What is the name of the first collection of poems or the American poet who appeared in numerous literary magazines, including one that added a book division with Elizabeth Ellen as editor?
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Meg Johnson (poet) Meg Johnson is an American poet and lecturer. Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including "Midwestern Gothic", "Slipstream Magazine", "Word Riot", "Hobart", and many others. Her first collection of poems, "Inappropriate Sleepover", was released in 2014, and her second collection, "The Crimes of Clara Turlington", is due to be released in December 2015. She is also the current editor of the "Dressing Room Poetry Journal".
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Hobart (magazine) Hobart is an American literary magazine that publishes fiction, poetry, interviews, and essays. Founded as an online magazine in 2001, "Hobart" grew into a biannual print magazine in 2003. Past issues have been dedicated to topics such as luck, the outdoors, and games. In addition to print and web content, in 2006 "Hobart" added a book division (Short Flight/Long Drive Books), with Elizabeth Ellen as editor.
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O to Be a Dragon O to Be a Dragon is a 1959 poetry collection by the American poet Marianne Moore, and the title of the collection's eponymous poem. It was published by Viking Press in New York City.
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Emplumada Emplumada is the first collection of poetry authored by Lorna Dee Cervantes. It was published in 1981 by University of Pittsburgh Press.
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Rabbit Ears: TV Poems Rabbit Ears: TV Poems is an anthology from NYQ Books, edited by Joel Allegretti. Released in 2015, it consists of poems about television and is reportedly the first poetry anthology to cover the subject. It contains 129 poems by 130 poets, including former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins, who is responsible for the title.
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Martha Wadsworth Brewster Martha Wadsworth Brewster (April 1, 1710 – c. 1757) was an 18th-century American poet and writer. She is one of only four colonial women who published volumes of their verse before the American Revolution and was the first American-born woman to publish under her own name.
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James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell ( ; February 22, 1819 – August 12, 1891) was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor, and diplomat. He is associated with the Fireside Poets, a group of New England writers who were among the first American poets that rivaled the popularity of British poets. These writers usually used conventional forms and meters in their poetry, making them suitable for families entertaining at their fireside.
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Paul Petrie Paul James Petrie (July 1, 1928 - November 9, 2012) was an American poet and professor emeritus of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston where he taught for over 30 years. His work has appeared in over 100 literary journals and magazines—including "Poetry", "The New Yorker", "Atlantic Monthly", "New York Times", "The Nation", "The New Republic", "Sewanee Review", "Paris Review", "Massachusetts Review", "The Michigan Quarterly Review" - and has been reprinted in eight anthologies including "The Treasury of American Poetry".
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The Emily Dickinson Journal The Emily Dickinson Journal (EDJ) is a biannual academic journal founded in 1991 and is the official publication of the Emily Dickinson International Society. The journal provides an ongoing examination of Emily Dickinson, one of the most influential American poets, and her place in women’s literature. The current editor is Cristanne Miller (University at Buffalo, The State University of New York). She is interested in expanding the Journal to encompass Dickinson’s relations to 19th-century American studies as well as Dickinson’s impact on 20th-century poets. The journal is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press receives submissions internationally.
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Englands Helicon Englands Helicon is an anthology of Elizabethan pastoral poems compiled by John Flasket, and first published in 1600. There was an enlarged edition in 1614. The poets involved cannot all be identified, since there are a number of poems marked as 'anonymous': they do include Edmund Bolton, William Byrd, Henry Chettle, Michael Drayton, Robert Greene, Christopher Marlowe, Anthony Munday, George Peele, Walter Raleigh, Henry Constable, William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, John Wootton, William Smith. The most celebrated poem is Marlowe's 'Come live with me and be my love'. This and several other lyrics have musical settings extant, in this case by William Corkine.
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Caroline May Caroline May (born Croydon, England c. 1820; died March 5, 1895) was an English-American poet, editor, and literary critic.
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Emelie Tracy Y. Swett Emelie Tracy Young Swett Parkhurst (March 9, 1863 – April 21, 1892) was an American poet, author, and editor. She manifested a strong taste for literature at an early age. She was a pleasing writer of both prose and verse, and in her literary work was often employed by publishers to translate French and German articles and books. She was at one time employed as the private secretary of a publishing house, and in this capacity she developed executive abilities. In 1889, she married John W. Parkhurst, an employee in the Bank of California.
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Gloria Oden Gloria Catherine Oden (October 30, 1923 – December 16, 2011) was an American poet, editor and retired professor of English. She was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for "Resurrections", a collection of poems that responded to the unsolved murder of her mother and sister in their home in Washington, D.C.
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List of poetry collections A poetry collection is often a compilation of several poems by one poet to be published in a single volume or chapbook. A collection can include any number of poems, ranging from a few (e.g. the four long poems in T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets") to several hundred poems (as is often seen in collections of haiku). Typically the poems included in single volume of poetry, or a cycle of poems, are linked by their style or thematic material. Most poets publish several volumes of poetry through the course their life while other poets publish one (e.g. Walt Whitman's lifelong expansion of "Leaves of Grass").
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Lord Weary's Castle Lord Weary's Castle, Robert Lowell's second book of poetry, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1947 when Lowell was only thirty. Robert Giroux, who was the publisher of Lowell's wife at the time, Jean Stafford, also became Lowell's publisher after he saw the manuscript for "Lord Weary's Castle" and was very impressed; he later stated that "Lord Weary's Castle" was the most successful book of poems that he ever published.
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Poems (William Carlos Williams) Poems is an early self-published volume of poems by William Carlos Williams. It was published in Rutherford, New Jersey in 1909. The name William C. Williams is used for the cover and copyright notice, and W. C. Williams for the title page. The book is printed on Old Stratford paper.
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Alta (poet) Alta Gerrey (born 1942, Reno, Nevada) is a British-American poet, prose writer, and publisher, best known as the founder of the feminist press Shameless Hussy Press and editor of the "Shameless Hussy Review". Her 1980 collection "The Shameless Hussy" won the American Book Award in 1981. She is featured in the feminist history film "She's Beautiful When She's Angry".
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Elizabeth Wirt Elizabeth Washington Gamble Wirt (1784–1857), who published under the name E. W. Wirt, was a 19th-century American author whose "Flora's Dictionary" was the first book to broadly popularize the concept of a language of flowers for American readers.
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Portrait of Phillis Wheatley Portrait of Phillis Wheatley is an engraving by Scipio Moorhead. It is a in a private collection. The painting was used as the frontispiece for poet Phillis Wheatley's poetry collection "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral", first published in 1773. Wheatley was the United States' first professional African-American woman poet and the first African-American woman whose writings were published. She is also the third woman in the United States, regardless of ethnicity, to have her written work published. The painting is also the major, recognized work of Moorhead, the first significant African American painter in the country. It is unknown if an original painting exists, however, copies of the engraving reside in the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Institution and the Library of Congress.
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An Early Martyr and Other Poems An Early Martyr and Other Poems is a book of poetry by the American poet William Carlos Williams. It was originally published in New York City by The Alcestis Press in 1935.
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Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology Lesbian Poetry: An Anthology is a 1981 poetry anthology edited by Elly Bulkin and Joan Larkin. The book was positively reviewed and has been considered the "breakthrough volume" for lesbian poetry.
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Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War (1866) is the first book of poetry published by the American author Herman Melville. The volume is dedicated "To the Memory of the Three Hundred Thousand Who in the War For the Maintenance of the Union Fell Devotedly Under the Flag of Their Country" and its 72 poems deal with the battles and personalities of the American Civil War and their aftermath. Also included are Notes and a Supplement in prose in which Melville sets forth his thoughts on how the Post-war Reconstruction should be carried out.