poet.id,poet.ts,poet.title,poet.year,poet.school_and_movement,poet.poet_description
1,"2018-03-02 02:28:30","Jake Adam York",1972-2012,,"Born in West Palm Beach, Florida on August 10, 1972, Jake Adam York grew up in Gadsden, Alabama. He received a B.A. in English from Auburn University, and an MFA and PhD in creative writing and English literature from Cornell University.His collections of"
2,"2018-03-02 02:28:35","Margaret Walker",,,"Margaret Walker was born on July 7, 1915, in Birmingham, Alabama. She began writing poetry at age fifteen, when she entered college. She received a BA from Northwestern University in 1935 and an MA from the University of Iowa in 1940. In 1936 she joined t"
3,"2018-03-02 02:28:44","Brian Teare",,,"Born in 1974, Brian Teare was raised in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. He received a BA in English and creative writing from the University of Alabama and an MFA in creative writing from Indiana University in 2000.His first collection of poetry, The Room Where I Wa"
4,"2018-03-02 02:29:26","Arna Bontemps",1902-1973,"Harlem Renaissance","Arna Wendell Bontemps was born on October 13, 1902, in Alexandria, Louisiana, the son of a Creole bricklayer and schoolteacher. At age three he and his family moved to Los Angeles after his father was threatened by two drunk white men. Bontemps grew up in"
5,"2018-03-02 02:29:37","Jill Osier",,,"Jill Osier’s chapbook from won the Poetry Society of America’s 2017 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award and is forthcoming from Bull City Press in 2018. She is also the author of the chapbooks Should Our Undoing Come Down Upon Us White (Bull City Press, 2013), "
6,"2018-03-02 02:29:49","dg nanouk okpik",,,"dg nanouk okpik is Inupiaq, Inuit, and was raised in Anchorage, Alaska. She received a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Stonecoast College. The recipient of a Truman Capote Fellowship, okpik is the author of Corpse Whale (Uni"
7,"2018-03-02 02:29:56","Joan Naviyuk Kane",,,"Joan Naviyuk Kane is the author of Milk Black Carbon (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017), Hyperboreal (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), and The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife (NorthShore Press, 2009). Her honors include the Association of Writers & Writ"
8,"2018-03-02 02:29:59","John Haines",1924-2011,,"Born in Norfolk, Virginia, on June 29, 1924, John Haines studied at the National Art School, the American University, and the Hans Hoffmann School of Fine Art. The author of more than ten collections of poetry, his works include For the Century's End: Poe"
9,"2018-03-02 02:30:11","Olena Kalytiak Davis",1963-,Contemporary,"A first-generation Ukrainian-American, Olena Kalytiak Davis was born on September 16, 1963, in Detroit, Michigan. She was educated at Wayne State University, University of Michigan Law School, and Vermont College of Fine Arts.Her first collection of poetr"
10,"2018-03-02 02:30:16","Derick Burleson",,,"Derick Burleson received a PhD from the University of Houston, where he served as the managing editor of Gulf Coast. He published four poetry collections: Melt (Marick Press, 2012), Use (Calypso Editions, 2012), Never Night (Marick Press, 2008), and Ejo: "
11,"2018-03-02 02:30:26","Orlando White",,,"Orlando White is Diné from Sweetwater, Arizona. He received a BFA from the Institute of American Indian Arts and an MFA from Brown University. He is the author of Letterrs (Nightboat, 2015), winner of the San Francisco Poetry Center Book Award, and Bone L"
12,"2018-03-02 02:30:41","Leslie Marmon Silko",1948-,,"Leslie Marmon Silko was born March 5, 1948 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. She attended the University of New Mexico, and graduated with honors in 1969 with a B.A. in English. Her books of poetry include Storyteller (Seaver Books, 1981), and Laguna Women Poem"
