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Christopher Merrill
Christopher Merrill (born February 24, 1957) is an American poet, essayist, journalist and translator. Currently, he serves as director of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. He led the initiative that resulted in the selection of Iowa City as a UNESCO City of Literature, a part of the Creative Cities Network. In 2011, he was appointed to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Life and career Christopher Merrill was born in western Massachusetts and raised in New Jersey. He did his undergraduate work at Middlebury College and his graduate degree at the University of Washington. He has published six collections of poetry, including ''Watch Fire'', for which he received the Peter I. B. Lavan Younger Poets Award from the Academy of American Poets. He has also published translations, several edited volumes, and six books of nonfiction. His work has been translated into nearly 40 languages, and his journalism appears in many publications. For 10 years he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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White Pine Press
White Pine Press is an American, nonprofit, literary press located in Buffalo, New York, publishing poetry, fiction, essays, and world literature in translation. The press was founded by poet, translator, editor and publisher Dennis Maloney in 1973. Notable authors published by White Pine Press include James Wright, Jacqueline Johnson, Robert Bly, William Matthews, Sonia Sanchez, Christopher Merrill David St. John, Marjorie Agosín, Matsuo Bashō, Pablo Neruda, and Peter Johnson. White Pine Press titles have been reviewed in venues including ''The New York Times,'' ''Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, '' ''Booklist,'' and many others. The press has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, private foundations including the Lila-Wallace Foundation,White Pine Press > Links: Sponsors/ref> and individuals. White Pine Press titles are distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution Ingram Content Group is an America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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American Male Poets
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1957 Births
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1950s decade. Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be dismissed for having ''handled the ball'', in Test cricket. * January 9 – British Prime Minister Anthony Eden resigns. * January 10 – Harold Macmillan becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. * January 11 – The African Convention is founded in Dakar. * January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars. * January 15 – The film ''Throne of Blood'', Akira Kurosawa's reworking of '' Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kim Seonu
Kim Seonu (, born 1970) is a South Korean feminist poet. Life Kim Seonu was born in 1970 in Gangneung, Gangwon Province, South Korea, and is considered part of the new "feminist" wave of Korean poetry. Kim is also known internationally, having been a poet-in-residence at the New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation at Victoria University, Wellington, in September and October 2013. Career According to the poet Na Huideok, Kim Seonu's poetry is filled with “bashful yet intense sensuality reminiscent of moist flower petals,” and “her femininity emanates ..abundance as that of embryonic fluid.” The women in her poetry are “embryos, mothers and midwives all at once.” The image of women as bountiful, life-giving and life-embracing entities dominates her first volume of poetry ''If My Tongue Refuses To Be Locked Up in My Mouth'' (, 2000). The poet's celebration of the female body is often accompanied by her revulsion of male oppression. In the title poem, the poet v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Chanho
Song Chanho (, born 1959) is a South Korean poet. Life Song Chanho was born in Boeun County, North Chungcheong Province, South Korea in 1959. He studied German language and literature at Kyungpook National University. His writing career began in 1987 when several of his poems, including "Geumho River" (), were published in the literary journal ''Literature of Our Age''. Song published his first poetry collection, ''The Soil Has the Memory of a Square'' (, 1989) two years later. Song won the thirteenth Dongsuh Literary Award and nineteenth Kim Su-yeong Literary Award, both in 2000. He has also received the Daesan Literary Award (2009) and the Yi Sang Literary Award (2010). Writing Song Chanho's style of writing is experimental lyric poetry. His first poetry collection, ''The Soil Has the Memory of a Square'' (, 1989) centred around the image of a square with no exit as a metaphor for life and death. His second poetry collection, ''The Chair That Remained Empty for Ten Years'' (, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mun Tae-jun
Mun Tae-jun (, born 1970) is a South Korean poet. Career Mun Tae-jun has published several poetry collections since his prize-winning debut in 1994, and the great artistic potential of his works have gained the attention of many literary artists and critics. Mun Tae-jun's poems employ a comforting language to soothe the wounds of the soul. His poems seek to assuage the pains of those suffering from the violence and oppression of a heartless society. He values "conversation" highly, emphasizing full empathy between two existences, such as when he says, "That over there, is in me here; and I here, am in that over there. Let me respect that which is not me, and therefore those things that are me." The poet aspires to a state in which the subject and object are not distinct form one another, but fused together. In this respect, Mun Tae-jun carries on the traditional lyrical tradition. His poetry collection ''The Development of Dusk'' (2008) was translated to English by Kim Won-Chung ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seong Changyeong
Seong Changyeong (, 1930–2013) was a modern South Korean poet.”Sung Chan-geyong" LTI Korea Datasheet available at LTI Korea Library or online at: http://klti.or.kr/ke_04_03_011.do# Life Seong Changyeong was born on March 1, 1930 in Yesan County, South Chungcheong Province, Korea. He attended Seoul National University where he earned a B.A. in English. He worked as a member of the 1960s literary club ''Sahwajip'' (along with Pak Hui-jin, Pak Jaesam, :ko:박성룡, Pak Seongryong, :ko:이성교, Yi Seonggyo, Yi Changdae, and Kang Wiseok,) and the poetry reading club ''Kionggan''. Seong worked as a professor of English at Sungkyunkwan University. Seong died on February 26, 2013. Career Seong Changyeong debuted with the poem “Miyeol” in the literary magazine ''Arts and Literature'' (''Munhak yesul'') in 1956, going on to publish "Amudo nareul”, "Monologue of Da Vinci" (Davinchiui dokbaek) and "Midwife Grandmother" (Samsin Halmeoni). Seong's first collection of poetry was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Na Huideok
Na Huideok (, born 1966) is a South Korean poet. Life Na Huideok was born in Nonsan, South Chungcheong Province. She was raised in an orphanage in which her parents - Christians who sought to carry out the teachings of their religion through communal living - served on the administrative staff. Na has confessed that the experience of living with orphans had made her a precocious child, and that the recognition of the difference between herself and her playmates early on gave her a unique perspective on the world. Reportedly, Na Huideok stumbled into the life of a poet unintentionally. While struggling between the religious ideals fostered by her parents and the causes upheld by the student movement she encountered in college, Na sought salvation in poetry. Na graduated from the Department of Korean Language and Literature at Yonsei University with both Master's and Doctorate degrees. She served as a professor in the Department of Creative Writing at Chosun University from 2001 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hwang Ji-u
Hwang Ji-u is a Korean poet and art critic. Life Hwang Ji-u was born in Jeollanam-do in 1952. He studied Aesthetics at Seoul National University and Philosophy at Sogang University. Hwang Ji-u is a native of Haenam at the southernmost tip of the Korean Peninsula. He developed a deep interest in poetry while majoring in aesthetics and philosophy at college and graduate school. While active in literary circles in college, he participated in several anti-government protests and was forcefully drafted into military service. After being discharged from the army, he was expelled from university for his involvement in anti- government activities and was subjected to imprisonment and torture. The agonies and passions of his younger years are demonstrated in undertones throughout his poems, and artistically, if also painfully, sublimated against the background of the political conditions of his era. Hwang has worked as a Professor in the Department of Creative Writing, Hansin University. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
