poet.id,poet.ts,poet.title,poet.year,poet.school_and_movement,poet.poet_description
301,"2018-03-02 03:32:00","Caroline Gilman",,,"Caroline Gilman was born Caroline Howard in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1794. She received very little formal education but began writing at an early age. In 1819 she married Samuel Gilman, a Unitarian minister, and moved with him to Charleston, South Carol"
302,"2018-03-02 03:32:09","Becky Gould Gibson",,,"Becky Gould Gibson was born in 1946 and earned a PhD in English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977.She is the author of Heading Home (Main Street Rag, 2014), winner of the 2013 Lena Shull Book Contest; Aphrodite’s Daughter (Texas"
303,"2018-03-02 03:32:18","Richard Garcia",,Contemporary,"Richard Garcia is the author of five books of poetry, including The Chair (BOA Editions, 2014). He teaches in the Antioch University low-residency MFA program and lives on James Island, South Carolina. by this poet poem Autumn Richard Garcia 2006 Both lyi"
304,"2018-03-02 03:32:28","Nikky Finney",1957-,Contemporary,"Nikky Finney was born on the coast of South Carolina in 1957 to a family of politicians and activists. She began writing poetry as a young girl, during a childhood marked by the civil rights struggle, and subsequently attended Talladega College in Alabama"
305,"2018-03-02 03:32:41","James Dickey",1923-1997,,"On February 2, 1923, James Dickey was born in Buckhead, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta.His interest in poetry was awakened by his father, a lawyer who used to read his son famous speeches. As a boy Dickey read the work of Byron, and later, a volume of Byron"
306,"2018-03-02 03:32:48","Kwame Dawes",,,"Kwame Dawes was born in Ghana and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. He received a BA from the University of the West Indies at Mona in 1983 and went on to study and teach in New Brunswick, Canada, on a Commonwealth Scholarship. In 1992, he received a PhD in En"
307,"2018-03-02 03:32:58","Allen Tate",1899-1979,Fugitives,"On November 19, 1899, John Orley Allen Tate was born in Winchester, Clarke County, Kentucky. He attended Vanderbilt University and graduated magna cum laude in 1922. He married the novelist Caroline Gordon in 1924.Tate was a founding editor of The Fugitiv"
308,"2018-03-02 03:33:04","John Crowe Ransom",1888-1974,Fugitives,"On April 30, 1888, John Crowe Ransom was born in Pulaski, Tennessee. He received an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in 1909, studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, and served in the First World War. He became a professor at Vanderbilt and "
309,"2018-03-02 03:33:10","Wyatt Prunty",1947-,Formalism,"On May 15, 1947, Wyatt Prunty was born in Humbolt, Tennessee and raised in Athens, Georgia. He received a BA degree in 1969 from the University of the South where he studied with Allen Tate. After serving for three years in the Navy, he attended the writi"
310,"2018-03-02 03:33:13","Randall Jarrell",1914-1965,,"On May 6, 1914, Randall Jarrell was born in Nashville, Tennessee. He earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Vanderbilt University. From 1937 to 1939 he taught at Kenyon College, where he met John Crowe Ransom and Robert Lowell, and then at the Univer"
311,"2018-03-02 03:33:25","Mark Jarman",1952-,Formalism,"Mark Jarman was born in Mount Sterling, Kentucky, on June 5, 1952. He earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1974 and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1976. He has published numerous collections of poetry, including Bone Fires:"
312,"2018-03-02 03:33:31","Jeff Hardin",,,"Jeff Hardin was born in Savannah, Tennessee. He received a BS from Austin Peay State University and an MFA from the University of Alabama.He is the author of several poetry collections, including No Other Kind of World (Texas Review Press, 2017), which re"
313,"2018-03-02 03:33:34","Christopher Brunt",,,"Christopher Brunt's poetry has appeared in Meridian, Copper Nickel, and the Cincinnati Review. He is an assistant professor at Rhodes College and lives in Memphis, Tennessee."
