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Carroll Arnett (Gogisgi) was born in 1927, he served in the U.S Marine Corp for one year. He received his bachelor's in 1951 and later taught at Nasson College. He was a former Deer Clan Chief of the Overhill Band of the Cherokee Nation.
By: Jayden Kitchens

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On July 2, 1997, the Cherokee writer, Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett, passed away in Michigan. Gogisgi, which means "Smoke" in Cherokee, was born in Oklahoma City in 1927. He attended the University of Oklahoma for a while soon after he left the U.S. Marines at the end of World War II. For the last thirty years he had lived in Michigan, where he had taught as a college professor at Central Michigan University until his retirement a few years ago. In more than thirty years of writing, he published twelve books of poems and was recognized as a major Indian poet, albeit lesser known in his native city and state than a number of others who lay claim to Cherokee culture.

His books were: Then (1965), Not Only Than (1967), Like a Wall (1969), Through the Woods (1971), Earlier (1972), Come (1973), Tsalagi (1976), South Line (1979), Rounds (1982), Engine (1988), Night Perimeter (1991), and Spells (1995). I may have left out one or more, but I don't think so. When Tsalagi came out, Carroll sent me a copy and afterwards he sent me a copy of each new book he published. I value them highly, just as I valued his friendship.

I was privileged to know Carroll for twenty-three years. He was a good friend, a strong influence as a writer and as a person, an older brother. In fact, it was by this latter designation - older brother - that I addressed him in our letters. His generosity to a host of younger writers - Gordon Henry, Joy Harjo, Lance Henson, Barney Bush, me - is well-known, as well as his encouragement and help to elder writers, like the late Louise Littelcoon Oliver. In his poems, Carroll always stressed that waste is perhaps the most unforgivable thing that human beings indulge in - the waste of time, of emotions, of land and resources, of each other. A short poem of his sums this up quite well (the shortness of the poem a string indication of how he always avoided over-expending words):
The Old Man Said: Two
The wisdom of an
animal may be
measured by
the quantity of its
excrement.
See
how little of his
waste brother deer
leaves behind.

In one of Carroll's last poems, he decries waste again an instance of human waste of a staggering magnitude - the Oklahoma City bombing in April 1995:
And So On
168 murdered
How the sun can still
shine there I don't know.
Others say they know -
good for them. Words about
hope everlasting, the spirits
of kids laughing, about
vengeance and justice -
mere comfort. A massive
emptiness sits there
in the sun's silent light,
impossible to forgive
as it is to forget.

Carroll's life was the exact opposite of wastefulness. It was a life filled with sharing and compassion, of building and creating, of nurturing and preserving. He cannot be replaced and I find I am already missing his presence tremendously.

-Geary Hobson (1997)

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(1927-1997) On July 2, 1997, the Cherokee writer, Gogisgi/Carroll Arnett, passed away in Michigan. Gogisgi, which means "Smoke" in Cherokee, was born in Oklahoma City in 1927. He attended the University of Oklahoma for a while soon after he left the U.S. Marines at the end of World War II.

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Ellyn has read in Europe at the Bristol Poetry Festival, on the BBC.

Ellyn also has a band named The Ellyn Maybe Band.

- Kailee Dingle 313
http://www.poetryidiots.com/index.php/previous-features/21-featured-poets/2016/337-ellyn-mayb

Ellyn Maybe. (n.d.). Retrieved January 25, 2018, from http://ellynmaybe.com/

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Attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan Then Later earned his MFA(Master of Fine Arts) in the University of California

He is now currently a Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Oregon at Eugene, where he then directed the Program in Creative Writing from 1989 to 1993.

Born in Volcano,Hawaii on May 30,1951

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/garrett-hongo

- Salvador Vasquez

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1. Carmen Tafolla is an author and haswritten multiple books, most are kids books such as,  What Can You Do with a Rebozo? and What Can You Do with a Paleta?

