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Hemant Mohapatra
Hemant Mohapatra (born 1980) is an Indian poet writing in English. He is featured in the 2011 Best New Poets series distributed by University of Virginia Press. His work has been published in some international journals such as ''Eclectica'', ''BrinkLit'', ''Asia Writes'' and the Paterson Literary Review as part of the Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Gener ... Poetry Awards series. He is also the winner of the second Srinivas Rayaprol Award and the HarperCollins Poetry Prize. With the change in immigration rules under the Trump administration, he left San Francisco, after living there for many years. He is currently based in India. References External links "Best New Poets website" Indian male poets Living people 1980 births {{India-poet-st ...
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Best New Poets
The ''Best New Poets'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing fifty poems from poets without a previously published collection. The first edition of the series appeared in 2005, and was published, as all later editions have been, by Samovar Press. In 2006, the University of Virginia Press began distributing the anthology. Selection and Editors Poems are nominated for the series by creative writing programs and literary magazines, though poets can also self-nominate through an online submission system. The poems to be included in the anthology are selected by a guest editor. Previous guest editors include George Garrett (2005), Eric Pankey (2006), Natasha Trethewey (2007), Mark Strand (2008), Kim Addonizio (2009), Claudia Emerson (2010), D. A. Powell (2011), Matthew Dickman (2012), Brenda Shaughnessy (2013), Dorianne Laux (2014) Tracy K. Smith. (2015), Mary Szybist (2016), and Natalie Diaz (2017). Selected Poets The series, begun by University of Virgin ...
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University Of Virginia Press
The University of Virginia Press (or UVaP) is a university press that is part of the University of Virginia. It was established in 1963 as the University Press of Virginia, under the initiative of the university's then President, Edgar F. Shannon, Jr. Victor Reynolds, previously director of the Cornell University Press, was the first director. The first two publications of the press were reprints of works by Carl Bridenbaugh. The first original book, published in May 1964, was ''A Voyage to Virginia in 1609, Two Narratives'', an edition of William Strachey's ''True Reportory'' and Silvester Jourdain's ''A Discovery of The Barmudas'', edited by Folger Shakespeare Library director Louis Booker Wright. Walker Cowen was the second director of the press, and was succeeded by Nancy Essig in 1988. Penelope Kaiserlian served as director from 2001 until her retirement in 2012. The press's name was changed to the University of Virginia Press in 2002.David Maurer"University of Virginia Pre ...
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Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (; June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet and writer. As a student at Columbia University in the 1940s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, forming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarism, economic materialism, and sexual repression, and he embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, sex, multiculturalism, hostility to bureaucracy, and openness to Eastern religions. Ginsberg is best known for his poem "Howl", in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. San Francisco police and US Customs seized "Howl" in 1956, and it attracted widespread publicity in 1957 when it became the subject of an obscenity trial, as it described heterosexual and homosexual sex at a time when sodomy laws made (male) homosexual acts a crime in every state. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relatio ...
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Srinivas Rayaprol
Srinivas Rayaprol (born R.S. Marthandam; October 25, 1925December 7, 1998) was an Indian poet who wrote in English. His father was the influential Telugu poet Rayaprolu Subba Rao Rayaprolu Subbarao (1892–1984) was among the pioneers of modern Telugu literature. He is known as Abhinava Nannaya. He was recipient of Sahitya Akademi Award to Telugu Writers for his poetic work ''Misra Manjari'' in 1965. He was inspired .... Works Author * Bones and Distances (1968) * Married Love and Other Poems (1972) * Selected Poems (1995) Editor * East and West (1956–61) Translator * ''Perspectives- An Anthology of Telugu Short Stories '' (2016) References Sources * . English-language poets from India 20th-century Indian poets 1925 births 1998 deaths {{India-poet-stub ...
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