Author, Poet & Novelist Posters & Prints: “Kh...-Ki...-”
for the literature, language arts and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, and scholars.

Omar Khayyam
b. 5-18-1048; Nishapur, Iran
d. 1131

Omar Khayyám was a Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer best remembered in the West for his Rubaiyat. Rubaiyat is a word derived from the Arabic root word for “4”, and meaning a ruba'i or two line stanza with two parts per line.

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou ...

• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Alfred Joyce Kilmer
b. 12-6-1886; Brunswick, NJ
d. 7-30-1918; near Seringes-et-Nesles, France

Joyce Kilmer was a journalist, poet, literary critic, lecturer, and editor whose works celebrated the common beauty of the natural world as well as his Catholic faith. Kilmer, remembered most for a short poem entitled “Trees” (1913), served as a sergeant in 165th US Infantry Regiment and died at the World War I Second Battle of the Marne.

FYI - Kilmer's father was a chemist who developed baby powder for the Johnson & Johnson Co.

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I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely as a tree.

A tree whose hungry mouth is prest
Against the sweet earth's flowing breast;

A tree that looks at God all day,
And lifts her leafy arms to pray;

A tree that may in summer wear
A nest of robins in her hair;

Upon whose bosom snow has lain;
Who intimately lives with rain.

Poems are made by fools like me,
But only God can make a tree.

• more trees posters

Stephen King
b. 9-21-1947; Portland, Maine

Stephen King, the author of suspense, science fiction and horror novels and short stories, such as Carrie, Christine, The Shining, The Stand, and Cujo.

Stephen King quotes ~
• “Fiction is the truth inside the lie.”
• “People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
• “The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool.”

Charles Kingsley
b. 6-12-1819; Holne, Devon, England
d. 1-23-1875; Eversley, Hampshire

Charles Kingsley, a priest of the Church of England, university professor, historian and novelist, is best remembered for The Water-Babies, A Fairy Tale for a Land Baby (1863).

Charles Kingsley quotes ~
• “Every winter,
When the great sun has turned his face away,
The earth goes down into a vale of grief,
And fasts, and weeps, and shrouds herself in sables,
Leaving her wedding-garlands to decay -
Then leaps in spring to his returning kisses.”

Mary Kingsley
b. 10-13-1862; Islington, London, England
d. 6-3-1900; South Africa (typhoid)

Mary Kingsley took care of her bedridden mother for years, serving as housekeeper, handyman, nursemaid, and servant; educating herself. In 1893 Mary broke free and traveled to West Africa, enduring the heat and hardships in her high-necked blouse, long skirt, and Victorian boots, to write of her travel adventures that could not have been predicted from her humble beginnings.

• Uncommon Traveler: Mary Kingsley in Africa
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Barbara Kingsolver
b. 4-8-1955; Annapolis, MD

Novelist, essayist and poet Barbara Kingsolver focuses on social justice, biodiversity, community and the environment. She also has a Masters Degree in ecology and evolutionary biology.

Barbara Kingsolver quotes ~
• “Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.”
• “When moral superiority combines with billowing ignorance, they fill up a hot-air balloon that's awfully hard not to poke.”
• “What I want is so simple I almost can't say it: elementary kindness.”

Maxine Hong Kingston, Wall Poster

Maxine Hong Kingston
b. 10-27-1940; Stockton, CA

Poster Text: ... Maxine Hong Kingston believes that words have the power to change the world for the better. Through her books, she has enabled millions of people to better understand the Chinese culture, and she has brought people of all beliefs and backgounds a little closer together.

• more Maxine Hong Kingston posters
• more Great Asian Americans posters

Rudyard Kipling
b. 12-30-1865; Bombay (Mumbai), India
d. 1-18-1936; Middlesex Hospital, London, England (perforated duodenal ulcer)

Rudyard Kipling, poet and novelist, was awarded the 1907 Nobel Prize for Literature “in consideration of the power of observation, originality of imagination, virility of ideas and remarkable talent for narration which characterize the creations of this world-famous author.”

Rudyard Kipling quotes ~
• “God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.”
• “Everyone is more or less mad on one point.”
• “Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade.”
• “The Cat. He walked by himself, and all places were alike to him.”
• “Far-called our navies melt away —
On dune and headland sinks the fire —
Lo, all our pomp of yesterday
Is one with Nineveh and Tyre!
Judge of the Nations, spare us yet,
Lest we forget — lest we forget!” ~ 3rd stanza Recessional

• Just So Stories book cover
• The Portable Kipling