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
1,1,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alabama,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"
2,1,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alabama,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"
3,1,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alabama,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"
4,1,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alabama,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"
5,2,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alaska,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), "
6,2,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alaska,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"
7,2,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alaska,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"
8,2,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alaska,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"
9,2,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alaska,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"
10,2,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Alaska,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: "
11,3,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arizona,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"
12,3,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arizona,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"
13,3,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arizona,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"
14,3,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arizona,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"
15,3,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arizona,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. "
16,3,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arizona,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"
17,3,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arizona,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"
18,3,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arizona,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"
19,3,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arizona,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"
20,4,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arkansas,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"
21,4,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arkansas,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"
22,4,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arkansas,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"
23,4,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arkansas,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"
24,4,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arkansas,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"
25,4,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arkansas,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"
26,4,"2018-02-27 05:50:56",Arkansas,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"
27,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
28,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
29,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
30,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
31,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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 "
32,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
33,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
34,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
35,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
36,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
370,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
371,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
372,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
373,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
374,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
375,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
376,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
377,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
378,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
379,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
380,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
381,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
382,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
383,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
384,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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."
385,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
386,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
387,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
388,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
389,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
390,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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 "
391,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
392,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
393,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
394,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
395,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
396,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
397,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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, "
398,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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."
399,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
400,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,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"
