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Beltway Poetry Quarterly
''Beltway Poetry Quarterly'' is an English-language, online literary magazine based in Washington, D.C., United States. As its name suggests, it has featured poetry from the "Beltway" region of the Washington, DC area. The publication has "showcased the richness and diversity of Washington area authors in every issue." Special themes have included issues on Walt Whitman, "DC Places," and "The Evolving City." In 2004 the quarterly featured a "Wartime Issue" covering poetic responses to the Iraq War. The quarterly was founded in 2000 by Washington poet Kim Roberts. Indran Amirthanayagam became the editor in early 2019. Sara Cahill Marron serves as associate editor. The journal now has both an international and domestic American focus, publishing poets from all over the world. It also now features translations and reviews as well as poems written in English. History ''Beltway Poetry Quarterly'' has published poems and essays on poets with strong regional ties. Featured poets h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literary Magazine
A literary magazine is a periodical devoted to literature in a broad sense. Literary magazines usually publish short stories, poetry, and essays, along with literary criticism, book reviews, biographical profiles of authors, interviews and letters. Literary magazines are often called literary journals, or little magazines, terms intended to contrast them with larger, commercial magazines. History ''Nouvelles de la république des lettres'' is regarded as the first literary magazine; it was established by Pierre Bayle in France in 1684. Literary magazines became common in the early part of the 19th century, mirroring an overall rise in the number of books, magazines, and scholarly journals being published at that time. In Great Britain, critics Francis Jeffrey, Henry Brougham and Sydney Smith founded the '' Edinburgh Review'' in 1802. Other British reviews of this period included the ''Westminster Review'' (1824), ''The Spectator'' (1828), and ''Athenaeum'' (1828). In the Unite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Martin Galvin (poet)
Martin George Galvin (February 21, 1937 – August 6, 2018) was a prize-winning American poet and teacher. He taught at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland, St. Joseph's College in Emmitsburg, MD and Walt Whitman High School in Bethesda. Life Galvin grew up in Mount Airy, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He attended Catholic schools including St. John's High School, Manayunk, Pennsylvania, from which he graduated in a class of 15. After graduating from Villanova University with a BA degree in Liberal Arts, he continued his education and received his Masters and his Ph.D. degrees in American Literature from the University of Maryland, College Park while teaching literature at St. Joseph's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. After moving to the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1970s, he taught creative writing and poetry at Walt Whitman High School, Bethesda, Maryland. Before his death, he had most recently taught at the Writer's Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Family He and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Shore (poet)
Jane Shore is an American poet. Life She graduated from Goddard College, and moved from Vermont to the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She graduated from Radcliffe College in 1972, where she was a student of Elizabeth Bishop. Shore met Howard Norman in 1981, and they married in 1984 They have a daughter, Emma (born 1988). Norman and Shore lived in Cambridge, New Jersey, Oahu, and Vermont, before settling into homes in Chevy Chase, Maryland near Washington, D.C. during the school year, and East Calais, Vermont in the summertime. Their friend, the author David Mamet and Shore's Goddard College classmate, lives nearby. During the summer of 2003, poet Reetika Vazirani was housesitting the Normans' Chevy Chase home. There, on July 16, she killed her young son before committing suicide. Career She has edited ''Ploughshares'', and her poems have been published in numerous magazines, including ''Poetry'', ''The New Republic'', and ''The Yale Review'' She was Radcliffe Institute, fellow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myra Sklarew
Myra Weisberg Sklarew (born 1934 Baltimore, Maryland) is an American biologist, poet and teacher. Life She received a biology degree from Tufts University, in 1956. She studied bacterial genetics and bacterial viruses with Salvador Luria and Max Delbrück at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. She later studied with Elliott Coleman at the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars, where she received an M.A. in 1970. She has worked in the Department of Neurophysiology, at Yale University School of Medicine, where she studied frontal lobe function and delayed response memory in Rhesus monkeys. Sklarew is the author of three chapbooks, and six collections of poetry. From 1987 to 1991, she served as president of the Yaddo artist community. Her poems are in the Contemporary Poets Archive at the Library of Congress. In 1961, she moved to Washington, D.C., and began teaching at American University. Sklarew is currently emerita professor of literature in the writing program at Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stanley Plumly
Stanley Plumly (May 23, 1939 – April 11, 2019) was an American poet and the director of University of Maryland, College Park's creative writing program. Plumly grew up in Ohio and Virginia and was educated at Wilmington College in Ohio and at Ohio University. He taught for a number of years at Ohio University, where he helped found the Ohio Review. He taught the writing program at the University of Maryland. Plumly died of multiple myeloma on April 11, 2019, in Frederick, Maryland, at the age of 79. Bibliography Poetry Collections * *''How the Plains Indians Got Horses'' (Best Cellar Press, 1973) *''Giraffe (Louisiana Press'', 1974) *''Out-of-the-Body Travel'' (Ecco/Viking, 1977) *''Summer Celestial'' (Ecco/Norton, 1983) * * * *''Old Heart'' (W. W. Norton, 2007) *''Orphan Hours'' (W. W. Norton, 2012) *''Against Sunset'' (W. W. Norton, 2016) *''Middle Distance'' (W.W. Norton, 2020) List of poems * * * * * * * * As editor * * Nonfiction * *''Posthumous ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Peabody
