poet.id,poet.ts,poet.title,poet.year,poet.school_and_movement,poet.poet_description
101,"2018-03-02 02:49:38","Ladan Osman",,,"Ladan Osman's chapbook, “Ordinary Heaven,” appears in Seven New Generation African Poets, Slapering Hol Press. Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize, The Kitchen-Dweller’s Testimony is published by University of Nebraska Press. She lives in Chicago. by"
102,"2018-03-02 02:49:51","Edgar Lee Masters",1868-1950,,"Edgar Lee Masters was born in Garnett, Kansas, on August 23, 1868, but soon after his birth his family moved to Lewistown, Illinois, the town near Springfield where Masters grew up. His youth was marred by his father's financial struggles with a faltering"
103,"2018-03-02 02:49:55","Archibald MacLeish",1892-1982,,"Archibald MacLeish was born in Glencoe, Illinois, on May 7, 1892. First educated at Hotchkiss School, MacLeish later studied at Yale and Harvard Law School, where he was first in his class. Although he focused his studies on law, he also began writing poe"
104,"2018-03-02 02:50:01","Li-Young Lee",1957-,,"Li-Young Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, to Chinese parents. His father had been a personal physician to Mao Zedong while in China, and relocated the family to Indonesia, where he helped found Gamaliel University. In 1959, the Lee family fled "
105,"2018-03-02 02:50:16","Mary Kinzie",1944-,,"Mary Kinzie was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on September 30, 1944. She has published seven collections of poems: California Sorrow (Knopf, 2007); Drift (Knopf, 2005); The Ghost Ship (Knopf, 1996); Autumn Eros and Other Poems (Knopf, 1991); Summers of Vie"
106,"2018-03-02 02:50:18","John P. Welle",,,"Poet and translator John P. Welle, who earned his MFA and PhD at the University of Indiana, has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright Commission and the National Endowment for the Humanities. In 2000, Welle and Ruth Feldman received the Raizi"
107,"2018-03-02 02:50:25","Mari Evans",1923-,"Black Arts","Born on July 16, 1923, Mari Evans grew up in Toledo, Ohio. She attended the University of Toledo.A major figure in the Black Arts Movement, among her books of poetry are A Dark and Splendid Mass (Harlem River Press, 1992), Nightstar: 1973-1978 (1981), I A"
108,"2018-03-02 02:50:35","Clayton Eshleman",1935-,Translators,"Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on June 1, 1935, Clayton Eshleman earned a BA in philosophy and an MA in creative writing, both from Indiana University. He is the author of more than thirty books, and his collections of poetry include Reciprocal Distillati"
109,"2018-03-02 02:50:41","Jared Carter",,Contemporary,"Jared Carter was born in Elwood, Indiana, in 1939, and studied at Yale University and Goddard College. Carter worked as a newspaper reporter for a short while before serving in the military. After his service, Carter traveled abroad before settling in Ind"
110,"2018-03-02 02:50:48","Catherine Bowman",,,"Catherine Bowman was born in El Paso, Texas. She received an MFA from Columbia University in 1988.Bowman is the author of several poetry collections, including Can I Finish, Please? (Four Way Books, 2016); The Plath Cabinet (Four Way Books, 2009); and 1-8"
111,"2018-03-02 02:52:06","Marianne Boruch",1950-,Contemporary,"Born on June 19, 1950, in Chicago, Marianne Boruch earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and her MFA from the University of Massachusetts, where she studied with James Tate. She is the author of nine books of poems, including Eventu"
112,"2018-03-02 02:52:20","Jennifer L. Knox",,,"Jennifer L. Knox was born in Lancaster, California. She received a BA from the University of Iowa and an MFA from New York University.Knox is the author of Days of Shame and Failure (Bloof Books, 2015), The Mystery of the Hidden Driveway (Bloof Books, 201"
113,"2018-03-02 02:52:27","Arthur Davison Ficke",1883-1945,,"Arthur Davison Ficke was born on November 10, 1883, in Davenport, Iowa, to an affluent couple: German-born lawyer Charles A. Ficke and Iowa native Frances Ficke. Ficke attended Davenport High School and, in 1900, enrolled in Harvard University, where he s"
114,"2018-03-02 02:52:30","Amy Clampitt",,,"Amy Clampitt was born on June 15, 1920, and brought up in New Providence, Iowa. She wrote poetry in high school, but then ceased and focused her energies on writing fiction instead. She graduated from Grinnell College, and from that time on lived mainly i"
