poet.id,poet.ts,poet.title,poet.year,poet.school_and_movement,poet.poet_description
201,"2018-03-02 03:14:01","Patricia Goedicke",1931-2006,,"On June 21, 1931, Patricia Goedicke was born in Boston, Massachusetts and brought up in Hanover, New Hampshire. She received her MA in Creative Writing in 1956 from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. She has taught at Ohio University, Hunter College, Kalama"
202,"2018-03-02 03:14:11","Richard Brautigan",1935-1984,,"Much of the information regarding Richard Brautigan's life and death is uncertain. He was born on January 30, 1935 in Tacoma, Washington. His father left home before he was born, and his childhood was apparently a troubled one marked by poverty. He did no"
203,"2018-03-02 03:14:39","Sandra Alcosser",1944-,,"Sandra Alcosser was born in Washington, D.C., on February 3, 1944, and she grew up in South Bend, Indiana. She received her B.A. from Purdue University in 1972 and an M.F.A. from the University of Montana in 1982, where she studied with Richard Hugo. She "
204,"2018-03-02 03:14:44","Ted Kooser",1939-,,"Ted Kooser was born in Ames, Iowa on April 25, 1939. He received his BA from Iowa State and his MA in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.He is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including Splitting an Order (Copper Canyon Press, 2014"
205,"2018-03-02 03:14:53","Twyla M. Hansen",,,"Twyla M. Hansen was raised in northeast Nebraska. She received a BS and an MAg from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.Hansen is the author of several poetry collections, including Rock • Tree • Bird (The Backwaters Press, 2017); Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet"
206,"2018-03-02 03:15:04","Willa Cather",1873-1947,,"Willa Cather was born in Virginia on December 7, 1873. Her family moved to Nebraska in 1883, ultimately settling in the town of Red Cloud, where the National Willa Cather Center is located today. She attended the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.Cather move"
207,"2018-03-02 03:15:15","Kirk Robertson",,,"Kirk Robertson is the author of How the Light Gets In (Black Rock Press, 2014); Just Past Labor Day: Selected & New Poems, 1969–1995 (University of Nevada Press, 1996); Music: A Suite & 13 Songs (Floating Island Press, 1995); and Driving to Vegas: New & S"
208,"2018-03-02 03:15:29","Donald Revell",1954-,Formalism,"Born in the Bronx on June 12, 1954, Donald Revell is a graduate of SUNY-Binghamton and SUNY-Buffalo. His first collection of poems, From the Abandoned Cities, was published by Harper & Row in 1983.Since then, he has published several collections, includin"
209,"2018-03-02 03:15:39","Claudia Keelan",,,"Claudia Keelan is the author of seven collections of poetry: O, Heart (Barrow Street, 2014); Missing Her (New Issues Press, 2009); The Devotion Field (Alice James Books, 2004); Of & Among There Was a Locus(t) (Ashata Press, 2003); Utopic (Alice James Book"
210,"2018-03-02 03:15:51","Charles Simic",1938-,"Surrealism, Translators","Charles Simic was born on May 9, 1938, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, where he had a traumatic childhood during World War II. In 1954 he emigrated from Yugoslavia with his mother and brother to join his father in the United States. They lived in and around Chic"
211,"2018-03-02 03:15:54","Maxine Kumin",1925-2014,Ethnopoetics,"On June 6, 1925, Maxine Kumin was born in Philadelphia. She received her BA and MA from Radcliffe College.She has published numerous books of poetry, including And Short the Season: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2014); Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010 "
212,"2018-03-02 03:16:05","Jane Kenyon",1947-1995,,"Jane Kenyon was born on May 23, 1947, in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in the Midwest. She earned a BA from the University of Michigan in 1970 and an MA in 1972. That same year, Kenyon married the poet Donald Hall, whom she had met while a student at t"
213,"2018-03-02 03:16:18","Donald Hall",1928-,Contemporary,"Donald Hall was born in Hamden, Connecticut, on September 20, 1928. He began writing as an adolescent and attended the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference at the age of sixteen—the same year he had his first work published. He earned a BA from Harvard Universi"
