Poetry

      Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in 1844 in Essex, England.     His parents were supportive of the creative nature of Gerard and his...

Author Denise Levertov was born in London in 1923 and was educated at home by her mother.   Her formal education ended at the age of 12....

Author Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1908, and attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.   He had a rather ...

        Emily Jane Bronte was born on July 30, 1818, in England.   She died at the young age of 30. Emily felt that her health was compromis...

    Judith Ortiz Cofer was born in Puerto Rico in 1952.   As a child, she only spoke Spanish.   She moved to the United States as a chil...

Kelly Cherry was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, on December 21, 1940.    She was the daughter of a violinist, and her early exposure to...

Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874, in San Francisco, California. He died on January 29, 1963, at age 88 in Boston, Massachusetts. ...