This is the grave of Robert Frost. Born in 1874 in San Francisco, Frost grew up pretty well off. His father was a newspaperman who edited the San Francisco Evening Bulletin. But he died of tuberculosis when his young son was 11 and left the...
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This is the grave of Allen Grossman. Born in 1932 in Minneapolis, Grossman grew up in a Jewish family in that city. His father ran a Chevy dealership. He started.
This is the grave of Richard Wilbur. Born in 1921 in New York City, Wilbur grew up in New Jersey. His father was a portrait painter and his mother came.
This is the grave of Frances Sargent Osgood. Born in 1811 in Boston, Francis Locke grew up wealthy, the daughter of a prominent merchant. She went to the best girls' schools and was encouraged, as were many young women from the region's elite families, to...
This is the grave of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Born in 1806 in County Durham, England, Elizabeth Barrett was the oldest of twelve children and a tremendously talented child. From the.
This is the grave of Anne Sexton. Born in 1928 in Newton, Massachusetts, Sexton grew up in Boston, went to a private academy in Lowell for school, modeled, married, had.
This is the grave of Wallace Stevens. Born in 1879 in Reading, Pennsylvania, Stevens grew up in a German Lutheran family. His family was loaded, his father was a big-time lawyer, and so of course Wallace went to Harvard, though he had to drop out...
This is the grave of William Cullen Bryant. Born in 1794 in Cummington, Massachusetts, Bryant grew up fairly well off for late eighteenth century New England. His father was a.
Creative news from yours truly: my essay on (accidentally) queer alien sex in big bucks science fiction media has been published in the debut issue of the new feminist punk.
A poem, written by Robert Poston in 1921 When You Meet a Member of the Ku Klux Klan When you meet a member of the Ku Klux Klan / Walk right up and hit him like a natural man; Take no thought of babies he...
"To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric..." Theodor W. Adorno (1) An image is worth a.
Goodnight Reader In the great google cloud there was a full text feed and folders and tags and sharing with… A random collection of internet “friends” And there were stars.