13,"2018-03-02 02:30:59","Alberto Ríos",1952-,Contemporary,"Alberto Alvaro Ríos was born on September 18, 1952, in Nogales, Arizona. He received a BA degree in 1974 and an MFA in creative writing in 1979, both from the University of Arizona.He is the author of many poetry collections, including A Small Story About"
14,"2018-03-02 02:31:04","Marjorie Perloff",,,"Marjorie Perloff is the author of several works of literary criticism, including Poetics in a New Key: Interviews and Essays (University of Chicago Press, 2014), Unoriginal Genius: Poetry by Other Means in the New Century (University of Chicago Press, 201"
15,"2018-03-02 02:31:13","N. Scott Momaday",1934-,Contemporary,"Navarro Scott Mammedaty, a Kiowa Indian, was born in Lawton, Oklahoma on February 27, 1934, and grew up in close contact with the Navajo and San Carlos Apache communities. He received his BA in political science in 1958 from the University of New Mexico. "
16,"2018-03-02 02:31:20","Farid Matuk",,,"Farid Matuk is the author of This Is a Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010) and My Daughter La Chola (Ahsahta Press, 2013). His book The Real Horse is forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press in February 2018. He currently serves as a"
17,"2018-03-02 02:31:31","Beckian Fritz Goldberg",,,"Beckian Fritz Goldberg was born in 1954 and grew up in Arizona. She received an MFA from Vermont College in 1985, and her first book, Body Betrayer (Cleveland State University Poetry Series), was published in 1991.She is the author of several poetry colle"
18,"2018-03-02 02:32:55","Norman Dubie",1945-,Contemporary,"On April 10, 1945, Norman Dubie was born in Barre, Vermont. He began writing poetry at eleven, and was influenced by John Keats and D. H. Lawrence. During Dubie's childhood, his father had a religious conversion, began studying theology, and moved the fam"
19,"2018-03-02 02:33:08","Alison Hawthorne Deming",1946-,Contemporary,"Poet and essayist Alison Hawthorne Deming was born in Connecticut in 1946 and received an MFA from Vermont College University. She is the author of Stairway to Heaven (Penguin, 2016), Rope (Penguin, 2009); Genius Loci (2005); The Monarchs: A Poem Sequence"
20,"2018-03-02 02:33:18","Miller Williams",1930-2015,Contemporary,"Stanley Miller Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, on April 8, 1930. Williams first attended Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, intending to study English and foreign languages but was dissuaded after entrance exams revealed that, according to him, “I"
21,"2018-03-02 02:33:23","Frank Stanford",1948-1978,Contemporary,"Frank Stanford was born August 1, 1948, in Richton, Mississippi. In 1949, he was adopted by Dorothy Gilbert. In 1952, Gilbert married A. F. Stanford, a levee contractor, and the family moved to Arkansas. Stanford grew up in Memphis and the Ozarks of Arkan"
22,"2018-03-02 02:33:31","Haki Madhubuti",1942-,"Black Arts","Born Donald Luther Lee in Little Rock, Arkansas, on February 23, 1942, Haki Madhubuti is a poet, essayist, and editor. He attended the University of Illinois and received an MFA from the University of Iowa.Madhubuti is the author of more than twenty books"
23,"2018-03-02 02:33:36","Jessica Jacobs",,,"Jessica Jacobs received a BA from Smith College and an MFA from Purdue University, where she served as editor-in-chief of Sycamore Review. She is the author of Pelvis with Distance (White Pine Press, 2015), winner of the 2015 New Mexico Book Award in Poet"
24,"2018-03-02 02:33:59","John Gould Fletcher",1886-1950,,"John Gould Fletcher was born on January 3, 1886, in Little Rock, Arkansas. The son of a cotton broker, he enrolled at Harvard University but left before receiving a degree. He began writing poetry during a trip to the West Coast in 1905.After his father d"
25,"2018-03-02 02:34:44","Ralph Burns",,Contemporary,"Ralph Burns was born in Norman, Oklahoma, in 1949, and received an MFA from the University of Montana. He has published six books of poems: Ghost Notes (Oberlin College Press, 2001), winner of the Field Poetry Prize; Swamp Candles (1996); Mozart's Starlin"
