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Wom-Po
The Discussion of Women's Poetry List-serv, known as WOM-PO or WOMPO, is an international listserv devoted to the discussion of poetry by women. WOM-PO was started in December 1997 by poet Annie Finch. The listserv is currently housed at Nassau Community College, New York, United States, with the majority of members from the United States, the U.K. Australia, and New Zealand. Discussion on the listserv has sparked numerous conference panels, poetry readings, poetic collaborations, spin-off listservs such as the Mom-Po list, journal publications such as a collaborative Crown of sonnets published in ''Prairie Schooner'' in 2007, and an anthology, ''Letters to the World: Poems from the Wom-Po Listserv,'' published in 2008 by Red Hen Press. History In a 2016 interview, Finch describes the founding of WOM-PO as a response to the silencing of women on other poetry listservs, Contemporary American Poetry List and POETICS list, in 1997. Finch says that "on December 18 I got so desperate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Finch
Annie Finch (born October 31, 1956) is an American poet, critic, editor, translator, playwright, and performer and the editor of the first major anthology of literature about abortion. Her poetry is known for its often incantatory use of rhythm, meter, and poetic form and for its themes of feminism, witchcraft, goddesses, and earth-based spirituality. Her books include ''The Poetry Witch Little Book of Spells'', ''Spells: New and Selected Poems'', ''The Body of Poetry: Essays on Women, Form, and the Poetic Self'', ''A Poet’s Craft'', ''Calendars'', and ''Among the Goddesses.'' Early life and education Annie Ridley Crane Finch was born in New Rochelle, New York, on October 31, 1956. Her mother was poet and doll artist Margaret Rockwell Finch and her father, Henry Leroy Finch Jr., was a pacifist leader and a scholar of philosophy whose works include three books on Ludwig Wittgenstein. Her great-aunt was the socialist organizer, politician, and writer Jessie Wallace Hughan. Finc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crown Of Sonnets
A crown of sonnets or sonnet corona is a sequence of sonnets, usually addressed to one person, and/or concerned with a single theme. Each of the sonnets explores one aspect of the theme, and is linked to the preceding and succeeding sonnets by repeating the final line of the preceding sonnet as its first line. The first line of the first sonnet is repeated as the final line of the final sonnet, thereby bringing the sequence to a close. Heroic crown An advanced form of crown of sonnets is also called a sonnet redoublé or heroic crown, comprising fifteen sonnets, in which the sonnets are linked as described above, but the final binding sonnet is made up of all the first or the last lines of the preceding fourteen, in order. The fifteenth sonnet is called the Mastersonnet. This form was invented by the Siena Academy, which was formed in 1460, but there are no existing crowns of sonnets written by them. The form was first described by Giovanni Mario Crescimbeni in his work ''L'Ist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy King
Amy King (born August 4, 1974) is an American poet, essayist, and activist. Early life and education Born in Baltimore, Maryland, King grew up in Stone Mountain, Georgia and received her B.S. in English and women's studies from Towson University. She received her M.A. in American studies (poetics concentration) at State University of New York Buffalo, and an M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in creative writing. Career Since 2003, King has taught English and creative writing at SUNY Nassau Community College. King received the 2015 WNBA Award (Women's National Book Association). She also received The Feminist Press's "40 Under 40: The Future of Feminism" award in 2010 and the 2012 SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Scholarship and Creative Activities. In 2016, Adam Fitzgerald named King "One of the 30 Poets You Should Be Reading", and she was listed as one of "13 New York Poets Changing the Lit Scene" by Civil Coping Mechanisms in March 2017. She moderates the Women' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Gudding
Gabriel Gudding is an American poet, essayist, and translator. Life Gudding attended The Evergreen State College, an experimental school in Olympia, Washington, Purdue University and Cornell University. He is Professor of English in the English Studies Department at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois where he was hired to teach experimental poetry writing and poetics. His work has been translated into French, Danish, Portuguese, Vietnamese and Spanish. Gudding is the author of the books, ' (Ahsahta Press, 2015), Rhode Island Notebook' (Dalkey Archive, 2007), and A Defense of Poetry' (University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the 2001 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He has given hundreds of poetry readings and lectures in Europe, the Caribbean, and America. He has published poems and essays in periodicals such as ''Harper’s Magazine'', ''The Nation'', and ''The Journal of the History of Ideas''. His poetry appears dozens of anthologies, including ''Best American Experi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ron Silliman
Ron Silliman (born August 5, 1946) is an American poet. He has written and edited over 30 books, and has had his poetry and criticism translated into 12 languages. He is often associated with language poetry. Between 1979 and 2004, Silliman wrote a single poem, ''The Alphabet''. He has now begun writing a new poem, ''Universe'', the first section of which appears to be called ''Revelator''. Life and work In the 1960s, Silliman attended Merritt College, San Francisco State University and the University of California, Berkeley, but left without attaining a degree. He lived in the San Francisco Bay area for more than 40 years. As a published poet, he has taught in the Graduate Writing Program at San Francisco State University, at the University of California at San Diego, at New College of California and, in shorter stints, at Naropa University and Brown University. Silliman has worked as a political organizer, a lobbyist, an ethnographer, a newspaper editor, a director of de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Evie Shockley
