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Ingram Merrill Foundation
The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retrieved 27 May 2013. Over the course of four decades, the foundation would provide financial support to hundreds of writers and artists, many of them in the early stages of promising but not yet remunerative careers. Dissolved in 1996 (a year after Merrill's death), the Ingram Merrill Foundation was at that point disbursing approximately $300,000 a year.Swansburg, John The New York Times, 28 January 2001. " the 1950s he established the Ingram Merrill Foundation, which until it ceased to exist in 1996, gave grants to writers, artists and other foundations. By the mid-90s, Merrill was donating around $300,000 a year through the foundation." Retrieved 27 May 2013. Support from the Ingram Merrill Foundation could be variously described as an "Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Merrill
James Ingram Merrill (March 3, 1926 – February 6, 1995) was an American poet. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1977 for ''Divine Comedies.'' His poetry falls into two distinct bodies of work: the polished and formalist lyric poetry of his early career, and the epic narrative of occult communication with spirits and angels, titled ''The Changing Light at Sandover'' (published in three volumes from 1976 to 1980), which dominated his later career. Although most of his published work was poetry, he also wrote essays, fiction, and plays. Early life James Ingram Merrill was born in New York City, to Charles E. Merrill (1885–1956), the founding partner of the Merrill Lynch investment firm, and Hellen Ingram Merrill (1898–2000), a society reporter and publisher from Jacksonville, Florida. He was born at a residence which would become the site of the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, which Merrill would lament in the poem "18 West 11th Street" (1972) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali (4 February 1949 – 8 December 2001) was an Indian-born poet who immigrated to the United States, and became affiliated with the literary movement known as New Formalism in American poetry. His collections include ''A Walk Through the Yellow Pages'', ''The Half-Inch Himalayas,'' ''A Nostalgist's Map of America'', '' The Country Without a Post Office'', and ''Rooms Are Never Finished,'' the latter a finalist for the National Book Award in 2001. The University of Utah Press awards the Agha Shahid Ali Poetry Prize annually in memory of this "celebrated poet and beloved teacher." Early life and education Agha Shahid Ali was born on February 4, 1949 in New Delhi, East Punjab, Dominion of India, into the illustrious Qizilbashi Agha family of Srinagar, Kashmir. He grew up in India's Kashmir Valley, and left for the United States in 1976. Shahid's father Agha Ashraf Ali was a renowned educationist. His grandmother Begum Zaffar Ali was the first woman matriculate of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Bowles
Jane Bowles (; born Jane Sydney Auer; February 22, 1917 – May 4, 1973) was an American writer and playwright. Early life Born into a Jewish family in New York City on February 22, 1917, to Sydney Auer (father) and Claire Stajer (mother), Jane Bowles spent her childhood in Woodmere, New York, on Long Island. She had had a bad knee from birth, which was later broken from falling off a horse when she was a teenager. After knee surgery, she developed tuberculous arthritis, and her mother took her to Switzerland for treatment, where she attended boarding school. She also attended Julia Richmond High School in New York and Stoneleigh School for Girls in Greenfield, Massachusetts. At this point in her life, she developed a passion for literature coupled with insecurities. She developed phobias of dogs, sharks, mountains, jungles, and elevators as well as fears of being burned alive. During the mid-1930s she returned to New York, where she gravitated to the intellectual bohemia of G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bottoms
David Bottoms (born 1949 in Canton, Georgia) is an American poet. Biography Bottoms' first book, ''Shooting Rats at the Bibb County Dump'', was selected by Robert Penn Warren as winner of the 1979 Walt Whitman Award of the Academy of American Poets. His poems have appeared in magazines such as ''The Southern Review'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The New Yorker'', '' Harper's'', ''The Paris Review'', and ''Poetry'', as well as in over four dozen anthologies and textbooks. He is the author of eight other books of poetry, ''In a U-Haul North of Damascus'', ''Under the Vulture-Tree'', ''Armored Hearts: Selected and New Poems'', ''Vagrant Grace'', ''Oglethorpe's Dream'', ''Waltzing Through the Endtime'', and ''We Almost Disappear'' as well as two novels, ''Any Cold Jordan'' and ''Easter Weekend''. His most recent book of poetry, ''Otherworld, Underworld, Prayer Porch'', was published in 2018 by Copper Canyon Press. Among his awards are the Levinson and the Frederick Bock prizes from ''Poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Bosworth
David Bosworth is an American writer born in 1947. Life He graduated from Brown University. He teaches at University of Washington. Awards * 1981 Drue Heinz Literature Prize * Ingram Merrill Foundation The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retrie ... Award Works * ''Conscientious Thinking: Making Sense in Post-Modern Times.'' University of Georgia Press, 2017. * ''The Demise of Virtue in Virtual America: The Moral Origins of the Great Recession.'' 2014. Front Porch Republic Books. * (short stories) * * "The Science of Self-Deception." Salmagundi Fall 1999/Winter 2000. Anthologies * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Bosworth, David Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male writers Brown University alumni University of Washington faculty ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Bolt