115,"2018-03-02 02:52:58","Marvin Bell",1937-,"Jazz Poetry","Marvin Bell was born in New York City on August 3, 1937, and grew up in Center Moriches, on the south shore of eastern Long Island. He holds a bachelor of arts degree from Alfred University, a master of arts from the University of Chicago, and a master of"
116,"2018-03-02 02:53:29","Stephen Yenser",,Contemporary,"In 1941, Stephen Yenser was born in Wichita, Kansas.He is the author of Blue Guide (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and The Fire in All Things (1993), which was selected by Richard Howard to receive the 1992 Walt Whitman Award.He has also published a c"
117,"2018-03-02 02:53:50","Wyatt Townley",,,"Wyatt Townley was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and received a BFA in dance from Purchase College at the State University of New York–Purchase. She is the author of four collections of poetry: Rewriting the Body (forthcoming from Stephen F. Austin Univer"
118,"2018-03-02 02:54:49","Denise Low",,,"Denise Low was born in 1949 in Emporia, Kansas. She received her BA, MA, and PhD in English from the University of Kansas and her MFA in creative writing from Wichita State University.Low is the author of several books of poetry, including Mélange Block ("
119,"2018-03-02 02:55:10","Albert Goldbarth",1948-,Contemporary,"On January 31, 1948, Albert Goldbarth was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received his BA from the University of Illinois, Chicago Circle campus, in 1969 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1971. He taught at the Elgin Community College in Chicago un"
120,"2018-03-02 02:55:45","B. H. Fairchild",1942-,Contemporary,"Born on October 17, 1942, in Houston, Texas, the son of a lathe operator, Bertram Harry Fairchild Jr. grew up in Houston and small towns in Oklahoma, west Texas, and southwest Kansas. He earned his BA and MA at the University of Kansas and his PhD at the "
121,"2018-03-02 02:55:54","Harley Elliott",,,"Harley Elliott is the author of Fugitive Histories (Woodley Memorial Press, 2011), Loading the Stone (Woodley Memorial Press, 2006), and The Monkey of Mulberry Pass (Woodley Memorial Press, 1991), among others. He lives in Kansas. by this poet poem Outsid"
122,"2018-03-02 02:56:06","Traci Brimhall",,,"Traci Brimhall is the author of Saudade (Copper Canyon Press, 2017), Our Lady of the Ruins (W. W. Norton, 2012), and Rookery (Southern Illinois University Press, 2010). She is an assistant professor at Kansas State University and lives in Manhattan, Kansa"
123,"2018-03-02 02:56:28","Catherine Anderson",,Contemporary,"Born in Detroit, Michigan in 1954, Catherine Anderson is the author of The Work of Hands (Perugia Press, 2000) and In the Mother Tongue (1983). She has published in the Harvard Review, the Journal, the Women's Review of Books, the anthologies Working Clas"
124,"2018-03-02 02:57:25","Robert Penn Warren",1905-1989,Fugitives,"On April 24, 1905, Robert Penn Warren was born in Guthrie, Todd County, Kentucky. He entered Vanderbilt University in 1921, where he became the youngest member of the group of Southern poets called the Fugitives, which included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Ta"
125,"2018-03-02 02:57:31","Davis McCombs",,,"Davis McCombs was born and raised in Kentucky. He received a BA in 1993 from Harvard University and an MFA in 1995 from the University of Virginia. From 1996 to 1998, he attended Stanford University as a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Between 1991 and 2001, he a"
126,"2018-03-02 02:58:02","Wendell Berry",1934-,Contemporary,"Poet, essayist, farmer, and novelist Wendell Berry was born on August 5, 1934, in New Castle, Kentucky. He attended the University of Kentucky at Lexington where he received a BA in English in 1956 and an MA in 1957.Berry is the author of more than thirty"
127,"2018-03-02 02:58:13","Mark Yakich",,,"Mark Yakich is the author of The Importance of Peeling Potatoes in Ukraine (Penguin, 2008). He teaches at Loyola University New Orleans. by this poet poem Things Said To Be Ineffable Mark Yakich 2017 A book decoratesA nightstandAnd a bodyDecorates a bed.T"
128,"2018-03-02 02:58:23","Alison Pelegrin",,,"Alison Pelegrin was born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received an MFA from the University of Arkansas.Pelegrin is the author of Waterlines (Louisiana State University Press, 2016); Hurricane Party (University of Akron Press, 2012); Big Muddy "
