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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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| 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 | |
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