Charles Simic

Charles Simic

male, 71 years old
alma mater, Oak Park and River Forest High School, philosophy, MacArthur Fellowship, serb, Oak Park High School…Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, American, Poet Laureate of the United States, recipient of the Wallace Stevens Award, AcademyofAmericanPoets
Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet. Having emigrated in his youth from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Simic...
Robert Lowell

Robert Lowell

male, deceased (1977)
Life Studies, American Poet Laureate, confessional poetry, American Poets Laureate, Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, poet…American, AcademyofAmericanPoets
Robert Lowell (March 1, 1917-September 12, 1977), born Robert Traill Spence Lowell, IV, was an influential American poet of the mid-20th century,...
Robert Hass

Robert Hass

male, 68 years old
American Poet Laureate, west coast, American Poets Laureate, West Coast of the United States, University at Buffalo alumni, MacArthur Fellow…American, University of California, Berkeley, AcademyofAmericanPoets
Robert L. Hass (b. March 1, 1941) is a Californian poet whose works are well-known for their West Coast subject and attitude.
Stanley Kunitz

Stanley Kunitz

male, deceased (2006)
American Poet Laureate, Lithuanian-American, Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, Harvard University alumni, Centenarian, from Massachusetts…Jewish American, American Poets Laureate, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, library of congress, American
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kju:nɪts/ (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted American poet who served two years (1974-1976) as the Consultant in...

Charles Wright

male, 74 years old
poet, American, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, University of Virginia, won the Pulitzer Prize, American Academy of Arts…AcademyofAmericanPoets, University of Iowa
Charles Wright was born in Pickwick, Tennessee on August 25th 1935. He spent his youth and early adulthood in eastern Tennessee and western North...
Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

female
writer, Creek tribe, American, Tulsa, creek, Native American…Poetry Society of America, AcademyofAmericanPoets, center of the world
The love of language that Harjo possesses comes from her father's grandfather who was a full-blood Creek Baptist minister and her mother who...
Maxine Kumin

Maxine Kumin

female, 84 years old
Radcliffe College alumni, Harvard Centennial Medal recipient, American Poet Laureate, poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, author…American, American Poets Laureate, American Academy of Arts, AcademyofAmericanPoets
Maxine Kumin was born in Germantown, Philadelphia, in 1925, into a nominally observant Reform Jewish family that lived next door to the Convent of...
Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye

female, 57 years old
San Antonio, From st. louis, missouri, Trinity College alumni, From St. Louis, American, Arab American…University of Hawai’i, author and/or editor of more than 20 volumes, AcademyofAmericanPoets, University of Texas at Austin
Naomi Shihab Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. She spent most of her childhood in the United...
Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart

male, 70 years old
Bollingen Prize, American, riverside, Brandeis University, Harvard, Reuben Brower…University of California, Poetry Society of America, AcademyofAmericanPoets, University of California at Riverside
Frank Bidart (b. 1939 in Bakersfield, California) is an American academic and award-winning poet. In 1957, he began to study at the University of...
John Hollander

John Hollander

male, 80 years old
Sterling professor, Connecticut College, American, Yale University faculty, Literary critic, hunter college…Junior Fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows, Harvard Society of Fellows, AcademyofAmericanPoets
John Hollander (born October 28, 1929 in New York City) is an American poet and literary critic. As of 2007 he is Sterling Professor Emeritus of...