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state_x_poet.id | state.id | state.ts | state.title | poet.id | poet.ts | poet.title | poet.year | poet.school_and_movement | poet.poet_description |
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434 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 434 | 2018-03-02 03:59:33 | Tonya M. Foster | Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court (Belladonna* Press, 2015). She is an assistant professor of writing and literature at California College of the Arts. by this poet poem In Tongues Tonya M. Foster 2015 for Auntie Jeanette1.Be | ||
435 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 435 | 2018-03-02 03:59:40 | Jennifer Foerster | Jennifer Elise Foerster is the author of Leaving Tulsa, published by the University of Arizona Press. A member of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation of Oklahoma, Foerster has received a Lannan Foundation Writing Residency Fellowship, a National Endowment for the | ||
436 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 436 | 2018-03-02 03:59:47 | Lawrence Ferlinghetti | 1919- | Beat | On March 24, 1919, Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, New York. After spending his early childhood in France, he received his BA from the University of North Carolina, an MA from Columbia University, and a PhD from the Sorbonne.During World War II |
437 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 437 | 2018-03-02 03:59:58 | Joshua Jennifer Espinoza | Joshua Jennifer Espinoza is the author of i’m alive / it hurts / i love it (Boost House, 2014). Espinoza’s poems have also appeared online, in publications including The Feminist Wire and The Offing, and in the e-book In Fear of a Trans Planet (Be About I | ||
438 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 438 | 2018-03-02 04:00:02 | Tongo Eisen-Martin | Tongo Eisen-Martin was born in San Francisco, California, and received an MA from Columbia University. He is the author of someone’s dead already (Bootstrap Press, 2015), which was nominated for a California Book Award. Also a human rights activist and ed | ||
439 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 439 | 2018-03-02 04:00:24 | kari edwards | kari edwards was born in Illinois in 1954 and raised in Westfield, New York. After studying sculpture in school, edwards taught in the art department at Denver University, and went on to receive an MA in psychology and an MFA in writing and poetics from t | ||
440 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 440 | 2018-03-02 04:00:33 | Camille T. Dungy | 1972- | Contemporary | Camille T. Dungy was born in Denver in 1972. She received a BA from Stanford University and an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.Dungy is the author of Trophic Cascade (Wesleyan University Press, 2017), Smith Blue (Southern Illinois Un |
441 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 441 | 2018-03-02 04:00:50 | Robert Duncan | 1919-1988 | San Francisco Renaissance, Black Mountain | Born on January 7, 1919, in Oakland, California, Robert Duncan began writing poetry as a teenager in Bakersfield, when a high school teacher encouraged his creative endeavors. In 1938, after two years at University of California, Berkeley, Duncan moved to |
442 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 442 | 2018-03-02 04:00:54 | Ben Doller | Ben Doller (previously Doyle) was born in Warsaw, New York in 1973. He completed his undergraduate education at the State University of New York at Oswego and West Virginia University, and he received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where he was a | ||
443 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 443 | 2018-03-02 04:00:57 | W. S. Di Piero | 1945- | Confessional Poetry | Poet, translator, and essayist W. S. Di Piero was born in South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1945 and grew up in an Italian working class neighborhood. He attended St. Joseph's College in Philadelphia and received a master's degree from San Francisco St |
444 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 444 | 2018-03-02 04:01:13 | Tsering Wangmo Dhompa | 1969- | Contemporary | Tsering Wangmo Dhompa was born in India on March 6, 1969, and grew up in India and Nepal. She received her BA and MA in English literature from Lady Shri Ram College, Delhi University. In 1995, she left India to pursue her MA in professional writing from |
445 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 445 | 2018-03-02 04:01:27 | Robin Coste Lewis | Robin Coste Lewis was born in Compton, California. She received an MFA from New York University and an MTS from the Divinity School at Harvard University. She is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (Alfred A. Knopf, 2015), winner of the National Book | ||
446 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 446 | 2018-03-02 04:01:54 | Gillian Conoley | 1955- | Contemporary | Gillian Conoley was born on March 29, 1955, in Taylor, Texas, a rural town about thirty miles outside of Austin where her parents owned and operated a radio station. She earned her BFA in journalism at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, befor |
447 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 447 | 2018-03-02 04:02:06 | Wanda Coleman | 1946-2013 | Born on November 13, 1946, Wanda Coleman grew up in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. During her lifetime she worked as a medical secretary, magazine editor, journalist, and Emmy Award-winning scriptwriter before turning to poetry.Her poetry collecti | |
448 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 448 | 2018-03-02 04:02:08 | Killarney Clary | Killarney Clary was born in 1954 in Los Angeles, California, and was raised in Pasadena. She received a BFA in studio art and an MFA in poetry from the University of California–Irvine.She is the author of Shadow of a Cloud but No Cloud (University of Chic | ||
449 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 449 | 2018-03-02 04:02:17 | Justin Chin | Justin Chin was born in 1969 in Malaysia and raised in Singapore, where he graduated from junior college. He then enrolled at the University of Hawaii at Manoa before transferring in 1991 to the journalism program at San Francisco State University, where | ||
450 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 450 | 2018-03-02 04:02:21 | Gabrielle Calvocoressi | Born in central Connecticut, Gabrielle Calvocoressi grew up in a family that owned movie theaters in several small towns across the state. She studied at Sarah Lawrence College and earned her MFA from Columbia University.Calvocoressi's first book, The Las | ||
451 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 451 | 2018-03-02 04:02:30 | Charles Bukowski | 1920-1994 | Charles Bukowski was born in Andernach, Germany, on August 16, 1920, the only child of an American soldier and a German mother. At the age of three, he came with his family to the United States and grew up in Los Angeles. He attended Los Angeles City Coll | |
452 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 452 | 2018-03-02 04:02:39 | Julie Bruck | Julie Bruck’s most recent book is Monkey Ranch (Brick Books, 2012). She lives in San Francisco, and teaches at The Writing Salon. by this poet poem To Bring the Horse Home Julie Bruck 2015 after Philip LarkinIs all I’ve wanted past wantingsince I was six | ||
453 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 453 | 2018-03-02 04:02:53 | Julian Talamantez Brolaski | Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Advice for Lovers (City Lights Publishers, 2012) and gowanus atropolis (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2011), and coeditor of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of kari edwards (Litmus Press, 2009). Julian is a po | ||
454 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 454 | 2018-03-02 04:03:01 | Geoffrey Brock | 1964- | Geoffrey Brock was born in Atlanta on October 19, 1964. He earned an MFA in Poetry from the University of Florida and a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of Pennsylvania. In 1999, he received the Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Fellowship fr | |
455 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 455 | 2018-03-02 04:03:12 | Eavan Boland | 1944- | Eavan Boland was born in Dublin, Ireland, on September 24, 1944. Her father was a diplomat and her mother was an expressionist painter.At the age of six, Boland moved with her family to London, where she first encountered anti-Irish sentiment. She later r | |
456 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 456 | 2018-03-02 04:03:23 | Joshua Beckman | Contemporary | Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and earned his BA from Hampshire College, where he studied poetry and the art of the book. He is the author of five books of poetry: Things Are Happening (1998); Something I Expected To Be Different (2001 | |
457 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 457 | 2018-03-02 04:03:32 | Ellen Bass | Ellen Bass was born in Philadelphia in 1947 and grew up in New Jersey. She received a BA from Goucher College and an MA in creative writing from Boston University, where she studied with Anne Sexton. She later said that Anne Sexton “encouraged me to write | ||
458 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 458 | 2018-03-02 04:03:41 | Catherine Barnett | Catherine Barnett was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied at Princeton University and at the Warren Wilson MFA Program for Writers.Barnett is the author of two collections of poetry: Into Perfect Spheres Such Hol | ||
459 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 459 | 2018-03-02 04:03:46 | Ari Banias | Ari Banias was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in the Chicago area. He received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA from Hunter College. He is the author of Anybody (W. W. Norton, 2016). Banias has received fellowships from the Fine A | ||
460 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 460 | 2018-03-02 04:03:53 | Rae Armantrout | 1947- | Language Poetry | Rae Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California, on April 13, 1947, and grew up in San Diego. She holds a bachelor's degree from the University of California, Berkeley, where she studied with Denise Levertov, and a master's degree in creative writing from |
461 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 461 | 2018-03-02 04:04:18 | Francisco Aragón | Francisco Aragón was born in San Francisco, California. He received BA from the University of California–Berkeley and an MA in Spanish from New York University. After spending ten years in Spain, he went on to receive an MA in English from the University | ||
462 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 462 | 2018-03-02 04:04:23 | David Antin | 1932-2016 | Language Poetry | Born in New York City on February 1, 1932, David Antin was educated at City College of New York, where he studied science and languages, and New York University, where he studied linguistics and received an M.A.An experimentally driven poet, Antin used fo |
463 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 463 | 2018-03-02 04:04:32 | Jessica Ankeny | Jessica Ankeny is the author of the poetry chapbook One Simple Step to Keeping a Clean Gun (dancing girl press, 2013). She is the poetry and ephemera editor at Black Rabbit Review. Originally from Albuquerque, New Mexico, she currently lives in Los Angele | ||
464 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 464 | 2018-03-02 04:04:42 | Karen An-hwei Lee | Karen An-hwei Lee is the author of Phyla of Joy (Tupelo Press, 2012). She lives and teaches in the greater Los Angeles area. by this poet poem Dear Millennium, Inadequate Witness Karen An-hwei Lee 2015 Say we no longer bear witness to a body-politic of tr | ||
465 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 465 | 2018-03-02 04:04:46 | Will Alexander | Surrealism | Will Alexander was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1948. He received a BA from the University of California–Los Angeles in 1972.Alexander published his first poetry collection, Vertical Rainbow Climber (Jazz Press), in 1987. He went on to publish nume | |
466 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 466 | 2018-03-02 04:04:59 | Francisco X. Alarcón | 1954-2016 | Contemporary | Chicano poet and educator Francisco Xavier Alarcón was born in Wilmington, California, on February 21, 1954. During his childhood, Alarcón straddled the line between cultures, spending time living with his parents outside of Los Angeles and his other rela |
467 | 5 | 2018-03-02 02:15:59 | California | 467 | 2018-03-02 04:05:12 | Kim Addonizio | 1954- | Kim Addonizio was born in Washington, D.C., on July 31, 1954. She received her BA and MA from San Francisco State University.Her books of poetry include Lucifer at the Starlite (W. W. Norton, 2009); What Is This Thing Called Love: Poems (W. W. Norton, 200 | |
37 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 6 | 2018-03-02 02:16:14 | Colorado | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 7 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Connecticut | 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 | 8 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Delaware | 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 | 8 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Delaware | 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 | 8 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Delaware | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 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 |
468 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 468 | 2018-03-02 04:05:26 | Safia Elhillo | Safia Elhillo is the author of The January Children (University of Nebraska Press, 2017). She is a Cave Canem fellow of Sudanese origin and lives in Washington, D.C. by this poet poem how to say Safia Elhillo 2017 in the divorce i separate to two piles | ||
469 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 469 | 2018-03-02 04:05:30 | Buck Downs | Buck Downs is the author of Tachycardia (Edge Books, 2015), Ladies Love Outlaws (Edge Books, 2006), and Marijuana Soft Drink (Edge Books, 1999), among others. He is a board member of the District of Columbia Arts Center and lives in Washington, D.C. by th | ||
470 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 470 | 2018-03-02 04:05:36 | Jennifer Chang | Jennifer Chang received a BA from the University of Chicago in 1998, an MFA from the University of Virginia in 2002, and a PhD in English from the University of Virginia in 2017. She is the author of Some Say the Lark (Alice James Books, 2017) and The His | ||
471 | 9 | 2018-03-02 02:16:35 | District of Columbia | 471 | 2018-03-02 04:05:51 | Kenneth Carroll | Kenneth Carroll is a poet, fiction writer, essayist and playwright,whose writing has appeared in numerous publications. He was the director of DC WritersCorps and past president of the African American Writers Guild. He is married to playwright Joy Carrol | ||
70 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 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 |
472 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 472 | 2018-03-02 04:06:03 | James Weldon Johnson | 1871-1938 | Harlem Renaissance | Born on June 17, 1871 in Jacksonville, Florida, James Weldon Johnson was encouraged by his mother to study English literature and the European musical tradition. He attended Atlanta University, with the hope that the education he received there could be u |
473 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 473 | 2018-03-02 04:06:14 | Laura Riding Jackson | 1901-1991 | Fugitives | On January 16, 1901, Laura Riding Jackson was born Laura Reichenthal in New York City. From 1918 to 1921, she attended Cornell University. In 1920, she married Louis Gottschalk, a professor of history at Cornell. Her work soon attracted the notice of "The |
474 | 10 | 2018-03-02 02:16:51 | Florida | 474 | 2018-03-02 04:06:24 | Denise Duhamel | 1961- | Contemporary | In 1961, Denise Duhamel was born in Woonsocket, Rhode Island. She received a BFA degree from Emerson College and a MFA degree from Sarah Lawrence College.She is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including: Blowout (University of Pittsburgh, 20 |
80 | 11 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Georgia | 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 | 11 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Georgia | 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 | 11 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Georgia | 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 | 11 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Georgia | 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 | 11 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Georgia | 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 | 11 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Georgia | 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 | 11 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Georgia | 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 | 11 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Georgia | 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 | 12 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Hawaii | 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 | 12 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Hawaii | 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 | 12 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Hawaii | 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 | 12 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Hawaii | 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 | 13 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Idaho | 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 | 13 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Idaho | 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 | 13 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Idaho | 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 | 13 | 2018-02-27 05:50:56 | Idaho | 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 | ||
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