James Patrick Kinney was born in a very poor Irish family in Cincinnati. He joined the army and was stationed in the Philippines as a radio man. On his return to USA, he started writing more extensively. James Kinney Poetries were published in different magazines. “The Cold Within” by James Read more…
Alfred, Lord Tennyson, (1809—1892) 1st Baron Tennyson of Aldworth and Freshwater, was an English poet. He was the Poet Laureate during Queen Victoria’s reign. Also, Tennyson won the Chancellor’s Gold Medal at Cambridge for one of his first pieces, “Timbuktu”. Published in 1830, was the First solo collection of Alfred Read more…
Carol Ann Duffy is an award-winning Scottish poet of “post-post war England: Thatcher’s England.” She is best known for writing love poems. Carol Ann Duffy Poems often take the form of monologues. An Economist reviewer described her verses as typically “spoken in the voices of the urban people of society who harbour Read more…
Maya Angelou, born in 1928, lived through some of the worst oppression and inequality for African American people. Although slavery had been long abolished, Angelou saw its effects on society. Out of Maya Angelou Poems, ‘Still I Rise’ is her declaration that she would not allow the hatefulness of society to determine Read more…
Paul Laurence Dunbar was born on June 27, 1872 to two formerly enslaved people from Kentucky. He became one of the first influential Black poets in American literature. Published in 20 books were Paul Laurence Poetries and fiction and numerous articles, stories, and poems in magazines and newspapers. “We Wear Read more…
Robert Burns was born in 1759, to William and Agnes Brown Burnes. Like his father, Burns was a tenant farmer. Throughout his life he was also a practicing poet. Moreover Robert Burns Poetries recorded and celebrated aspects of farm life, regional experience, traditional culture, class culture and distinctions, and religious Read more…
Kamala Das, (Kamala Surayya), (March 31, 1934 — May 31, 2009), was an Indian author. She wrote openly and frankly about female sexual desire and the experience of being an Indian woman. Her short stories, poetries, memoirs, and essays brought her respect and notoriety in equal measures. As a confessional poet Read more…
William Blake (28 November1757 – 12 August1827) was a visionary English poet, painter, and printmaker. He was largely unrecognized during his life, but is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual art of the Romantic Age. Blake was primarily occupied as an engraver and Read more…
Nissim Ezekiel was an Indian-born poet of Jewish descent. People describe him as the “father of post-independence Indian verse in English”. A number of collections of Nissim Ezekiel Poetries were published which were very popular. Some, such as The Night Of The Scorpion, and the anti-jingoism poem The Patriot, are standard verses Read more…
Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called “one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century”. Also bought “the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse”. Rich criticized rigid forms of feminist identities, and valorized what she coined Read more…