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POET HERO:
ILSE BING
ILSE BING
wrote in the introduction of her book:
On the other hand, I found out that grown persons are no more secure, no more free than children. Fundamentally, even if in a different way, they confront the same problems, they are filled with the same hopes, the same anguishes and joys, ...their deepest possible insights go in the same direction...
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| A. Navoi wrote poetry over 500 years ago that has withstood the test of time. | Ada Aharoni works for peace between Israelis and Palestinians with poetry. | Alexander Pushkin is one of Russia's greatest writers. | Anna Akhmatova is considered one of Russia's best poets. | Carl Sandburg wrote poems, stories and nonfiction about Americans and American life. | Chairil Anwar was a beloved Indonesian poet. |
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| Christine de Pisan was a 15th century French poet. | Dante Alighieri contributed to Italian culture by his use of the Tuscan language instead of Latin. | Doreen Van Lee writes about her Chicago childhood. | DuBose Heyward Wrote most of the lyrics to the famous musical, 'Porgy and Bess.' | Dylan Thomas : life will carry on, always with the same vigor. | Edgar Allan Poe was a renowned poet who overcame many hardships including depression. |
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| Edna St. Vincent Millay 's poetry was both popular and critically acclaimed. | Emily Elizabeth Dickinson wrote nearly 2,000 poems in her lifetime. | Emma Lazarus was an advocate for immigrants' rights and wrote the poem inscribed on the Statue of Liberty. | Hadraawi, Beloved Peacemaker / Poet of Somalia is a powerful voice for peace in his country. | Henry Rago was a Poet and Professor whose poetry stands the test of time. | Ilse Bing was a remarkable poet and photographer. Her works withstand the test of time. |
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| Isaac Rosenberg was a poet of the Great War. | Jack Prelutsky is a beloved children's book author, and the first Children's Poet Laureate | Khwajeh Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi is a renowned Iranian poet. | Langston Hughes was nicknamed the Poet Laureate of Harlem. | Li Bai is often referred to as the 'God of Poets' in China. | Maria Josephine Barrios Filipina poet and activist |
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| Mariama Khan writes poetry to champion the cause of the voiceless. | Mattie Stepanek is a hero to people of all ages around the world. | Maya Angelou is a beloved female author and poet. | Naguib Mahfouz was the first Arab to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature. | Ntozake Shange is the inventor of the choreopoem. | Pablo Neruda is the most widely read Latin-American poet. |
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| Paul Laurence Dunbar was an African-American poet of the nineteenth century. | Phillis Wheatley was the first distinguished African-American poet. | Robert Lee Frost was named 'the national bard.' | Robert Penn Warren was the first Poet Laureate of the United States. | Saul Williams is a Spoken Word Poet and Slam Champ. | Shel Silverstein was a poet, playwright, lyricist and good friend. |
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| Theodor Seuss (Dr. Seuss) Geisel | W.E.B. Dubois was a leading 19th century writer and scholar. | William Shakespeare wrote plays & poetry that continue to have a lasting effect on readers all over the world. |
Canadian Wendy Jewell writes:
When I was a little girl, children were looked upon as, "not yet"
- something not yet perfect. I resented this approach toward me. But I was no fighter, and I retreated into my own world.
This world was so colorful and so rich that I wanted never to become a grown-up.
Yet, I had to grow up. This childhood experience, however, stayed with me. It helped me see and understand life in a much greater variety and depth. It made me respect all children as persons complete in themselves, as persons who had to find their own way, with ideas and inner struggles as valid as those of grown-ups.
