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Close up of books. Stack of books, pile of books, literature, reading. Homepage 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

9 Obscure Literary Terms

Chapter 4 pg 42 - Chapter header of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain. Published in 1884 by The American Publishing Company

Periods of American Literature

The Catcher in the Rye By J.D. Salinger. Hardcover Book first sold: July 16, 1951. Current cover design dated 1991? Previous solid maroon book cover with gold font designed by J.D. Salinger in response to racey pulp paper back book cover. bad books

5 Good Books That Inspired Bad Deeds

poem. A poet in a Heian period kimono writes Japanese poetry during the Kamo Kyokusui No En Ancient Festival at Jonan-gu shrine on April 29, 2013 in Kyoto, Japan. Festival of Kyokusui-no Utage orignated in 1,182, party Heian era (794-1192).

World Poetry Day

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Secret Service Agent Listens To Earpiece

Secret Service Code Names of 11 U.S. Presidents

African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.

Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement

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Why Is Pluto No Longer a Planet?

9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?

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Attack on Pearl Harbor Timeline

Vietnam War. U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson awards the Distinguished Service Cross to First Lieutenant Marty A. Hammer, during a visit to military personnel, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam, October 26, 1966. President Johnson

Vietnam War Timeline

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Born	January 19, 1942 (age 83) • El Paso • Texas
Notable Works	“Tomás and the Library Lady”

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Alice Walker

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Nikki Giovanni

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Maxine Kumin

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Larry Woiwode

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Maggie Nelson

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Mark Twain

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N. Scott Momaday

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Amy Tan

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Gary Snyder

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Harriet Monroe

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Mark Van Doren

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Sandra Cisneros

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Anne Sexton

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Ana Castillo

American poet and author

Lucille Clifton

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Phyllis McGinley

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Donald Hall

American poet, essayist and critic

M.F.K. Fisher

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June Jordan

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Reynolds Price

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4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

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