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Lucille Medwick Memorial Award
The Lucille Medwick Memorial Award is given once a year to a member of the Poetry Society of America. It was "established by Maury Medwick in memory of his wife, the poet and editor, for an original poem in any form on a humanitarian theme."{{cite web, url=http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards_gdln.html , title=Poetry Society of America Awards Guidelines , accessdate=2008-05-02 , url-status=dead , archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502204344/http://www.poetrysociety.org/psa-awards_gdln.html , archivedate=2008-05-02 "PSA Annual Awards Guidelines" Web page at the Web site of the Poetry Society of America, accessed December 18, 2006 Each winner receives a $500 prize. Winners *2021: Devon Walker-Figueroa, Judge: Amit Majmudar *2020: Melissa Studdard, Judge: Ruth Ellen Kocher *2019: Cecily Parks, Judge: Rosa Alcalá Finalists: Michael Dumanis, M. Soledad Caballero *2018: Molly Spencer, Judge: Maggie Smith Finalists: Benjamin Paloff, Kevin Prufer *2017: Hadara Bar-Nadav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry Society Of America
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the society have included such renowned poets as Witter Bynner, Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens. History In 1910, the Poetry Society of America held its first official meeting in the National Arts Club in Manhattan, which is still home to the organization today. Jessie Belle Rittenhouse, a founding member and Secretary of the PSA, documented the founding of the Poetry Society of America in her autobiography ''My House of Life'' writing "It was not, however, to be an organization in the formal sense of the word, but founded upon the salon idea, a place where poets would gather to read and discuss their work and that of their contemporaries, the group to be united largely through the hospitality of our hosts at whose apartments it was proposed we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandra Meek
Sandra or SANDRA may refer to: People * Sandra (given name) * Sandra (singer) (born 1962), German pop singer * Margaretha Sandra (1629–1674), Dutch soldier * Sandra (orangutan), who won the legal right to be defined as a "non-human person" Places * Șandra, a commune in Timiș County, Romania * Şandra, a village in Beltiug Commune, Satu Mare County, Romania * Sandra, Estonia, a village * 1760 Sandra, an asteroid Other uses * "Sandra" (song), a 1975 song by Barry Manilow * "Sandra", song by Idle Eyes, 1986 * ''Sandra'' (1924 film), a lost drama film * ''Sandra'' (1965 film), an Italian film * SANDRA (research project), part of the European Union's Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development * Tropical Storm Sandra, several tropical cyclones * ''Sandra'' (podcast), a scripted fiction podcast starring Kristen Wiig and Alia Shawkat See also * Sandro (other) Sandro is an Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Swiss, Georgian and Croatian given name, oft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rebecca Morgan Frank
Rebecca, ; Syriac: , ) from the Hebrew (lit., 'connection'), from Semitic root , 'to tie, couple or join', 'to secure', or 'to snare') () appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca's father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. Rebecca's brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. Rebecca and Isaac were one of the four couples that some believe are buried in the Cave of the Patriarchs, the other three being Adam and Eve, Abraham and Sarah, and Jacob and Leah. Early life After the Binding of Isaac, Sarah died. After taking care of her burial, Abraham went about finding a wife for his son Isaac, who was already 37 years old. He commanded his servant (whom the Torah commentators identify as Eliezer of Damascus) to journey to his birthplace of Aram Naharaim to select a bride from his own family, rather ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilya Kaminsky
Ilya Kaminsky (born April 18, 1977) is a hard-of-hearing, USSR-born, Ukrainian-Russian-Jewish-American poet, critic, translator and professor. He is best known for his poetry collections ''Dancing in Odesa'' and ''Deaf Republic'', which have earned him several awards. In 2019, the BBC named Kaminsky among "12 Artists who changed the world". Life Kaminsky was born in Odesa, former Soviet Union (now Ukraine), on April 18, 1977, to a Jewish family. He became hard of hearing at the age of four due to mumps. He began to write poetry as a teenager in Odesa, publishing a chapbook in Russian entitled ''The Blessed City.'' His family was granted asylum to live in the United States in 1993 due to anti-semitism in Ukraine, and settled in Rochester, New York. He started to write poems in English in 1994. Kaminsky is the author of two critically acclaimed collections of poetry, ''Dancing in Odesa'' (2004) and ''Deaf Republic'' (2019). Both books were written in English, Kaminsky's second l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suji Kwock Kim
Suji Kwock Kim (also S. K. Kim) is a Korean-American-British poet-playwright. Life She was educated at Yale College, the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, Seoul National University and Yonsei University, where she was a Fulbright Scholar, and Stanford University, where she was a Stegner Fellow. Her work has been published in ''The Best American Poetry'', ''The New York Times'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Los Angeles Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''New Statesman'', '' Irish Examiner'', '' Slate'', ''The Nation'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Paris Review'', ''London Magazine'', ''Poetry London'', ''Poetry Review'' and ''Poetry'', recorded for BBC Radio, National Public Radio, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Radio Free Genoa, and Radio Free Amsterdam, and translated into Russian, German, Spanish, Italian, Croatian, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and Bengali. Music and theatre Choral settings of her poems, composed by Mayako Kubo for the Tokyo Philharmonic Chorus, Chorusor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Khoi Nguyen