26,"2018-03-02 02:34:49","Bryan Borland",,,"Bryan Borland was born in Dumas, Arkansas, and raised in Monticello, Arkansas. He received a BA from Hendrix College.He is the author of DIG (Stillhouse Press, 2016), Less Fortunate Pirates: Poems from the First Year Without My Father (Sibling Rivalry Pre"
27,"2018-03-02 02:34:58","Matthew Zapruder",,Contemporary,"Matthew Zapruder was born in 1967 in Washington, D.C. He received a BA from Amherst College, an MA from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.Zapruder’s first book, American Linden, was p"
28,"2018-03-02 02:35:09","Al Young",1939-,"Jazz Poetry","Poet and novelist Al Young was born on May 31, 1939, in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He attended the University of Michigan and received his BA from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969.His volumes of poetry include Something About the Blues: An"
29,"2018-03-02 02:35:22","Kim Young",,,"Kim Young is the author of Night Radio (University of Utah Press, 2012), winner of the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize and finalist for the 2014 Kate Tufts Discovery Award. She is the founding editor of the online literary journal Chaparral. Young teaches at"
30,"2018-03-02 02:35:28","Andre Yang",,Contemporary,"Andre Yang received his MFA degree from Fresno State University. His poetry has appeared in Beltway Poetry Quarterly, Hyphen Magazine, and Kweli, among other journals, as well as in the anthology Poetry of Resistance: Voices for Social Justice (University"
31,"2018-03-02 02:35:36","May Yang",,,"May Yang is a first-generation Hmong-American artist, writer, and ethnographer from California. Writing under the persona HAUNTIE, she is the author of To Whitey and the Cracker Jack (Anhinga Press, 2017), which was selected by Evie Shockley for the 2016 "
32,"2018-03-02 02:35:48","Nellie Wong",1934-,,"The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Nellie Wong was born in Oakland, California, on September 12, 1934. As a teenager she worked in her parents’ Chinese restaurant, and after graduating high school, she took a job as a secretary for Bethlehem Steel Corpor"
33,"2018-03-02 02:36:02","Terry Wolverton",,,"Terry Wolverton is author of ten books of poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction, including Embers, a novel in poems, and Insurgent Muse, a memoir. She's founder of Writers At Work, a creative writing studio in Los Angeles, and Affiliate Faculty for Anti"
34,"2018-03-02 02:36:14","Yvor Winters",1900-1968,,"On October 17, 1900, (Arthur) Yvor Winters was born in Chicago, Illinois. While studying at the University of Chicago he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and decided to relocate to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the sake of his health. His early poems, publishe"
35,"2018-03-02 02:36:24","Arthur Vogelsang",,,"Arthur Vogelsang was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He received a BA from the University of Maryland and an MA from the Writing Seminars at Johns Hopkins University. After working briefly in publishing, he attended the Iowa Writers Workshop, where he receiv"
36,"2018-03-02 02:36:38","Burlee Vang",,,"Burlee Vang is the author of The Dead I Know: Incantation for Rebirth (Swan Scythe Press, 2010) and coeditor of How Do I Begin? A Hmong American Literary Anthology (Heyday, 2011). His prose and poetry have also appeared in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly R"
37,"2018-03-02 02:36:50","Tanaya Winder",,,"Tanaya Winder, an enrolled member of the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, was raised on the Southern Ute reservation in Colorado. She received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the University of New Mexico. Winder is the author of Words Like Love (We"
