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Há 5 dias · With the publication of two volumes of poetry, Spring in New Hampshire (1920) and Harlem Shadows (1922), McKay emerged as the first and most militant voice of the Harlem Renaissance.
Há 5 dias · The Whittier family farm, built in Haverhill in 1688, is just over the Merrimack River that divided the two colonies by royal British decree. Before he was born there in 1807, his father John, Whittier, a Quaker farmer and trader, had walked to the hills of New Hampshire and beyond. Greenleaf's father warned his talented son that poetry would ...
Há 3 dias · In 1846 young poet and activist JG Whittier called NH "one brave state" for its stand on the Abolition issue. But was New Hampshire brave? Or was this Yankee state, in many ways, as confused and caught up in the slavery movement as its southern cousins? Read the poem and see what you think. READ: Whittier in NH. ABOLITIONISM IN NH
Há 3 dias · essayist. journalist. Signature. Walter Whitman Jr. ( / ˈhwɪtmən /; May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) was an American poet, essayist, and journalist. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature. Whitman incorporated both transcendentalism and realism in his writings and is often called the father of free verse. [1]
Há 3 dias · The author and his father (and the family dog), Vermont, 1958. Photo courtesy of the author. Today, I know more of the details and could present the history in a well-considered manner, but I prefer the immature way of expressing what Fox meant to me, like a child discovering what mattered, or as the Buddhists say, the beginner’s mind.
Há 4 dias · Then last year, I spent two weeks with the Clark Refractor and other telescopes at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona. What I saw of the surface of the moon and the globular clusters marked me. I returned home with a sense of source, which even now, works into my poems. There are so many ways to keep learning about a place.
Há 4 dias · Whittier died here in New Hampshire, a state he dearly loved, and of which he wrote many of his best poems. He was especially fond of Center Harbor, the White Mountains and the Isles of Shoals, and remembered a time when one could pitch a tent and camp out for days on a sparsely populated Hampton Beach. But late in the summer of 1892 the poet ...