129,"2018-03-02 02:58:33","Laura Mullen",1958-,,"Laura Mullen was born in Los Angeles in 1958. She received her BA in English from University of California, Berkeley, and her MFA in poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. Mullen is the author of several books of poetry, most recently Complicated Grief ("
130,"2018-03-02 02:58:43","Ben Kopel",,,"Ben Kopel was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1983 and received an MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the author of Victory (H_NGM_N Books, 2012) and lives in New Orleans. by this poet poem Iscariot Rising Sutra Ben Kopel 2012 S"
131,"2018-03-02 02:58:50","Ava Leavell Haymon",,,"Ava Leavell Haymon is the author of Eldest Daughter (Louisiana State University Press, 2013). by this poet poem The Witch Has Told You a Story Ava Leavell Haymon 2010 You are food. You are here for me to eat. Fatten up, and I will like you better. Your br"
132,"2018-03-02 02:58:52","Peter Cooley",,,"Peter Cooley is the author of Night Bus to the Afterlife (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2014), Divine Margins (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2009), and A Place Made of Starlight (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2003). He is a Senior Mellon Profe"
133,"2018-03-02 02:59:03","Andrei Codrescu",1946-,Contemporary,"Andrei Codrescu was born in Sibiu, Romania, on December 20, 1946, and immigrated to the United States at the age of nineteen. He is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Art of Forgetting (Sheep Meadow Press, 2016), It Was Today (Coffee Ho"
134,"2018-03-02 02:59:10","Jericho Brown",,,"Jericho Brown grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, and worked as a speechwriter for the mayor of New Orleans before earning his PhD in literature and creative writing from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA in creative writing from the Universit"
135,"2018-03-02 02:59:24","Jeffrey Thomson",,,"Jeffrey Thomson received a PhD in creative writing from the University of Missouri in 1996, and he published his first book of poetry, The Halo Brace (Birch Brook Press) in 1998.Thomson is the author of three additional poetry collections, including Birdw"
136,"2018-03-02 03:00:10","May Sarton",1912-1995,,"May Sarton, originally named Eleanor Marie Sarton, was born on May 3, 1912, in Wondelgem, Belgium. She and her family were forced to flee after the invasion by the Reichswehr in 1915, and the family settled in Boston, Massachusetts, when Sarton was just f"
137,"2018-03-02 03:00:19","Jennifer Moxley",,,"Jennifer Moxley's most recent poetry collection is Druthers, forthcoming from Flood Editions in February 2018). Her book The Open Secret (Flood Editions, 2014) was awarded the 2015 William Carlos Williams award from the Poetry Society of America, and was "
138,"2018-03-02 03:00:26","Annie Finch",,,"Poet, translator, librettist, editor and critic Annie Finch was born in New Rochelle, New York on October 31, 1956. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Yale, a master’s in Creative Writing from the University of Houston, and a doctorate from Stanford Univ"
139,"2018-03-02 03:00:38","Tory Dent",1958-2005,,"In 1958, Tory Dent was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She received a bachelor's degree from Barnard College in 1981 and a master's degree in creative writing at New York University.She is the author of three volumes of poetry: Black Milk (Sheep Meadow Pres"
140,"2018-03-02 03:00:42","Philip Booth",1925-2007,Contemporary,"Born in Hanover, New Hampshire, on October 8, 1925, Philip Booth spent much of his childhood in Castine, Maine, in a house that had been in his mother's family for generations. This biographical detail proves strikingly relevant to Booth's poetry, which c"
141,"2018-03-02 03:01:07","Christian Barter",,,"Christian Barter was born and raised in Maine. He received a BA in music composition from Bates College in 1990 and an MFA in poetry from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1997. In 2008, he received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University.Barter i"
142,"2018-03-02 03:01:11","David Yezzi",,,"David Yezzi is the author of Birds of the Air (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2013). He teaches in the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University and lives in Baltimore, Maryland.  by this poet poem Living Room David Yezzi 2015 God sees me. I see you"
