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Dudley Randall. Ben Yanke. Personal Life. Born in Washington DC in 1914 Moved to Detroit at a young age Married three times Began publishing poems when he was 13 Studied and eventually taught at University of Detroit. Poetry Career. Poem Counterpoem , with Margaret Danner (1966).
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Dudley Randall Ben Yanke
Personal Life • Born in Washington DC in 1914 • Moved to Detroit at a young age • Married three times • Began publishing poems when he was 13 • Studied and eventually taught at University of Detroit
Poetry Career • Poem Counterpoem, with Margaret Danner (1966). • Cities Burning (1968). • Love You (1970). • More to Remember: Poems of Four Decades (1971). • After the Killing (1973), • Broadside Memories: Poets I Have Known (1975). • A Litany of Friends: New and Selected Poems (1981).
Ballad of Birmingham • Written in 1963 • Written in response to the bombing of a black church in Birmingham • The poem focuses on one of these children killed in the bombing, and the child’s mother. • Eventually, it was turned into a song by Tennessee State
Ballad of Birmingham • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wW4SLv3jgM
Works Cited • Madget, Naomi Long. "Dudley Randall's Life and Career." Dudley Randall's Life and Career. University of Illinois, n.d. Web. 09 Dec. 2013. <http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/randall/life.htm> • Randall, Dudley. “Ballad of Birmingham” Literature: An Introduction to Reading Writing. Ed. Edgar V. Roberts and Robert Zweig. Backpack ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2012. 449-450. Print.