Hello! A Poem by Maya Angelou to lighten this weekend. I fell in love with this poem when I read it. Some people can be beautiful by just their words. A dedication to this wonderful lady! Happy weekend to all my readers and blogger friends 🙂 Caged Bird BY MAYA ANGELOU A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the … Continue reading Weekend Poetry
Greetings! The Revolutionary Poet of the Week is Rita Dove. In 1952, Rita Dove was born in Akron, Ohio. Her books of poetry include Sonata Mulattica (W. W. Norton, 2009); American Smooth (2004); On the Bus with Rosa Parks (1999), which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Mother Love (1995); Selected Poems (1993); Grace Notes (1989); Thomas and Beulah (Carnegie Mellon, 1986), which won the … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Rita Dove
Greetings! The Revolutionary Poet of the Week is William Carlos Williams. In 1883, William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began writing poetry while a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. He received his MD from the University of Pennsylvania, where he met and befriended Ezra Pound. Pound … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – William Carlos Williams
Greetings! This week’s revolutionary poet is Nikki Giovanni. On June 7, 1943, Yolanda Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni was born in Knoxville, Tennessee and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1960, she entered Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where she worked with the school’s Writer’s Workshop and edited the literary magazine. After receiving her bachelor of arts degree in 1967, she organized the Black Arts Festival in Cincinnati … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Nikki Giovanni
Greetings! The Revolutionary Poet of the Week is Kay Ryan. Born in California in 1945, Kay Ryan grew up in the small towns of the San Joaquin Valley and the Mojave Desert. She received both a bachelor’s and master’s degree from UCLA. Ryan has published several collections of poetry, including The Best of It: New and Selected Poems (Grove Press, 2010), for which she won the Pulitzer … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Kay Ryan
Greetings! The Revolutionary Poet of the Week is Donald Hall. Donald Hall was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1928. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference at the age of sixteen—the same year he had his first work published. He earned a B.A. from Harvard in 1951 and a B. Litt. from Oxford in 1953. Donald Hall has … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Donald Hall
Greetings! The Revolutionary Poet of the Week is Alfred Lord Tennyson. Alfred Lord Tennyson was a poet laureate of the United Kingdom during the reign of Queen Victoria and also one of the most known poets in English Literature. He continued and refined the traditions of Romantic Movement left to him by his predecessors, Wordsworth, Byron and Keats. His poetry was considered remarkable for its metrical … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Alfred Lord Tennyson
Greetings! I’ve not been posting about Revolutionary Poets lately, because I was too busy with work! But, finally, I got some time to post something on this. This week’s Revolutionary Poet is “Savitri Bai Phule” Savitribai Jyotirao Phule (January 3, 1831 – March 10, 1897) was a social reformer, who, along with her husband, Mahatma Jyotirao Phule, played an important role in improving women’s rights in India during the British Rule. They pioneered the … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Savitri Bai Phule
Dear All, This week’s revolutionary poet is Louise Glück. Have fun reading 🙂 In 1943, Louise Glück was born in New York City and grew up on Long Island. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recently, Poems 1962-2012 (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012); A Village Life: Poems (2009); Averno (2006), a finalist for the 2006 National Book Award in Poetry; The Seven Ages (2001); and Vita Nova (1999), winner of Boston Book Review’s Bingham … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Louise Glück
Hi all, This week’s revolutionary poet is Yusef Komunyakaa! In 1947, Yusef Komunyakaa was born in Bogalusa, Louisiana, where he was raised during the beginning of the Civil Rights movement. He served in the United States Army from 1969 to 1970 as a correspondent, and as managing editor of the Southern Cross during the Vietnam war, earning him a Bronze Star. He began writing poetry … Continue reading Revolutionary Poet of the Week – Yusef Komunyakaa
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