Richard Peabody is a poet, editor, and publisher, based in Washington, D.C. Biography A native of the Washington DC metropolitan region, Peabody received a B.A. in English from the University of Maryland in 1973 and a M.A. in Literature from American University in 1975.Richard M. Peabody Gargoyle Magazine collection Special Collections Research Center, Estelle and Melvin Gelman Library, The George Washington University. Peabody is perhaps best known as one of the founding editors for '' Gargoyle Magazine'', which he largely funded with his own income. He is also editor for the anthology series ''Mondo'' and runs a small press called Paycock Press. Paycock Press was origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Pastan
Linda Pastan (born May 27, 1932, in New York) is an American poet of Jewish background. From 1991 to 1995 she was Poet Laureate of Maryland. She is known for writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Her most recent collections of poetry include ''Insomnia'', ''Traveling Light'', and ''A Dog Runs Through It''. Life Pastan has published 15 books of poetry and a number of essays. Her awards include the Dylan Thomas Award, a Pushcart Prize, the Alice Fay di Castagnola Award (Poetry Society of America), the Bess Hokin Prize (Poetry Magazine), the 1986 Maurice English Poetry Award (for ''A Fraction of Darkness''), the Charity Randall Citation of the International Poetry Forum, and the 2003 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize. She also received the Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumnae Award. Two of her collections of poems were nominated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark McMorris
Mark Lee McMorris (born December 9, 1993) is a Canadian professional snowboarder who specializes in slopestyle and big air events. A three-time Olympic bronze medallist, he placed third in each of the 2014 Winter Olympics, 2018 Winter Olympics, and 2022 Winter Olympics in the slopestyle event. While filming for Transworld Snowboarding's "Park Sessions" video in March 2011, Mark became the first person to land a Backside Triple Cork 1440. More recently, on April 28, 2018, Mark landed the world first Double Cork off of a rail, the Front-Board Double Cork 1170 with melancholy grab. Mark has also left his mark at X-Games and other events. In 2012 and 2013, Mark won back-to-back gold medals in Winter X Games in the slopestyle event. He has also appeared in many videos for Transworld Snowboarding, Burton, Redbull, CBC, and Shredbots. Career Early career McMorris competed at his first FIS Snowboard World Cup during the 2009–2010 season placing eighth in the big air event in Qu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reb Livingston
Common meanings * Johnny Reb, personification of a Confederate soldier in the American Civil War * Reb (Yiddish), an honorific title for a teacher People * Reb Anderson (born 1943), American Zen Buddhist teacher and writer * Reb Beach (born 1963), American rock guitarist * Reb Brown (born 1948), American actor * Reb Russell (1889-1975), American Major League Baseball pitcher * Reb Spikes (1888-1982), American jazz saxophonist and entrepreneur * Lafayette Russell, American football player and actor * REB, web handle of Columbine massacre shooter Eric Harris Food chemistry * Rebaudioside compounds from the stevia plant, used as sweeteners REB * Relativistic electron beam, streams of electrons moving at relativistic speeds * Revised English Bible, a 1989 English language translation of the Bible * Research ethics board, or institutional review board, type of committee that applies research ethics * Rural Electrification Board, in Bangladesh - see Electricity distribution co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merrill Leffler
Merrill may refer to: Places in the United States * Merrill Field, Anchorage, Alaska * Merrill, Iowa *Merrill, Maine * Merrill, Michigan *Merrill, Mississippi, an unincorporated community near Lucedale in George County *Merrill, Oregon * Merrill, Wisconsin *Merrill (town), Wisconsin * Merrill Township, Michigan *Merrill Township, North Dakota Merrill is a township in Hettinger County, North Dakota North Dakota () is a U.S. state in the Upper Midwest, named after the Native Americans in the United States, indigenous Dakota people, Dakota Sioux. North Dakota is bordered by the Canad ... * Merrill College at the University of California, Santa Cruz People * Merrill Moses (born 1977), Olympic water polo player * Merrill (surname) * Merrill Cook, Utah politician * Merrill Garbus, musician behind the experimental indie project Tune-yards * Merrill Ashley (born 1950), American ballet dancer and ''répétiteur'' Other uses * Merrill (company), a division of Bank of America * Skidm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbara Lefcowitz
Barbara Lefcowitz (1935 - October 8, 2015) was a professor of English at Anne Arundel College in Maryland and poet from Bethesda, Maryland, whose books include ''Red and White Lies'' and ''Photo, Bomb, Red Chair: New Poems''. Lefcowitz has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, the Maryland Arts Council, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Biography Lefcowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. She attended Erasmus Hall H.S. and Smith College, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.A. in British and American Literature from the State University of New York, Buffalo and her Ph.D in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. She published nine books of poetry and won writing awards and fellowships from such places as The National Endowment for the Arts. She lived in Bethesda, Maryland from 1965 - 2015. Her husband, Allan Lefcowitz was a professor of English at the United States Naval Academy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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