William Shakespeare – Poet – William Shakespeare, regarded as the foremost dramatist of his time, wrote more than thirty plays and more than one hundred sonnets, all written in the form of three quatrains and a couplet that is …
Meet the Class of 2017 Poets! The next Class of National Student Poets has been selected for the nation’s highest honor for youth poets presenting original work.
Maya Angelou – Poet – Maya Angelou was an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil
Poetry 180 A Poem a Day for American High colleges, Hosted by Billy Collins, U.S. Poet Laureate, 2001-2003
Philip Arthur Larkin CH CBE FRSL (9 August 1922 – 2 December 1985) was an English poet, novelist and librarian. His first book of poetry, The North Ship, was published in 1945, followed by two novels, Jill (1946) and A teen in Winter (1947), and he came to prominence in 1955 with the publication of his second collection of poems, The Less …
She met a poet, Nikolay Gumilev, on Christmas Eve 1903.Gumilev, encouraged her to write and pursued her intensely, making numerous marriage proposals starting in 1905. At 17 years old, in his journal …
Andrew Marvell is surely the single most compelling embodiment of the change that came over English society and letters in the course of the 17th century.
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most highly regarded, highly influential, and widely read poets of 20th-century American poetry. She was a much-honored poet, even in her lifetime, with the distinction of being the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. She also was poetry consultant to the Library of Congress—the first black woman to hold that position—and poet …
Maya Angelou – Poet – Maya Angelou was an author, poet, historian, songwriter, playwright, dancer, stage and screen producer, director, performer, singer, and civil
Performance poet Sara Holbrook performs “Midnight” which appeared on the 2013 Grade 8 STAAR Reading Test. (Sara Holbrook)
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