2. She also did seven television screenplays, one non-fiction volume, and a collection of short stories.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/carmen-tafolla
- Citlali Dominguez

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He is an award winning poet who writes poems for adults and children

He spent most of his life growing up in Mexico and California

Source: A. (2016, January 21). Francisco X. Alarcón. Retrieved from http://www.colorincolorado.org/videos/meet-authors/francisco-x-alarcón

~ Liam Fitzpatrick

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Facts

1. Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

2. She is a member of the Muscogee nation.

3. Joy has released five award winning CDs  of original music.

By: Colton Bass

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One interesting fact about Ellyn is that she has her own band and another interesting fact is that she is also an actress and she starred in Dancing at the Blue Iguana which apparently is quite famous.
-Nylah Saldana

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A fact about Joy Harjo is that she was inspired by these 3 famous writers. They’re names were  Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon J. Ortiz, Flannery O'Connor. These 3 people inspired her to become a poet.  Another fact is that Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 9, 1951, with the given name Joy Foster.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joy-harjo
- By Jalen D

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2 Interesting Facts:

He was friends with Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, and Arthur Miller

He was removed from a game show because people suspected him of being a ommunist

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/louis-untermeyer

~ By:Emma Robledo

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She emigrated during WWII

She lived in Latvia  before WWII

Her father pushed her to learn multiple languages before she finished high school

Bush, G. (2013). Indivisible: Poems for social justice. Norwood House Press.

by- Marque Dotson

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He was born in Daejeon, South Korea but the poem that I’m studying is all about Japan and Japanese people.

As the founder of LitHop he had a modest goal of events that he would like to do but it exceeded and there was almost 40 poetry events.

-Mion

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1.Natasha's poems are about her personal life and her family history
2.Her father was a poet.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/natasha-trethewey-By:Kamarria

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1.An interesting fact about Amiri Baraka is that Amiri Baraka, previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.

2.Another fact is Amiri Baraka (formerly LeRoi Jones) was born in Newark, New Jersey, on October 7, 1934.He later died on January 9, 2014 at the age of 79.
https://www.biography.com/people/amiri-baraka-9198235

By:Nicholas Torres

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Tupac Shakur was a rapper on the west coast in California. He died at the age of 25 but is named one the greatest rappers of all-time. Another interesting fact is that he survived being shot 9 times.
https://www.biography.com/people/tupac-shakur-206528

By:Kimoni

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Spanish Civil War veteran and militant poet Ramón Durem was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1915 of mixed heritage.  Leaving home at fourteen, he briefly served in the U.S. Navy before suffering a leg injury that forced his discharge.

http://www.blackpast.org/aah/durem-ramon-1915-1963

-By: Branden G.

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Interesting Facts:
-Turner was a descendant of both Thomas Jefferson and Pocahontas. Through her dad’s side she is related to Jefferson and through her mom’s side her ancestry was traced to Pocahontas.
- She graduated from Hannah More Academy and became a teacher.
-By Oscar Casimiro

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Nancy Byrd Turner's biography and life story.Nancy Byrd Turner (July 29, 1880 - September 5, 1971) was an American poet, editor and lecturer.Nancy Byrd Turner, born in Boydton, Virginia, was the eldest child o.

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In 1948 William Stafford moved to Oregon to teach at Lewis and Clark College. Stafford's poems were very similar to Robert Frost’s poems, simple but not too simple.

William Stafford Centennial. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.lclark.edu/william_stafford/reading/

William Stafford. (2017, March 15). Retrieved from https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-stafford
Ryan Galvan

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Fun Facts
She won 24 awards.
She is only 66 years old. She was born on May 9,1951.
She was influenced by Leslie Marmon Silko, Simon J. Ortiz, Flannery O'Connor.
She was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
-Briana Flores

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We were dreaming on an occupied island at the farthest edge
of a trembling nation when it went down.

Two towers rose up from the east island of commerce and touched
the sky. Men walked on the moon. Oil was sucked dry
by two brothers. Then it went down. Swallowed
by a fire dragon, by oil and fear.
Eaten whole.

It was coming.

We had been watching since the eve of the missionaries in their
long and solemn clothes, to see what would happen.

We saw it
from the kitchen window over the sink
as we made coffee, cooked rice and
potatoes, enough for an army.

