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Alice James Books
Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: Patricia Cumming, Marjorie Fletcher, Lee Rudolph, Ron Schreiber, Betsy Sholl, Cornelia Veenendaal, and Jean Pedrick. The intent of this company was to provide women with a greater representation in literature and involve the writer in the publishing process. While this may seem unbelievable today, in the 1970s women writers had a very difficult time being published. Recognizing this dire need, Alice James Books was established." Exhibits > Jean Pedrick: A Virtual Exhibit of Her Life and Work > Alice James Books">UNH - Manchester Library > Special Home > Exhibits > Jean Pedrick: A Virtual Exhibit of Her Life and Work > Alice James Books/ref> Maine Poet Laureate Betsy Sholl shared her memory of being a founding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist (born 20 September 1970) is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection ''Incarnadine''. Life She grew up in Pennsylvania, earned her B.A. and M.T. (Master of Teaching) from the University of Virginia, and attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Teaching-Writing Fellow. Szybist's ''Incarnadine'' (Graywolf Press, 2013) was the recipient of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry, and her collection ''Granted'' (Alice James Books, 2003) won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award from Alice James Books and the 2004 Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award, and was a finalist for the 2004 National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry. In a feature on NBCCA poetry finalists, the ''Christian Science Monitor'' wrote: Szybist's poetry has appeared in ''Denver Quarterly, Colorado Review, AGNI,'' ''Virginia Quarterly Review, The Iowa Review, Poetry, Tin House,'' and ''The Kenyon Review,'' and ''The Best American Poetry 2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Maine At Farmington
The University of Maine at Farmington (UMaine Farmington or UMF) is a public liberal arts college in Farmington, Maine. It is part of the University of Maine System and a founding member of the Council of Public Liberal Arts Colleges. History In March 1863, a Normal School Act passed into law, and that fall, Farmington was chosen from a list of possible locations for a normal school. Founded in 1864 as the state's first publicly funded normal school, the first class graduated from the Western State Normal School in 1866. The school merged into the University of Maine System in 1968 to become the University of Maine at Farmington. Many early graduates attended the school for its liberal arts offerings alone. Among these were the Stanley brothers, famous for building the Stanley Steamer automobile, and John Frank Stevens, engineer of the Panama Canal. Comedian Bob Marley graduated with a degree in community health. Interest in the liberal arts continued unabated, and the colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Donald Revell
Donald Revell (born 1954 in Bronx, New York) is an American poet, essayist, translator and professor. Revell has won numerous honors and awards for his work, beginning with his first book, ''From the Abandoned Cities'', which was a National Poetry Series winner. More recently, he won the 2004 Lenore Marshall Award and is a two-time winner of the PEN Center USA Award in poetry. He has also received the Gertrude Stein Award, two Shestack Prizes, two Pushcart Prizes and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as from the Ingram Merrill and Guggenheim Foundations. His most recent book is ''Drought-Adapted Vine'' ( Alice James Books, 2015). He also recently published his translation of Arthur Rimbaud's '' A Season in Hell'' (Omnidawn Publishing, 2007). Revell has taught at the Universities of Tennessee, Missouri, Iowa, Alabama, Colorado, and Utah. He currently teaches at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He lives in Las Vegas with his wife, poet Claudia Keel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fanny Howe
Fanny Howe (born October 15, 1940 in Buffalo, New York) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. Howe has written more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Her major works include poetry such as ''One Crossed Out'', ''Gone'', and ''Second Childhood'', the novels ''Nod'', ''The Deep North'', and ''Indivisible,'' and collected essays ''The Wedding Dress: Meditations on Word and Life and The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation''. She was awarded the 2009 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize by the Poetry Foundation as well as awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, and the Village Voice. She is professor emerita of Writing and Literature at the University of California, San Diego. She lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Early life and education Howe was born in Buffalo, New York. When her father Mark De Wolfe Howe left to join the fighting in World War II, Howe and her mother, the Irish playwright Mary Manning ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ellen Doré Watson
Ellen Doré Watson is an American poet, translator and teacher. Career Watson is author of six collections of poems, most recently, ''pray me stay eager'' (Alice James Books). Her book, ''Ladder Music,'' was a New York/New England Award winner from Alice James Books. Other honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant and a 1997 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award. Watson has translated eleven books, including ''The Alphabet in the Park: The Selected poems of Adélia Prado'' (Wesleyan University Press), for which she was awarded an NEA Translation Fellowship and interviewed by ''BOMB Magazine.'' In addition to her Brazilian Portuguese translations, the Winter 1999 issue of ''Modern Poetry in Translation'' features contemporary Palestinian poetry she co-translated from the Arabic with Saadi Simawe. Her poems have appeared in literary journals, including ''Orion Magazine,'' ''Ploughshares,'' ''Boulevard,'' '' The Cortland Review,'' ''AGNI,'' ''The American Poetry Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali (born April 5, 1971) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, and professor. His most recent books are ''Inquisition'' (Wesleyan University Press, 2018) and ''All One's Blue'' (Harper Collins India, 2016). His honors include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council. His poetry and essays have been featured in many literary journals and magazines including ''The American Poetry Review'', ''Boston Review'', ''Barrow Street'', ''Jubilat'', ''The Iowa Review'', ''West Branch (literary journal), West Branch'' and ''Massachusetts Review'', and in anthologies including ''The Best American Poetry 2007''. Life He was born in the UK to parents of Indian descent, and raised in Canada and the United States. Kazim Ali received a B.A. and an M.A. in English Literature from the University at Albany, and an MFA in creative writing from New York University. In 2003, he co-founded the independent press Nightboat Books, served as its publisher from 2004 to 2007, and curren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Manguso