38,"2018-03-02 02:37:49","Anne Waldman",1945-,"New York School, Slam/Spoken Word, Beat","A prominent figure in the beat poetry generation, Anne Waldman, was born in Millville, New Jersey, on April 2, 1945, and grew up on MacDougal Street in New York City. She received her BA from Bennington College in 1966. From 1966 until 1978 she ran the St"
39,"2018-03-02 02:37:56","Sasha Steensen",,,"Sasha Steensen is the author of several collections of poems including House of Deer (Fence Books, 2014). She teaches at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colorado.  by this poet poem The Undertow Sasha Steensen 2010 I am shown a generosity so mu"
40,"2018-03-02 02:38:12","Andrew Schelling",,,"Andrew Schelling was born on January 14, 1953, in Washington D.C., and grew up west of Boston in Lexington, Massachusetts. In 1973, he moved west to Northern California where he explored the wilderness regions of the Coast Range and Sierra Nevadas and stu"
41,"2018-03-02 02:38:22","Reg Saner",,,"Reginald Saner was born in Jacksonville, Illinois. He earned his BA at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin then served in the military during the Korean War. He then studied philosophy and Renaissance culture at the University of Illinois and in Florence, It"
42,"2018-03-02 02:38:27","Pattiann Rogers",1940-,Contemporary,"In 1940, Pattiann Rogers was born in Joplin, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Missouri in 1961. She received her MA from the University of Houston in 1981.She has published numerous books of poetry, including Holy Heathen Rhapdosy (Penguin, "
43,"2018-03-02 02:38:43","Bin Ramke",,,"Bin Ramke was born in Port Neches, Texas, in 1947. He began writing poetry while an undergraduate at Louisiana State University, where he read the work of the Modernist poets, particularly Wallace Stevens, and took a poetry workshop with Stanley Plumly. A"
44,"2018-03-02 02:38:50","Mina Loy",1882-1966,"Modernism, Fireside Poet, Jazz Poetry","In 1921 Ezra Pound wrote to Marianne Moore: ""Is there anyone in America except you, Bill [William Carlos Williams] and Mina Loy who can write anything of interest in verse?"" But for decades, the avant-garde poet Loy was virtually invisible next to many of"
45,"2018-03-02 02:39:02","Bhanu Kapil",,,"Bhanu Kapil was born in England in 1968 to Indian parents, and she grew up in a South Asian, working-class community in London. She developed a childhood interest in writing and cites Salman Rushdie as an early influence. She earned a BA from England’s Lo"
46,"2018-03-02 02:39:10","Jack Collom",1931-2017,,"Jack Collom was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 8, 1931. He received his BA and MA from the University of Colorado. Collom's many collections of poetry include Second Nature (Instance Press, 2012), which won the 2013 Colorado Book Award in Poetry. "
47,"2018-03-02 02:39:40","Wallace Stevens",1879-1955,"Modernism, Metaphysical Poet","Wallace Stevens was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, on October 2, 1879. He attended Harvard University as an undergraduate from 1897 to 1900. He planned to travel to Paris as a writer, but after a working briefly as a reporter for the New York Herald Times"
48,"2018-03-02 02:40:23","Brian Simoneau",,,"Brian Simoneau received a BA from Amherst College and an MFA from the University of Oregon. He is the author of River Bound (C&R Press, 2014), which was selected for the 2013 De Novo Prize, and his poems have appeared in Boston Review, Cincinnati Review, "
49,"2018-03-02 02:40:31","Charles Rafferty",,,"Charles Rafferty received an MFA from the University of Arkansas.He is the author of several books of poetry, including The Smoke of Horses (BOA Editions, 2017), A Less Fabulous Infinity (Louisiana Literature Press, 2006), and The Man on the Tower (Univer"
50,"2018-03-02 02:41:12","Marilyn Nelson",1946-,Contemporary,"On April 26, 1946, Marilyn Nelson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Melvin M. Nelson, a U.S. serviceman in the Air Force, and Johnnie Mitchell Nelson, a teacher. Brought up first on one military base and then another, Nelson started writing while still in e"
