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Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver was born in the small town of Maple Heights, Ohio on September 10, 1935. Her father was a social studies teacher and an athletics coach in the Cleveland public schools. Turning to writing as a creative escape

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Old Poets of China, The

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What was the first poem published by the first American writer to receive the Nobel Prize in literature?

Answer

Sinclair Lewis's first publication was probably the poem "Launcelot," which appeared in his college journal in 1904.

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