Twain, a huge admirer of Browning, made a habit of reading his poems aloud. Page 68 shows the kind of markings and cues Twain wrote to himself to guide his public readings. For instance ...
He had moderate success selling a self-pasting scrapbook dubbed, naturally, "Mark Twain's Scrap Book," and patented a peculiar replacement for suspenders ... literary critic, and occasional poet. He ...
Percival Everett has won the National Book Award for Fiction for his novel “James,” a retelling of Mark Twain’s classic ... Arab American poet Lena Khalaf Tuffaha, who won in the poetry ...