314,"2018-03-02 03:33:50","Adam Zagajewski",1945-,Contemporary,"Poet, novelist, essayist Adam Zagajewski was born in Lwów in 1945. He spent his childhood in Silesia and then in Cracow, where he graduated from Jagiellonian University.Zagajewski first became well known as one of the leading poets of the Generation of '6"
315,"2018-03-02 03:34:32","Dean Young",1955-,Contemporary,"On July 18, 1955, Dean Young was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA in creative writing from Indiana University.His books of poems include Shock by Shock (Copper Canyon Press, 2015); Bender: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 20"
316,"2018-03-02 03:34:44","Susan Wood",1946-,,"On May 31, 1946, Susan Wood was born in Commerce, Texas. She received her BA from East Texas State University and her MA from University of Texas, Arlington, before continuing her graduate studies at Rice University.Wood, who has taught high school and wo"
317,"2018-03-02 03:34:57","Melissa Studdard",,,"Melissa Studdard is the author of I Ate the Cosmos for Breakfast (Saint Julian Press, 2014). She teaches at Lone Star College-Tomball and lives in Houston, Texas. by this poet poem Respect Melissa Studdard 2015 Because her body is winter inside a cavebeca"
318,"2018-03-02 03:35:07","Benjamin Alire Sáenz",,,"Benjamin Alire Sáenz was born in Doña Ana County, New Mexico, in 1954 and grew up on a small farm. His parents lost the farm when he was in the fourth grade, and he worked odd jobs to supplement the family’s income.After graduating from high school in 197"
319,"2018-03-02 03:35:22","Naomi Shihab Nye",1952-,,"Naomi Shihab Nye was born on March 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Palestine, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she later recei"
320,"2018-03-02 03:35:30","Harryette Mullen",1953-,,"Harryette Mullen was born in Florence, Alabama, and raised in Fort Worth, Texas. She has earned degrees in English and literature from the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Early in her career as a poet, she work"
321,"2018-03-02 03:35:40","Walt McDonald",1934-,,"Walt McDonald was born on July 18, 1934 in Texas. In addition to serving as an Air Force pilot and teaching at the Air Force Academy, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1966. He is the author of twenty collections of poems, including Climbin"
322,"2018-03-02 03:35:43","Fady Joudah",,,"Fady Joudah was born in Austin, Texas, in 1971. The son of Palestinian refugees, he grew up in Libya and Saudi Arabia before returning to the United States for college. He attended the University of Georgia–Athens, the Medical College of Georgia, and the "
323,"2018-03-02 03:35:48","Tony Hoagland",1953-,Contemporary,"Born on November 19, 1953, in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, Tony Hoagland is the author of witty, poingnant poems that comment on contemporary American life and culture.His books of poetry include Unincorporated Personas in the Late Honda Dynasty (Graywolf "
324,"2018-03-02 03:35:52","Natalie Scenters-Zapico",,,"Natalie Scenters-Zapico is the author of Lima::Limón, forthcoming from Copper Canyon Press, and The Verging Cities (Center for Literary Publishing, 2015), winner of the PEN American/Joyce Osterweil Award, the Great Lakes College Association's New Writers "
325,"2018-03-02 03:36:02","Jacqueline Osherow",,,"Jacqueline Osherow was raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received a BA from Harvard University in 1978 and a PhD in English from Princeton University in 1990.She is the author of several books of poetry, including Ultimatum from Paradise (Louisian"
326,"2018-03-02 03:36:06","Larry Levis",1946-1996,,"Larry Patrick Levis was born in Fresno, California, on September 30, 1946. His father was a grape grower, and in his youth Levis drove a tractor, pruned vines, and picked grapes in Selma, California. He earned a bachelor's degree from Fresno State College"
327,"2018-03-02 03:36:11","David Lee",,,"by this poet poem Loading a Boar David Lee 2004 We were loading a boar, a goddam mean big sonofabitch and he jumped out of the pickup four times and tore out my stockracks and rooted me in the stomach and I fell down and he bit John on the knee and he tho"
328,"2018-03-02 03:36:22","Lance Larsen",,,"Lance Larsen grew up in Idaho and Colorado. He received a PhD from the University of Houston in 1993.He is the author of four poetry collections: Genius Loci (University of Tampa Press, 2013); Backyard Alchemy (University of Tampa Press, 2009); In All The"
