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Molly Fisk
Molly Fisk (born July 16, 1955) is an American poet and radio commentator. She has been teaching writing since 1994 and runs the on-line workshop Poetry Boot Camp. Her most recent book is ''Naming Your Teeth: Even More Observations from a Working Poet''. She was honored as an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellow in 2019. Biography Mary (nickname, "Molly") Elizabeth Fisk was born July 16, 1955. Originally from San Francisco, Fisk earned her B.A. cum laude from Radcliffe College/ Harvard University in Folklore & Mythology, her M.B.A. with honors from Simmons College Graduate School of Management, and after working as a sweater designer/manufacturer (Northern Lights) and a Fortune-1000 lender (First National Bank of Chicago) began writing at the age of 35. Her previous work consists of the poetry collections ''The More Difficult Beauty'' (Hip Pocket Press, 2010), ''Listening to Winter'' (Roundhouse Press/Heyday Books, 2000), ''Terrain'' (with Dan Bellm and Forrest Hamer, Hip Poc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Poet
The poets listed below were either born in the United States or else published much of their poetry while living in that country. A B C D E F G H I–J K L M N O P Q *George Quasha (born 1942 in poetry, 1942) R S T U–V W X–Z See also *Academy of American Poets *American poetry *List of English-language poets *List of Jewish American poets *List of poets *List of years in poetry *Poetry Foundation *Poetry Society of America External linksGuide to the Darrell Kerr Correspondence with American Poets and Publishers. Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. {{DEFAULTSORT:List Of Poets From The United States American poets, Lists of poets by nationality, United States Lists of American writers, poets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria metropolitan area, Illinois, Peoria and Rockford metropolitan area, Illinois, Rockford, as well Springfield, Illinois, Springfield, its capital. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the List of U.S. states and territories by GDP, fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the List of U.S. states and territories by population, sixth-largest population, and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 25th-largest land area. Illinois has a highly diverse Economy of Illinois, economy, with the global city of Chicago in the northeast, major industrial and agricultural productivity, agricultural hubs in the north and center, and natural resources such as coal, timber, and petroleum in the south. Owing to its centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1955 Births
Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijiangshan Islands: The Chinese Communist People's Liberation Army seizes the islands from the Republic of China (Taiwan). * January 22 – In the United States, The Pentagon announces a plan to develop intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), armed with nuclear weapons. * January 23 – The Sutton Coldfield rail crash kills 17, near Birmingham, England. * January 25 – The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union announces the end of the war between the USSR and Germany, which began during World War II in 1941. * January 28 – The United States Congress authorizes President Dwight D. Eisenhower to use force to protect Formosa from the People's Republic of China. February * February 10 – The United States Sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Sanfield
Steven Sanfield (born August 3, 1937 – January 28, 2015) was an American poet, children's book author, and Freedom Rider. He published over 30 books during his lifetime. The University of California Davis library holds a collection of his writings. Biography He earned a BA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He took part in the Los Angeles to Houston Freedom Ride. Bibliography Poetry * ''Wandering'' (1977) * ''The Confounding'' (1980) * ''Chasing the Cranes'' with Dale Pendell (1986) * ''American Zen: by a guy who tried it'' (1994) * ''No Other Business Here: a Haiku Correspondence'' with John Brandi (1999) * ''The Rain Begins Below: Selected Slightly Longer Poems 1961-2005'' (2005) * ''The Right Place: 77 at 77'' (2014) * ''Clouds Come and Go'' (2015) Children's books * ''Adventures of High John the Conqueror'' (1988) * ''Snow'' (1995) * ''Bit by Bit'' (1995) * ''The Great Turtle Drive'' (1996), illustrated by Dirk Zimmer Dirk Zimmer (2 October 1943 – 26 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heyday Books
Heyday is an independent nonprofit publisher based in Berkeley, California. Heyday was founded by Malcolm Margolin in 1974 when he wrote, typeset, designed, and distributed ''The East Bay Out'', a guide to the natural history of the hills and bay shore in and round Berkeley and Oakland, in the East Bay of the San Francisco Bay Area. Heyday publishes around twenty books a year, as well as the quarterly magazine ''News from Native California''. In 2004, they merged with their nonprofit wing, the Clapperstick Institute, and became a full-fledged 501(c)(3) nonprofit enterprise. In 2016, Margolin retired from Heyday, and Steve Wasserman, previously editor-in-chief of the ''Los Angeles Times Book Review'' and an editor-at-large at Yale University Press, became Margolin's successor as publisher and executive director. The Berkeley Roundhouse The Berkeley Roundhouse, also known as the California Indian Publishing Program (CIPP), focuses on California Native Peoples. The Roundhouse h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakley Hall III
