Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It is the oldest federal cultural institution in the country. The library is ...
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Witter Bynner Foundation for Poetry Witter may refer to:
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* Witter (surname)
* Witter Bynner (1881–1968), American poet and translator
Places
* Witter, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
* Witter, California, alternate name of Witter Springs, California
* Witter ...
, an organization that provides grant support for poetry programs through nonprofit organizations. Fellows are chosen by the U.S. Poet Laureate, and are expected to participate in a poetry reading at the Library of Congress in October and to organize a poetry reading in their respective cities.
Emily Fragos
Emily Fragos is an American poet. She was a Witter Bynner Fellow, and Guggenheim Fellow.
Life
She graduated from Syracuse University, Paris-Sorbonne University, and Columbia University.
She teaches at New York University, and Columbia Universi ...
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Honorée Fanonne Jeffers (born 1967) is an American poet and novelist, and a professor of English at the University of Oklahoma. She has published five collections of poetry and a novel. Her 2020 collection ''The Age of Phillis'' reexamines the l ...
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Jake Adam York
Jake Adam York (August 10, 1972December 16, 2012) was an American poet. He published three books of poetry before his death: ''Murder Ballads'', which won the 2005 Elixir Prize in Poetry; ''A Murmuration of Starlings'', which won the 2008 Colora ...
Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum is an American poet. She was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.L. S. Asekoff and Sheila Black
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Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander (born 1956) is an American poet, translator, essayist, and novelist. The A.K. Seaver Professor Emeritus of Literary Arts & Comparative Literature at Brown University, Gander won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2019 for ''Be With' ...
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Robert Bringhurst
Robert Bringhurst Appointments to the Order of Canada (2013). (born 16 October 1946) is a Canadian poet, typographer and author. He has translated substantial works from Haida and Navajo and from classical Greek and Arabic. He wrote ''The Eleme ...
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Jill McDonough
Jill Susann McDonough is an American poet.
Life
She grew up in North Carolina.
She graduated from Stanford University and has an MA from Boston University.
She taught in the Prison Education Program of Boston University.
Her work has appear ...
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Atsuro Riley
Atsuro Riley is an American writer.
Riley is the author of the poetry collections ''Heard-Hoard'' (University of Chicago Press, 2021) and ''Romey's Order'' (University of Chicago Press, 2010).
In 2023, Riley was named a Guggenheim Foundation Fe ...
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2009
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Mary Szybist
Mary Szybist (born 20 September 1970) is an American poet. She won the National Book Award for Poetry for her collection ''Incarnadine''.
Life
She grew up in Pennsylvania, earned her B.A. and M.T. (Master of Teaching) from the University of Virg ...
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2008
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Monica Youn
Monica Youngna Youn is an American poet and lawyer.
Life
Youn was raised in Houston, Texas. She graduated from St. Agnes Academy (Texas), Princeton University, Yale Law School with a J.D., and Oxford University with a M. Phil, where she was a Rho ...
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2007
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2006
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Joseph Stroud
Joseph Stroud (born 1943, Glendale, California) is an American poet.
Life
He was educated at the University of San Francisco, California State University at Los Angeles, and San Francisco State University. He is currently retired from teaching ...
2005
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Claudia Emerson
Claudia Emerson (January 13, 1957 – December 4, 2014) was an American poet. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her poetry collection ''Late Wife'', and was named the Poet Laureate of Virginia by Governor Tim Kaine in 2008.
Early life
Emerso ...
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
Spencer Reece
Spencer Reece is a poet and presbyter who lives in Madrid, Spain. He graduated from Wesleyan University (1985). Reece received his M.A. from the University of York (UK), his M.T.S. from the Harvard Divinity School, and a M.Div. from the Berk ...
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2003
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Major Jackson
Major Jackson (born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American poet and professor at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of five collections of poetry: The Absurd Man (W.W. Norton, 2020), Roll Deep (W.W. Norton, 2015), Holding Company (W ...
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Rebecca Wee
Rebecca Wee is an American poet, and associate professor of creative writing.
Biography
Rebecca Wee graduated from St. Olaf College in 1984. She later attended George Mason University where she studied poetry and served as editorial assistant to ...
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2002
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George Bilgere
George Bilgere (born 1951) is an American poet.
Bilgere grew up in Riverside, California, and earned his BA at the University of California, Riverside. He received his MA in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis and earned a ...
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Katia Kapovich Katia Kapovich (russian: Ка́тя Капо́вич) (born June 21, 1960) is a Russian poet now living in the United States. She writes in both Russian and English.
Life and career
She was born in 1960 in Kishinev, Moldavian SSR, Soviet Union (no ...
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2001
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Tory Dent
Victorine "Tory" Dent (January 1, 1958 – December 30, 2005) was an American poet, art critic, and commentator on the AIDS crisis.
Life
Dent was born in 1958 in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Barnard College in 1981. She was diagno ...
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Nick Flynn
Nick Flynn (born January 26, 1960) is an American writer, playwright, and poet. His writing is characterized by lyric, distilled moments, which blur the boundaries of various genres. Many of his books are structured using a collage technique, wh ...
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2000
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Naomi Shihab Nye ( ar, نعومي شهاب ناي; born March 12, 1952) is an American poet, editor, songwriter, and novelist. Born to a Palestinian father and an American mother, she began composing her first poetry at the age of six. In total ...
1999
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David Gewanter
David Gewanter is an American poet.
Life
He teaches at Georgetown University, and lives in Washington, D. C., with his wife, writer Joy Young, and son James.
His work has appeared in ''Ploughshares''.
Awards
* 1980: Hopwood Award, University of ...
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Heather McHugh
Heather McHugh (born August 20, 1948) is an American poet notable for the independent ranges of her aesthetic as a poet, and for her working devotion to teaching and translating literature.
Life
Heather McHugh, a poet, translator, educator and ...
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Campbell McGrath
Campbell McGrath (born 1962) is an American poet. He is the author of nine full-length collections of poetry, including ''Seven Notebooks'' (Ecco Press, 2008), Shannon: A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Ecco Press, 2009), and In the Kingdom ...
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1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
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Carl Phillips
Carl Phillips (born 1959) is an American writer and poet. He is a Professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis.
Early life
Phillips was born in Everett, Washington. He was born a child of a military family, moving year-by-year unti ...
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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), chron ...
See also
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Witter Bynner Poetry Prize
The Witter Bynner Poetry Prize was established by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters in 1980 to support the work of a young poet. It is named for poet Witter Bynner. The prize was discontinued in 2003. It is not to be confused ...
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American poetry
American poetry refers to the poetry of the United States. It arose first as efforts by American colonists to add their voices to English poetry in the 17th century, well before the constitutional unification of the Thirteen Colonies (although ...
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List of poetry awards
Major international awards
* Golden Wreath of Struga Poetry Evenings
* Bridges of Struga (for a debuting author at Struga Poetry Evenings)
* Griffin Poetry Prize (The international prize)
* International Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medi ...
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List of literary awards
This list of literary awards from around the world is an index to articles about notable literary awards.
International awards
All nationalities & multiple languages eligible (in chronological order)
* Nobel Prize in Literature – since 1901 ...
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List of years in poetry
This article gives a chronological list of years in poetry (descending order). These pages supplement the List of years in literature pages with a focus on events in the history of poetry.
21st century in poetry
2020s
* 2023 in poetry
* 2022 ...
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List of years in literature
This article gives a chronological list of years in literature (descending order), with notable publications listed with their respective years and a small selection of notable events. The time covered in individual years covers Renaissance, Baroq ...