Poets for Young Adults: Their Lives and Works

305 Pages·2006·1.01 MB·English

by  Mary Loving Blanchard

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
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