329,"2018-03-02 03:36:27","Kimberly Johnson",1971-,Contemporary,"Kimberly Johnson was born on January 9, 1971, in Salt Lake City, Utah, and holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in Renaissance literature from the University of California at Berkeley.Johns"
330,"2018-03-02 03:36:36","Jay Wright",1934-,,"On May 25, 1934, Jay Wright was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is an African American playwright, poet, and essayist. He played professional baseball before studying comparative literature at the University of California at Berkeley and Rutgers Unive"
331,"2018-03-02 03:37:15","Baron Wormser",1948-,Contemporary,"Born in Baltimore, Maryland, on February 4, 1948, Baron Wormser grew up in Baltimore, where he attended high school at Baltimore City College. He studied English at Johns Hopkins University and received his MA in English from the University of California,"
332,"2018-03-02 03:37:37","Phillip B. Williams",,,"Phillip B. Williams is the author of Thief in the Interior (Alice James Books, 2016), winner of the 2017 Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award. He has received a Whiting Award and Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. He curre"
333,"2018-03-02 03:37:48","Ellen Bryant Voigt",,Contemporary,"Ellen Bryant Voigt was born and raised on a farm in Virginia. As a child, she showed an aptitude for music and began playing the piano. Initially a music major, Voigt attended Converse College for its music conservatory, but eventually she shifted her stu"
334,"2018-03-02 03:37:51","Ruth Stone",1915-2011,,"Ruth Stone was born on June 8, 1915, in Roanoke, Virginia.Her books of poetry include What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems (Copper Canyon Press, 2008), a finalist for the 2009 Pulitzer Prize; In the Next Galaxy (Copper Canyon Press, 2002), which rec"
335,"2018-03-02 03:38:00","Stephen Sandy",1934-,Contemporary,"Stephen Sandy was born on August 2, 1934, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. After serving in the Navy for a short time, he enrolled in Yale College in 1951 and graduated with a BA in English in 1955. In September 1957, he entered Harvard University, during which"
336,"2018-03-02 03:38:12","Mary Ruefle",1952-,Contemporary,"Mary Ruefle was born in Pennsylvania in 1952. Her father was a military officer, and she spent her early life traveling throughout the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College in 1974 with a degree in Literature.Ruefle has published many boo"
337,"2018-03-02 03:38:22","F. D. Reeve",,,"by this poet poem Identity Crisis F. D. Reeve 2005 He was urged to prepare for success: ""You never can tell, he was told over and over; ""others have made it; one dare not presume to predict. You never can tell. Who’s Who in America lists the order of cats"
338,"2018-03-02 03:38:32","Elizabeth Powell",,,"Elizabeth Powell is the author of The Republic of Self (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2001), which was awarded the 2001 New Issues Poetry Prize. She teaches at the University of Vermont and lives in Burlington, Vermont. by this poet poem Pledge Elizabeth P"
339,"2018-03-02 03:38:37","Jay Parini",1948-,Contemporary,"Jay Parini was born on April 2, 1948, in Pittston, Pennsylvania, and was raised in Scranton. He earned his AB in 1970 from Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. During his junior year, he studied abroad at the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland, w"
340,"2018-03-02 03:38:46","Katherine E. Young",,,"Katherine E. Young has studied at Smith College and the University of Maryland. She is the author of Day of the Border Guards (University of Arkansas Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the 2014 Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize. She is also an awa"
341,"2018-03-02 03:38:53","Charles Wright",1935-,,"Born on August 25, 1935, in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, Charles Wright was educated at Davidson College and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He began to read and write poetry while stationed in Italy during his four years of service in the U.S. Army"
342,"2018-03-02 03:38:58","Reetika Vazirani",1962-2003,,"Recipient of a 2003 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for her second book, World Hotel (Copper Canyon, 2002), and a Barnard New Women Poets Prize for White Elephants (1996), Reetika Vazirani was educated at Wellesley College and received her MFA from the Universi"
