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Pittsburgh Book Of Contemporary American Poetry
''The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry'' is a literary anthology of American poetry commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pitt Poetry Series (1968–1993), one of the most prominent in the United States. The book provides lengthy selections—about three hundred lines of verse—of the forty-five poets who were in print with the series in its twenty-fifth anniversary year. During this period, first under the editorship of Paul Zimmer, and then Ed Ochester, 156 books by 102 poets were published. The collection was edited by Ed Ochester and Peter Oresick, both of the University of Pittsburgh. Selected Poets in ''The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry'' Claribel Alegría · Maggie Anderson · Siv Cedering · Toi Derricotte · Stuart Dybek · David Huddle · Lawrence Joseph · Julia Kasdorf · Etheridge Knight · Ted Kooser · Larry Levis · Peter Meinke · Carol Muske · Leonard Nathan · Sharon Olds · Alicia Ostriker · Richard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ed Ochester
Edwin Frank Ochester (born September 15, 1939 Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and editor. He was educated at Cornell University, Harvard University, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Currently he is a core faculty member of the Bennington College MFA Writing Seminars. For nearly twenty years Ochester served as director of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, and he was twice elected president of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. From 1967 to 1970 he was assistant professor of English at University of Florida, Gainesville. Since 1979 he has served as general editor of the Pitt Poetry Series, published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. It is one of the largest and best known lists of contemporary American poetry by any publisher. He is also general editor of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction. Poets published by Ochester in the Pitt Series include Sharon Olds, Billy Collins, Ted Kooser, Lawrence Joseph, Richard She ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Kasdorf
Julia Mae Spicher Kasdorf (born December 6, 1962) is an American poet. Early years and education Born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, Julia Spicher grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh near Irwin, Pennsylvania, Irwin, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, Westmoreland County.Julia Spicher, ''Moss Lotus'' (Goshen, Indiana: Pinchpenny Press, 1983) Her parents were Mennonites born in Big Valley, Pennsylvania, who chose to leave their rural community in central Pennsylvania to work in an urban setting. Spicher attended Goshen College, in Goshen, Indiana, but completed her B.A. and Ph.D. at New York University. As a student at Goshen College, Spicher visited China in the autumn of 1982 for the Goshen College#Study-Service Term, Study-Service Trimester at Sichuan Teachers College. She published ''Moss Lotus'', a chapbook of poetry inspired by her experiences in China, as a sophomore English major at Goshen in 1983. She earned her Bachelor of Arts, B.A., Master of Arts, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Poetry Books
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David Wojahn
David Wojahn (born 1953, St. Paul, Minnesota) is a contemporary American poet who teaches poetry in the Department of English at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in the low residency MFA in Writing program at the Vermont College of Fine Arts. He has been the director of Virginia Commonwealth University's Creative Writing Program. Career He was educated at the University of Minnesota, and the University of Arizona. Wojahn taught for many years at Indiana University. He has also taught at University of Alabama, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, University of Chicago, University of Houston, and University of New Orleans. In 2003, he joined Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He also teaches at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Poetry Most of Wojahn's poetry is metrical although he also works in free verse, usually addressing political and social issues in American life. He often takes as his subjects moments of significance in popular culture, such as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Soto
Gary Anthony Soto (born April 12, 1952) is an American poet, novelist, and memoirist. Life and career Soto was born to Mexican-American parents Manuel (1910–1957) and Angie Soto (1924-). In his youth, he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. Soto's father died in 1957, when he was five years old. As his family had to struggle to find work, he had little time or encouragement in his studies. Soto notes that in spite of his early academic record, while at high school he found an interest in poetry through writers such as Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Jules Verne, Robert Frost and Thornton Wilder. Soto attended Fresno City College and California State University, Fresno, where he earned his B.A. degree in English in 1974, studying with poet Philip Levine. He did graduate work in poetry writing at the University of California, Irvine, where he was the first Mexican-American to earn a M.F.A. in 1976. He states that he wanted to become a writer in college after disco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betsy Sholl
