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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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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

January 21, 2017. Protesters holding signs in crowd at the Women's March in Washington DC. feminism

Feminism: From Ancient Rome to the Women’s March

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Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.

10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish

Why Is Ireland Two Countries?

12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

Ahura Mazda - relief of the Zoroastrian god Ahura Mazda at the ancient ruins of Persepolis in Iran. Also known as Ormazd Zoroastrianism,

Which Religion Is the Oldest?

Groups of depositors in front of the closed American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. Great Depression run on bank crowd

Causes of the Great Depression

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

illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum

Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs

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Born	July 22, 1961 (age 63) • Toronto • Canada
Notable Works	“Debbie: An Epic” • “Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, The Codex, Melancholy, Lucretius, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias” • “XEclogue”

Margaret Atwood

Canadian author

Anne Carson

Canadian poet

Susan Musgrave

American-born author

Anne Michaels

Canadian poet and novelist

Michael Ondaatje

Canadian writer

Thomas King

American-born Canadian writer and photographer

Sue Goyette

Canadian poet and novelist

E.J. Pratt

Canadian poet

Robertson Davies

Canadian author

Duncan Campbell Scott

Canadian author

Jay Macpherson

Canadian poet

Al Purdy

Canadian author

Sir Charles G.D. Roberts

Canadian poet

Mordecai Richler

Canadian novelist

Margaret Avison

Canadian poet

Isabella Valancy Crawford

Canadian poet

George Woodcock

Canadian writer

Ralph Barker Gustafson

Canadian poet

A.M. Klein

Canadian poet

Thomas D’Arcy McGee

Irish-Canadian writer

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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

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

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