343,"2018-03-02 03:39:01","Anne Spencer",1882-1975,"Harlem Renaissance","Anne Spencer was born on February 6, 1882, in Henry County, Virginia and graduated from the Virginia Seminary in Lynchburg in 1899. An important figure of the Harlem Renaissance despite her distance from New York, she developed close friendships with seve"
344,"2018-03-02 03:39:11","Lisa Russ Spaar",,,"Lisa Russ Spaar received a BA from the University of Virginia in 1978 and an MFA in 1982.She is the author of several poetry collections, including Orexia (Persea Books, 2017), Vanitas, Rough (Persea Books, 2012), and Glass Town (Red Hen Press, 1999).The "
345,"2018-03-02 03:39:19","R. T. Smith",,Contemporary,"R. T. Smith was born in Washington, D. C., in 1947, and he was raised in Georgia and North Carolina.He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including In the Night Orchard: New and Selected Poems (Texas Review Press, 2014) and Outlaw Style (Univer"
346,"2018-03-02 03:39:30","Tim Seibles",,,"Tim Seibles was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1955. He received a BA from Southern Methodist University in 1977, after which he taught English at the high school level for ten years. He received an MFA from Vermont College in 1990.Seibles is the "
347,"2018-03-02 03:39:36","Jon Pineda",,,"Jon Pineda is the author of Little Anodynes (University of South Carolina Press, 2015). He teaches at the University of Mary Washington and lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia. by this poet poem Daughter Jon Pineda 2015 Let us take the riverpath near Fall H"
348,"2018-03-02 03:40:20","Gregory Orr",1947-,Contemporary,"Gregory Orr was born in Albany, New York in 1947, and grew up in the rural Hudson Valley. He received a BA degree from Antioch College in 1969 and an MFA from Columbia University in 1972.He is the author of more than ten collections of poetry, including R"
349,"2018-03-02 03:40:30","Debra Nystrom",,,"Debra Nystrom is the author of four collections of poetry: Night Sky Frequencies and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2016), Bad River Road (Sarabande Books, 2009), Torn Sky (Sarabande Books, 2003), and A Quarter Turn (Sheep Meadow Press, 1991). She is"
350,"2018-03-02 03:40:53","David Wagoner",1926-,"Concrete Poetry","In 1926, David Wagoner was born in Massillon, Ohio. He is the author of numerous poetry collections, including Good Morning and Good Night (University of Illinois Press, 2005); The House of Song (University of Illinois Press, 2002); Traveling Light: Colle"
351,"2018-03-02 03:41:05","Amber Flora Thomas",,,"Amber Flora Thomas is the author of The Rabbits Could Sing: Poems (University of Alaska Press, 2012) and Eye of Water: Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), winner of the 2004 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, chosen by Harryette Mullen. Her poetry collect"
352,"2018-03-02 03:41:15","Leonard Schwartz",,,"Leonard Schwartz received his BA in creative writing and literature from Bard College and his MA in philosophy from Columbia University. Schwartz is the author of Salamander: A Bestiary (Chax Press, 2017),The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Cr"
353,"2018-03-02 03:41:35","Theodore Roethke",1908-1963,,"On May 25, 1908, Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan. As a child, he spent much time in the greenhouse owned by his father and uncle. His impressions of the natural world contained there would later profoundly influence the subjects and imagery"
354,"2018-03-02 03:41:50","Katrina Roberts",,Contemporary,"Katrina Roberts received her AB from Harvard University, where she studied with Seamus Heaney, and her MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where she studied with Jorie Graham.She is the author of four books of poetry: Underdog (University of Washington P"
355,"2018-03-02 03:42:23","Jack Prelutsky",1940-,,"On September 8, 1940, Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, and attended Hunter College in New York City. Although he claims to have hated poetry through most of his childhood, he rediscovered poetry later in life, and has devoted many years since to writi"
356,"2018-03-02 03:42:33","Heather McHugh",1948-,,"Born on August 20, 1948, to Canadian parents in San Diego, California, Heather McHugh was raised in Gloucester Point, Virginia. Her father was a marine biologist, and directed the marine biological laboratory on the York River. She entered Harvard Univers"
