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The term "dogwood winter", in colloquial use in the American Southeast, especially Appalachia, [38] is sometimes used to describe a cold snap in spring, presumably because farmers believed it was not safe to plant their crops until after the dogwoods blossomed. [39] Anne Morrow Lindbergh gives a vivid description of the dogwood tree in her poem ...
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic.One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as ...
Cornus florida, the flowering dogwood, is a species of flowering tree in the family Cornaceae native to eastern North America and northern Mexico. An endemic population once spanned from southernmost coastal Maine south to northern Florida and west to the Mississippi River. [ 4 ]
The origin of Knoxville's Dogwood Arts Festival and why we plant these trees by the thousands.
Marilyn L. Taylor (born October 2, 1939) is an American poet with six published collections of poems. Taylor's poems have also appeared in a number of anthologies and journals, including The American Scholar, Able Muse, Measure, Smartish Pace, The Formalist, and Poetry magazine's 90th Anniversary Anthology.
Don't Be So Persnickety: The Runaway Sneezing Poems, Songs and Riddles, of John B. Lee, Black Moss Press, 2000; The Half-Way Tree: Poems Selected and New, Black Moss Press, 2001; In the Terrible Weather of Guns, Mansfield Press, 2002; Totally Unused Heart, Black Moss Press, 2003; Poems for the Pornographer's Daughter, Black Moss Press, 2005
The book sold well but was overall poorly received by critics, which made Lindbergh feel ashamed of her poems. [1] Kirkus Reviews described the book as "the poetic versions of almost the same themes as Gift from the Sea", and wrote that these themes "are caught up here in a new freshness which will have its appeal to women who experience many of these emotions in common".
Cornus alternifolia is a species of flowering plant in the dogwood family Cornaceae, native to eastern North America, from Newfoundland west to southern Manitoba and Minnesota, and south to northern Florida and Mississippi. It is rare in the southern United States. [2] It is commonly known as green osier, [3] alternate-leaved dogwood, [4] and ...