51,"2018-03-02 02:41:27","J. D. McClatchy",1945-,,"J. D. McClatchy was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, on August 12, 1945. He was educated at Georgetown University and Yale University, from which he received his PhD in 1974.He is the author of eight books of poetry, including Plundered Hearts: New and Se"
52,"2018-03-02 02:41:32","Susan Kinsolving",,,"Born in Elmhurst, Illinois, Susan Kinsolving earned a BA at the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MFA at the California Institute of the Arts.A contemporary formalist, Kinsolving's collections of poetry include Among Flowers (Grove Press, 1993"
53,"2018-03-02 02:41:42","Susan Howe",1937-,"Language Poetry","Susan Howe was born on June 10, 1937, in Boston, Massachusetts. She is the author of several poetry collections, including Debths (New Directions, 2017), That This (New Directions, 2010), The Midnight (2003), Kidnapped (2002), The Europe of Trusts (2002),"
54,"2018-03-02 02:41:46","Melvin Dixon",1950-1992,,"Melvin Dixon was born on May 29, 1950, in Stamford, Connecticut. He received a BA from Wesleyan University in 1971 and a PhD from Brown University in 1975. He published two poetry collections, Change of Territory (University of Virginia Press, 1983) and t"
55,"2018-03-02 02:41:49","Dick Allen",1939-2017,,"Born in Troy, New York, on August 8, 1939, Dick Allen is the author of eight poetry collections, including Present Vanishing (Sarabande Books, 2008). He received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ingram Merrill Foundation and wa"
56,"2018-03-02 02:42:26","Léonie Adams",1899-1988,"Romanticism, Metaphysical Poet","Born on December 9, 1899, in Brooklyn, New York, Léonie Adams graduated from Barnard College in 1922.An educator, consultant, editor, and poet, she was best known for her meticulously crafted lyric poetry, which fused Romantic and Metaphysical elements. I"
57,"2018-03-02 02:42:31","Fleda Brown",,,"by this poet poem A Few Lines from Rehoboth Beach Fleda Brown 1993 Dear friend, you were right: the smell of fish and foam and algae makes one green smell together. It clears my head. It empties me enough to fit down in my own skin for a while, singlemind"
58,"2018-03-02 02:42:37","JoAnn Balingit",,,"JoAnn Balingit was born in Columbus, Ohio, and grew up in Lakeland, Florida. She studied at Florida State University, the University of California–Irvine, Indiana University, and the University of Delaware. She is the author of Words for House Story (Word"
59,"2018-03-02 02:42:48","Julianna Baggott",,,"Julianna Baggott, who also writes under the pen names Bridget Asher and N. E. Bode, is a novelist, short story writer, and poet. She is the author of three poetry collections: Compulsions of Silkworms & Bees (Louisiana State University Press, 2007). Lizzi"
60,"2018-03-02 02:42:52","Joshua Weiner",,,"Born in 1963, poet Joshua Weiner is the author of three poetry collections: The Figure of a Man Being Swallowed by a Fish (University Of Chicago Press, 2013), From the Book of Giants (University of Chicago Press, 2006), and The World's Room (University of"
61,"2018-03-02 02:43:03","Jean Toomer",1894-1967,"Harlem Renaissance","On December 26, 1894, Jean Toomer was born in Washington, D.C., the son of a Georgian farmer. Though he passed for white during certain periods of his life, he was raised in a predominantly black community and attended black high schools. In 1914, he bega"
62,"2018-03-02 02:43:10","Henry Taylor",1942-,Contemporary,"Born on June 21, 1942, Henry Taylor's collections of poetry include Understanding Fiction: Poems 1986-1996 (Louisiana State University Press, 1996); The Flying Change (1985), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize; An Afternoon of Pocket Billiards (1975"