357,"2018-03-02 03:42:54","Carolyn Kizer",1925-2014,,"Carolyn Kizer was born in Spokane, Washington, on December 10, 1924. She was the author of eight books of poetry: Cool Calm & Collected (Copper Canyon Press, 2000); Harping On: Poems 1985-1995 (1996); The Nearness of You: Poems for Men (1986); Yin (1984),"
358,"2018-03-02 03:43:14","Ella Higginson",1862-1940,,"Ella Higginson was born around 1862 in Council Grove, Kansas. A poet as well as a novelist, short story writer, and nonfiction writer, Higginson was the author of the poetry collections The Vanishing Race (C. M. Sherman, 1911), The Voice of April-Land and"
359,"2018-03-02 03:43:52","Sam Hamill",,Contemporary,"Sam Hamill is the author of fourteen volumes of poetry including Almost Paradise: Selected Poems & Translations (Shambhala, 2005), Dumb Luck (2002), Gratitude (1998), and Destination Zero: Poems 1970-1995 (1995). He has also published three collections of"
360,"2018-03-02 03:44:20","Ronald Wallace",,,"Ronald Wallace was born in 1945 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He received his B.A. from the College of Wooster and his PhD from the University of Michigan.Wallace is the author of numerous collections of poetry including, Time's Fancy (University of Pittsburgh P"
361,"2018-03-02 03:44:36","Carl Sandburg",1878-1967,,"Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois, on January 6, 1878. His parents, August and Clara Johnson, had emigrated to America from the north of Sweden. After encountering several August Johnsons in his job for the railroad, the Sandburg's father rena"
362,"2018-03-02 03:45:21","Kenneth Patchen",1911-1972,,"On December 13, 1911, Kenneth Patchen was born in Niles. A poor boy throughout his childhood, he spent his time playing football and working in a factory. He enjoyed publishing in his school newspaper, kept a diary from the age of twelve, and began readin"
363,"2018-03-02 03:45:37","Lorine Niedecker",1903-1970,Objectivists,"Born on May 12, 1903, Lorine Niedecker was raised in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin. Her father, Henry Niedecker, was a commercial fisherman who rented hunting and fishing cabins. Niedecker attended Beloit College for two years but returned home to help take ca"
364,"2018-03-02 03:45:44","John Koethe",1945-,,"Originally from San Diego, John Koethe was born on December 25, 1945. He began writing poetry in 1964, during his undergraduate studies at Princeton University and went on to receive a PhD in philosophy from Harvard University.Koethe's Ninety-fifth Street"
365,"2018-03-02 03:45:49","Jesse Lee Kercheval",,,"Jesse Lee Kercheval is the author of several books, including Cinema Muto (Southern Illinois University Press, 2009), winner of the Crab Orchard Open Selection Award; Dog Angel (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004); and World as Dictionary (Carnegie-Mell"
366,"2018-03-02 03:46:29","Brenda Cárdenas",,,"Brenda Cárdenas was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She received a BA from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee in 1987 and an MFA from the University of Michigan in 1995. She is the author of Boomerang (Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingüe, 2009). Cárdenas "
367,"2018-03-02 03:46:36","Kimberly Blaeser",,,"Kimberly Blaeser was born in Billings, Montana, in 1955. Of Anishinaabe ancestry, she grew up on the White Earth Reservation in northwestern Minnesota and is an enrolled member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. She received a BA from the College of Saint B"
368,"2018-03-02 03:46:45","David Romtvedt",,,"David Romtvedt was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in Arizona. He received a BA from Reed College and an MFA from the University of Iowa.He is the author of several poetry collections, including Dilemmas of the Angels, forthcoming from Louisiana Sta"
369,"2018-03-02 03:46:57","Paisley Rekdal",,,"Paisley Rekdal was born and raised in Seattle, Washington. She received an MA from the University of Toronto and an MFA from the University of Michigan.Rekdal is the author of Imaginary Vessels (Copper Canyon Press, 2016); Animal Eye (University of Pittsb"
370,"2018-03-02 03:47:02","Soul Vang",,,"Soul Vang received an MFA from California State University, Fresno. He is the author of Song of the Cluster Bomblet (forthcoming from Blue Oak Press) and To Live Here (Imaginary Friend Press, 2014). A U.S. Army Veteran, Vang received the Fresno Arts Counc"
