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The novelist William Styron, was born in Newport News, Virginia, in 1925. He served in the Marines, and then he worked at a publishing ho...

Roman poet Horace was born on this day in Venusia, in southern Italy (65 B.C.E.). His father was a former slave, but by the time Horace came...

Come you masters of war You that build all the guns You that build the death planes You that build all the bombs You that hide behind w...

To Ezra Pound These are the names of the companies that have made money from this war nineteenhundredsixtyeight Annodomini fourthousand eigh...

It's the birthday of novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux, born in Medford, Massachusetts (1941). When he was growing up, his father...

Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have li...

Ezra Pound was born in Hailey, Idaho (1885). Pound was born within a few years of James Joyce, William Carlos Williams, D.H. Lawrence, Mar...

On 29 March, 1973, the last American combat troops left Vietnam, ending the direct involvement of the United States in the Vietnam War. Seve...

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'bloo...

"No matter how piercing and appalling his insights, the desolation creeping over his outer world, the lurid lights and shadows of his ...

Sinclair Lewis was born in Sauk Centre, Minnesota (1885), author of Main Street (1920)and Babbitt (1922), and the first American to win the...

The novelist and short-story writer Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia (1925). As a young girl she was terribly shy and ...

William “Billy” Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet. He served two terms as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 ...

Travel writer Bill Bryson was born in Des Moines, Iowa (1952). As a young man he settled in England and supported himself with a series of j...

bur·lesque   [ber-lesk] , adjective, verb,-lesqued, -lesquing. –noun 1. an artistic composition, esp. literary or dramatic, that, for the sa...

Edward Field was born on June 7, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York. People who eat in coffee shops are not worried about nutrition. They ord...

Chicago Poet I saluted a nobody. I saw him in a looking-glass. He smiled—so did I. He crumpled the skin on his forehead, frowning—so ...

Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and...

Good-Bye My Fancy! Good-bye my Fancy! Farewell dear mate, dear love! I'm going away, I know not where, Or to what fortune, or whet...

The Bat I was reading about rationalism, the kind of thing we do up north in early winter, where the sun leaves work for the day at 4:...