Elizabeth "Betsy" Sholl (born 1945) is an American poet who was poet laureate of Maine from 2006 to 2011 and has authored nine collections of poetry. Sholl has received several poetry awards, including the 1991 AWP Award, and the 2015 Maine Literary Award, as well as receiving fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maine Arts Commission. Sholl's poetry has been published in anthologies and in literary journals including ''Orion Magazine'', ''Field'', ''TriQuarterly'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Massachusetts Review'', and ''Ploughshares''. Career Sholl was one the founding members of Alice James Books, a non-profit publishing house at the University of Maine at Farmington, established in 1973 with the intent of widening women's access to publishing. Sholl published her first three poetry collections with Alice James Books: ''Changing Faces'' (1974), ''Appalachian Winter'' (1978) and ''Rooms Overhead'' (1986). In 1991, Sholl's chapbook ''Pick a Card'' w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Shelton (writer)
Richard Shelton (June 24, 1933 – November 29, 2022) was an American writer, poet and emeritus Regents Professor of English at the University of Arizona. Shelton was born in Boise, Idaho on June 24, 1933. He wrote nine books of poetry; his first collection of poems, ''The Tattooed Desert,'' won the International Poetry Forum's U.S. Award. His 1992 memoir ''Going Back to Bisbee'', a New York Times Notable Book was selected for the ''One Book Arizona'' program in 2007. Shelton also won the ''Western States Book Award'' for Creative Nonfiction in 1992 for ''Going Back to Bisbee''. In 2000, Shelton received a $100,000 grant from the Lannan Foundation to complete two books. His poems and prose pieces have appeared in more than two hundred magazines and journals including ''The New Yorker'', ''The Atlantic'', ''The Paris Review'', and ''The Antioch Review''. They have been translated into Spanish, French, Swedish, Polish, and Japanese. In 1974, Shelton established a writer's work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alicia Ostriker
Alicia Suskin Ostriker (born November 11, 1937) is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry.Powell C.S. (1994) ''Profile: Jeremiah and Alicia Ostriker – A Marriage of Science and Art'', Scientific American 271(3), 28-31. She was called "America's most fiercely honest poet" by ''Progressive''. Additionally, she was one of the first women poets in America to write and publish poems discussing the topic of motherhood. In 2015, she was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. In 2018, she was named the New York State Poet Laureate. Personal life and education Ostriker was born in Brooklyn, New York, to David Suskin and Beatrice Linnick Suskin. She grew up in the Manhattan housing projects during the Great Depression. Her father worked for New York City Parks Department. Her mother read her William Shakespeare and Robert Browning, and Alicia began writing poems, as well as drawing, from an early age. Initially, she had hoped to be an artist a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds (born November 12, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.2013 Pulitzer Prizes , The Pulitzer Prizes. She teaches creative writing at and is a previous director of the Creative Writing Program at NYU. Early life Sharon Olds was born on November 19, 1942, in , California, but was brought up in |
Leonard Nathan
Leonard E. Nathan, (November 8 obituary from the Daily Californian 1924 – June 3, 2007) was an , critic, and professor emeritus of rhetoric at the where he retired in 1991. Born in |
Carol Muske-Dukes
Carol Muske-Dukes (born 1945 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American poet, novelist, essayist, critic, and professor, and the former poet laureate of California (2008–2011). Her most recent book of poetry, ''Sparrow'' (Random House, 2003), chronicling the love and loss of Muske-Dukes’ late husband, actor David Dukes, was a National Book Award finalist. Life Muske-Dukes grew up in Forest Lake, Minnesota. She received B.A. English from Creighton University in 1967, and her M.A. in 1970 from San Francisco State University. She has taught in the graduate writing programs at Columbia University, the Iowa Writers' Workshop, the University of California at Irvine, and the University of Virginia. She is one of the founding members of the USC PhD in Creative Writing & Literature, where she currently teaches. She has a daughter, Annie Muske-Dukes, who graduated from USC in May 2005, and she is the widow of actor David Dukes, who died in 2000. In addition to her seven books of poetry, s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Meinke
Peter Meinke (born 1932 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet and author. He has published 18 books of poems and short stories. ''The Piano Tuner'', won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His poetry has received many awards, including two NEA Fellowships and three prizes from the Poetry Society of America. His work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''Atlantic Monthly'', ''Poetry''Kalliope, A journal of women's art and literatureand other magazines. He is the current poet laureate of Florida and was appointed on June 15, 2015. Biography Raised in Mountain Lakes, New Jersey, Meinke graduated in 1950 from Mountain Lakes High School and was inducted into its hall of fame in 2016. Meinke and his wife, the artist Jeanne Clark, have lived in St. Petersburg, Florida, since 1966. For 27 years, Meinke was a professor at Eckerd College, where he was a director of the EC Writing Workshop. In February 2004, he was inducted as a foundation member into the Eckerd Colle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
