Tess Gallagher

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World Poetry Day

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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12 Novels Considered the “Greatest Book Ever Written”

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9 of the World’s Deadliest Snakes

Battle of the Alamo from "Texas: An Epitome of Texas History from the Filibustering and Revolutionary Eras to the Independence of the Republic, 1897. Texas Revolution, Texas revolt, Texas independence, Texas history.

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Tess Gallagher: Facts & Related Content

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Also Known As	Tess Bond
Born	July 21, 1943 (age 81) • Port Angeles • Washington
Notable Works	“Amplitude” • “Dear Ghosts” • “Instructions to the Double” • “Is, Is Not” • “Midnight Lantern” • “Moon Crossing Bridge” • “On Your Own” • “Portable Kisses” • “The Man from Kinvara” • “The Valentine Elegies” • “Under Stars”

T.S. Eliot, 1955

T.S. Eliot

American-English poet, playwright, and literary critic

Pound, Ezra

Ezra Pound

American poet

Tillie Olsen

American author

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Vladimir Nabokov

Vladimir Nabokov

American author

W.H. Auden

W. H. Auden

British poet

Rita Dove

Rita Dove

American author

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

American poet

Wendell Berry

Wendell Berry

American author

Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

American writer and aviator

Ishmael Reed

Ishmael Reed

American author

David Mamet

David Mamet

American author

John Updike

John Updike

American author

Thomas Merton, 1959

Thomas Merton

American writer

Mercy Otis Warren

Mercy Otis Warren

American writer and historian

Daniel Berrigan

Daniel Berrigan

American priest and poet

Hearn, Lafcadio

Lafcadio Hearn

British-born writer and translator

Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver

American author and activist

Jeannette Leonard Gilder

American editor and writer

Claudia Rankine

Claudia Rankine

Jamaican-born poet, playwright, educator, and multimedia artist

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

A Study of Poetry

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

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

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