Coghill, Sheila & Tammaro, Thom, eds. Visiting Frost : Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of Robert Frost.COGHILL, Sheila & TAMMARO, Thom, eds. Visiting Frost; poems inspired by the life and world of Robert Frost. Univ. of Iowa Press. 180p. c2003. 0-87745-963-0. $17.95. SA From the same editors that brought us Visiting Emily (Dickinson) and Visiting Walt (Whitman), this anthology contains over 100 poems that pay homage to New England's premier poet. Robert Bly
Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926 in Madison, Minnesota) is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement in the United States. , Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks (June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000) was an African American poet. Biography Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was born in Topeka, Kansas to Keziah Wims Brooks and David Anderson Brooks. , Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin (b. 1925) is an American poet and author. Life Born in Philadelphia, Kumin, the daughter of Jewish parents, attended Catholic kindergarten and lower schools. She received her B.A. in 1946 and her M.A. in 1948 from Radcliffe College. , Richard Eberhart, and Richard Wilbur Richard Purdy Wilbur (born March 1, 1921), is an American poet and former United States U.S. Poet Laureate. Life Wilbur was born in New York City and grew up in North Caldwell, New Jersey.[1]. are among the gifted contributors who honor Frost with, for example, poetic recollections of personal encounters with him, reflections at his grave, and remembrances of his appearance at JFK's inauguration. On the lighter side are parodies of some of Frost's most famous poems, such as Wendell Berry's send-up of The Pasture ("Don't come with me/You stay home too"), Kenneth Koch's Mending Sump ("Something there is that doesn't hump a sump"), or Gall White's Traveling with Cats on a Snowy Evening ("I've no idea whose woods these are/But I'm not getting very far/ From Albany to NYC/With two cats yowling in my car.") Fans and students of Frost may be inspired to write their own tributes, or at least to revisit the work that won the poet four Pulitzer Prizes Pulitzer Prizes, annual awards for achievements in American journalism, letters, and music. The prizes are paid from the income of a fund left by Joseph Pulitzer to the trustees of Columbia Univ. . Jessica Swaim, Cataloger, Cherry Creek Cherry Creek may refer to:
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