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Michael Longley

Michael Longley was born in Belfast on July 27, 1939. He was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution and graduated from Trinity College, Dublin, where he studied classics. Longley’s knowledge of

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Remembering Carrigskeewaun

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July 27

Michael Longley born, 1939

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Poetry Trivia

Question:

What African-American Modernist poet was named poet laureate of Liberia in 1947?

Answer

Melvin B. Tolson

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