In A LIBRARY, world-renowned poet, Nikki Giovanni and fine artist Erin Robinson craft an ode to the magic of a library as a place not only for knowledge, but also for imagination, exploration, and escape. Pubs Sep 27, 2022.

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Zhangheng - Zhang Heng was a Chinese polymathic scientist and statesman. But also an astronomer, mathematician, seismologist, hydraulic engineer, inventor, geographer, cartographer, ethnographer, artist, poet, philosopher, politician, and literary scholar.

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Verne - Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. He made the Voyages extraordinaires, a series of bestselling novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and Around the World in Eighty Days.

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Turgenev - Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West.

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Adolf Hoffmeister (Czech, 1902-73) was born on this day.
"Noah´s Ark", 1923
"Besides being an artist, Hoffmeister was a poet, novelist, translator, lawyer, journalist, editor and a member of anti-Nazi resistance in France."

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And somewhere men are laughing, and somewhere children shout,
But there is no joy in Mudville—mighty Casey has struck out.

Casey At The Bat: https://t.co/W4Xy2K2tnK

✒️ American poet, was 14 August 1863.

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This children's author, poet, presenter, political columnist, broadcaster activist and all round legend Michael Rosen.
Some of you recognised the likeness so I'm claiming that as a "win".

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'In this world there is only toleration for the so-called normal.' Radclyffe Hall 1880. 'The Well of Loneliness', subject of an obscenity trial in the UK, resulted in an order for the destruction of all copies of the book https://t.co/l1IL5O0wLx

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William Blake
November 28, 1757 – August 12, 1827

Celebrated today as an imaginative and original poet, painter, engraver and mystic, his timeless work has influenced generations...

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OCTOBER 8: Nina Freeman, leading indie game designer & streamer, presents "Making Games Intimate(ly)". She'll share her path as a poet, designer, and game developer. Games will available to play on lobby computers. 🎟️s benefit Frog Hollow Farm.

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John Ronald Reuel Tolkien was an English writer, poet, philologist, and academic, best known as the author of the high fantasy works The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. 🔥📚

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There were many trios of goddesses in Irish myths!
-Ériu, Banba & Fódla (gave names to Ireland)
-The Morrigan=Badb, Macha & Nemain/Anand (death/war)
-Brigid (all called Brigid; poet, healer, smith)

Same for brothers!
🎨Jane Brideson & Jenn Rose?

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Please check out their work. I treasure this moment you've put into art. Thank you,

I'm paraphrasing, but love with your heart, not your eyes. Do so, and no one is truly gone
-13th century Sufi poet, Mawlānā

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😮 NFT artist, author, poet, visual storyteller & educator. Dam is a lady of many talents.

Very excited to have Lisa join and myself tomorrow on Ep. 15 to discuss story telling with digital art 🎨.

Hit the reminder below 👇
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Born on this day: Activist, poet, journalist and educator Alice Dunbar Nelson (1875-1935)

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