{"id":1248,"date":"2014-10-02T19:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T00:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/?p=1248"},"modified":"2014-10-02T19:12:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T00:12:41","slug":"ciardi-john","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/ciardi-john\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciardi, John"},"content":{"rendered":"<table class=\"ae_table alignright\" style=\"width: auto; height: auto;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/ph_ciardi.jpg\" alt=\"ph_ciardi\" width=\"140\" height=\"184\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-top-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1309\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bk_monst.jpg\" alt=\"bk_monst\" width=\"120\" height=\"186\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-left\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bk_trout.jpg\" alt=\"bk_trout\" width=\"120\" height=\"164\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"ae_cell-bot-right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bookologymagazine.com\/resources\/authors-emeritus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/bk_you.jpg\" alt=\"bk_you\" width=\"120\" height=\"185\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>John Ciardi was born in 1916 in Boston, Massachusetts,<\/strong> the son of Italian immigrants. He attended Bates College and Tufts University and received his master&#8217;s degree from the University of Michigan in 1939. He was the author of more than 40 volumes of poetry, wrote an acclaimed translation of Dante&#8217;s <em>Divine Comedy<\/em>, was a regular commentator for National Public Radio on his program <em>A Word in Your Ear<\/em>, worked as editor and contributor for <em>Saturday Review<\/em>, served in the Air Force, taught at Harvard, directed a widely respected writers conference in Vermont, appeared on radio and television, lectured throughout the country, and, of course, wrote children&#8217;s books. He noted once that &#8220;You don&#8217;t have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.&#8221; He began writing children&#8217;s poetry as a way of getting his own children interested in reading, and his 16 books for children include <em>The Man Who Sang the Sillies, The Reason for the Pelican, Doodle Soup, You Know Who, The Monster Den,<\/em> and <em>Someone Could Win a Polar Bear<\/em>. In 1982 John Ciardi won the National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. He died of a heart attack on Easter Sunday, 1986, at his home in New Jersey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ae-byline\">\u2014 Julie Schuster<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Ciardi was born in 1916 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Italian immigrants. He attended Bates College and Tufts University and received his master&#8217;s degree from the University of Michigan in 1939. 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