63,"2018-03-02 02:43:12","Lisa Pegram",,,"Lisa Pegram won the 1999 D.C. Mayor’s Arts Award for Outstanding Emerging Artist and served as Program Director of DC WritersCorps for over a decade. She completed her MFA at Lesley University in 2012. An excerpt from her poetry manuscript, ""White Flag,"" "
64,"2018-03-02 02:43:18","E. Ethelbert Miller",1950-,,"Eugene Ethelbert Miller was born in the Bronx, New York, on November 20, 1950, and received his BA in African American studies from Howard University in 1972.His poetry collections include How We Sleep on the Nights We Don’t Make Love (Curbstone Press, 20"
65,"2018-03-02 02:43:22","Dolores Kendrick",1927-2017,,"Dolores Kendrick was born in Washington, D.C., on September 7, 1927. Her mother was a music teacher, and her father founded a newspaper called the Capital Spotlight that served the city’s African American community. She graduated from Miner Teachers Colle"
66,"2018-03-02 02:43:28","Reuben Jackson",,,"Reuben Jackson served as curator of the Smithsonian's Duke Ellington Collection in Washington, D.C. for over twenty years. His music reviews have been published in the Washington Post, Washington City Paper, Jazz Times, and on All Things Considered. Jacks"
67,"2018-03-02 02:43:34","Ailish Hopper",,,"Ailish Hopper is the author of Dark~Sky Society (New Issues Press, 2014), and Bird in the Head (Center for Book Arts, 2005). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Poetry, Ploughshares, and Tidal Basin Review. She’s received su"
68,"2018-03-02 02:43:44","Melanie Henderson",,,"Melanie Henderson, born and raised in Washington, D.C., won the 2011 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award for her debut collection of poems, Elegies for New York Avenue. She received the Larry Neal Writers Award in 2009 and a 2013 Pushcart Prize nomination f"
69,"2018-03-02 02:43:53","Thomas Sayers Ellis",1963-,"Dark Room Collective","Thomas Sayers Ellis was born October 5, 1963, in Washington, D.C. He earned an MFA from Brown University in 1995, and in 2005, Graywolf Press published his first complete poetry collection, The Maverick Room, for which he received the 2006 John C. Zachari"
70,"2018-03-02 02:43:59","Virgil Suárez",,Contemporary,"Virgil Suárez was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1962, and moved to the United States in 1974. He received his MFA in Creative Writing in 1987 from Louisiana State University. His books of poetry include: Guide to the Blue Tongue (University of Illinois Press, "
71,"2018-03-02 02:44:11","Christopher Soto",,,"Christopher Soto is the author of Sad Girl Poems (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2016) and the editor of Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color (Nightboat Books, 2018). He was born in Los Angeles, California, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. by "
72,"2018-03-02 02:44:34","Sandra Simonds",,,"Sandra Simonds is the author of Steal It Back (Saturnalia Books, 2015) and Mother Was a Tragic Girl (Cleveland State University Press, 2012). She teaches at Thomas University and lives in Tallahassee, Florida.  by this poet poem Red Wand Sandra Simonds 20"
73,"2018-03-02 02:44:58","Reginald Shepherd",1963-2008,Contemporary,"Reginald Shepherd was born on April 10, 1963, in New York City and raised in tenements and housing projects in the Bronx. He received his BA from Bennington College in 1988 and MFA degrees from Brown University and the University of Iowa.In his last year "
74,"2018-03-02 02:45:04","Allan Peterson",,,"Allan Peterson earned a BFA in painting from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1962. While there, he began reading Modernist poetry, and he went on to incorporate poetry into his visual arts thesis at Southern Illinois University, where he received an "
75,"2018-03-02 02:45:44","Ricardo Pau-Llosa",,,"Ricardo Pau-Llosa was born in Havana, Cuba, in 1954. He fled Cuba with his family in 1960, and in 1971, he graduated from the Belén Jesuit Preparatory High School in Miami, Florida. He received a BA from Florida International University in 1974 and an MA "