Sarah Manguso (born 1974) is an American writer and poet. In 2007, she was awarded the Joseph Brodsky Rome Prize Fellowship in literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Her memoir ''The Two Kinds of Decay'' (2008), was named an "Editors’ Choice" title by the ''New York Times Sunday Book Review'' and a 2008 "Best Nonfiction Book of the Year" by the ''San Francisco Chronicle.'' Her book '' Ongoingness: The End of a Diary'' (2015) was also named a ''New York Times'' "Editors’ Choice." Her debut novel, ''Very Cold People'', was published by Penguin in 2022. Life She was born and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. Manguso received her B.A. from Harvard University and her M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She has taught creative writing at the Pratt Institute and in the graduate program at The New School. She lives in Los Angeles, and teaches in the MFA program at Antioch University and New England College. Her poems and prose have appeared in '' Harper' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Forrest Hamer
Forrest Hamer (born 1956) is an American poet, psychologist, and psychoanalyst. He is the author of three poetry collections, most recently ''Rift'' (Four Way Books, 2007). His first collection, ''Call & Response,'' (Alice James Books) won the Beatrice Hawley Award, and his second, ''Middle Ear'' (Roundhouse Press), received the Northern California Book Award. He has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the California Arts Council, and he has taught at the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshops. His poetry has been anthologized in ''Poet’s Choice: Poems for Everyday Life, The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place, The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, Blues Poems,'' ''Word of Mouth: An Anthology of Gay American Poetry,'' and three editions of ''The Best American Poetry''; and has appeared in many magazines and literary journals including ''The American Poetry Review,'' Beloit Poetry Journal, Kenyon Review, Callaloo, Ploughshares,'' ''Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank X
Frank or Franks may refer to: People * Frank (given name) * Frank (surname) * Franks (surname) * Franks, a medieval Germanic people * Frank, a term in the Muslim world for all western Europeans, particularly during the Crusades - see Farang Currency * Liechtenstein franc or frank, the currency of Liechtenstein since 1920 * Swiss franc or frank, the currency of Switzerland since 1850 * Westphalian frank, currency of the Kingdom of Westphalia between 1808 and 1813 * The currencies of the German-speaking cantons of Switzerland (1803–1814): ** Appenzell frank ** Argovia frank ** Basel frank ** Berne frank ** Fribourg frank ** Glarus frank ** Graubünden frank ** Luzern frank ** Schaffhausen frank ** Schwyz frank ** Solothurn frank ** St. Gallen frank ** Thurgau frank ** Unterwalden frank ** Uri frank ** Zürich frank Places * Frank, Alberta, Canada, an urban community, formerly a village * Franks, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community * Franks, Missour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Becker
Robin Becker (born 1951) is an American poet, critic, feminist, and professor. She was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and is author of seven collections of poetry, most recently, Tiger Heron and Domain of Perfect Affection (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014 and 2006). Her ''All-American Girl'' (University of Pittsburgh Press), won the 1996 Lambda Literary Award in Poetry. Becker earned a B.A. in 1973 and an M.A. from Boston University in 1976. She lives in Boalsburg, Pennsylvania and spends her summers in southern New Hampshire. Teaching career Becker taught for seventeen years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and currently and is Professor of English and Women's Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she has taught since 1993. She also teaches workshops such as those at the Summer Program Poetry Workshops at The Fine Arts Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Literary influences and praise "Becker grew up listening to her grandmother's storie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaveh Akbar
Kaveh Akbar (کاوه اکبر) is an Iranian-American poet and scholar. Early life and education Akbar was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1989, and grew up across the United States including New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Indiana. He moved to the United States when he was only two years old. Before he moved to the U.S., his parents taught him how to talk by reading Muslim prayers. Akbar received his MFA from Butler University and his PhD in Creative Writing from Florida State University. Works Akbar is a faculty member at University of Iowa. He also teaches in the low residency fine art programs at Randolph College and Warren Wilson College. He is the author of ''Pilgrim Bell'', a collection of poetry, published by Graywolf Press, ''Calling a Wolf a Wolf'', published by Alice James Books in the US and Penguin Books in the UK, and the chapbook ''Portrait of the Alcoholic'', published by Sibling Rivalry Press. American poet Patricia Smith says, “Kaveh Akbar has w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Turner (American Poet)
Brian Turner (born 1967) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. He won the 2005 Beatrice Hawley Award for his debut collection, ''Here, Bullet'' (Alice James Books) the first of many awards and honors received for this collection of poems about his experience as a soldier in the Iraq War. His honors since include a Lannan Literary Fellowship and NEA Literature Fellowship in Poetry, and the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship. His second collection, shortlisted for the 2010 T.S. Eliot Prize is ''Phantom Noise'' (Alice James Books, USA; Bloodaxe Books, UK, 2010). Early life and education Turner was born in Visalia, California, and raised in Fresno and then Madera County through high school and attended Fresno City College before transferring to Fresno State for his BA and MA. He received his MFA from the University of Oregon. He taught English in South Korea for a year, and traveled to Russia, the United Arab Emirates, and Japan. Military service Turner is a United Sta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
