It's National Poetry Month in Great Britain! | |
Henry James' The Turn of the Screw was first published on this day in 1898 | |
Poet Robert Lowell (Lord Weary's Castle) was sentenced to prison on this day in 1943 for evading the draft. | |
Annie Proulx's short story Brokeback Mountain was published in The New Yorker on this day in 1997. Its 2005 film adaptation would win Academy Awards as well as BAFTA and Golden Globe awards, and a heap of controversy. | |
Music legend and poet Bob Dylan (Tarantula) was named the 2016 Nobel Laureate in Literature on this day in 2016 |
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