Friday, July 03, 2026
Thursday, July 02, 2026
AUTHORS & POETS BORN IN JULY
John Ashberry *
Eric Jerome Dickey
Alice Marie Dunbar-Nelson *
Tessa Gallagher *
Herman Hesse
June Jordan *
Franz Kafka
Dean Koontz
Pablo Neruda *
Marcel Proust
Lisa Scottonline
Neil Simon
Wislawa Szymbroska *
* Poet
Wednesday, July 01, 2026
Tuesday, June 30, 2026
Monday, June 29, 2026
Sunday, June 28, 2026
QUOTES CAN BE FUTURE STORIES
I enjoy reading quotes. The ones that I like I post in a small notebook . Once in a while I will read them again. Quotes, I find, can make good stories.
Saturday, June 27, 2026
Friday, June 26, 2026
Thursday, June 25, 2026
Wednesday, June 24, 2026
Tuesday, June 23, 2026
Monday, June 22, 2026
Sunday, June 21, 2026
Friday, June 19, 2026
AUTHORS BORN IN JUNE
Ken Follett
Nikki Giovanni
Thomas Hardy
Thomas Mann
Larry McMurtry
Joyce Carol Oates
George Orwell
Sara Paretsky
Jean-Paul Sartre
Maurice Sendak
Thursday, June 18, 2026
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Monday, June 15, 2026
Sunday, June 14, 2026
Saturday, June 13, 2026
Friday, June 12, 2026
POETS BORN IN JUNE
Gwendolyn Brooks
Lucille Clifton
Stephen Dunn
Allen Ginsberg
Federico Garcia Lorca
Czecslaw Milosz
Vikram Seth
W. B. Yeats
Thursday, June 11, 2026
Wednesday, June 10, 2026
Tuesday, June 09, 2026
Monday, June 08, 2026
Sunday, June 07, 2026
Friday, June 05, 2026
Thursday, June 04, 2026
Wednesday, June 03, 2026
OBSCURE POET
ALBERY ALSTON WHITMAN (1851-1901)
Born in slavery in Kentucky
Epic poet, minister, orator
Wrote book-length narrative poems detailing the African-American experience.
Pastored church in Springfield, Ohio
Attempted to write Romantic poetry. Was inspired by Lord Byron.
Poet Laureate of the black race
Struggled with alcoholism and illness
Died from pneumonia
WORKS
* Not a Man, and Yet a Man (1877)
* The Rape of Florida republished as Twesinta Seminoles (1884)
* An Idyl of the South. (1901)
Tuesday, June 02, 2026
Monday, June 01, 2026
Saturday, May 30, 2026
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