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Poets for Young Adults: Their Lives and Works Mary Loving Blanchard Cara Falcetti Greenwood Press POETS FOR YOUNG ADULTS PPOOEETTSS POETS FOR YOUNG ADULTS Their Lives and Works Mary Loving Blanchard and Cara Falcetti GREENWOOD PRESS Westport, Connecticut • London Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Blanchard, Mary Loving, 1952– Poets for young adults : their lives and works / Mary Loving Blanchard and Cara Falcetti. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0–313–32884–6 (alk. paper) 1. American poetry—Bio-bibliography—Dictionaries—Juvenile literature. 2. Poets, American—Biography—Dictionaries—Juvenile literature. I. Falcetti, Cara. II. Title. PS305.B57 2007 811'.009—dc22 [B] 2006029475 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data is available. Copyright © 2007 by Mary Loving Blanchard and Cara Falcetti All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced, by any process or technique, without the express written consent of the publisher. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 2006029475 ISBN: 0–313–32884–6 First published in 2007 Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881 An imprint of Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc. www.greenwood.com Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this book complies with the Permanent Paper Standard issued by the National Information Standards Organization (Z39.48–1984). 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This book is dedicated to the memory of Cortney Jerome Rivers (1984–2005), a young poet whose light burned brightly. Contents List of Entries ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv A–Z Entries 1 Selected Bibliography 273 Index 275 vii List of Entries Adoff, Arnold Fleischman, Paul Alvarez, Julia Fletcher, Ralph Angelou, Maya Forché, Carolyn Anzaldúa, Gloria Evangelina Frost, Robert Bishop, Elizabeth Giovanni, Nikki Blake, William Glenn, Mel Bontemps, Arna Wendell Grimes, Nikki Bradstreet, Anne Hagedorn, Jessica Tarahata Brewster, Martha Wadsworth Hall, Donald Brooks, Gwendolyn Elizabeth Holbrook, Sara Carroll, Lewis Hopkins, Lee Bennett Castillo, Ana Hughes, (James) Langston Clifton, Lucille Janeczko, Paul Cofer, Judith Ortiz Johnson, James Weldon Collins, Billy Keats, John Cullen, Countee Porter Kerouac, Jack Cummings, Edward Estlin Komunyakaa, Yusef Dickinson, Emily Elizabeth Kumin, Maxine Doolittle, Hilda (H. D.) L’Engle, Madeline Dove, Rita Lennon, John Dylan, Bob Livingston, Myra Cohn Emerson, Ralph Waldo Merwin, W.S. Erdrich, Louise Millay, Edna St. Vincent ix

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Spanning the time of colonial America through the present day, Poets for Young Adults examines the lives and works of seventy-five poets that are read and loved by teens. Readers will discover an eclectic mix of poets and their styles, from the modern songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Tupac Shakur,
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