Oakley "Tad" Hall III (May 26, 1950 – February 13, 2011) was an American playwright, director, and author. In 1978, after a very promising beginning to his career, he suffered massive head injuries in a fall from a bridge, and spent decades in recovery and in the process of creating a new life. Career The eldest child of novelist Oakley Hall and photographer Barbara E. Hall, Oakley attended University of California Irvine and Boston University. By age 28, he was a rising star in the New York theatre scene. In the mid-1970s, his play ''Mike Fink'' was optioned by Joseph Papp of the Public Theater. Oakley founded and was the artistic director of the Lexington Conservatory Theatre in upstate New York, where his plays ''Grinder's Stand'' and ''Beatrice (Cenci) and the Old Man'', and his stage adaptation of ''Frankenstein'', enjoyed their première productions. In 1976–1977 Hall translated and adapted Alfred Jarry's bizarrely comic and revolutionary 1896 French play ''Ubu Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erma Johnson Fisk
Erma Johnson "Jonnie" Fisk (5 August 1905 – 11 January 1990) was an nature writer and amateur ornithologist, noted for her study of the least tern. Biography Erma Johnson graduated from Vassar College, where she participated in track and field as a long jumper. On August 7, 1926, she married the wealthy financier Bradley Fisk, lived in Buffalo, New York, and became the mother of three children. When Bradley Fisk was United States Assistant Secretary of Commerce from 1957 to 1961 in the Eisenhower administration, Erma J. Fisk was a hostess in Washington D.C. After she was widowed at age 55, she became a full-time field naturalist and assisted ornithologists in various parts of the Western Hemisphere. When Fisk was 73, she briefly worked with the Nature Conservancy in Baboquivari Peak, Arizona. (book review of ''The Peacocks of Baboquivari'' At the age of 75, she began writing books and soon became a literary celebrity. She traveled the lecture circuit in her Volkswagen Rabbi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Updike
John Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009) was an American novelist, poet, short-story writer, art critic, and literary critic. One of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once (the others being Booth Tarkington, William Faulkner, and Colson Whitehead), Updike published more than twenty novels, more than a dozen short-story collections, as well as poetry, art and literary criticism and children's books during his career. Hundreds of his stories, reviews, and poems appeared in ''The New Yorker'' starting in 1954. He also wrote regularly for ''The New York Review of Books''. His most famous work is his "Rabbit" series (the novels '' Rabbit, Run''; '' Rabbit Redux''; ''Rabbit Is Rich''; ''Rabbit at Rest''; and the novella ''Rabbit Remembered''), which chronicles the life of the middle-class everyman Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom over the course of several decades, from young adulthood to death. Both ''Rabbit Is Rich'' (1981) and ''Rabbit at Res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California, Davis
The University of California, Davis (UC Davis, UCD, or Davis) is a public land-grant research university near Davis, California. Named a Public Ivy, it is the northernmost of the ten campuses of the University of California system. The institution was first founded as an agricultural branch of the system in 1905 and became the seventh campus of the University of California in 1959. The university is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". The UC Davis faculty includes 23 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 30 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 17 members of the American Law Institute, 14 members of the Institute of Medicine, and 14 members of the National Academy of Engineering. Among other honors that university faculty, alumni, and researchers have won are two Nobel Prizes, one Fields Medal, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, three Pulitzer Prizes, three MacArthur Fellowships, and a National Medal of Scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CommonSpirit Health
CommonSpirit Health is the largest Catholic health system, and the second-largest nonprofit hospital chain, in the United States (as of 2019). It operates more than 700 care sites and 142 hospitals in 21 states. Founded in 2019 by the merger of Dignity Health and Catholic Health Initiatives, CommonSpirit Health formed as one of the largest non-profit hospital systems by revenue in the United States. History Formed on February 1, 2019, the hospital network was created by the merger of two nonprofit hospital systems: San Francisco-based Dignity Health, and Catholic Health Initiatives of Colorado. Dignity Health was founded in 1986 as Catholic Healthcare West, when the Sisters of Mercy Burlingame Regional Community and the Sisters of Mercy Auburn Regional Community merged their healthcare ministries into one organization. Catholic Health Initiatives began operations in 1996. The founding systems were the Catholic Health Corporation of Omaha, Nebraska, the Franciscan Health System of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Immune System
The immune system is a network of biological processes that protects an organism from diseases. It detects and responds to a wide variety of pathogens, from viruses to parasitic worms, as well as cancer cells and objects such as wood splinters, distinguishing them from the organism's own healthy tissue. Many species have two major subsystems of the immune system. The innate immune system provides a preconfigured response to broad groups of situations and stimuli. The adaptive immune system provides a tailored response to each stimulus by learning to recognize molecules it has previously encountered. Both use molecules and cells to perform their functions. Nearly all organisms have some kind of immune system. Bacteria have a rudimentary immune system in the form of enzymes that protect against virus infections. Other basic immune mechanisms evolved in ancient plants and animals and remain in their modern descendants. These mechanisms include phagocytosis, antimicrobial pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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