The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

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At the Biden/Harris inauguration on Wednesday, poet Amanda Gorman, dressed in the yellow of the Sun, realigned the planets with her recitation of a poem called The Hill We Climb. In 2018 for The ...

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Painting the Earth First, there was nothing and then God said let there be light. or molecules came together to form stars above. So there was light on the earth, […] ...

For 75 years now, Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) has been threatening to break back though to the position he held when, in 1907, he became the youngest winner of the Nobel Prize — acknowledged as a ...

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