Diana Khoi Nguyen is an American poet and multimedia artist. Her first book, ''Ghost Of'', was a finalist for The 2018 National Book Award in Poetry. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Life Nguyen was born and raised in Los Angeles, and received her MFA from Columbia University. She currently lives in Pittsburgh, where she is an assistant professor in Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh. She won the 92Y's Discovery / ''Boston Review'' 2017 Poetry Contest and the Omnidawn Open Book Contest. She has received the Academy of American Poets University Prize, as well as awards and scholarships from Key West Literary Seminars, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Community of Writers at Squaw Valley, and Bucknell University. She is a Kundiman fellow. ''Ghost Of'' ''Ghost Of'' was a finalist for The National Book Award in Poetry in 2018. In the foreword, Terrance Hayes called it a collection of “exile ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Bond
Bruce Bond (born June 25, 1954) is an American poet and creative writing educator at the University of North Texas. Formal education & academic career Bond earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Pomona College, a Master of Arts degree in English from Claremont Graduate School, and a Masters in Music Performance degree from the Lamont School of Music of the University of Denver. He then worked several years as a classical and jazz guitarist. In 1987, he earned a PhD in English from the University of Denver. Since then, he has taught at the University of Kansas, Wichita State University, Wilfrid Laurier University (in Canada), and the University of North Texas, where he currently is a Regents Professor of English and Poetry Editor, with Corey Marks, of ''American Literary Review.''''A Directory of American Poets and Fiction Writers, 2001–2002 edition,'' New York: Poets & Writers (2001) Works Poetry Criticism Immanent Distance: Poetry and the Metaphysics of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patricia Smith (poet)
Patricia Smith (born 1955) is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist. She has published poems in literary magazines and journals including ''TriQuarterly'', ''Poetry'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Tin House'', and in anthologies including ''American Voices'' and ''The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry.'' She is on the faculties of the Stonecoast MFA Program in Creative Writing and the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Sierra Nevada University. She is a four-time individual National Poetry Slam champion and appeared in the 1996 documentary ''SlamNation'', which followed various poetry slam teams as they competed at the 1996 National Poetry Slam in Portland, Oregon. Patricia Smith is hailed as the first African-American woman to publish a weekly metro column for the ''Boston Globe''. Her many accomplishments include a Guggenheim fellowship, acceptance as a Civitellian, a National Endowment for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Young (poet)
Gary Eugene Young (born 1951) is an American poet, printer and book artist. In 2010, he was named the first ever Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County. Life He graduated from University of California Santa Cruz and University of California, Irvine, with an M.F.A. His work has appeared in ''Poetry'', ''Antaeus'', ''The American Poetry Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''Montserrat Review'', ''ZYZZYVA''.''. In 1975, he founded Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and The Getty Center for the Arts. His archive is held at Brown University. He teaches at the University of California Santa Cruz, and has lived near Santa Cruz for thirty years, with his wife and two sons. In 2012, Young and fellow poet Christopher Buckley published ''One for the Money: The Sentence as a Poetic Form, A Poetry Workshop Handbook and Anthology'' through Lynx House Press. Awards * 2009 Shelley M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janet McAdams
Janet McAdams (born 1957) is an American poet, who wrote ''The Island of Lost Luggage'' (University of Arizona Press) which received an American Book Award in 2001 and the First Book Award for Poetry from the Native Writers' Circle of the Americas in 1999. She is also the editor of Salt Publishing's Earthworks Series of Native poets. In addition, she's worked as a telephone operator, a cartographer, a camp counselor, a maid, a cook, and an exercise instructor for people with developmental disabilities. Background and education Janet McAdams claims to be of Alabama Creek, Scottish, and Irish ancestry. She received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Alabama and her PhD in comparative literature from Emory University, where her studies focused on American Indian poetry. She has taught literature and creative writing at the University of Alabama, the American School of El Salvador, the University of Oklahoma, and is presently the Robert P. Hubbard Professor of Poetr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jericho Brown
Jericho Brown (born April 14, 1976) is an American poet and writer. Born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown has worked as an educator at institutions such as University of Houston, San Diego State University, and Emory University. His poems have been published in ''The Nation'', ''New England Review'', ''The New Republic'', ''Oxford American'', and ''The New Yorker'', among others. He released his first book of prose and poetry, ''Please'', in 2008. His second book, ''The New Testament'', was released in 2014. His 2019 collection of poems, ''The Tradition'', garnered widespread critical acclaim. Brown has won several accolades throughout his career, including a Whiting Award, an American Book Award, an Anisfield-Wolf Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Life Born Nelson Demery III and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, Brown later changed his name and graduated from Dillard University, where he was initiated as a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, through the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Welch (poet)
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David Welch may refer to: * David A. Welch (born 1960), Canadian political scientist *David Welch (diplomat) (born 1953), American diplomat * David Welch (baseball) (born 1983), baseball pitcher * David Welch (optical engineer) (born 1960), American businessman and research scientist *David Welch (historian), English historian *David E. Welch (1835–?), Wisconsin state assemblyman and senator *David Welch (New Hampshire politician) (born 1940), member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives * Dave Welch, British poker player * Dave Welch (admiral), United States Navy admiral See also * Welch (surname) Welch is a surname that comes from the Old English word , meaning ‘foreign’ (from ''walhaz''). It was used to describe those of Celtic or Welsh origin. Welch and another common surname, Walsh, share this derivation. ''Welsh'' is the most c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
