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Kerri Webster
Kerri Webster (born 1971) is an American poet. She was a recipient of a 2011 Whiting Award. She currently teaches at Boise State University. Biography Kerri Webster was born in 1971 and raised in Idaho. She is the author of four books of poetry and two chapbooks. She received her MFA from Indiana University, and was Writer in Residence in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis (2016-2010). For ten years, Webster worked as Writer in the Schools conducting weekly creative writing workshops for students. She teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University. Webster’s poems have appeared in numerous journals including ''American Poet'', ''Antioch Review'', ''At Length'', ''Better'', ''BOAAT'', '' Boston Review'', '' Denver Quarterly'', ''Gettysburg Review'', ''Guernica'', '' Gulf Coast'', ''Indiana Review'', '' Kenyon Review'', ''Poetry'', and ''Washington Square Review.'' Awards * Whiting Award, 2011 * Iowa Poetry Prize, Jane Mead, judge, 2011 * Lucille Medw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Washington Square Review
''Washington Square Review'' (usually shortened to ''ON SQU'') is a nationally distributed literary magazine that publishes stories, poems, essays and reviews, many of which are later reprinted in annual anthologies. It is the graduate equivalent of ''NYU Local'' and ''Washington Square News''. Founded in 1996, the journal is based at New York University and edited by students of the university's Graduate Creative Writing Program. The ''Washington Square Review'' sponsors an annual literary contest and hosts biannual benefit readings in New York City. Notable contributors *John Ashbery *Meghan O'Rourke *Edward Hirsch *Charles Simic *Lauren Groff *Rachel Zucker *Rebecca Wolff *Joe Meno *Dorothea Lasky *Rivka Galchen *Jesse Ball *Dan Chiasson *Steve Almond * Jacob M. Appel *Ben Lerner *Rick Moody *Sarah Manguso * Philip Levine *Amy Hempel *Anne Carson *Stephen Dunn * Eamon Grennan *Etgar Keret *Lydia Davis *Kimiko Hahn * Elisa Albert *Mark Doty *Catherine Lacey *Yusef Komun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Women Poets
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21st-century American Poets
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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] |
Lisa Russ Spaar
Lisa Russ Spaar is a contemporary American poet, professor, and essayist. She is currently a professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Virginia and the director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing. She is the author of numerous books of poetry, most recentl''Vanitas, Rough: Poems''an''Satin Cash: Poems'' Her latest collection, ''Orexia,'' was published bPersea Booksin 2017. Her poem''Temple Gaudete'' published in IMAGE Journal, won a 2016 Pushcart Prize. Spaar has also edited several anthologies, includinAll That Mighty Heart: London Poems which Billy Collins says "gathers mighty swirl of poetry into a gorgeous volume whose variety and heft rival the city itself— its smoke, roar, and flow." Education Spaar graduated summa cum laude from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in 1978. Two years later, in 1980, she returned to the University of Virginia to complete her education with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry). Poetry Spaar's books of po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elena Karina Byrne
Elena Karina Byrne is a poet, visual artist, teacher and editor. Her poem "Irregular Masks" was featured in ''The Best American Poetry 2005'' and her poem "Berryman's Concordance Against This Silence" received a Pushcart Prize in 2008 for which she has been nominated eleven times. She was a regional director of the Poetry Society of America for twelve years. Byrne has curated poetry readings at the Ruskin Art Club in Los Angeles, and at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. Her work has appeared in The Paris Review ''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published works by Jack Kerouac, Philip .... She is the daughter of American artist Herbert Jepson. Books *''The Flammable Bird'' Lincoln, Neb. : Zoo Press : 2002. , *''Masque'' Dorset, Vt. : Tupelo Press, 2008. , *''Squander'', Richmond, California : O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shane McCrae
Shane McCrae (born September 22, 1975, Portland, Oregon) is an American poet, and is currently Poetry Editor of '' Image''. McCrae was the recipient of a 2011 Whiting Award, and in 2012 his collection ''Mule'' was a finalist for the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a PEN Center USA Literary Award. In 2013, McCrae received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. He received a Lannan Literary AwardShane McCrae 2017 Lannan Literary Award for Poetry'' lannan.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019. in 2017, in 2018 his collection ''In the Language of My Captor'' won an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award,Evone Jeffries, 2018 Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards Are Announced'' Ohio Center for the Book, March 30, 2018. Retrieved 3 April 2018. and in 2019 he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation'' gf.org. Retrieved 7 October 2019. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including ''Best American Poetry'', '' American Poetry Review'', ''Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis. Early life Phillips was born in Everett, Washington. He was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year until finally settling in his high-school years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. A graduate of Harvard University, the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Boston University, Phillips taught high-school Latin for eight years. Works His first collection of poems, ''In the Blood'', won the 1992 Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize, and his second book, ''Cortège'', was nominated for a 1995 National Book Critics Circle Award. His ''Pastoral'' won the 2001 Lambda Literary Award for Best Poetry. Phillips' work has been published in the ''Yale Review'', ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''The New Yorker'' and the ''Paris Review''. He was named a Witter Bynner Fellowshipin 1998 and in 2006, he was named the recipient of the Fellowship of the Academy of American Po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Young (poet)
Dean Young (born 1955; died 23 August 2022) was a contemporary American poet in the poetic lineage of John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Kenneth Koch. Often cited as a second-generation New York School poet, Young also derived influence and inspiration from the work of André Breton, Paul Éluard, and the other French Surrealist poets. Life He was born in Columbia, Pennsylvania. He received his MFA from Indiana University. In 2008, Young became the William Livingston Chair of Poetry of the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin. His most recent books are ''Bender: New and Selected Poems'', ''Fall Higher'' and ''The Art of Recklessness''. In an interview, Young said his poems are about misunderstanding and that tying meaning too closely with understanding is not the intent of his poetry. He finds the process of creation to be more important than the work itself: his poems are more demonstrations than explanations. He also finds that using mangled quotes f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikky Finney
Nikky Finney (born Lynn Carol Finney on August 26, 1957, in Conway, South Carolina) is an American poet. She was the Guy Davenport Endowed Professor of English at the University of Kentucky for twenty years. In 2013, she accepted a position at the University of South Carolina as the John H. Bennett, Jr. Chair in Southern Letters and Literature. An alumna of Talladega College, and author of four books of poetry and a short-story cycle, Finney is an advocate for social justice and cultural preservation. Her honors include the 2011 National Book Award for her collection ''Head Off & Split''.Habash, Gabe (November 16, 2011)"National Book Awards Go to Lai, Finney, Greenblatt, and Ward " ''Publishers Weekly''. Biography One of three children, Finney is the only daughter of Ernest A. Finney, Jr., civil rights attorney and retired Chief Justice of the state of South Carolina,Guzior, Betsey (November 17, 2011)"S.C. native, Nikky Finney, wins National Book Award for poetry", ''The Stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