214,"2018-03-02 03:16:31","Richard Eberhart",1904-2005,"Confessional Poetry","Born April 5, 1904, in Austin, Minnesota, Richard Eberhart grew up on a forty-acre estate called Burr Oaks. Often these surroundings of his youth later became the subject of his poetry; his sixth volume of poetry is entitled Burr Oaks (Chatto & Windus, 19"
215,"2018-03-02 03:16:42","Maggie Dietz",,,"Maggie Dietz received a BA from Northwestern University and an MA from Boston University. She is the author of That Kind of Happy (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and Perennial Fall (University of Chicago Press, 2006), winner of the 2007 Jane Kenyon Aw"
216,"2018-03-02 03:16:52","William Carlos Williams",1883-1963,"Objectivists, Modernism, Metaphysical Poet, Imagism","read this poet's poemsOn September 17, 1883, William Carlos Williams was born in Rutherford, New Jersey. He began writing poetry while a student at Horace Mann High School, at which time he made the decision to become both a writer and a doctor. He receiv"
217,"2018-03-02 03:16:57","C. K. Williams",1936-2015,,"Charles Kenneth Williams was born on November 4, 1936, in Newark, New Jersey, and grew up in South Orange, New Jersey. After attending high school in Maplewood, New Jersey, Williams enrolled in Bucknell College but later transferred to the University of P"
218,"2018-03-02 03:17:03","Walt Whitman",1819-1892,Romanticism,"read poems by this poetWalt Whitman was born on May 31, 1819, the second son of Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor. The family, which consisted of nine children, lived in Brooklyn and Long Island in the 1820s and 1830s.At the age of twe"
219,"2018-03-02 03:17:15","Gerald Stern",1925-,Surrealism,"Gerald Stern was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1925. His recent books of poetry include Divine Nothingness: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2014); In Beauty Bright: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2012); Early Collected Poems: 1965-1992 (W. W. Norton, 2010)"
220,"2018-03-02 03:17:25","Tracy K. Smith",1972-,"Contemporary, Dark Room Collective","Born on April 16, 1972, Tracy K. Smith was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts, and raised in Fairfield, California. She is the youngest of five children. She studied at Harvard, where she joined the Dark Room Collective, a reading series for writers of color"
221,"2018-03-02 03:17:36","Patricia Smith",1955-,"Slam/Spoken Word, Contemporary","Born on June 25, 1955, Patricia Smith is a poet, teacher, performance artist and author. She is the author of Incendiary Art (Northwestern University Press, 2017), winner of the 2018 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award; Shoulda Been Jimi Savannah (Coffee House Pr"
222,"2018-03-02 03:17:48","Laurie Sheck",1953-,,"On July 10, 1953, Laurie Sheck was born in the Bronx, New York. She is the author of several collections of poetry, including Captivity (Knopf, 2007), which interacts, in part, with the journals of Gerard Manley Hopkins; Black Series (2001); The Willow Gr"
223,"2018-03-02 03:17:54","Minnie Bruce Pratt",1946-,Contemporary,"Minnie Bruce Pratt was born on September 12, 1946, in Selma, Alabama, and grew up in Centreville. She attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.Her books of poetry include The Dirt She Ate: Select"
224,"2018-03-02 03:17:59","Douglas Piccinnini",,,"Douglas Piccinnini is the author of Story Book (The Cultural Society, 2015) and a forthcoming collection of poems, Blood Oboe (Omnidawn, 2015). He lives in Lambertville, New Jersey. by this poet poem As If I Am Someone Else Douglas Piccinnini 2015 so much"
225,"2018-03-02 03:18:07","Emilia Phillips",,,"Emilia Phillips is the author of Groundspeed (University of Akron Press, 2016). She teaches in the MFA Writing Program at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. by this poet poem Age of Beauty Emilia Phillips 2017 This is not an age of beauty,I s"
226,"2018-03-02 03:18:20","Carmen Giménez Smith",,,"Carmen Giménez-Smith was born on February 20, 1971, in New York City. She received a BA in English from San Jose State University in 1994 and an MFA in creative writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.She is the author of the poetry collections Cruel Futu"
227,"2018-03-02 03:18:30","Simon J. Ortiz",1941-,Contemporary,"On May 27, 1941, Simon J. Ortiz was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He attended Fort Lewis College and the University of New Mexico for undergraduate studies. He received his MFA as an International Writing Fellow at the University of Iowa's Writer's Sch"
