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- Happy Birthday Jean Toomer 1894 - 1967
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Happy Birthday e. e. cummings by Poetryality, from poetryalitye. e. cummings (as he wrote his name) experimented radically with form, punctuation, spelling, and syntax, abandoning traditional techniques, and structures to create a new, highly exclusive means of poetic expression....
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Happy Birthday "Uncle Shelby" by Renee Matthews-Jackson (Poetryality) - Resources; My own personal books and random links on the Internet., from poetryalitySheldon Alan "Shel" Silverstein
September 25, 1930 – May 10, 1999
An American poet, songwriter, musician, composer, cartoonist, screenwriter and author of children's books. He sometimes styled himself as Uncle Shelby especially for his early children's books. To this day he remains one of the most beloved authors of children's books in the United States.
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Happy Birthday Sterling A. Brown by daypoems. net, oldpoetry.com, dclibrary.org, from poetryalitySterling A. Brown - May 1, 1901 - January 13, 1989
Quotes by Sterlings A. Brown
"The sincere, sensitive artist, willing to go beneath the clichés of popular belief to get at an underlying reality, will be wary of confining a race's entire characters to a half-dozen narrow grooves."
"Dialect or the speech of the people is capable of expressing whatever the people are."
"Propaganda, however legitimate, can speak no louder than the truth."
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Happy Birthday Dr. Maya Angelou by Some information gathered from A& E Networks, from poetryalityMaya Angelou, one of the most widely know female poet's of the day was born on April 4, 1928. Forty years hence, someone she dearly admired was assassinated on that exact date. Yes, the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I can remember an Oprah interview where she actually cried, and said; (paraphrased) "the day I was born was the day the king died, how could I ever forget that marked day?"
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Research Resources:
http://www.biography.com/search/article.do?id=9185388
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March 12, 1922 - October 21, 1969
A Forerunner in 'The Beat Generation'
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Langston Hughes, Harlem Renaissance poet, playwright, composer. Also known as the Black Poet Laureate. He can be found at oldpoetry.com
- Though Belated, I would be amiss if we did not feature this poet and his wondrous works.
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