Mary Oppen (November 28, 1907 - May 14, 1990), American poet, was also an activist, artist, photographer, and writer. Though of a lesser fame than her husband (the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet George Oppen), she maintained a vital, animated role in the community of poets, painters, and activists who surrounded them. Wikipedia
This immediacy, poetrys protean response to perceptions derived not from ideology or programme but from experience, became axiomatic for Oppen. www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=13584
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Prize Winner George Oppen George Oppen attended Californian public schools, and in 1926 he enrolled in the Agricultural College, presently Oregon State University, at Corvallis. www.corvalliscommunitypages.com/Americas/US/Oregon/corval...
