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  2. Robert Frost - Wikipedia

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    Robert Lee Frost (March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963) was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in the United States. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American colloquial speech, Frost frequently wrote about settings from rural life in New England in the early 20th century, using them to examine complex social ...

  3. Elizabeth Bishop - Wikipedia

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    Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976.

  4. Sylvia Plath - Wikipedia

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    Sylvia Plath (/ p l æ θ /; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.

  5. John Ashbery - Wikipedia

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    John Lawrence Ashbery [1] (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. [2] Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." [3] Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department ...

  6. Langston Hughes - Wikipedia

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    James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri. One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that ...

  7. Gwendolyn Brooks - Wikipedia

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    2, including Nora Brooks Blakely. Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an American poet, author, and teacher. Her work often dealt with the personal celebrations and struggles of ordinary people in her community. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry on May 1, 1950, for Annie Allen, [1] making her the first African ...

  8. Edwin Markham - Wikipedia

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    The Liberty Ship Edwin Markham was launched on May 5, 1942. A street in the Palomares Hills neighborhood of Castro Valley, California bears his name (Edwin Markham Drive). The Markham Houses is a complex on Staten Island, as is a street there. Markham House, his residence until 1889, is now in History Park in San Jose, California and houses the ...

  9. Father of Parkland shooting victim shares son's poem: 'Life ...

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    Max Schachter read a free verse poem written by his 14-year-old son, Alex, one of the 17 victims in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, during his son's eulogy.

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