76,"2018-03-02 02:45:53","Campbell McGrath",,Contemporary,"Campbell McGrath was born in Chicago in 1962 and grew up in Washington, D.C. He received his BA in English language and literature from the University of Chicago and his MFA in creative writing from Columbia University in New York City.He is the author of"
77,"2018-03-02 02:46:00","Dionisio D. Martínez",1956-,Contemporary,"Dionisio D. Martínez, born in Havana, Cuba on April 7, 1956. He grew up speaking Spanish and was first raised in Spain and then the United States.He is the author of Climbing Back (W. W. Norton, 2000), which was selected by Jorie Graham for the 1999 Natio"
78,"2018-03-02 02:46:09","James Kimbrell",,,"James Kimbrell was born in Jackson, Mississippi in 1967. He earned an MFA from the University of Virginia and a PhD from the University of Missouri, Columbia, where he was awarded two Academy of American Poets Prizes. In 1993 he received a Ruth Lilly Poet"
79,"2018-03-02 02:46:21","Donald Justice",1925-2004,Formalism,"On August 12, 1925, Donald Justice was born in Miami, Florida.A graduate of the University of Miami, he attended the universities of North Carolina, Stanford, and Iowa. His books include New and Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 1995); A Donald Justice Rea"
80,"2018-03-02 02:46:24","Kevin Young",1970-,"Dark Room Collective","Kevin Young was born in 1970 in Lincoln, Nebraska. He received his BA from Harvard University in 1992, where he studied poetry with Lucie Brock-Broido and Seamus Heaney, and his MFA in creative writing from Brown University in 1996.His poetry collections "
81,"2018-03-02 02:46:33","Alice Walker",1944-,,"Poet, essayist, and novelist Alice Walker was born February 9, 1944, in Eatonton, Georgia, the eighth and last child of sharecroppers Willie Lee and Minnie Lou Grant Walker. She attended Spelman College and received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College.Her "
82,"2018-03-02 02:46:40","Natasha Trethewey",1966-,"Contemporary, Dark Room Collective","Natasha Trethewey was born on April 26, 1966, in Gulfport, Mississippi. She earned an MA in poetry from Hollins University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Massachusetts.Her first collection of poetry, Domestic Work (Graywolf Press, 2000), was "
83,"2018-03-02 02:46:44","Sjohnna McCray",1972-,,"Sjohnna McCray was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on March 7, 1972. He studied at Ohio University and earned an MFA from the University of Virginia where he was a Hoyns Fellow. McCray also received an MA in English Education from Teachers College, Columbia Uni"
84,"2018-03-02 02:46:53","Chad Davidson",,,"Chad Davidson is the author of From the Fire Hills (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014), The Last Predicta (Southern Illinois University Press, 2008), and Consolation Miracle (Southern Illinois University Press, 2003), and the coauthor, with John Po"
85,"2018-03-02 02:47:16","Bruce Covey",,,"Bruce Covey was born in Waterbury, Connecticut. He received an MA in English literature from Yale University, after which he worked for several years in bookstore management.He is the author of several poetry collections, including Change Machine (Noemi P"
86,"2018-03-02 02:47:22","Judith Ortíz Cofer",1952-2016,,"Judith Ortíz Cofer was born in Hormigueros, Puerto Rico, on February 24, 1952. She was raised on the island and in Paterson, New Jersey, before her family finally settled in Augusta, Georgia. She received her BA in English from Augusta College in 1974 and"
87,"2018-03-02 02:47:34","Conrad Aiken",1899-1973,,"Conrad Potter Aiken was born in Savannah, Georgia, on August 5, 1889. When he was a small boy, his father killed his mother and committed suicide himself, a tragedy that had a profound impact on Aiken's development. He was raised by a great-great-aunt in "
