Poetry Foundation

incorporating elephant dung. American conceptual/pop artist Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey in 1945 and left there in 1964 to attend Syracuse University. Early on in her career she developed an interest in graphic design, poetry, and writing and attended poetry readings. Born 1952 in Harare, Zimbabwe, graphic designer Chaz Maviyane-Davies currently lives in Cambridge Massachusetts. He is a tenured professor at Massachusetts College of Art & Design. He completed his studies in the…

guidance and encouragement and he would not have become such a prominent poet with his endeared influence. At times Owen’s work illustrated and portrayed quite graphically the stark and unheard of horrors of human warfare. His poetry was a representation of a clear cut contrast to poetry driven by patriotism that overwhelmed society throughout the dark era of the First World…

vibration of the words I have read or heard. literature grants me the gifts of understanding and experiencing the history of the human race. Literature has always been and will always be a very valuable part of my life experience on this planet. Reading poetry has taught me all about the powerful and emotional impact that words, arranged in a certain order, can…

against the harsh realities of the outside world. How or exactly when should the conversation of what really lies in the outside world, beyond our comfort zone, begin with our children. Maggie Smith is a poet that has published three full books of poetry: Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015); and Lamp of the Body (Red Hen Press, 2005). Maggie Smith works as…

was sixty-eight years old, Nemerov was named the United States poet laureate from 1988 to 1990. One of the factors that enabled him to get appointed to this rank was his ability to write poetry that “managed to engage the reader’s mind without becoming academic” (Foundation 1). Age and prior experience with poetry were not necessary in order to comprehend and interact with Nemerov’s works. When writing his poems, Nemerov incorporated the same central theme into multiple of his poems. For most of…

1. Why does the Medicaid program receive a great deal of attention each year in the state of Florida? From legislators? From providers? From health plans? The Medicaid program of the government plays a critical role in the reduction of the uninsured by expanding eligibility to include nearly all low income adults with incomes at or below 138% of the federal poverty level, but not limited to children and parents, individuals with diverse physical and mental conditions and disabilities, and…

Lance, I truly enjoyed reading your discussion about The Make a Wish Foundation. I have heard of it but have never known anyone who has participated in this non-profit organization. I read more about it online to find out exactly who they offer wishes to and read that they actually granted wishes for more than 14,000 children. That is such a significant number but it was only half of the eligible applicants. There is a need for this organization and I feel it brings hope to the child and their…

entirely male), past, present, and future. It has proven the foundation of the contemporary western worldview, which saw people as free individuals endeavouring fulfillment through democratic actions, rather than as restrained members of a conventional, authoritarian society. However, the most precious donation of Romanticism is the growth of the genius of two young poets, John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley, whose experiments with poetry and poetic diction conduced to the formation of…

When comparing and contrasting the two poems “The Mother” and “The Planned Child” it is clear to see how selfish decisions are made in two totally different perspectives. In “The Mother” the reader see’s a mother who has had multiple abortions and suffers from regretting the decisions. This is one of the main differences in the two stories, how the character in “The Mother” see’s her selfish decisions and recognizes them. In “The Planned Child” we see the character in the story as the child,…

Thomas Hardy’s poetry is known for its philosophical pessimism and its autobiographical nature. Because Hardy struggled with faith and the possibility of God in his life, he struggled with the same in poetry. However, due to his mental battle with life’s meaning, he was able to express his doubts and become a critically acclaimed poet. With a total of nine hundred and forty-seven poems, Hardy is one prolific poets of the twentieth century. In 1898, Hardy wrote the three-stanza iambic…