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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.
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. ...
Her first poetry collection, Good Times, was published in 1969, and listed by The New York Times as one of the year's ten best books. A selection of sixteen poems from Good Times were featured in the Massachusetts Review, Vol. 10, No. 1, her first publication. From 1971 to 1974, Clifton was poet-in-residence at Coppin State College in
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)
A Pocketful of Poems (2001), illustrated by Javaka Steptoe; Under the Christmas Tree (2002), ... 2018 Arnold Adoff Poetry Award for Middle Graders for One Last Word;
In 1854, Poems: Second Series appeared; also a selection, it included the new poem Balder Dead. Arnold was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 1857, and he was the first in this position to deliver his lectures in English rather than in Latin. [8] He was re-elected in 1862.
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.
Craig O'Neil Grant (December 18, 1968 – March 24, 2021), also known as Craig muMs Grant and muMs da Schemer, was an American poet and actor best known for his role as Arnold "Poet" Jackson on the HBO series Oz. [1]