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Stephen Levine (July 17, 1937 – January 17, 2016) was an American poet, author and teacher best known for his work on death and dying. He is one of a generation of pioneering teachers who, along with Jack Kornfield , Joseph Goldstein and Sharon Salzberg , have made the teachings of Theravada Buddhism more widely available to students in the West.
Appears in comic book form in Creepshow (1982) as "The Lonesome Death of Jordy Verrill" and reprinted in Dark Screams: Volume One (2014) "The Ledge" short story: Penthouse (July 1976) Night Shift (1978) "I Know What You Need" short story: Cosmopolitan (September 1976) Night Shift (1978)
Perpetua and Felicity ( Latin: Perpetua et Felicitas; c. 182[ 6] – c. 203) were Christian martyrs of the third century. Vibia Perpetua was a recently married, well-educated noblewoman, said to have been 22 years old at the time of her death, and mother of an infant son she was nursing. [ 7] Felicity, a slave woman imprisoned with her and ...
Stephen R. Lyons is a retired four-star general in the United States Army who last served as the 13th commander of the United States Transportation Command from August 2018 to October 2021. He previously served as the commanding general of United States Army Combined Arms Support Command / Sustainment Center of Excellence as well as the senior ...
December 8, 1915. " In Flanders Fields " is a war poem in the form of a rondeau, written during the First World War by Canadian physician Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae. He was inspired to write it on May 3, 1915, after presiding over the funeral of friend and fellow soldier Lieutenant Alexis Helmer, who died in the Second Battle of Ypres.
For the composition by Paul Hindemith, see When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (Hindemith). " When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd " is a long poem written by American poet Walt Whitman (1819–1892) as an elegy to President Abraham Lincoln. It was written in the summer of 1865 during a period of profound national mourning in the ...
The Open Boat. First American edition of The Open Boat, illustrated by Will H. Bradley, Doubleday, New York, 1898. " The Open Boat " is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). First published in 1898, it was based on Crane's experience of surviving a shipwreck off the coast of Florida earlier that year while traveling to ...
The Idea of Order at Key West. " The Idea of Order at Key West " is a poem written in 1934 by modernist poet Wallace Stevens. It is one of many poems included in his book, Ideas of Order. It was also included in The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [1]