401,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,401,"2018-03-02 03:54:42","Tessa Micaela",,,"Tessa Micaela is a poet, full-spectrum doula, community educator, bookmaker, and quiet firecracker, living in Oakland. Tessa's list-of-things-to-learn-in-a-lifetime includes midwifery, carpentry, bicycle repair, herbalism, and the best-places-to-get-lost."
402,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,402,"2018-03-02 03:54:54","Erica Mena",,,"Erica Mena was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. She received an MFA in poetry from Brown University and an MFA in literary translation from the University of Iowa. She is the author of Featherbone (Ricochet Editions, 2015), which received a 2016 "
403,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,403,"2018-03-02 03:55:01","David Meltzer",1937-2016,"San Francisco Renaissance, Beat","David Meltzer was born on February 17, 1937, in Rochester, New York. In 1957 he moved to the Bay Area and is associated with the San Francisco Renaissance and the Beat Generation. He is the author of several collections of poetry and fiction, and also kno"
404,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,404,"2018-03-02 03:55:12","Jane Mead",,,"Jane Mead received a BA from Vassar College in 1982, an MA from Syracuse University in 1986, and an MFA from the University of Iowa in 1988.She is the author of five poetry collections: World of Made and Unmade (Alice James Books, 2016), which was longlis"
405,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,405,"2018-03-02 03:55:21","Clarence Major",,,"Poet, novelist, and painter Clarence Major was born in 1936 in Atlanta, Georgia. He received a BS from the State University of New York and a PhD from the Union for Experimenting Colleges and Universities.His recent books of poetry include Down and Up (Un"
406,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,406,"2018-03-02 03:55:30","Ada Limón",1976-,Contemporary,"Born March 28, 1976, Ada Limón is originially from Sonoma, California. As a child, she was greatly influenced by the visual arts and artists, including her mother, Stacia Brady. In 2001 she received an MFA from the Creative Writing Program at New York Uni"
407,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,407,"2018-03-02 03:55:42","Ali Liebegott",,Contemporary,"Ali Liebegott is the author of the novels Cha-Ching! (City Lights, 2013), The IHOP Papers (Carroll & Graf, 2007), and The Beautifully Worthless (Suspect Thoughts, 2005). Her honors include a poetry fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts. She "
408,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,408,"2018-03-02 03:55:53","Joanne Kyger",1934-2017,,"Joanne Kyger was born in Vallejo, California, in 1934. After attending the University of California–Santa Barbara, she moved to San Francisco in 1957. There, she studied Zen Buddhism and joined a community of poets active in the San Francisco Renaissance,"
409,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,409,"2018-03-02 03:55:56","Nate Klug",,,"Nate Klug is the author of Anyone (University of Chicago Press, 2015). He teaches at the Graduate Theological Union and lives in Albany, California. by this poet poem Difference Nate Klug 2015 Talk to you tonight,I wrote this morning, knowingit would only"
410,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,410,"2018-03-02 03:56:03","Suji Kwock Kim",,Contemporary,"Born in 1969, Suji Kwock Kim was educated at Yale College; the Iowa Writers' Workshop; Seoul National University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar; and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow. Her first book of poems, Notes from the Divided C"
411,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,411,"2018-03-02 03:56:11","Brigit Pegeen Kelly",,Contemporary,"Brigit Pegeen Kelly was born in Palo Alto, California, in 1951.Her first collection of poems, To The Place of Trumpets (1987), was selected by James Merrill for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. Song (BOA Editions), which followed in 1995, was the 1994 La"
412,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,412,"2018-03-02 03:56:16","Weldon Kees",1914-1955,,"On February 24, 1914, Weldon Kees was born in Beatrice, Nebraska. His father, John Kees, owned a hardware store. As a boy, Kees had a keen interest in music, art, and writing. He also published his own movie magazine. In 1935, he graduated from the Univer"
413,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,413,"2018-03-02 03:56:24","Bob Kaufman",1925-1986,Beat,"On April 18, 1925, Bob Kaufman was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of thirteen children. His mother was a black Catholic from Martinique, his father a German Orthodox Jew. As a child, Kaufman took part in both Catholic and Jewish religious services; h"
414,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,414,"2018-03-02 03:56:32","Ilya Kaminsky",1977-,,"Born on April 18, 1977, Ilya Kaminsky was raised in Odessa, Ukraine, the former Soviet Union. At age four, he lost most of his hearing after a misdiagnosis. He arrived in the United States in 1993, when his family was granted asylum by the American govern"
415,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,415,"2018-03-02 03:56:43","Anna Journey",,,"Anna Journey is the author of the poetry collections Vulgar Remedies (Louisiana State University Press, 2013) and If Birds Gather Your Hair for Nesting (University of Georgia Press, 2009), which was selected by Thomas Lux for the National Poetry Series. S"
416,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,416,"2018-03-02 03:56:48","Emily Hunt",,,"Emily Hunt is the author of Dark Green (The Song Cave, 2015). She lives in San Francisco, California. by this poet poem Property Emily Hunt 2015 There are these flowerswith centers like liquidhollows up closeand the outlinemelts like a trick.An illusion i"
417,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,417,"2018-03-02 03:57:01","Jeff Hoffman",,,"Jeff Hoffman is the author of Journal of American Foreign Policy (New Issues Poetry & Prose, 2011), which won the New Issues Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the California Book Award. Hoffman works as a screenwriter and lives in Los Angeles. by this p"
418,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,418,"2018-03-02 03:57:10","Jane Hirshfield",1953-,,"Jane Hirshfield was born in New York City on February 24, 1953. After receiving her BA from Princeton University in its first graduating class to include women, she went on to study at the San Francisco Zen Center.Her books of poetry include The Beauty: P"
419,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,419,"2018-03-02 03:57:24","Brenda Hillman",1951-,Contemporary,"Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona, on March 17, 1951. She was educated at Pomona College and received her MFA at the University of Iowa. Her upbringing in a deeply religious Baptist family surfaces in many of her poems, especially those that appe"
420,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,420,"2018-03-02 03:57:36","David Hernandez",,,"David Hernandez is the author of Dear, Sincerely (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016); Hookwinked (Sarabande Books, 2011), winner of the Kathryn A. Morton Prize in Poetry; Always Danger (Southern Illinois University Press, 2006), winner of the Crab Orch"
421,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,421,"2018-03-02 03:57:50","Robert Hass",1941-,Contemporary,"Robert Hass was born in San Francisco on March 1, 1941. He attended St. Mary's College in Moraga, California and received both an MA and PhD in English from Stanford University.His books of poetry include The Apple Trees at Olema: New and Selected Poems ("
422,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,422,"2018-03-02 03:57:54","Barbara Guest",1920-2006,"New York School","On September 6, 1920, Barbara Guest was born in Wilmington, North Carolina. She attended the University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley, from which she graduated in 1943.Early in her career, she was known predominant"
423,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,423,"2018-03-02 03:58:01","Linda Gregg",1942-,,"Born in Suffern, New York on September 9, 1942, Linda Gregg grew up in Marin County, California. She received her BA and MA from San Francisco State University.Her first book of poems, Too Bright to See, was published in 1981. Since then, she has publishe"
424,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,424,"2018-03-02 03:58:12","Amy Glynn Greacen",,,"Amy Glynn Greacen is the author of A Modern Herbal (Measure Press, 2013). She has earned degrees from Mount Holyoke College and Lancaster University and is the recipient of a fellowship from the James Merrill House. She lives in Lafayette, California. by "
425,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,425,"2018-03-02 03:58:25","Judy Grahn",1940-,,"Judy Grahn was born in Chicago, Illinois, on July 28, 1940. When she was eight years old, her family moved to Las Cruces, New Mexico, where her parents struggled to find steady employment. After leaving home at eighteen, she joined the United States Air F"
426,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,426,"2018-03-02 03:58:30","Madeline Gleason",1903-1979,"San Francisco Renaissance","Madeline Gleason was born in Fargo, North Dakota on January 26, 1903. She moved to San Francisco, California in the 1930s where she worked for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project and founded the San Francisco Poetry Guild and poet"
427,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,427,"2018-03-02 03:58:36","C. S. Giscombe",1950-,,"C. S. Giscombe was born in 1950 in Dayton, Ohio. He graduated with degrees in English from University at Albany and Cornell University. At Cornell, he edited Epoch magazine.His books of poems include Prairie Style (Dalkey Archive Press, 2008), Giscome Roa"
428,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,428,"2018-03-02 03:58:43","Dana Gioia",1950-,Contemporary,"On December 24, 1950, Dana Gioia was born in Hawthorne, California. He received a BA from Stanford University. Before returning to Stanford to earn an MBA, he completed an MA in comparative literature at Harvard University, where he studied with the poets"
429,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,429,"2018-03-02 03:58:52","Sandra M. Gilbert",1936-,,"Poet and critic Sandra M. Gilbert was born on December 27, 1936, in New York City. She was educated at Cornell University, New York University, and Columbia University, where she received her PhD in 1968.Among Gilbert's most widely known works are her col"
430,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,430,"2018-03-02 03:58:57","Barry Gifford",,,"Barry Gifford was born on October 18, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois. His family moved often and lived mostly in hotels, and he cites the characters he encountered in hotel lobbies as an early inspiration to write. He played baseball in high school and enroll"
431,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,431,"2018-03-02 03:59:01","Amy Gerstler",,,"Amy Gerstler received her BA in psychology from Pitzer College in 1978 and her MFA in nonfiction from Bennington College in 2000.Her books of poetry include Scattered at Sea (Penguin, 2015), which was longlisted for the 2015 National Book Award; Dearest C"
432,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,432,"2018-03-02 03:59:12","Ramón García",,,"Ramón Garcí​​a is the author of two books of poetry: Other Countries (What Books Press, 2010) and The Chronicles (Red Hen Press, 2015). He is a professor at California State University, Northridge, and lives in downtown Los Angeles. by this poet poem Sido"
433,5,"2018-03-02 02:15:59",California,433,"2018-03-02 03:59:20","Rebecca Foust",,,"Rebecca Foust is the author of Paradise Drive (Press 53, 2015). She is the poetry editor for the website Women’s Voices for Change and lives in Kentfield, California. by this poet poem Abeyance Rebecca Foust 2015                                letter to m"