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Charles Simic Charles Simic
Charles Simic , 1938-, American poet, b. Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Simic moved to the United States in 1954, joining his father, who had arrived before World War II. Simic studied at New York Univ. (B.A., 1966) and taught at several colleges, most notably from 1974 at the Univ. of New Hampshire, where... Read more
Maxine Kumin Maxine Kumin
Maxine Winokur Kumin American writer and poet Maxine Kumin (born 1925) has published numerous books of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning volume Up Country: Poems of New England. Highly decorated for her literary works, she has also written several children's books, a short story... Read more
Pietro Metastasio Pietro Metastasio
Pietro Metastasio , 1698-1782, Italian poet and librettist, whose original name was Antonio Bonaventura Trapassi. A prodigy at poetic improvisation, he became court poet at Vienna in 1729. He wrote melodious lyric verse; a masque, Gli orti esperidi (1721-22); and librettos of many operas,... Read more
Dudley Randall Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall1914–2000 Poet, publisher, editor In his roles as poet and publisher, Dudley Randall was the leading exponent of the new black poetry movement of the 1960s. Randall, whose critically-acclaimed poems prompted Detroit Mayor Coleman Young to name him the Poet Laureate of the City of... Read more
Bohr model Bohr model
Bohr model Resources The Bohr model of atomic structure was developed by Danish physicist and Nobel laureate Niels Bohr (1885–1962). Published in 1913, Bohr Read more
William Whitehead William Whitehead
William Whitehead 1715-85, English poet and playwright. He wrote several plays based on ancient Greek models, including Creusa, Queen of Athens (1754). Whitehead was appointed poet laureate in 1757. Although his light verse had been admired, the more grandiose works that he was required to write... Read more
Mona Van Duyn Mona Van Duyn
Mona Van Duyn Mona Van Duyn (born 1921) was the first woman to be appointed poet laureate of the United States, serving from October 1992 to May 1993. On the occasion of Mona Van Duyn's appointment as poet laureate, the Library of Congress' Information Bulletin (June 29, 1992) described the... Read more
Richard Wilbur Richard Wilbur
Richard Wilbur 1921-, American poet and translator, b. New York City, grad. Amherst (B.A., 1942) and Harvard (M.A., 1947). A skillful craftsman who writes gracefully in traditional verse forms, Wilbur is always original, generally affirmative in his view of the world, and can be profound and witty,... Read more
Leonard Bernstein Leonard Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein , 1918-90, American composer, conductor, and pianist, b. Lawrence, Mass., grad. Harvard, 1939, and Curtis Institute of Music, 1941. A highly versatile musician, he was the composer of symphonic works (the Jeremiah Symphony, 1944; Age of Anxiety, 1949; Kaddish Symphony, 1963),... Read more
Sir John Betjeman Sir John Betjeman
Sir John Betjeman , 1906-84, English poet, b. London. Traditional in rhyme and meter, his verse combined a witty appraisal of the English present with nostalgia for England's past, especially the Victorian past. His published collections include Mt. Zion (1933), Continental Dew (1937), Old... Read more

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