John Ciardi got his master’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1939 and

John Ciardi was born in 1916 in Boston, Massachusetts, the child of Italian immigrants. He attended Bates College and Tufts College and received his master’s degree from the University of Michigan in 1939. He is the author of more than forty volumes of poetry.

U.S. scientists discovered that the soft orange glow of a common Caribbean coral comes not from the coral itself but from bacteria that live inside it. And the bacteria not only give the coral a little nightlight, but they also break down seawater to help nourish the coral.