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Margaret Danner
Margaret Esse Danner was born in Pryorsburg, Kentucky on January 12, 1915. Her talent was revealed early on when she won first prize in an eighth-grade competition for her poem βThe Violin.β Her parents Caleb and Naomi
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Painted Lady, The
The Painted Lady is a small African
Butterfly gayly toned deep tan and peach
That seems as tremulous and delicately sheer
As the objects I treasure, yet this cosmopolitan
5Can cross the sea at the icy time of year
In the trail of the big boats, to France.
Mischance is as wide and grey as the lake here
In Chicago. Is there strength enough in my
Peach paper rose or lavender sea-laced fan?
Poets Book of Days
January 12
Edith Emma Cooper born, 1862. She collaborated with her aunt, Katherine Bradley, to write poems under the pseudonym "Michael Field".
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Poetry Trivia
Question:
What W.B. Yeats (1865-1939) poem provided the title for Chinua Achebe's (b. 1930) seminal novel of Nigeria?
Answer
The book Things Fall Apart: A Novel found its title in "The Second Coming." ("Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. . .")
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