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Mary Doyle Curran
Mary Doyle Curran (May 10, 1917 – 1981) was an American poet, novelist, and teacher. Her work, described by poet Anne Halley as being "haunted" by issues of gender, ethnicity, and class, included many poems and a novel dealing with Irish-American life. Biography Curran was born Mary Doyle in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and educated at Massachusetts State College. She married George Curran in 1940; they had no children and later divorced. Curran earned her PhD in English at the University of Iowa in 1946, and taught at Wellesley College and Queens College before directing the program in Irish Studies at the University of Massachusetts Boston. While at Queens, her students included poet Lloyd Schwartz, who reported after her death that she included contemporary poets such as Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, and Richard Wilbur in her survey of American literature even though "she wasn't supposed to." Another student at Queens was civil rights activist Andrew Goodman; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Halley
Marianne Halley Chametzky (November 9, 1928 – July 12, 2004), known professionally as Anne Halley, was a German-born American poet, editor, translator, and educator. Life Ute Marianne Elisabeth Halle was born in Bremerhaven, Germany, on November 9, 1928. Her parents, Max Halle and Margarethe Kohlhepp, were both doctors. As the Nazis assumed power, Halley’s father – who was Jewish and thus forbidden to practice medicine – immigrated to the U.S. with her older brother, in 1936. They would be joined by Halley’s mother a year later, which left Anne and her twin sister, Renate, under the protection of their aunt, who enrolled the twins in the school where she taught. Finally, in 1938, Anne and Renate were able to move to the U.S., and the family settled in Olean, New York. Halley attended Wellesley College, graduating in 1949 with a bachelor of arts degree. She earned a master's degree in English from the University of Minnesota in 1951. In 1953, Halley married Jules Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Massachusetts Review
''The Massachusetts Review'' is a literary quarterly founded in 1959 by a group of professors from Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It receives financial support from Five Colleges, Inc., a consortium which includes Amherst College and four other educational institutions in a short geographical radius. History ''MR'' bills itself as "A Quarterly of Literature, the Arts, and Public Affairs." A key early focus was on civil rights as well as African-American history and culture; the ''Review'' published, among many others, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sterling A. Brown, Lucille Clifton, W.E.B. Du Bois, and Martin Luther King Jr. Sidney Kaplan, a founder of the Du Bois Department of Afro-American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, was a founding member of ''MR'' as well; Ekwueme Michael Thelwell, also a founder of Afro-American Studies at UMass, continues to serve as a contributing editor. In 1969, co-editor Jules Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |