My Mother Claude McKay I Reg wished me to go with him to the field, I paused because I did not want to go; But in her quiet way she made me yield Reluctantly, for she was breathing low. Her…
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Dorothy Parker
Dorothy Parker’s Life Dorothy Parker was an American short story writer, poet, satirist, and critic. Born in the West End village of Long Branch, New Jersey on August 22, 1893, Dorothy lived in a summer cottage with her family. Her…
Godmother
Godmother by Dorothy Parker The day that I was christened- It’s a hundred years, and more!- A hag came and listened At the white church door, A-hearing her that bore me And all my kith and kin Considerately, for me,…
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings
Alicia Elsbeth Stallings’s Life Alicia Elsbeth Stallings is a well-known American poet and translator. She was born in 1968 in Decatur, Georgia, in the United States, and grew up there. She got a solid education in the public school system.…
Recitative
Recitative by A. E. Stallings Every night, we couldn’t sleep. Our upstairs neighbors had to keep Dropping something down the hall— A barbell or a bowling ball, And from the window by the bed, Echoing inside my head, Alley cats…
Amber Flora Thomas
Amber Flora Thomas’s Life Amber Flora Thomas is a celebrated living American poetess, who was born and raised in San Francisco, in the United States of America. She grew up in an artistic family, as her mother herself was an…
Aubade
Aubade Amber Flora Thomas I know my leaving in the breakfast table mess. Bowl spills into bowl: milk and bran, bread crust crumbled. You push me back into bed. More “honey” and “baby.” Breath you tell my ear circles inside…
Robert Burns
Robert Burns’s Life A famous Scottish lyricist and poet, and celebrated as the Scottish National Poet, Robert Burns was born on January 25, 1759 in Alloway, Scotland. Burns was the eldest of seven children. His father, William Burnes, was a…
A Red, Red Rose
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June; O my Luve is like the melody That’s sweetly played in tune. So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,…
Raymond A. Foss
Raymond A. Foss’s Life Raymond A. Foss was born on April 1, 1960 in Westfield, Massachusetts, in the United States. He is the eldest of five children. His family moved to Claremont, New Hampshire in 1976 after his sophomore year of…
Mother of Pearl
Mother of Pearl by Raymond A. Foss An ancient shell on their shelf a memento, a reminder of the sea of the coast glistening under the film of dust of the passing years a clouded rainbow shimmering color in the…
Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood’s Life A British Romantic poet, journalist, and humorist, Thomas Hood was born on May 23, 1799 in London, the United Kingdom. He was the son of Elizabeth Sands and Thomas Hood Sr., whose family members were Scottish farmers…
Ruth
Ruth by Thomas Hood She stood breast high amid the corn, Clasped by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won. On her cheek an autumn flush, Deeply ripened;—such a…
Stephen Foster
Stephen Foster’s Life A popular American songwriter and poet, Stephen Collins Foster was known as the father of American music. He was born on July 4, 1826 in Lawrenceville, Pennsylvania. He attended private schools in Towanda, Pennsylvania and Allegheny, Athens…
Beautiful Dreamer
Beautiful Dreamer by Stephen Collins Foster Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me, Starlight and dewdrops are waiting for thee; Sounds of the rude world heard in the day, Lull’d by the moonlight have all pass’d away! Beautiful dreamer, queen of my…
Ellen Bryant Voigt
Ellen Bryant Voigt’s Life An American poet, Ellen Bryant Voigt was born in 1943 and brought up on a ranch in Virginia, in the United States of America. She belonged to a family of Southern Baptists, who lived in the…
Blue Ridge
Blue Ridge by Ellen Bryant Voigt Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks blistered and subsided, for once at eye level: spatter of light like water flicked from the fingers; the brief emergent pattern; and after the afterimage bled…
Henry van Dyke
Henry van Dyke’s Life Over his long life, Henry van Dyke was a short-story writer, critic, poet, essayist, journalist, professor clergyman, and minister. He was born on November 10, 1852 in Germantown, Pennsylvania in the United States. His father was…
Mother Earth
Mother Earth by Henry van Dyke Mother of all the high-strung poets and singers departed, Mother of all the grass that weaves over their graves the glory of the field, Mother of all the manifold forms of life, deep-bosomed, patient,…
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin’s Life Born on January 17, 1706, in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin was a renowned author, political theorist, printer, scientist, inventor, postmaster, statesman, diplomat, and civic activist. He is also known as one…