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An award-winning Chicano poet, activist, and scholar who was raised in San Jose, California by her mother and grandmother. Her poetry follows themes of identity, feminism, cultural heritage, and social justice, capturing the complex experiences of Latinx communities in the United States
Who is Lorna Dee Cervantes
An author who was influenced by Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, Winston Churchill, Yusef Komunyakaa, Sonia Sanchez, Tracy K. Smith, and Phillis Wheatley
Who is Amanda Gorman?
This poem is verse.
What is “The Blue?”
Where “Once More to the Lake” was published
What was the Harper’s Magazine?
A type of poem where the first 6 lines provided a response to the first 8 lines
What is Petrarchan sonnet?
- A lake poet
- born in Cumberland England
- Work represented common folk as his subjects and using vernacular language. His poems reflect a desire to deeply connect with nature and individual imagination.
- Author of “The Prelude” and “Michael”
Who was William Wordsworth
An author’s literary aesthetic includes the garden as a site of poetic vision
Who is Camille T. Dungy
A poem. That uses a dreary diction to suggest a challenging upbringing for the speaker.
What is “Freeway 280?”
What is University of California, Berkeley?
When the speaker is addressing something that isn’t there; ie God.
What is apostrophe
Part of a movement that Modernism
Who is E.M Forster?
- Born in St. Louis Missouri and moved to the West Bank Palestine as a teenager
Who is Naomi Shihab Ney
Poem that links nature to the sacred by exploring themes of identity, culture, worship, and prayer. Each stanza describes the style and circumstance surrounding the ways different people pray, paying attention to the ways that nature imagery, and material space become holy sites when inhabited by prayer.
What is “Different Ways to Pray”
What is “The Toxic Donut?”
Word choice
A botanist by training who is mostly interested in mosses
Who is Robin Wall Kimmerer?
An author’s work who is described as intricately patterned compositions [that] explores various aspects of the human condition and inspire wonder int he unexpected associations that language can evoke.
Who is Heather McHugh>
A poem that argues that we need to “save” all of it.
What is “Webcam the World?”
One person annually is selected to be stoned to death by other members of their town to ensure a good harvest and to rid the town of bad omens for the year.
What is Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery?”
What is internal rhyme?
A prolific American author of SciFi, fantasy short stories, novels, comics, children’s stories, YA novels, biographies, and nonfiction articles and reviews
Who was Terry Bisson?
wrote 20 volumes of poetry and describes herself as a wandering poet
Who is Shihab Nye
Dedicated to Al Gore and The climate Reality Project
What is the dedication for “Our Purpose in Poetry: or, Earthrise?”
What was the literary term notable in”Once More to the Lake?”
A turn
What is a Volta?