371,"2018-03-02 03:47:09","Mai Der Vang",1981-,,"Mai Der Vang was born on October 20, 1981, in California’s Central Valley. She earned her MFA in poetry from Columbia University where she was awarded the Corrente Poetry Fellowship. Vang received her BA in English from the University of California, Berke"
372,"2018-03-02 03:47:21","Zoe Tuck",,,"Zoe Tuck, author of Terror Matrix, has co-taught the class Vampire Poetics at the Bay Area Public School with Laura Moriarty, and a class on ghosts with Zach Ozma. She will be playing the filmmaker Maya Deren in a production of Brittany Billmeyer-Finn's t"
373,"2018-03-02 03:47:42","Quincy Troupe",1939-,"Black Arts","Poet, performer, and editor Quincy Troupe was born July 22, 1939, in St Louis, Missouri.His books of poetry include The Architecture of Language (Coffee House Press, 2006); Transcircularities: New and Selected Poems (Coffee House Press, 2002); Choruses (C"
374,"2018-03-02 03:47:50","Joseph Stroud",,,"Joseph Stroud was born in 1943 in Glendale, California, and studied at the University of San Francisco, California State University at Los Angeles, and San Francisco State University.He is the author of five books of poetry: Of This World: New and Selecte"
375,"2018-03-02 03:48:15","Timothy Steele",1948-,Formalism,"Timothy Steele was born on January 22, 1948 in Burlington, Vermont. He received a B.A. in English in 1970 from Stanford University, followed by a Ph.D. in English and American Literature in 1977 from Brandeis University. His first collection of poems, Unc"
376,"2018-03-02 03:48:21","David St. John",1949-,,"David St. John was born in Fresno, California, on July 24, 1949. He received his BA in 1974 from California State University, Fresno, and an MFA from the University of Iowa.His many books of poetry include The Last Troubadour (Ecco, 2017); The Window (Arc"
377,"2018-03-02 03:48:32","Jack Spicer",1925-1965,"San Francisco Renaissance","Jack Spicer was born John Lester Spicer on January 30, 1925, in Los Angeles. He was the elder of two sons. His parents, Dorothy Clause and John Lovely Spicer, were Midwesterners who met and married in Hollywood and ran a small hotel business. They followe"
378,"2018-03-02 03:48:55","Gary Soto",1952-,,"Gary Soto was born in Fresno, California, on April 12, 1952, to working-class Mexican-American parents. As a teenager and college student, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley, chopping beets and cotton and picking grapes. He was not academic"
379,"2018-03-02 03:49:06","Mike Sonksen",,,"Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the Poet, is a 3rd-generation L.A. native acclaimed for poetry performances, published articles and mentoring teen writers. His book, I Am Alive in Los Angeles! has been added to the curriculum of several universities and high schoo"
380,"2018-03-02 03:49:11","Gary Snyder",1930-,"Beat, Ethnopoetics, San Francisco Renaissance, Surrealism","Gary Snyder was born on May 8, 1930, in San Francisco.He has published numerous books of poetry and prose, including Danger on Peaks (Counterpoint Press, 2005)The Gary Snyder Reader (1952-1998) (1999); Mountains and Rivers Without End (1997); No Nature: N"
381,"2018-03-02 03:49:22","Carol Snow",,,"Carol Snow is the author of Placed: Karesanui Poems (Counterpath Press, 2008), The Seventy Prepositions (University of California Press, 2004), and Artist and Model (Atlantic Monthly Press, 1990), winner of both the Poetry Center Book Award and the Joseph"
382,"2018-03-02 03:49:30","Safiya Sinclair",,Contemporary,"Safiya Sinclair is the author of Cannibal (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), winner of the 2015 Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. She earned an MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia and is the recipient of a 2015 Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sar"
383,"2018-03-02 03:49:41","Cedar Sigo",,Contemporary,"Cedar Sigo was raised on the Suquamish Reservation in the Pacific Northwest. He studied at The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute.Sigo is the author of Royals (Wave Books, 2017), Language Arts (Wave Books, 2014), and Strang"
384,"2018-03-02 03:49:47","Solmaz Sharif",,,"Solmaz Sharif’s first poetry collection, LOOK (Graywolf Press, 2016), was a finalist for the National Book Award in poetry. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Poetry Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rona Jaffe Foundation."