228,"2018-03-02 03:18:35","Pat Mora",1942-,Contemporary,"Pat Mora, a leading figure in contemporary Hispanic poetry, was born on January 19, 1942 in El Paso, Texas. She received a BA from Texas Western College in 1963 and an MA from the University of Texas, El Paso in 1967.Her recent books include Dizzy in Your"
229,"2018-03-02 03:18:44","Carol Moldaw",,,"Carol Moldaw was born in Oakland, California. She received a BA from Harvard University in 1978 and an MA from Boston University in 1986.She is the author of So Late, So Soon: New and Collected Poems  (Etruscan Press, 2010), The Lightning Field (Oberlin C"
230,"2018-03-02 03:18:47","Dana Levin",,,"Dana Levin was raised in Lancaster, California. She received a BA from Pitzer College in 1987 and an MFA from New York University in 1992.She is the author of Banana Palace (Copper Canyon Press, 2016), Sky Burial (Copper Canyon Press, 2011), Wedding Day ("
231,"2018-03-02 03:18:56","D. H. Lawrence",1885-1930,Imagism,"David Herbert Lawrence, novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist, was born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, England, on September 11, 1885. Though better known as a novelist, Lawrence's first-published works (in 1909) were poems, and his poetry, espe"
232,"2018-03-02 03:19:02","Greg Glazner",,,"Born in Anson, Texas, Greg Glazner earned a BA from Hardin-Simmons University. He then attended the University of Montana, where he received both an MA and MFA.He is the author of two books of poetry, Singularity (W.W. Norton, 1996) and From the Iron Chai"
233,"2018-03-02 03:19:09","Jorge H. Aigla",,,"Jorge H. Aigla was born in 1954 in Mexico City, Mexico. He received a BS from St. Mary’s College of California in 1975 and an MD from the University of California–San Francisco in 1979.He is the author of First Lie/Primera mentira (Farolito Press, 2012), "
234,"2018-03-02 03:19:13","Rachel Zucker",,Contemporary,"Rachel Zucker was born in 1971 in New York City and raised in Greenwich Village. She earned her BA in psychology at Yale University and her MFA in poetry from the University of Iowa.Zucker is the author of five books of poetry: The Pedestrians (Wave Books"
235,"2018-03-02 03:19:30","Bill Zavatsky",,"New York School","Born in 1943 in Bridgeport, Connecticut, Bill Zavatsky worked as a pianist from the age of fifteen to twenty-five and studied music at the New School. He holds a bachelor's and a master's degree from Columbia University.With Zack Rogow, he cotranslated Ea"
236,"2018-03-02 03:19:36","Marya Zaturenska",1902-1982,,"Marya Zaturenska was born in Kiev, Ukraine on September 12, 1902. She came to the United States at the age of eight with her parents who settled in New York City. After attending high school in the evenings so she might work in a factory during the day, s"
237,"2018-03-02 03:19:48","John Yau",1950-,,"On June 5, 1950, John Yau, was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. His father, a Chinese-American bookkeeper, met his mother, who was descended from a prestigious Shanghai family, while living in China. Yau's parents settled in Boston after emigrating from China"
238,"2018-03-02 03:19:59","Jenny Xie",,,"Jenny Xie was born in Hefei, China, and raised in New Jersey. She holds degrees from Princeton University and New York University’s creative writing program, and has received fellowships and support from Kundiman, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown"
239,"2018-03-02 03:20:09","Emanuel Xavier",,"Slam/Spoken Word, Contemporary","Emanuel Xavier is the author of five books of poetry: Radiance (Rebel Satori Press, 2016), Nefarious (Rebel Satori Press, 2013), Americano: Growing Up Gay & Latino in the U.S.A (Rebel Satori Press, 2012), Pier Queen (Rebel Satori Press, 2012), and If Jesu"
240,"2018-03-02 03:20:15","Mark Wunderlich",,,"Born in 1968, Mark Wunderlich grew up in Fountain City, Wisconsin. He holds an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts and a BA in German Literature and English from the University of Wisconsin.He is the author of The Earth Avails (Graywolf Press,"
241,"2018-03-02 03:20:25","Anne Pierson Wiese",,,"Although born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Anne Pierson Wiese grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of Amherst College and the New York University Graduate Writing Workshop, and currently lives and works in New York City.Wiese won the 2006 Walt W"
