Bob dickinson biography poetry
- Bob Dickinson was born in 1943 in Danville, Illinois.
- Robert Dickinson's amazing diary, “Servigliano Calling,” contains 34 poems written in camp by Robert's fellow inmates during World War II.
- Three minutes is long enough for a traditional pop song or a medium length poem, complete with introduction and explanations.
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Bob Dickinson was born in 1943 in Danville, Illinois. After his father returned home from the war in the Pacific, he and his parents moved back to his father's hometown of Covington, Indiana, a little farming community just across the state line. From the time he was two years old until he left for college at the age of 18, Covington served as his background for all things, good and bad. A childhood filled with fun and humor, his book, Root Beer Floats, tells the story of these happy and carefree days of his youth. After graduating from Purdue University with a degree in pharmacy, Bob married his high school sweetheart, Alinda, and for the next 20 years they made a life for themselves in Illinois, where he practiced his profession and they began a family. In 1987 they decided to move back to Covington where they bought a large federal-style home which was built in the 1860's and where they reside to this day. Bob retired in 2006 from the VA Medical Center in Danville, where he had practiced pharmacy for the past 20 years. Although he has been writing poetry, short storie
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The Joy of Poetry
With nearly 60 books to his name — including 11 poetry collections — Lehman, 75, may be best known as the editor of The Oxford Book of American Poetry. An indispensable text in college literature courses since 2006, the 1,132-page tome collects the verse of 210 poets from the 17th century to the present, including previously overlooked female poets such as Josephine Miles and Anne Porter, blues singers like Bessie Smith, and rocker Bob Dylan.
Poetry aficionados know Lehman as the driving force behind the annual Best American Poetry series. Its 36 volumes (including two retrospectives) have celebrated the nation’s most sublime, witty and sobering poems since 1988.
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The Community of Writers is honored to present a short course on the Poetry of Emily Dickinson, led by Brenda Hillman and Robert Hass
Registration is now closed. Email hunter@communityofwriters.org for information about joining mid-course.
Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and died in 1886. She began writing poems when she was a teenager and wrote something like 1500 poems over the course of her life, at least a hundred of which have been regarded as among the most striking poems in the English language.
Our aim in this class is to look closely at about twenty poems over the course of five weeks. We recommend first of all reading the poems intensely, and in preparation, if you are inclined, to immerse yourselves in her letters, her biography, and some of the influential critical responses to her work. We won’t be lingering over her life, her reclusiveness, the intellectual background of 19th century Amherst, the various Emily legends. We will be trying to read some of her extraordinary poems.
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