385,"2018-03-02 03:50:04","Leslie Scalapino",1944-2010,,"Born on July 25, 1944, in Santa Barbara, California, Leslie Scalapino received a Bachelor's degree from Reed College and an M.A. in English from UC Berkeley.Her numerous collections of poetry include It's go in horizontal: Selected Poems 1974-2006 (Univer"
386,"2018-03-02 03:50:14","Cathie Sandstrom",,,"Cathie Sandstrom’s poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Ekphrasis, and Cider Press Review, as well as the anthology Wide Awake: Poets of Los Angeles and Beyond (Beyond Baroque Books, 2015). She lives in Sierra Madre, California.  by this poet poem Releasi"
387,"2018-03-02 03:50:28","Luis J. Rodríguez",,,"In 1954, Luis J. Rodríguez was born in El Paso, Texas. He grew up in Watts and the East Los Angeles area, where his family faced poverty and discrimination. A gang member and drug user at the age of twelve, by the time he turned eighteen, Rodríguez had lo"
388,"2018-03-02 03:50:50","Adrienne Rich",1929-2012,Contemporary,"Adrienne Rich was born in Baltimore, Maryland on May 16, 1929. She attended Radcliffe College, graduating in 1951, and was selected by W. H. Auden for the Yale Series of Younger Poets prize for A Change of World (Yale University Press, 1951) that same yea"
389,"2018-03-02 03:51:02","Barbara Jane Reyes",,,"In 1971, Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) at San Francisco State Univer"
390,"2018-03-02 03:51:48","Kenneth Rexroth",1905-1982,"Objectivists, San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, Jazz Poetry","On December 22, 1905, Kenneth Charles Marion Rexroth was born in South Bend, Indiana. Orphaned at fourteen, Rexroth moved to live with his aunt in Chicago, where he was expelled from high school. He began publishing in magazines at the age of fifteen. As "
391,"2018-03-02 03:52:17","Ishmael Reed",1938-,"Black Arts","Ishmael Reed was born in 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was raised in Buffalo, New York, and attended the University of New York at Buffalo from 1956 to 1959.He is the author of several collections of poetry, including New and Collected Poems 1964–200"
392,"2018-03-02 03:52:20","Vanessa Place",1968-,"Conceptual Poetry","Born on May 10, 1968, and raised in the U.S. Army, Vanessa Place received a BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, an MFA from Antioch University, and a JD from Boston University.Her books of poetry and conceptual writing include Dies: A Sent"
393,"2018-03-02 03:53:45","Pat Parker",,,"Pat Parker was born Patricia Cooks in Houston, Texas, on January 20, 1944. The daughter of a tire retreader and a domestic worker, she grew up in poverty. After graduating from high school in 1962, she moved to California and received a BA from Los Angele"
394,"2018-03-02 03:53:48","Hannah Sanghee Park",1986-,Contemporary,"Hannah Sanghee Park was born in Tacoma, Washington, on May 24, 1986. She holds a BA from the University of Washington and an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop.Her book, The Same-Different, was selected by Rae Armantrout as the winner of the 2014 Walt Wh"
395,"2018-03-02 03:53:51","Marisela Norte",,,"Considered one of the most important voices to come out of East Los Angeles, Marisela Norte is the author of Peeping Tom Tom Girl, a collection of poetry. Norte's work was recently featured in the MTA's Out Your Window project and named one of the best tr"
396,"2018-03-02 03:54:03","Collier Nogues",,Contemporary,"Collier Nogues is the author of The Ground I Stand On Is Not My Ground (Drunken Boat, 2015) and On the Other Side, Blue (Four Way Books, 2011). She lives in Hong Kong, where she curates Hong Kong’s English-language poetry craft talk series and coedits poe"
397,"2018-03-02 03:54:07","Carol Muske-Dukes",1945-,,"Carol Muske-Dukes was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1945. She received her MS in 1970 from the State University of California at San Francisco.Her most recent book of poems is Twin Cities (Penguin, 2011). Her previous collection, Sparrow (Random House, "
398,"2018-03-02 03:54:18",Mông-Lan,,,"Mông-Lan is a writer, visual artist, and dancer. After the fall of Saigon, she immigrated with her family to America at a young age. She currently is a Wallace E. Stegner Fellow at Stanford University."
399,"2018-03-02 03:54:26","Czeslaw Milosz",1911-2004,"Poets of Exile","Czeslaw Milosz was born to Weronika and Aleksander Milosz on June 30, 1911, in Szetejnie, Lithuania (then under the domination of the Russian tsarist government). After the outbreak of World War I, Aleksander Milosz was drafted into the Tsar's army, and a"
400,"2018-03-02 03:54:38","Michael Miller",,,"Michael Miller is the author of Angels in Seven (Moon Tide Press, 2016), The First Thing Mastered (Tebot Bach, 2013), and College Town (Tebot Bach, 2010). He is a longtime entertainment journalist for the Los Angeles Times and the cofounder of Moon Tide P"