242,"2018-03-02 03:20:34","Eliot Weinberger",1949-,Translators,"On February 6, 1949, Eliot Weinberger was born in New York City, where he still lives.He is the primary translator of Octavio Paz into English. His anthology American Poetry Since 1950: Innovators and Outsiders (1993) was a bestseller in Mexico, and his e"
243,"2018-03-02 03:20:43","Ocean Vuong",,,"Ocean Vuong was born in Saigon, Vietnam, and immigrated to the United States at the age of two. He received a BA from Brooklyn College, where he was awarded an Academy of American Poets college prize, and an MFA from New York University. He is the author "
244,"2018-03-02 03:20:55","Julie Suk",,,"Julie Suk was born in Mobile, Alabama, and attended Stephens College and the University of Alabama. She is the author of The Dark Takes Aim (Autumn House Press, 2003); The Angel of Obsession (1992), winner of the Arkansas Poetry Award and the Roanoke-Chow"
245,"2018-03-02 03:21:07","Evie Shockley",,Contemporary,"Born and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1965, Evie Shockley received her BA from Northwestern University. After studying Law at the University of Michigan, she earned her PhD in English from Duke University.Shockley's first book, The Gorgon Goddess, w"
246,"2018-03-02 03:21:33","Alan Shapiro",1952-,Contemporary,"Alan Shapiro was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1952 and graduated from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where he studied poetry with Galway Kinnell and J. V. Cunningham.Shapiro has published over ten poetry collections, including Life Pi"
247,"2018-03-02 03:21:47","E. M. Schorb",,,"E. M. Schorb has published several collections of poetry, including Time and Fevers: New and Selected Poems (AuthorsHouse, 2004), which was chosen as a 2007 Eric Hoffer Book Award winner; A Fable & Other Prose Poems (2002), Murderer's Day (1998), winner o"
248,"2018-03-02 03:21:53","Alan Michael Parker",,,"Alan Michael Parker is the author of Long Division (Tupelo Press, 2012). by this poet poem The God of Draperies Alan Michael Parker 2003 When revelation comes, the God of Draperies Cannot decide the difference Between in and out. A patio is out though in "
249,"2018-03-02 03:22:04","Thomas Meyer",,,"Thomas Meyer is the author of Essay Stanzas (Song Cave, 2014). He lives in the mountains of western North Carolina. by this poet poem Are You Going to Stay? Thomas Meyer 2015 What was it I was going to say?Slipped away probably becauseit needn’t be said. "
250,"2018-03-02 03:22:12","Michael McFee",,,"Michael McFee received a BA in 1976 and an MA in 1978, both from the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including We Were Once Here (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2017), Shinemaster (Carnegie Mell"
251,"2018-03-02 03:22:18","Nathaniel Mackey",,,"Poet and novelist Nathaniel Mackey was born in 1947 in Miami, Florida. He received a BA degree from Princeton University and a PhD from Stanford University.His books of poetry include Blue Fasa (New Directions, 2015), Nod House (New Directions, 2011); Spl"
252,"2018-03-02 03:22:28","Dorianne Laux",1952-,Contemporary,"On January 10, 1952, Dorianne Laux was born in Augusta, Maine. She worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, a maid, and a donut holer before receiving a BA in English from Mills College in 1988.Laux is the author of several collections of poetr"
253,"2018-03-02 03:22:41","George Moses Horton",,,"George Moses Horton was born into slavery on a North Carolina tobacco plantation, likely in 1798. He spent his childhood as a slave on a farm in Chatham County, where he taught himself to read and began composing poetry.In 1815 Horton was transferred to a"
254,"2018-03-02 03:22:52","David Young",,,"In 1936, David Young was born in Davenport, Iowa. He earned a BA from Carleton College, and an MA and PhD from Yale University.He is the author of several collections of poetry, including Field of Light and Shadow (Knopf, 2010); Black Lab (2006); At the W"
255,"2018-03-02 03:23:06","Khaty Xiong",,Contemporary,"Khaty Xiong was born to Hmong refugees from Laos and is the seventh daughter of fifteen brothers and sisters. She is the author of debut collection Poor Anima (Apogee Press, 2015), which is the first full-length collection of poetry published by a Hmong A"
256,"2018-03-02 03:23:08","James Wright",1927-1980,,"On December 13, 1927, James Arlington Wright was born in Martins Ferry, Ohio. His father worked for fifty years at a glass factory, and his mother left school at fourteen to work in a laundry; neither attended school beyond the eighth grade. While in high"