143,"2018-03-02 03:01:14","Tyler Vile",,,"Tyler Vile is the author of Never Coming Home (Topside Press, 2015), a novel-in-verse. Also a spoken word poet and a disability advocate, Vile is vocal about her experience as a transwoman with cerebral palsy, and her work has been featured online in Gadf"
144,"2018-03-02 03:01:22","Mary Jo Salter",1954-,"New Formalism","Mary Jo Salter was born in 1954 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1976, she received her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, where she studied with poet Elizabeth Bishop. She received her master’s degree from Cambrid"
145,"2018-03-02 03:01:26","Edgar Allan Poe",1809-1849,Romanticism,"read poems by edgar allan poe On January 19, 1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe's father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in R"
146,"2018-03-02 03:01:36","Stanley Plumly",1939-,,"Stanley Plumly was born in Barnesville, Ohio, in 1939. Plumly graduated from Wilmington College in 1962, and received his MA from Ohio University in 1968, where he also did course work toward a PhD.Plumly's father, who died at the age of fifty-six of a he"
147,"2018-03-02 03:01:45","Linda Pastan",1932-,,"On May 27, 1932, Linda Pastan was born to a Jewish family in the Bronx. She graduated from Radcliffe College and received an MA from Brandeis University.She is the author of Insomnia (W. W. Norton, 2015); Traveling Light (W. W. Norton, 2011); Queen of a R"
148,"2018-03-02 03:02:07","Josephine Jacobsen",,,"On August 19, 1908, Josephine Jacobsen was born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada. A poet, short story writer, and critic, she was educated by private tutors at the Roland Park Country School, where she graduated in 1926.She served as Poetry Consultant to the L"
149,"2018-03-02 03:02:29","Carolyn Forché",1950-,,"On April 28, 1950, Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit, Michigan. She studied at Michigan State University and earned an MFA from Bowling Green State University.Forché’s books of poetry include: Blue Hour (HarperCollins, 2004); The Angel of History (Harper"
150,"2018-03-02 03:02:43","Daniel Mark Epstein",,,"Daniel Mark Epstein was born on October 25, 1948, in Washington, D.C. and studied at Kenyon College. He is the author of more than fifteen books of poetry, biography, and history.He published his first volume of poetry, No Vacancies in Hell (Liveright) in"
151,"2018-03-02 03:02:58","Michael Collier",,,"by this poet poem Birds Appearing in a Dream Michael Collier 2006 One had feathers like a blood-streaked koi,another a tail of color-coded wires.One was a blackbird stretching orchid wings,another a flicker with a wounded head.All flew like leaves flutter"
152,"2018-03-02 03:03:12","Franz Wright",1953-2015,,"The son of poet James Wright, Franz Wright was born in Vienna on March 18, 1953. During his youth, his family moved to the Northwest United States, the Midwest, and northern California.Wright's poetry collections include Wheeling Motel (Alfred A. Knopf, 2"
153,"2018-03-02 03:04:04","Richard Wilbur",1921-2017,Formalism,"Born in New York City on March 1, 1921, Richard Wilbur studied at Amherst College before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. He later attended Harvard University.His first book of poems, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems (Reynal & Hitchcock)"
154,"2018-03-02 03:04:15","Dara Wier",1949-,Contemporary,"Dara Wier was born in Louisiana on December 30, 1949. She received her M.F.A. in 1974 from Bowling Green State University.Wier is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including You Good Thing (Wave Books, 2013); Selected Poems (2009); Remnants of"
155,"2018-03-02 03:04:25","John Greenleaf Whittier",1807-1892,"Fireside Poet","An American poet and editor, John Greenleaf Whittier was born December 17, 1807, in Haverhill, Massachusetts. The son of two devout Quakers, he grew up on the family farm and had little formal schooling. His first published poem, ""The Exile's Departure,"" "
156,"2018-03-02 03:04:32","Phillis Wheatley",1753-1784,Formalism,"Phillis Wheatley was the first black poet in America to publish a book. She was born in 1753, in West Africa and brought to New England in 1761, where John Wheatley of Boston purchased her as a gift for his wife. Although they brought her into the househo"
