Sentence examples for contributed poetry from inspiring English sources

As if rebutting the opening suggestion by Beecher that Africans have not contributed poetry, inventions, or art Cooper highlights the poetic contributions of Phillis Wheatley, the inventions of successful Black farmers, the heroism of Black soldiers, and the artistic work of sculptor Mary Edmonia Lewis.

Salter, one of the editors, contributed poetry — "terrible poetry," he recalls.

He soon contributed poetry and then prose, including panegyrics on Edward Cave, the magazine's proprietor, and another contributor, the learned Elizabeth Carter.

The author of several books, including, most recently, "Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems" and "Sweet Theft: A Poet's Commonplace Book," he contributed poetry to The New Yorker for more than thirty years.

Throughout his career as an educator, Brooks contributed poetry and prose writings to various literary magazines.

Richard Wilbur, who died on Saturday night, at the age of ninety-six, began contributing poetry to The New Yorker in 1948.

While working as a municipal clerk from 1914 to 1918, van Ostaijen began to contribute poetry to newspapers and periodicals.

Bidart has been contributing poetry to The New Yorker since 1997, the same year that the magazine first published Marie Howe, who is also up for the award.

After 1919, living in Brooklyn, New York, with her mother, Moore devoted herself to writing, contributing poetry and criticism to many journals in the United States and England.

Although he edited the school magazine, contributing poetry and prose to it, Thomas did badly at school since he was always intellectually lazy with regard to any subject that did not directly concern him.

John Updike contributed fiction, poetry, essays, and criticism to The New Yorker for a half century.