Friday Favorites — Langston Hughes (encore)
Langston Hughes Langston Hughes, in full James Mercer Langston Hughes, (born February 1, 1902?, Joplin, Missouri, U.S.—died May 22, 1967, …
Category Archives: Poetry
Friday Favorites — Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman Walt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare. In Leaves of Grass …
Friday Favorites — David Ignatow
David Ignatow Born in Brooklyn on February 7, 1914, David Ignatow spent most of his life in the New York …
Friday Favorites — W.S. Merwin (encore)
W.S. Merwin Appointed United States Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress in 2010, William Stanley Merwin has a career …
Requiem for a Moth
` Requiem for a Moth even in death it clings to the dimming window drawing in its last glimpse …
Friday Favorites — Cesar Vallejo
Cesar Vallejo César Abraham Vallejo Mendoza was a Peruvian poet. Although he published only three books of poetry during his …
Friday Favorites — Theodore Roethke
Theodore Roethke On May 25, 1908, Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan. As a child, he spent much time …
Friday Favorites — Stanley Kunitz (encore)
Stanley Kunitz Stanley Kunitz became the tenth Poet Laureate of the United States in the autumn of 2000. Kunitz was …
Friday Favorites — John Horder
John Horder John Horder was a poet, writer, performer and critic – and a man whose passionate personality touched many. …
Friday Favorites — D.H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence David Herbert Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist, was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, on September 11, …
Friday Favorites — Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur Born in New York City on March 1, 1921, Richard Wilbur studied at Amherst College before serving in …
Friday Favorites — David Ray
David Ray David Ray was born in Sapulpa, Oklahoma in 1932. Ray comes from a broken home that was thrown into upheaval when …
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