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Aimee Nezhukumatathil
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (; Malayalam Abugida: നേഴുകുമറ്റത്തിൽ; ; born in 1974 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American poet and essayist. Nezhukumatathil draws upon her Filipina and Malayali Indian background to give her perspective on love, loss, and land. Biography Nezhukumatathil received her BA and MFA from the Ohio State University. In 2016–17 she was the John and Renee Grisham Writer-in-Residence at the University of Mississippi's MFA program. She has also taught at the Kundiman Retreat for Asian American writers. She is professor of English in the University of Mississippi's MFA program. She is married to the writer Dustin Parsons. They live in Oxford, Mississippi, with their two sons. Work She is author of four poetry collections. Her first collection, ''Miracle Fruit'', won the 2003 Tupelo Press Prize and the Global Filipino Literary Award in Poetry, was named the ''ForeWord Magazine'' Book of the Year in Poetry, and was a finalist for the As ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago, Illinois
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The American Poetry Review
''The American Poetry Review'' (''APR'') is an American poetry magazine printed every other month on tabloid-sized newsprint. It was founded in 1972 by Stephen Berg and Stephen Parker in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The magazine's editor is Elizabeth Scanlon. History ''The American Poetry Review'' was founded by Berg and Parker in 1972 in Philadelphia. The magazine lacked capital but had "significant support in the national poetry community" according to the magazine's website. In 1973, David Bonanno, a recent graduate of Wesleyan University, joined ''APR'' and served as editor of the publication until his death, in 2017. The poet Arthur Vogelsang also joined as editor that year, remaining until 2006. By 1976, the publication was being produced and distributed more efficiently, making it "the most widely circulated poetry magazine ever". In 1977, the publication began paying out small salaries to editors and staff and small payments to authors. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Poets
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Ohio State University Alumni
Alumni (singular: alumnus (masculine) or alumna (feminine)) are former students of a school, college, or university who have either attended or graduated in some fashion from the institution. The feminine plural alumnae is sometimes used for groups of women. The word is Latin and means "one who is being (or has been) nourished". The term is not synonymous with "graduate"; one can be an alumnus without graduating (Burt Reynolds, alumnus but not graduate of Florida State, is an example). The term is sometimes used to refer to a former employee or member of an organization, contributor, or inmate. Etymology The Latin noun ''alumnus'' means "foster son" or "pupil". It is derived from PIE ''*h₂el-'' (grow, nourish), and it is a variant of the Latin verb ''alere'' "to nourish".Merriam-Webster: alumnus .. Separate, but from the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American People Of Malayali Descent
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1974 Births
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following List of Prime Ministers of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey, Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the Germany national football team, German national team won the championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Writers Of Indian Descent
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copper Canyon Press
Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington. Copper Canyon Press publishes new collections of poetry by both popular and emerging American poets, translations of classical and contemporary work from many of the world's cultures, re-issues of out-of-print poetry classics, prose books about poetry, and anthologies. The press achieved national attention when Copper Canyon poet W.S. Merwin won the 2005 National Book Award for Poetry in the same year another Copper Canyon poet, Ted Kooser, won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and was appointed to a second year as United States Poet Laureate. Merwin later won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and in 2010 was named United States Poet Laureate. Copper Canyon has published more than 400 titles, including works by Nobel Prize Laureates Pablo Neruda, Odysseas Elytis, Octavio Paz, Vicente Aleixandre and Rabin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tupelo Press
Tupelo Press is an American not-for-profit literary press founded in 1999. It produced its first titles in 2001, publishing poetry, fiction and non-fiction. Originally located in Dorset, Vermont, the press has since moved to North Adams, Massachusetts. History, staff and funding Tupelo Press was founded by Jeffrey Levine, Publisher and Artistic Director, and author of three collections of poetry. The staff includes Kristina Marie Darling Editor-in-Chief of Tupelo Press and Tupelo Quarterly, David Rossitter, Managing Editor; Cassandra Cleghorn, Associate Editor for Poetry & Nonfiction, and Kirsten Miles, National Director of the 30/30 Project and National Coordinator for Tupelo Press Seminars. Tupelo Press publishes the winners of its national poetry competitions, as well as manuscripts accepted through general submission. Awards given by Tupelo Press include the Dorset Prize, the Berkshire Prize for a First or Second Book of Poetry, and the Snowbound Series Chapbook Award. Tupe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orion (magazine)
''Orion'' is a quarterly, advertisement-free, nonprofit magazine focused on nature, culture, and place addressing environmental and societal issues. It has published such authors as Wendell Berry, Barry Lopez, Terry Tempest Williams, Michael Pollan, Mark Kurlansky, Derrick Jensen, Sandra Steingraber, Gretel Ehrlich, Bill McKibben, Barbara Kingsolver, Rebecca Solnit, Cormac Cullinan, Erik Reece, James Howard Kunstler and E. O. Wilson. In 2010, ''Orion'' was the recipient of ''Utne Reader ''Utne Reader'' (also known as ''Utne'') ( ) is a digital digest that collects and reprints articles on politics, culture, and the environment, generally from alternative media sources including journals, newsletters, weeklies, zines, music, and ...'' magazine's Utne Independent Press Award for General Excellence. Orion Book Award Since 2007, the magazine has administered an annual book award competition, which is described by the magazine as "given annually to a book that addresses the hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tin House
''Tin House'' is an American book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Portland publisher Win McCormack originally conceived the idea for a literary magazine called ''Tin House'' in the summer of 1998. He enlisted Holly MacArthur as managing editor and developed the magazine with the help of two experienced New York editors, Rob Spillman and Elissa Schappell. In 2005, ''Tin House'' expanded into the book division, Tin House Books. They also began to run a by-admission-only summer writers' workshop held at Reed College. In December 2018, ''Tin House'' announced that they were shuttering their literary magazine after 20 years to focus on their book releases and workshops. ''Tin House'' published fiction, essays, and poetry, as well as interviews with important literary figures, a "Lost and Found" section dedicated to exceptional and generally overlooked books, "Readable Feast" food writing features, and "Literary Pilgrimages", about visits to the homes of wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