257,"2018-03-02 03:23:23","Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib",,,"Hanif Willis-Abdurraqib was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio. He is the author of The Crown Ain’t Worth Much (Button Poetry, 2016). A Callaloo Creative Writing Fellow, he currently serves as a poetry editor at Muzzle Magazine and a columnist for MTV News"
258,"2018-03-02 03:23:28","Bruce Weigl",,,"Bruce Weigl was born in Lorain, Ohio, in 1949. He enlisted in the U.S. Army at age eighteen and served in Vietnam in 1967 and 1968. After returning to the United States, he received a BA from Oberlin College, an MA from the University of New Hampshire, an"
259,"2018-03-02 03:23:35","Catherine Wagner",,,"Catherine Wagner is the author of Nervous Device (City Lights Publishers, 2012), My New Job (Fence Books, 2009), Macular Hole (Fence Books, 2004), and Miss America (Fence Books, 2001). She teaches at Miami University in Ohio and lives in Oxford, Ohio. by "
260,"2018-03-02 03:23:56","Maggie Smith",,,"Maggie Smith received a BA from Ohio Wesleyan University and an MFA from the Ohio State University. She is the author of Good Bones (Tupelo Press, 2017); The Well Speaks of Its Own Poison (Tupelo Press, 2015), winner of the 2012 Dorset prize and a 2016 In"
261,"2018-03-02 02:00:20","Bob Perelman",,,
262,"2018-03-02 03:24:05","Effie Lee Newsome",1885-1979,,"Effie Lee Newsome was born on January 19, 1885, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her father, Dr. Benjamin Franklin Lee, served as an editor of Philadelphia’s Christian Recorder and was a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Newsome studied, tho"
263,"2018-03-02 03:24:17","Jeredith Merrin",,,"Jeredith Merrin is the author of Cup (Able Muse Press, 2014), Bat Ode (University of Chicago Press, 2001), and Shift (University of Chicago Press, 1996). She lives near Phoenix, Arizona. by this poet poem Family Reunion Jeredith Merrin 2000 The divorced m"
264,"2018-03-02 03:24:28","Alexander Posey",1873-1908,,"Alexander Posey, born August 3, 1873, was a Muskogee Creek poet, journalist, and humorist known for his poems and Fus Fixico letters, a series of satirical letters written from his fictional persona, Fus Fixico, that commented on local and national politi"
265,"2018-03-02 03:24:48","Lisa Lewis",1956-,Contemporary,"Lisa Lewis was born in Roanoke, Virginia, in 1956 and grew up there and in Lenoir, North Carolina.She is the author of the poetry collections The Body Double (Georgetown Review Press, 2016); Burned House with Swimming Pool (Dream Horse Press, 2011); Vivis"
266,"2018-03-02 03:24:57","Honorée Fanonne Jeffers",,,"Born in 1967, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers is the author of the poetry collections The Glory Gets (Wesleyan University Press, 2015);  Red Clay Suite (Southern Illinois University Press, 2007); Outlandish Blues (Wesleyan University Press, 2003); and The Gospel "
267,"2018-03-02 03:25:03","Allison Adelle Hedge Coke",1958-,,"Allison Adelle Hedge Coke was born in Amarillo, Texas, on August 4, 1958, and grew up in North Carolina, Canada, and on the Great Plains. In her initial days of high school, Hedge Coke dropped out and went to work sharecropping tobacco, working fields and"
268,"2018-03-02 03:25:35","Joy Harjo",1951-,,"Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma on May 9, 1951, and is a member of the Mvskoke/Creek Nation.Harjo received a BA degree from the University of New Mexico before earning an MFA from the Iowa Writers Workshop in 1978.Her books of poetry include Conflic"
269,"2018-03-02 03:26:14","Santee Frazier",,,"Santee Frazier is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. He received a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Syracuse University. Frazier is the author of Dark Thirty (University of Arizona Press, 2009). He has received fel"
270,"2018-03-02 03:26:19",Ai,1947-2010,Contemporary,"Ai, who described herself as half Japanese, Choctaw-Chickasaw, Black, Irish, Southern Cheyenne, and Comanche, was born in Albany, Texas, on October 21, 1947. She grew up in Tucson, Arizona.She legally changed her name to ""Ai,"" which means ""love"" in Japane"
271,"2018-03-02 03:26:30","William Stafford",1914-1993,,"William Stafford was born in Hutchinson, Kansas, on January 17, 1914. He received a BA and an MA from the University of Kansas at Lawrence and, in 1954, a PhD from the University of Iowa. During the Second World War, Stafford was a conscientious objector "