157,"2018-03-02 03:04:54","Afaa Michael Weaver",1951-,Contemporary,"Afaa Michael Weaver was born Michael S. Weaver in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1951. The son of working class parents, he attended public schools and graduated as a National Merit finalist at the age of sixteen. After two years at the University of Maryland, h"
158,"2018-03-02 03:05:12","Jones Very",1813-1880,,"Jones Very was born on August 28, 1813, in Salem, Massachusetts. He enrolled in Harvard University as a sophomore in 1834, where he was praised for his prose work, winning the Bowdoin Prize for his essays two years in a row—the first Harvard student to ev"
159,"2018-03-02 03:05:23","Henry David Thoreau",1817-1862,,"In 1817, Henry David Thoreau was born in Concord, Massachusetts. He was introduced to the countryside at a young age, and this first contact with the natural world sparked a lifelong fascination. Although his family lived in relative poverty, subsisting o"
160,"2018-03-02 03:05:30","Michael Teig",,,"Michael Teig was born and raised in 1968 in Franklin, Pennsylvania. He holds a BA in English from Oberlin College and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His first book, Big Back Yard (BOA Editions, 2003), was selecte"
161,"2018-03-02 03:05:33","William Jay Smith",1918-2015,Contemporary,"William Jay Smith was born in Winnfield, Louisiana, on April 22, 1918. Smith’s prolific literary career began early, with the national publication of one of his poems when he was just fourteen years old. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Fr"
162,"2018-03-02 03:06:12","Diane Wakoski",1937-,Imagism,"On August 3, 1937, Diane Wakoski was born in Whittier, California.She received a bachelor's degree in English from the University of California at Berkeley, where she studied with Thom Gunn, Josephine Miles, and Tom Parkinson.She has published more than f"
163,"2018-03-02 03:06:15","Diane Seuss",,,"Diane Seuss was born in Michigan City, Indiana, in 1956 and raised in Edwardsburg and Niles, Michigan. She studied at Kalamazoo College and Western Michigan University, where she received a master’s degree in social work. Seuss is the author of three book"
164,"2018-03-02 03:06:27","Casey Rocheteau",,,"Casey Rocheteau is a Callaloo and Cave Canem fellow, and the recipient of the inaugural Write A House permanent residency in Detroit. Her first collection of poetry, Knocked Up On Yes (Sargent Press, 2012) was scandalous, and her second collection The Doz"
165,"2018-03-02 03:06:35","Dudley Randall",1914-2000,"Black Arts","Dudley Randall was born on January 14, 1914, in Washington, D. C. In 1920 his family moved to Detroit, Michigan, where his father, Arthur Randall, worked for Ford Motor Company. Randall began writing seriously at age thirteen, and in 1927 his first publis"
166,"2018-03-02 03:06:45","Susan Blackwell Ramsey",,,"Susan Blackwell Ramsey is the author of the book A Mind Like This (University of Nebraska Press, 2012), which won the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan. by this poet poem Revisionism Susan Blackwell Ramsey 2017 Grandp"
167,"2018-03-02 03:06:51","Thylias Moss",1954-,,"Thylias Moss was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on February 27, 1954. She received a BA from Oberlin College in 1981 and an MA from the University of New Hampshire in 1983.She is the author of several poetry collections, including Wannabe Hoochie Mama Gallery o"
168,"2018-03-02 03:06:53","Airea D. Matthews",,,"Airea D. Matthews is the author of the forthcoming poetry collection simulacra (Yale University Press, 2017), selected by Carl Phillips as the winner of the 2016 Yale Series of Younger Poets. Matthews received an MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program a"
169,"2018-03-02 03:07:06","Khaled Mattawa",1964-,Contemporary,"Khaled Mattawa was born in Benghazi, Libya, in 1964 and immigrated to the United States in his teens.Mattawa received a BA in political science and economics from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga before earning an MA in English and an MFA in cre"
170,"2018-03-02 03:07:39","Philip Levine",1928-2015,Contemporary,"Born in Detroit, Michigan, on January 10, 1928, Philip Levine was formally educated in the Detroit public school system and at Wayne University (now Wayne State University), Michigan's only urban public research university. After graduation, Levine worked"
171,"2018-03-02 03:08:13","Bill Knott",1940-2014,,"Bill Knott was born on February 17, 1940, in Carson City, Michigan. When he was seven years old, his mother died in childbirth, and his father passed away three years later. He grew up in an orphanage in Mooseheart, Illinois, and on an uncle’s farm. In th"
