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  2. Rita Dove - Wikipedia

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    Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist. From 1993 to 1995, she served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress. She is the first African American to have been appointed since the position was created by an act of Congress in 1986 from the previous "consultant in poetry" position (1937 ...

  3. Lenard Moore - Wikipedia

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    Lenard Moore. 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 ...

  4. Edwin Arlington Robinson - Wikipedia

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    Early life The Edwin Arlington Robinson House in Gardiner, Maine. Robinson was born in Head Tide, Maine on December 22, 1869. His parents were Edward and Mary (née Palmer). They had wanted a girl, and did not name him until he was six months old, when they visited a holiday resort—at which point other vacationers decided that he should have a name, and selected the name "Edwin" from a hat ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. John Berryman - Wikipedia

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    John Berryman. John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the "confessional" school of poetry. His best-known work is The Dream Songs .

  8. John Gillespie Magee Jr. - Wikipedia

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    No. 412 Squadron RCAF. Battles/wars. World War II. John Gillespie Magee Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) [1] [2] [3] was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941.

  9. Life Studies - Wikipedia

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    Life Studies is the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Most critics (including Helen Vendler, Steven Gould Axelrod, Adam Kirsch, and others) consider it one of Lowell's most important books, and the Academy of American Poets named it one of their Groundbreaking Books. [1] Helen Vendler called Life Studies Lowell's "most original book." [2]