We saw it all, as we changed diapers and fed
the babies. We saw it,
through the branches
of the knowledgeable tree
through the snags of stars, through
the sun and storms from our knees
as we bathed and washed
the floors.

The conference of the birds warned us, as they flew over
destroyers in the harbor, parked there since the first takeover.
It was by their song and talk we knew when to rise
when to look out the window
to the commotion going on-
the magnetic field thrown off by grief.

We heard it.
The racket in every corner of the world. As
the hunger for war rose up in those who would steal to be president
to be king or emperor, to own the trees, stones, and everything
else that moved about the earth, inside the earth
and above it.

We knew it was coming, tasted the winds who gathered intelligence
from each leaf and flower, from every mountain, sea
and desert, from every prayer and song all over this tiny universe
floating in the skies of infinite
being.

And then it was over, this world we had grown to love
for its sweet grasses, for the many-colored horses
and fishes, for the shimmering possibilities
while dreaming.

But then there were the seeds to plant and the babies
who needed milk and comforting, and someone
picked up a guitar or ukulele from the rubble
and began to sing about the light flutter
the kick beneath the skin of the earth
we felt there, beneath us

a warm animal
a song being born between the legs of her;
a poem.

From How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001 (W. W. Norton and Company Inc. 2002) by Joy Harjo. Copyright © 2002 by Joy Harjo. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., and available here.

Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1951 and is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation. Her books of poetry include Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings (Norton 2015); How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems (Norton 2002); A Map to the Next World: Poems (Norton 2000); The Woman Who Fell From the Sky (Norton 1994), which received the Oklahoma Book Arts Award; In Mad Love and War (Wesleyan 1990), which received an American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; Secrets from the Center of the World (University of Arizona Press 1989); She Had Some Horses (Thunder's Mouth Press 1983); and What Moon Drove Me to This? (Reed Books 1979). Her memoir, Crazy Brave (Norton 2012), won the 2013 PEN Center USA literary prize for creative nonfiction. Also a performer, Harjo has appeared on HBO's Def Poetry Jam in the U.S. and internationally. She plays saxophone with her band Poetic Justice and has released four award-winning CDs of original music, winning a Native American Music Award (NAMMY) for Best Female Artist of 2009. Harjo's honors include the PEN Open Book Award, the American Indian Distinguished Achievement in the Arts Award, the Josephine Miles Poetry Award, the Mountains and Plains Booksellers Award, the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America, and fellowships from the Arizona Commission on the Arts, the Witter Bynner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the 2015 Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. She is Professor of English and American Indian studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and she lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

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Poetry Sunday: "When the World as We Knew It Ended," by Joy Harjo

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This poem was written in response to the events of September 11, 2001, whose anniversary our nation will commemorate and mourn tomorrow. In today's political climate, we hear a lot of talk about being "woke," but for many of us, the first flutter of the eyelids occurred on that dark day 16 years ago.

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Fun Facts

1.  He was a famous rapper before he died

2. He died at 25 years of age

Source:“Tupac Shakur.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 13 Feb. 2018, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupac_Shakur.

By: Jailen Baker

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One interesting fact about the author was that she was a psychologist. She also worked with old people in nursing homes.

Tali Medina

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Interesting/Fun Facts

1. Initially joined his father’s firm (German-Jewish jewelry manufacture) as a designer.

2. Was a panelist during the first year (1950) of the What’s My Line?, television quiz program.

Where I got information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Untermeyer

-Giselle Alencastro

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Portrait of American poet, editor, and anthologist Louis Untermeyer (1885 - 1977), circa 1945.

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Two interesting facts about Tupac Shakur are Tupac was killed by someone who seemed to be a Crip from the driver's rival gang.

Tupac may also be alive as he released a mixtape talking about his funeral 2 days after he was pronounced dead.

-by Rocco Sutor

Tupac Shakur. (2018, January 19). Retrieved from https://www.biography.com/people/tupac-shakur-206528

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Fun Facts

When Edwin was 12 he was working exhausting labor on the family farm

His first name was Charles but he dropped it in 1895

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/edwin-markham
-Elizabeth Corral