“Oh, what questionings of fate, and freedom, and how evil came, and what death is, and what the life to come, passed to and fro among these girls!”
Lucy Larcom: Memoirs of a Mill Girl in Lowell
Posts Tagged: Poetry
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Brooklyn Poem Prodigy
Brooklyn native Nathalia Crane was just nine years old when she published her first poem in The New York Sun (they thought they were publishing an adult).
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Pregnancy and Poetry in High School
“Graduated 2009.” Powerful reading of a powerful poem.
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Iseult Gonne
Iseult Gonne (6 August 1894 – 22 March 1954) was conceived in the mausoleum of her late brother in an attempt by her parents to reincarnate their dead, still adored infant son.
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Beat Generation
The origins of the Beat Generation can be traced to a group of students (Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, Hal Chase & others) who in 1948 challenged their conservative, formulaic writing professors at Columbia University.
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Henry Parland: Nordic Rimbaud
My lies:
large, red balloons
that I buy on the street
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The Stepney School Strike of 1971
Chris Searle, a beloved student-teacher, was fired from his teaching job after publishing a book of poems entitled ‘Stepney Words’ written by his pupils.
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To Whom it Concerns
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJF2FUKV84
Precious moments on Roseanne—rough and tumble, 13 year old, Darlene is forced to read her poem aloud at her junior high school’s “culture night”.