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  2. 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 ...

  3. Amador Daguio - Wikipedia

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    Amador Daguio was born on January 8, 1912, in Laoag, Ilocos Norte. [1] [2] His family moved to Lubuagan, Mountain Province, where his father was an officer in the Philippine Constabulary . He graduated with honors in 1924 at the Lubuagan Elementary School as valedictorian. Daguio was already writing poems in elementary school, according to his ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. 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.

  6. Casey at the Bat - Wikipedia

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    A sequel short was also produced Casey Bats Again and released on June 18, 1954. The poem is cited in Frederic Wiseman's documentary High School (1968) by a teacher in a classroom. A 1976 animated short adaptation, featuring narration by Paul Frees, was released in 1976 by Fine Arts Films.

  7. Lenard Moore - Wikipedia

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    Lenard Duane Moore (born February 13, 1958) in Jacksonville, North Carolina. [1] He is a writer of more than 20 forms of poetry, drama, essays, and literary criticism, and has been writing and publishing haiku for more than 20 years. In 2008, Moore became the first Southerner and the first African American to be elected as president of the ...

  8. Kenn Nesbitt - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .poetry4kids .com. Children's literature portal. Kenn Nesbitt (born February 20, 1962) is an American children's poet. [1] [2] [3] On June 11, 2013, he was named Children's Poet Laureate [4] [5] by the Poetry Foundation. He was the last one to receive this title before the Poetry Foundation changed its name to Young People's Poet ...

  9. Ingrid Jonker - Wikipedia

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    Ingrid Jonker (19 September 1933 – 19 July 1965) OIS was a South African poet and one of the founders of modern Afrikaans literature. Her poems have been widely translated into other languages. Born into an Afrikaner family with four hundred year old roots in South Africa, Ingrid Jonker grew up in a broken home.

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