272,"2018-03-02 03:26:42","Primus St. John",,Contemporary,"Primus St. John was born in New York City, New York, in 1939. He attended the University of Maryland and Lewis and Clark College. His collections of poetry include Communion: Poems, 1976-1998 (Copper Canyon Press, 1999), which won the Western States Book "
273,"2018-03-02 03:26:55","Ed Skoog",,,"Ed Skoog is the author of Rough Day (Copper Canyon Press, 2013). He lives in Portland, Oregon. by this poet poem Gwendolyn Brooks Park, Topeka Ed Skoog 2015 They carved the letters yellow,and paintedthe wood around the letters green,chained a picnic table"
274,"2018-03-02 03:26:58","Maxine Scates",,,"Maxine Scates is the author of Undone (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011), Black Loam (WordTech Communications, 2005), and Toluca Street (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989). She is the recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Oregon Book A"
275,"2018-03-02 03:27:09","Kaia Sand",,,"Kaia Sand was born in 1972 in Fairbanks, Alaska, and grew up in Salem, Oregon. She received a BA from the University of Portland in 1994 and an MFA from George Mason University in 2001.She is the author of A Tale of Magicians Who Puffed Up Money that Lost"
276,"2018-03-02 03:27:23","Ursula K. Le Guin",1929-2018,,"Ursula K. Le Guin was born on October 21, 1929, in Berkeley, California. Her parents, Alfred L. Kroeber and Theodora Quinn Kroeber, were both anthropologists. Le Guin was the youngest of four children and the only daughter.She received a BA from Radcliffe"
277,"2018-03-02 03:27:33","Donald Dunbar",,Contemporary,"Donald Dunbar is the author of Eyelid Lick (Fence Books, 2012), winner of the 2012 Fence Modern Poets book prize. He received his BA at the University of Wisconsin and his MFA in creative writing at Arizona State University. He is a general education inst"
278,"2018-03-02 03:27:49","Marilyn Chin",,,"Marilyn Chin was born in Hong Kong and raised in Portland, Oregon. She received a BA from the University of Massachusetts and an MFA from the University of Iowa.She is the author of A Portrait of the Self As Nation: New and Selected Poems (forthcoming 201"
279,"2018-03-02 03:27:59","Carl Adamshick",1969-,Contemporary,"Born in Toledo, Ohio, in 1969 Carl Adamshick grew up primarily in Harvard, Illinois.Adamshick’s debut collection, Curses and Wishes (Louisiana State University Press, 2011), was selected by Marvin Bell for the 2010 Walt Whitman Award. In 2012, the collect"
280,"2018-03-02 03:28:40","Eleanor Wilner",1937-,"Conceptual Poetry","Eleanor Wilner (née Rand) was born in Cleveland, Ohio, on July 29, 1937, and holds an interdepartmental PhD from Johns Hopkins University.She has published several collections of poetry, including Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010); The G"
281,"2018-03-02 03:28:45","Kevin Varrone",,,"Kevin Varrone is the author of G-Point Almanac: Passyunk Lost (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). He is a cofounder of Beautiful Swimmer Press and teaches literature and writing at Temple University. He lives in Philadelphia. multimedia Kevin Varrone: Poetic In"
282,"2018-03-02 03:28:52","Philip Terman",1957-,,"Philip Terman was born on November 4, 1957, in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a BA and MA from Ohio University and a PhD from Ohio State University.Terman is the author of Our Portion: New and Selected Poems (Autumn House Press, 2015), The Torah Garden (Aut"
283,"2018-03-02 03:29:00","Gertrude Stein",1874-1946,Modernism,"Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, on February 3, 1874, to wealthy German-Jewish immigrants. At the age of three, her family moved first to Vienna and then to Paris. They returned to America in 1878 and settled in Oakland, California. Her"
284,"2018-03-02 03:29:07","David R. Slavitt",1935-,Contemporary,"David R. Slavitt was born in White Plains, New York, in 1935, and educated at Andover, Yale, and Columbia University. A poet, translator, novelist, critic, and journalist, he is the author of more than seventy works of fiction, poetry, and poetry and dram"
285,"2018-03-02 03:29:13","Ron Silliman",1946-,"Language Poetry","Ron Silliman was born on August 5, 1946 in Pasco, Washington, and raised in Albany, California, north of Berkeley. He attended San Francisco State University, Merritt College, and the University of California at Berkeley between 1965 and 1970 but left in "
286,"2018-03-02 03:29:22","Bill Sherman",1940-,,"William David Sherman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on December 24, 1940. He earned a BA from Temple University, and an MA and Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also attended the Dickinson School of Law from 1974-75. In 1"
287,"2018-03-02 03:29:31","Sonia Sanchez",1934-,"Black Arts, Jazz Poetry","Sonia Sanchez was born Wilsonia Benita Driver on September 9, 1934, in Birmingham, Alabama. After her mother died in childbirth a year later, Sanchez lived with her paternal grandmother and other relatives for several years. In 1943, she moved to Harlem w"
288,"2018-03-02 03:29:47","Anthony Molino",,,"Anthony Molino, translator, anthropologist, and psychoanalyst, was born in 1957. In 1997 the Academy of American Poets awarded him the first Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship to enable him to complete his translation of Valerio Magrelli's Esercizi "
289,"2018-03-02 03:29:57","Shara McCallum",1972-,Contemporary,"Shara McCallum was born on October 18, 1972 in Jamaica to Afro-Jamaican and Venezuelan parents and moved to the U.S. at the age of nine. She earned a B.A. from the University of Miami, an M.F.A. from the University of Maryland, and a Ph.D. in Poetry and A"
290,"2018-03-02 03:30:09","C. D. Wright",1949-2016,Contemporary,"C. D. Wright was born in Mountain Home, Arkansas, on January 6, 1949. She received a BA degree from Memphis State University (now the University of Memphis) in 1971 and an MFA from the University of Arkansas in 1976.She has published numerous volumes of p"
291,"2018-03-02 03:30:20","Keith Waldrop",,Translators,"Born in Kansas, Keith Waldrop served in the United States military and in 1954, he met his wife, the poet and translator Rosmarie Waldrop while stationed in Kitzingen, Germany. He studied at Aix-Marseille and Michigan Universities, earning a PhD in compar"
292,"2018-03-02 03:30:34","Rosmarie Waldrop",1935-,Translators,"On August 24, 1935, Rosmarie Waldrop was born in Kitzingen am Main, Germany. At the age of ten, she spent half a year acting with a traveling theater. She has studied at Würzburg, Freiburg, Aix-Marseille and Michigan Universities, earning her PhD in 1966."
293,"2018-03-02 03:30:44","Alan S. Trueblood",1917-2012,Translators,"Alan S. Trueblood served as a professor of Hispanic studies and comparative literature at Brown University and also chaired the Department of Comparative Literature. A noted translator, Trueblood authored translations of the poets Luis de Góngora and Fede"
294,"2018-03-02 03:30:52","Carrie Shipers",,,"Carrie Shipers is the author of Family Resemblances (University of New Mexico Press, 2016); Cause for Concern (Able Muse Press, 2014), selected by Molly Peacock for the 2014 Able Muse Book Award; and Ordinary Mourning (ABZ Press, 2010). She teaches at Rho"
295,"2018-03-02 03:31:01","Peter Johnson",,,"In 1951, Peter Johnson was born in Buffalo, New York. He received his BA from the State University of New York at Buffalo, and his MA and PhD in English from the University of New Hampshire. He is the winner of the 2001 James Laughlin Award for his second"
296,"2018-03-02 03:31:15","Michael S. Harper",1938-2016,"Jazz Poetry","Michael S. Harper was born in Brooklyn, New York, on March 13, 1938. He earned a BA and MA from what is now known as California State University, and an MFA from the University of Iowa.Harper published more than ten books of poetry, including his debut co"
297,"2018-03-02 03:31:22","Forrest Gander",,,"In 1956, Forrest Gander was born in Barstow, California. He attended the College of William and Mary and received an MA from San Francisco State University. He holds degrees in both geology and literature.Gander is the author of several collections of poe"
298,"2018-03-02 03:31:30","Stephen Dobyns",1941-,Contemporary,"On February 19, 1941, Stephen Dobyns was born in Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Wayne State University and has an MFA from the University of Iowa. Dobyns has published ten books of poetry and twenty novels.His books of poetry include Winter's Journ"
299,"2018-03-02 02:01:15","Clark Coolidge",,,
300,"2018-03-02 03:31:53","Gary Jackson",,,"Gary Jackson is the author of Missing You, Metropolis (Graywolf Press, 2010), which was selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize. He teaches in the MFA program at the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina. b"