172,"2018-03-02 03:08:26","James L. White",,,"James L. White was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1936. When he was sixteen, he began a career in ballet, training as a classical dancer and attending the American Ballet Theater School. After dancing professionally for ten years, he attended Indiana U"
173,"2018-03-02 03:08:32","Connie Wanek",,,"Connie Wanek was born in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1952 and grew up outside Green Bay, where she attended a one-room school. When she was twelve, her family relocated to Las Cruces, New Mexico, and she received a BS from New Mexico State University in 1975.W"
174,"2018-03-02 03:08:44","Yuko Taniguchi",,,"Yuko Taniguchi was born in Yokohama, Japan, and earned degrees from St. John’s University and the University of Minnesota. She is the author of a poetry collection, Foreign Wife Elegy (Coffee House Press, 2004), and a novel, The Ocean in the Closet (Coffe"
175,"2018-03-02 03:08:48","Joyce Sutphen",,,"Joyce Sutphen is the author of Modern Love & Other Myths (Red Dragonfly Press, 2015), After Words (Red Dragonfly Press, 2013), and First Words (Red Dragonfly Press, 2010), among others. She teaches at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota, and"
176,"2018-03-02 03:08:58","Wang Ping",1957-,Contemporary,"Wang Ping was born in August 14, 1957, in Shanghai, China, during the Cultural Revolution. She received her BA in English literature from Beijing University in 1984 and immigrated to the United States in 1985. Ping received her MA in English literature fr"
177,"2018-03-02 03:09:08","G. E. Patterson",,,"Poet, critic, and translator G. E. Patterson grew up along the Mississippi River and was educated in the mid-South, the Midwest, the Northeast, and the western United States.His collections of poetry include To and From (Ahsahta Press, 2008), and his firs"
178,"2018-03-02 03:09:17","Mary Rose O'Reilley",,,"Born in Pampa, Texas, Mary Rose O’Reilley was educated in the parochial school system of Roseville and St. Paul, Minnesota. She graduated from the College of St. Catherine and completed graduate work at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee.She was awar"
179,"2018-03-02 03:09:20","Jim Moore",1943-,Contemporary,"Jim Moore was born on June 22, 1943, in Decatur, Illinois. He began writing in the mid-1960s and received his bachelor’s degree at the University of Minnesota and his master’s degree from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. He then began teaching at a junior coll"
180,"2018-03-02 03:09:24","Deborah Keenan",,,"by this poet poem Maybe He's Grateful but Get Out of His Way Deborah Keenan 2007 The Siberian tiger leaps from the back of the truck: He’d been caught in a snare, rescued by Russian students Deep in the forest, tranquilized, observed, fitted with a radio "
181,"2018-03-02 03:09:30","Bill Holm",,,"Bill Holm was born in 1943 on a farm outside Minneota, Minnesota. He received a BA from Gustavus Adolphus College in 1965 and an MA from the University of Kansas in 1967.Holm was the author of several poetry collections, including Playing the Black Piano "
182,"2018-03-02 03:09:59","Liz Waldner",,,"Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Liz Waldner was raised in rural Mississippi. She received a BA in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College, and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.She wrote for eighteen years before her first book of poems, Homing D"
183,"2018-03-02 03:10:01","Aimee Nezhukumatathil",,Contemporary,"Born in 1974 in Chicago to a Filipina mother and Malayali Indian father, Aimee Nezhukumatathil is known for writing poems that sit at the intersection of three cultures: Filipino, Indian, and American. She received her BA in English and MFA in poetry and "
184,"2018-03-02 03:10:25","Etheridge Knight",1931-1991,"Black Arts","On April 19, 1931, Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi. Although he dropped out of school at age sixteen (as soon as he was old enough to join the army), his education in the uses and joys of language continued as he explored the world of ju"
185,"2018-03-02 01:56:54","Brooks Haxton",,,
186,"2018-03-02 03:10:33","Ann Fisher-Wirth",,,"Ann Fisher-Wirth was born in Washington, D. C. and grew up in Germany, Pennsylvania, and Japan before her family settled in Berkeley, California. She received a BA from Pomona College in 1968 and a PhD from Claremont Graduate School in 1981.Fisher-Wirth i"