Thomas Bolt (born 1959 in Washington, D.C.) is an American poet and artist. Life He attended public and private schools. He was a pre-college scholarship student at the Corcoran School of Art and received a B.A. in English (cum laude) and Art from the University of Virginia The University of Virginia (UVA) is a public research university in Charlottesville, Virginia. Founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the university is ranked among the top academic institutions in the United States, with highly selective ad .... His paintings have been shown in group exhibitions in New York. Land (1982), a hand-printed book of his poems and etchings, is in the rare book collections of the Library of Congress and the University of Virginia. His poems have appeared in ''The Paris Review'', ''BOMB'', and ''Southwest Review'' (where his long poem, "Wedgwood," won an award for the best poem the quarterly published in 1994). He has read from his work in New York (at Mad Alex Presents, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Bishop
Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American people, American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Award winner in 1970, and the recipient of the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 1976. Dwight Garner argued that she was perhaps "the most purely gifted poet of the 20th century". Early life Bishop, an only child, was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, to William Thomas and Gertrude May (Bulmer) Bishop. After her father, a successful builder, died when she was eight months old, Bishop's mother became mentally ill and was institutionalized in 1916. (Bishop would later write about the time of her mother's struggles in her short story "In the Village".) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Bierds
Linda Louise Bierds (born 1945 in Delaware) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A. in 1969. Her books include ''Flights of the Harvest Mare''; ''The Stillness, the Dancing''; ''Heart and Perimeter''; and ''The Ghost Trio'' (Henry Holt 1994). Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in ''The New Yorker''. Her poems are featured in ''American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets'' (2006) and many other anthologies. She lives on Bainbridge Island. Awards She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Artist Trust and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995. In 1998, she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant. She received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University Oglethorpe University is a private college in Brookhaven, Georgia. It was chartered in 1835 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gina Berriault
Gina Berriault (January 1, 1926 – July 15, 1999), was an American novelist and short story writer. Biography Berriault was born in Long Beach, California, to Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a freelance writer and Berriault took her inspiration from him, using his stand-up typewriter to write her first stories while still in grammar school. Berriault had a prolific writing career, which included stories, novels and screenplays. Her writing tended to focus on life in and around San Francisco. She published four novels and three collections of short stories, including '' Women in Their Beds: New & Selected Stories'' (1996), which won the PEN/Faulkner Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award. In 1997 Berriault was chosen as winner of the Rea Award for the Short Story, for outstanding achievement in that genre. Berriault taught writing at the Iowa Writers Workshop and San Francisco State University. She also received a gran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wendy Battin
Wendy Battin (May 27, 1953 - December 21, 2015) was an American poet. Life Wendy Battin was born in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from Cornell University and the University of Washington. She taught at MIT, Smith College, Syracuse University, Boston University, Connecticut College. Her work has appeared in ''Field'', ''Georgia Review'', ''Gettysburg Review'', ''Poetry'', ''The Nation'', ''Mississippi Review'', ''Threepenny Review'', and ''Yale Review''. She was the director of CAPA, thContemporary American Poetry Archive She taught yoga, and lived in Mystic, Connecticut. Awards * Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship * Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship * 1982 Discovery / The Nation Award * 1983 National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry. Manuscripts are solicited through an annua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Banks
Russell Banks (born March 28, 1940) is an American writer of fiction and poetry. As a novelist, Banks is best known for his "detailed accounts of domestic strife and the daily struggles of ordinary often-marginalized characters". His stories usually revolve around his own childhood experiences, and often reflect "moral themes and personal relationships". Banks is a member of the International Parliament of Writers and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Life and career Banks was born in Newton, Massachusetts, on March 28, 1940, and grew up "in relative poverty." He is the son of Florence (née Taylor), a homemaker, and Earl Banks, a plumber, and was raised in Barnstead, New Hampshire. His father deserted the family when Banks was aged 12. While he was awarded a scholarship to attend Colgate University, he dropped out six weeks into university and travelled south instead, with the "intention of joining Fidel Castro's insurgent army in Cuba, but wound up worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Ashbery
John Lawrence Ashbery (July 28, 1927 – September 3, 2017) was an American poet and art critic. Ashbery is considered the most influential American poet of his time. Oxford University literary critic John Bayley wrote that Ashbery "sounded, in poetry, the standard tones of the age." Langdon Hammer, chair of the English Department at Yale University, wrote in 2008, "No figure looms so large in American poetry over the past 50 years as John Ashbery" and "No American poet has had a larger, more diverse vocabulary, not Whitman, not Pound." Stephanie Burt, a poet and Harvard professor of English, has compared Ashbery to T. S. Eliot, calling Ashbery "the last figure whom half the English-language poets alive thought a great model, and the other half thought incomprehensible". Ashbery published more than 20 volumes of poetry and won nearly every major American award for poetry, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1976 for his collection ''Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror''. Renowned for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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