88,"2018-03-02 02:47:38","Craig Santos Perez",,Contemporary,"Craig Santos Perez is a native Chamorro from Mongmong, Guam. In 1995, his family moved to California. He lived there for fifteen years before moving to Hawaii. Perez earned his BA in literature and creative writing in 2002 at the University of Redlands in"
89,"2018-03-02 02:47:52","W. S. Merwin",1927-,"Surrealism, Translators","William Stanley Merwin was born in New York City on September 30, 1927. He was raised in Union City, New Jersey and Scranton, Pennsylvania, as the son of a Presbyterian minister, and began writing hymns as a child. Merwin's mother had grown up an orphan, "
90,"2018-03-02 02:48:02","Garrett Hongo",1951-,,"Japanese American poet, Garrett Hongo, was born in Volcano, Hawai'i, on May 30, 1951. He attended Pomona College and the University of Michigan. He received his MFA in English from the University of California at Irvine.His collections of poetry include C"
91,"2018-03-02 02:48:10","Frank Marshall Davis",1905-1987,,"On December 31, 1905, Frank Marshall Davis was born in Arkansas City, Kansas. His parents divorced one year after his birth. At the age of seventeen, he moved to Wichita to attend Friends University and soon thereafter he transferred to the school of jour"
92,"2018-03-02 02:48:22","Robert Wrigley",1951-,,"On February 27, 1951, Robert Wrigley was born in East St. Louis, Illinois, and grew up in Collinsville, a coal mining town. He received his BA (with honors) in English Language & Literature at Southern Illinois University in 1974, and his MFA in Poetry fr"
93,"2018-03-02 02:48:35","Alexandra Teague",,,"Alexandra Teague is the author of the poetry collections The Wise and Foolish Builders (Persea Books, 2015) and Mortal Geography (Persea Books, 2010), which which won the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky First Book Prize in Poetry and the 2010 California Book Award. S"
94,"2018-03-02 02:48:45","Diane Raptosh",,,"Diane Raptosh was born in Scottsbluff, Nebraska, and raised in Idaho. She received a BA from the College of Idaho in 1983 and an MFA from the University of Michigan in 1986.Raptosh is the author of five poetry collections: Human Directional (Etruscan Pres"
95,"2018-03-02 02:48:54","Ron McFarland",,,"Ron McFarland is the author of Subtle Thieves (Pecan Grove Press, 2012) and Stranger in Town: New and Selected Poems (Confluence Press, 2000), among others. He teaches at the University of Idaho. by this poet poem Idaho Requiem Ron McFarland 2000 for Robe"
96,"2018-03-02 02:49:00","Edith Franklin Wyatt",1873-,,"Edith Franklin Wyatt was born in Tomah, Wisconsin, on September 14, 1873, and went to Bryn Mawr College from 1892 to 1894. She taught at a private school for five years before becoming an instructor at Hull House, a Chicago settlement house, and participa"
97,"2018-03-02 02:49:08","Eunice Tietjens",1884-1944,,"Eunice Tietjens, born July 29, 1884, is the author of four poetry collections: China (Wheeler Publishing Company, 1930), Leaves in Windy Weather (Alfred A. Knopf, 1929), Body and Raiment (Alfred A. Knopf, 1919), and Profiles from China: Sketches in Free V"
98,"2018-03-02 02:49:12","Shel Silverstein",1930-1999,,"Shel Silverstein was born on September 25, 1930 in Chicago, Illinois, and began writing and drawing at a young age. He became a cartoonist, playwright, poet, performer, recording artist, and Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated songwriter.Silverstein is best k"
99,"2018-03-02 02:49:18","Jennifer Scappettone",1972-,,"Poet and translator Jennifer Scappettone was born in New York, and has lived in Italy, Japan, Virginia, and California. She received her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.Scappettone's translations of the Italian poet Amelia Rosselli, coll"
100,"2018-03-02 02:49:35","Erika L. Sánchez",,Contemporary,"Erika L. Sánchez is the author of Lessons on Expulsion, forthcoming from Graywolf Press in July 2017. She earned an MFA from the University of New Mexico and is the recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship, a CantoMundo Fellowship, the 2013 “Discovery”/Boston "