187,"2018-03-02 03:10:39","Beth Ann Fennelly",,,"Beth Ann Fennelly was born in New Jersey and grew up in the Chicago area. She received a BA from the University of Notre Dame in 1993 and an MFA from the University of Arkansas in 1998. From 1998 to 1999, she attended the University of Wisconsin as a Dian"
188,"2018-03-02 03:11:25","James Tate",1943-2015,,"James Tate was born on December 8, 1943, in Kansas City, Missouri. His father was an American pilot killed in the Second World War in 1944, when Tate was five months old.His first collection of poems, The Lost Pilot (Yale University Press, 1967), was sele"
189,"2018-03-02 03:11:36","Kevin Prufer",,,"Kevin Prufer was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1969. He received a BA from Wesleyan University and MFA degrees from Hollins University and Washington University in St. Louis.He is the author of several poetry collections, including How He Loved Them (Four W"
190,"2018-03-02 03:11:47","Carl Phillips",1959-,"Dark Room Collective","Born on July 23, 1959 in Everett, Washington, Carl Phillips is the author of numerous books of poetry, including Wild Is the Wind, forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in January 2018; Reconnaisance (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015), Silverchest (Fa"
191,"2018-03-02 03:11:53","Eric Pankey",,,"In 1959, Eric Pankey was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of two accountants. In 1981, he received his BA from the University of Missouri at Columbia, and in 1983, his MFA from the University of Iowa.When he was 25, his first collection of poems, Fo"
192,"2018-03-02 03:11:56","Kathryn Nuernberger",1980-,,"Kathryn Nuernberger was born in St. Louis,  Missouri, on August 1, 1980. She earned a BA from the University of Missouri, an MFA from Eastern Washington University, and a PhD from Ohio University.Nuernberger is the author of The End of Pink (BOA Editions,"
193,"2018-03-02 03:12:07","Howard Nemerov",1920-1991,,"Born on February 29, 1920 in New York, New York, Howard Nemerov displayed an early interest in the arts, as did his younger sister, the photographer Diane Arbus. He graduated from the Society for Ethical Culture's Fieldstone School in 1937 and went on to "
194,"2018-03-02 03:12:18","Ted Mathys",,,"Ted Mathys is the author of Null Set (Coffee House Press, 2015). He teaches at Saint Louis University and lives in Saint Louis. by this poet poem Appalachian Trail Ted Mathys 2012 I am in the main on the mend I am in Maine on the wagon on Katahdin in an a"
195,"2018-03-02 03:12:31","Brandon Krieg",,,"Brandon Krieg is the author of the poetry collection Invasives (New Rivers Press, 2014), a finalist for the 2015 Association for the Study of Literature and Environment Book Award in Environmental Creative Writing. He teaches at Westminster College in Ful"
196,"2018-03-02 03:12:37","Eugene Field",,,"by this poet poem The Sugar-Plum Tree Eugene Field 1892 Have you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? 'Tis a marvel of great renown! It blooms on the shore of the Lollypop sea In the garden of Shut-Eye Town; The fruit that it bears is so wondrously sweet (A"
197,"2018-03-02 03:13:22","T. S. Eliot",1888-1965,Modernism,"read poems by this poetThomas Stearns Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri,  on September 26, 1888. He lived in St. Louis during the first eighteen years of his life and attended Harvard University. In 1910, he left the United States for the Sorbonne, ha"
198,"2018-03-02 03:13:32","Karen Volkman",,Contemporary,"In 1967, Karen Volkman was born in Miami, Florida. She was educated at New College, Syracuse University, and the University of Houston.She is the author of Whereso (BOA Editions, 2016); Nomina (BOA Editions, 2008); Spar (University of Iowa Press, 2002), w"
199,"2018-03-02 03:13:40","Lois Red Elk",,,"Lois Red Elk is an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Sioux. She is the author of Why I Return to Makoce (Many Voices Press, 2015), Dragonfly Weather (Lost Horse Press, 2013), and Our Blood Remembers (Many Voices Press, 2011), which received the Best Nonfic"
200,"2018-03-02 03:13:45","Richard Hugo",1923-1982,,"Richard Hugo was born on December 21, 1923, in White Center, Washington, a suburb of Seattle. His father, Richard Franklin Hogan, left the family shortly after Hugo's birth; Hugo was raised by his mother's parents. He attended public school and from a ver"