New York: Scholastic Book Service, 1968; Poems in Arnold Adoff (ed.) The Poetry of Black America.Harperteen, 1973 (ed.) Out of our lives: a selection of contemporary Black fiction, Washington, D.C., Howard University Press, 1975 - includes work by Amiri Baraka, Ann Petry, Ernest Gaines, Sherley Anne Williams, and Louise Meriwether
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.
In Can’t Stop the Beat: The Life and Words of a Beat Poet. Los Angeles: Divine Arts, 2011. Antonic, Thomas. "From the Margin of the Margin to the 'Goddess of the Beat Generation': ruth weiss in the Beat Field, or: 'It's Called Marketing, Baby.'" In Out of the Shadows: Beat Women Are Not Beaten Women. Ed. by Frida Forsgren and Michael J. Prince.
Constance Olive Leland Bardwell (25 February 1922 – 28 June 2016) was an Irish poet, novelist, and playwright. She was part of the literary scene in London and later Dublin, where she was an editor of literary magazines Hibernia and Cyphers.