Indivisible: Poets (313) by connie https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets Interesting information about the poets whose poems we chose. en-us 2018-02-05 00:13:30 UTC 2025-10-01 22:11:42 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Balance.png Edwin Markham https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901314 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
]]> 2018-02-15 14:14:18 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901314 Tupac Shakur https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901788
  • 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

    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:15:07 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901788     Louis Untermeyer https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901807 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
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901807     Alice Mishkin https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901947 One interesting fact about the author was that she was a psychologist. She also worked with old people in nursing homes.
    Tali Medina
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:15:19 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901947     Tupac Shakur https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901950 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
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:15:20 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231901950     Joy Harjo https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902037 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     ]]>     2018-02-15 14:15:29 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902037     William Stafford https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902070 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. (2017, March 15). Retrieved from https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/william-stafford 
    Ryan Galvan 
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:15:33 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902070     Nancy Byrd Turner https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902428 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]]>     2018-02-15 14:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902428     Ramón Durem https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902434 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.
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902434     Tupac Shakur https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902708 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

    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:16:25 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902708     Amiri Baraka https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902794 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
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902794     Natasha Trethewey https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902889 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]]>     2018-02-15 14:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902889     Lee Herrick https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902904 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
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231902904     Ilze Mueller https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231904256  
    • 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
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:18:58 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231904256     Louis Untermeyer https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231905262 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
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231905262     Joy Harjo https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231905559  
    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
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231905559     Ellyn Maybe https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231907415 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]]>     2018-02-15 14:24:07 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231907415     Joy Harjo https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231913110 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
    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231913110     Francisco X. Alarcon https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231914197
  • 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

    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:34:40 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231914197     Carmen Tafolla https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231915127 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 

    ]]>     2018-02-15 14:35:56 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/231915127     Garrett Hongo https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/236414747
  • 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

    ]]>     2018-02-28 14:42:20 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/236414747     Ellyn Maybe https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/239671723 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/
    ]]>     2018-03-08 14:39:17 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/239671723     Gogisgi https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/242907916 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]]>     2018-03-16 16:30:25 UTC https://padlet.com/clamon/313indipoets/wish/242907916