Evie Shockley is an American poet. Shockley received the 2012 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in Poetry for her book ''the new black'' and the 2012 Holmes National Poetry Prize. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2018. Early life and education Shockley is originally from Nashville, Tennessee. Shockley received a BA from Northwestern University, studied law at the University of Michigan from whence she received her JD, and received a PhD in English from Duke University. Career Shockley teaches at Rutgers University-New Brunswick in New Jersey. Her work toured South Africa in 2007 as part of ''Biko 30/30'', an exhibit dedicated to activist Steve Biko. She published the book ''Renegade Poetics: Black Aesthetics and Formal Innovation in African American Poetry'' in 2011. The book explores the poetics of the Black Arts Movement. ''the new black'', published in 2011 was lauded by poet Le Hinton and he also said Shockley was the "present and future of poetry." In this book her poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan M
Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), from Greek ''Sousanna'', from Latin ''Susanna'', from Old French ''Susanne''. Variations * Susana (given name), Susanna, Susannah * Suzana, Suzanna, Suzannah * Susann, Suzan, Suzann * Susanne (given name), Suzanne * Susanne (given name) * Suzan (given name) * Suzanne * Suzette (given name) * Suzy (given name) * Zuzanna (given name) *Cezanne (Avant-garde) Nicknames Common nicknames for Susan include: * Sue, Susie, Susi (German), Suzi, Suzy, Suzie, Suze, Poosan, Sanna, Suzie, Sookie, Sukie, Sukey, Subo, Suus (Dutch), Shanti In other languages * fa, سوسن (Sousan, Susan) ** tg, Савсан (Savsan), tg, Сӯсан (Sūsan) * ku, Sosna,Swesne * ar, سوسن (Sawsan) * hy, Շուշան (Šušan) * (Sushan) * Suj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Peacock
Molly Peacock (born Buffalo, New York 1947) is an American-Canadian poet, essayist, biographer and speaker, whose multi-genre literary life also includes memoir, short fiction, and a one-woman show. Career Peacock's latest book is Flower Diary: Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door ', a layered memoir and biography that examines the balancing act of female creativity and domesticity in the life of Mary Hiester Reid, a painter who produced over three hundred stunning, emotive floral still lifes and landscapes. Critics noted that the biography is written with the "lingering observations and lyrical touch of an established poet, yet with an easygoing, conversational tone often lacking in didactic art biographies." As with The Paper Garden, this "lush and beautifully produced" treatise also tracks Peacock's own marriage with the late Joyce scholar Michael Groden. Peacock's works include The Paper Garden', a biography of Mary Delany, an 18th-century gentlewoman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt (born October 14, 1949) is an American poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry. Her writing focuses on political and social issues from a left-leaning perspective, including abortion, racism, welfare reform, feminism, and poverty. Early life and education Pollitt was born in Brooklyn Heights, New York. Her father was a lawyer and her mother was an agent involved in real estate. Her parents encouraged Pollitt to pursue her interest in poetry. Her father was Protestant and her mother was Jewish. Pollitt wrote extensively of her family in ''Learning to Drive'', which is dedicated to her parents. Pollitt earned a B.A. in philosophy from Radcliffe College in 1972 and an M.F.A. in writing from Columbia University in 1975. During her time at Harvard, she was involved with Students for a Democratic Society and took part, along with Jared Israel, in the student strike and shut down of 1969. Professional life Pollitt ... [...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] |
Mendi Obadike
Mendi Obadike ( in 1973) and Keith A. L. Townsend Obadike (born 1973) are an Igbo Nigerian American couple who create music, writing, and art. Their music, live art and conceptual Internet artworks have been exhibited internationally. She is an associate professor in Writing and Media Studies at Pratt Institute; he currently teaches in the College of Arts and Communication at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. Mendi is a poet and Keith is a composer and sound designer. Their writing and art projects have been featured in '' Art Journal'', ''Artthrob'', ''Meridians'', ''Black Arts Quarterly'', ''El País'' and ''Tema Celeste'', in books such as ''Internet Art'' (2004) by Rachel Greene,Rachel Greene, ''Internet Art'' (London: Thames & Hudson, 2004), p. 185-86 ''Sound Unbound'' (2008), edited by Paul D. Miller a.k.a. DJ Spooky, and featured several times on WNYC's ''New Sounds'' since 2007. Early lives and educations Mendi Obadike Mendi Lewis Obadike was born in 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeffrey Levine (poet)
Jeffrey Levine is an American poet, publisher, musician, and attorney. He is the author of three poetry collections, including ''The Kinnegad Home for the Bewildered,'' forthcoming from Salmon Press in March 2019. Life Levine earned his B.A. from the University at Albany, SUNY, where he majored in music and English. After graduating, he taught at Skidmore College and played with the Albany Symphony Orchestra, later becoming a member of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. He attended the University at Buffalo Law School, SUNY, and worked briefly as a criminal defense lawyer before beginning his career in corporate law. He was working as a corporate lawyer in New York City and playing clarinet professionally when he began writing poetry. In late 1999 he founded Tupelo Press, an independent poetry press originally located in Dorset, Vermont, and since moved to the Eclipse Mill in North Adams, Massachusetts. Levine also holds an MFA in poetry from Warren Wilson College, and contin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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