The American poet, best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences, wrote a poem about what pop icon?
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We Had Him "We Had Him" is a poem about Michael Jackson by Maya Angelou.
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Maya Angelou Maya Angelou ( ; born Marguerite Annie Johnson; April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014) was an American poet, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and was credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees. Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.
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Arthur Chapman (poet) Arthur Chapman (June 25, 1873 – December 4, 1935) was an early twentieth-century American poet, newspaper columnist and author. He wrote a subgenre of American poetry known as Cowboy Poetry. His most famous poem was "Out Where the West Begins".
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Leo Connellan Leo Connellan (November 30, 1928 – February 22, 2001) was an American poet born in Portland, Maine. He grew up in Rockland, Maine, spent much of his life in the environs of New York City, and lived at the time of his death in Sprague, Connecticut. He spent considerable time traveling in the United States between the ages of 19 and 36, taking work as a salesman after his daughter was born.
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Harry Kemp Harry Hibbard Kemp (December 15, 1883 – August 5, 1960) was an American poet and prose writer of the twentieth century. He was known as (and promoted himself as) the "Vagabond Poet", the "Villon of America", the "Hobo Poet", or the "Tramp Poet", and was a well-known popular literary figure of his era, the "hero of adolescent Americans."
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O Captain! My Captain! "O Captain! My Captain!" is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman, about the death of American president Abraham Lincoln. The poem was first published in the pamphlet "Sequel to Drum-Taps" which assembled 18 poems regarding the American Civil War, including another Lincoln elegy, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd". It was included in Whitman's comprehensive collection "Leaves of Grass" beginning with its fourth edition published in 1867. The poem emphasizes or shows grief and sorrow.
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Tom McKeown (poet) Thomas Shanks McKeown (born 29 September 1937) is an American poet. He published his first poetry chapbooks in the late 1960s and continued to develop his reputation as a poet of surrealist sensibilities throughout the 1970s, publishing in major magazines such as "The New Yorker".
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Ina Coolbrith Ina Donna Coolbrith (March 10, 1841 – February 29, 1928) was an American poet, writer, librarian, and a prominent figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary community. Called the "Sweet Singer of California", she was the first California Poet Laureate and the first poet laureate of any American state.
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Laura Levine Laura Levine is an American multi-disciplinary visual artist. She is best known for her portraits of artists from the punk, early hip-hop, New Wave, No Wave, and the early downtown New York City music scene. Levine's work includes iconic images of Björk, R.E.M., the Clash, Afrika Bambaataa, the Ramones, the Beastie Boys, Iggy Pop, and Madonna, among others.
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Jane Miller Jane Miller is an American poet.
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Tom Gray's Dream "Tom Gray's Dream" is a poem written by western Illinois poet Retta M. Brown (born September 18, 1893).
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Philomene Long Philomene Long (August 17, 1940 – August 21, 2007) was an American poet. Long was born in Greenwich Village, New York City. From the 1960s onward, she lived most of her life in Venice, California. In 2005, she was made Poet Laureate of Venice, CA.
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Auguries of Innocence (poetry collection) Auguries of Innocence is a poetry collection by Patti Smith, published in 2005. This collection of poetry includes exactly twenty-six recent poems penned by the active, contemporary poet. Drawing on some of her many influences such as William Blake and Arthur Rimbaud, Smith's collection here demonstrates over and over again her knack for detail. Obviously William Blake is a dominant influence on the poet herself, since it shares its title, Auguries of Innocence, with one of William Blake's poems. Upon reviewing both collections it is clearly obvious that both collections share more commonalities than just similar titles. One commonality between this collection and that by Blake's, in regard to the content, is that the poems collected here exhibit subtle nods to Blake. For example, in one of her poems, "The Long Road", by the end of the very first verse the reader has already been exposed to such suggestive visuals as the speaker of the poem sleeping in chimneys and chewing on bulbs, as well as the speaker "sweeping time". Such visuals of Smith's conjure up recollections in the seasoned and experienced reader's mind of Blake's "The Chimney Sweeper" and "The Blossom". While the majority of the twenty-six collected poems have some type of stanza-like arrangement the poet also incorporates several free-verse style poems into the collection, such as Mummer Love, Eve of All Saints, Our Jargon Muffles The Drum, and Written By A Lake.
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Andy Warhol (song) "Andy Warhol" is a song written by David Bowie in 1971 for the album "Hunky Dory". It is an acoustic song about one of Bowie's early artist inspirations, the American pop artist Andy Warhol.
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Flower child Flower child originated as a synonym for hippie, especially among the idealistic young people who gathered in San Francisco and the surrounding area during the Summer of Love in 1967. It was the custom of "flower children" to wear and distribute flowers or floral-themed decorations to symbolize ideals of universal belonging, peace, and love. The mass media picked up on the term and used it to refer in a broad sense to any hippie. Flower children were also associated with the flower power political movement, which originated in ideas written by Allen Ginsberg in 1965.
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Anna Hempstead Branch Anna Hempstead Branch (March 18, 1875 – September 8, 1937) was an American poet. She was regarded as a major poet during her life and William Thomas Stead called her "the Browning of American poetry".
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HERmione HERmione, is an autobiographical novel written by imagist poet H.D.. It forms part of what she refers to as her "Madrigal cycle", which also includes "Bid Me to Live", "Paint it Today" and "Asphodel".
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Len Steckler Len Steckler (May 6, 1928 – August 11, 2016) was an American photographer, illustrator, and filmmaker. Steckler was known for the artistry behind many famous ad campaigns, including Pepsi Cola's "Refreshes Without Filling" illustrations in the 1950s, Noxzema's "Take it off — Take it all off" television commercials in the early 1970s, and an ad featuring Joe Namath in Hanes pantyhose. In 2010, he received widespread attention for the release of a previously unknown series of photographs, entitled "Marilyn Monroe: The Visit", which offered a candid glimpse of a 1961 encounter between Monroe and famed poet Carl Sandburg.
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Christina Davis (poet) Christina Davis is an American poet.
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Tommy (King poem) "Tommy" is a narrative poem by Stephen King, first published in the March, 2010 edition of "Playboy", and later collected and re-introduced in the November 3, 2015 anthology "The Bazaar of Bad Dreams". In the new introduction King disputes the famous adage (attributed to many celebrities, including Grace Slick, Robin Williams, Paul Kantner, Joan Collins, and Dennis Hopper): "If you remember the Sixties, you weren't there."
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Slouching Towards Bethlehem Slouching Towards Bethlehem is a 1968 collection of essays by Joan Didion that mainly describes her experiences in California during the 1960s. It takes its title from the poem "The Second Coming", by W. B. Yeats. The contents of this book are reprinted in Didion's "We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction" (2006).
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Dennis Lee Askew Dennis Lee Askew (born April 19, 1953), also known as Den the Pen, is an American poet, musician, painter, author, journalist and community volunteer activist.