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Heather Derr-Smith
Heathen (Heather Derr-Smith) (born 1971) is an American poet. Their fourth book, ''Thrust'', won the 2016 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award and was published by Persea Books in 2017. Derr's fifth book, Outskirts is forthcoming from University of Akron Press in March 2022. Derr-Smith was born in Dallas, and spent their early childhood in Los Angeles. Their family then moved to Fredericksburg, Virginia, where they spent their middle and high school years. They studied at the University of Virginia, earning a B.A. in Art History. There they also took poetry workshops with Gregory Orr, Charles Wright and Rita Dove. Derr went on to earn their MFA in Poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where they studied with Marvin Bell, Jorie Graham, Jim Galvin, and Mark Doty. Heathen's first book, ''Each End of the World'', was published in 2005. Mark Doty called it "astonishing" and "a devastating performance." The poems are about the 1991-1996 wars in the former Yugoslavia, where Derr-S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MG 8805 (1)
MG, Mg, or mg and variants may refer to: Organizations * MG Cars, an automotive marque of the now defunct MG Car Company * MG Motor, a present-day car manufacturing company *MG JW Automobile, a Pakistani automobile manufacturer * Champion Air (IATA code) * Mathematical Grammar School, Matematička gimnazija, a school in Belgrade * Monte Generoso railway Arts and entertainment * MG, a character in ''The Perhapanauts'' comics * ''Match Game'', a television game show * Magilla Gorilla, a cartoon character Music * ''Glossary of music terminology, Main gauche'', "left hand" in piano playing * MG (Martin Gore album), ''MG'' (Martin Gore album) * The M.G.'s, from the band Booker T. & the M.G.'s * The MG's (album), ''The MG's'' (album), an album by the M.G.'s * MG Select, a house duo music production including George Jackson (music producer), George Jackson * M:G, real name Maribel Gonzalez, dance music singer Military * Machine gun (MG-), prefix for model designations, for example, "MG ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Akron Press
The University of Akron Press is a nonprofit university press that is a part of The University of Akron. Founded in 1988, the Press is currently directed by Jon Miller and is a member of Association of University Presses. The University of Akron Press publishes scholarly, academic, regional and literary titles in several series, including: Ohio History and Culture; Akron Series in Poetry; Contemporary Poetics; The Center for the History of Psychology Series; The Bliss Institute Series; ThNCCAkronSeries in Dance. The Press also distributes the works of psychologist Jacob Robert Kantor (1888–1984) under the imprint Principia Press. Each year, the Press offers the Akron Poetry Prize, a competition open to all poets writing in English. The winning manuscript is published in the Akron Series in Poetry. The current Series Editor of the Akron Series in Poetry is Mary Biddinger. See also * List of English-language book publishing companies * List of university presses Reference ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Poets
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Iowa Writers' Workshop Alumni
Iowa () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States, bordered by the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west. It is bordered by six states: Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north. During the 18th and early 19th centuries, Iowa was a part of Louisiana (New France), French Louisiana and Louisiana (New Spain), Spanish Louisiana; its Flag of Iowa, state flag is patterned after the flag of France. After the Louisiana Purchase, people laid the foundation for an agriculture-based economy in the heart of the Corn Belt. In the latter half of the 20th century, Iowa's agricultural economy transitioned to a diversified economy of advanced manufacturing, processing, financial services, information technology, biotechnology, and Sustainable energy, green energy productio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poets From Los Angeles
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or written Writing is a medium of human communication which involves the representation of a language through a system of physically inscribed, mechanically transferred, or digitally represented symbols. Writing systems do not themselves constitute h ...), or they may also performance, perform their art to an audience. The work of a poet is essentially one of communication, expressing ideas either in a literal sense (such as communicating about a specific event or place) or metaphorically. Poets have existed since prehistory, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed over time, resulting i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Writers From Dallas
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University Of Virginia Alumni
A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United States, the designation is reserved for colleges that have a graduate school. The word ''university'' is derived from the Latin ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". The first universities were created in Europe by Catholic Church monks. The University of Bologna (''Università di Bologna''), founded in 1088, is the first university in the sense of: *Being a high degree-awarding institute. *Having independence from the ecclesiastic schools, although conducted by both clergy and non-clergy. *Using the word ''universitas'' (which was coined at its foundation). *Issuing secular and non-secular degrees: grammar, rhetoric, logic, theology, canon law, notarial law.Hunt Janin: "The university i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1971 Births
* The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events January * January 2 – 66 people are killed and over 200 injured during a crush in Glasgow, Scotland. * January 5 – The first ever One Day International cricket match is played between Australia and England at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. * January 8 – Tupamaros kidnap Geoffrey Jackson, British ambassador to Uruguay, in Montevideo, keeping him captive until September. * January 9 – Uruguayan president Jorge Pacheco Areco demands emergency powers for 90 days due to kidnappings, and receives them the next day. * January 12 – The landmark United States television sitcom ''All in the Family'', starring Carroll O'Connor as Archie Bunker, debuts on CBS. * January 14 – Seventy Brazilian political prisoners ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Biddinger
Mary Biddinger (born May 14, 1974, in Fremont, California) is an American poet, editor, and academic. Biography Mary Biddinger received an Honors B.A. in English with a Creative Writing Subconcentration from the University of Michigan. She also holds an MFA in Poetry from Bowling Green State University, and a Ph.D. in English with Creative Dissertation from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Biddinger is the author of the poetry collections ''Prairie Fever'' (Steel Toe Books, 2007), ''Saint Monica'' (Black Lawrence Press, 2011), ''O Holy Insurgency'' (Black Lawrence Press, 2013), and ''A Sunny Place with Adequate Water'' (Black Lawrence Press, 2014). Her poems have appeared in numerous literary magazines, including ''Copper Nickel'', '' Crazyhorse'', ''Guernica'', ''Gulf Coast'', '' The Iowa Review'', '' 32 poems'', ''Ninth Letter'', ''North American Review'', ''Ploughshares'', and ''Third Coast''. Biddinger is the recipient of a 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Cre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elton Glaser
Elton Glaser is an American poet. He has published collections of poetry and been published in literary magazines. Life He is a native of New Orleans, is a retired Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English from the University of Akron, and former editor of the Akron Series in Poetry. He lives in Akron, Ohio Akron () is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County, Ohio, Summit County. It is located on the western edge of the Glaciated Allegheny Plateau, about south of downtown Cleveland. As of the 2020 C .... Awards * 2010 Guy Owen Prize for his poem "Do the Do" * 2009 Guy Owen Prize for his poem "Slow Fuse Around the Cranium" * 2002 Marlboro Prize in Poetry for his poem, "Meditation in Blue and White" * 2002 Crab Orchard Award Bibliography Collections * * * * * * Poems References {{DEFAULTSORT:Glaser, Elton Year of birth missing (living people) Living people 20th-century American poets University of Akron f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wars In The Former Yugoslavia
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of separate but related Naimark (2003), p. xvii. ethnic conflicts, wars of independence, and insurgencies that took place in the SFR Yugoslavia from 1991 to 2001. The conflicts both led up to and resulted from the breakup of Yugoslavia, which began in mid-1991, into six independent countries matching the six entities known as republics which previously composed Yugoslavia: Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and North Macedonia (previously named ''Macedonia''). Yugoslavia's constituent republics declared independence due to unresolved tensions between ethnic minorities in the new countries, which fuelled the wars. While most of the conflicts ended through peace accords that involved full international recognition of new states, they resulted in a massive number of deaths as well as severe economic damage to the region. During the initial stages of the breakup of Yugoslavia, the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA) sought to pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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