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…GuggenheimFoundation, macarthur foundation
Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet. Having emigrated in his youth from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Simic...
James Tate

James Tate

male, 66 years old
Columbia University, Pittsburg State University alumni, The Academy of American Poet, On James Tate, MFA Program for Poets & Writer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst…GuggenheimFoundation
James Vincent Tate (born December 8, 1943, Kansas City, Missouri) is a literary iconoclast, best known as a Pulitzer prize-winning and National...
Dara Wier

Dara Wier

female, 60 years old
University of Utah, MFA Program for Poets & Writer, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, GuggenheimFoundation, National Endowment for the Arts, Bennington College
Dara Wier (born 1949) is an American poet who has received literary awards including the Jerome J. Shestack Poetry Prize (2001) and the Pushcart...
Josiah Bunting III

Josiah Bunting III

male
Virginia Military Institute alumni, Naval War College faculty, rhodes scholar, American military, vietnam war, Western culture…Research Foundation, GuggenheimFoundation
Josiah Bunting III (born 1939) is an American educator. He has been a military officer, college president, and an author and speaker on education...
David Lehman

David Lehman

male, deceased (1948) (new york city)
The Best American Poetry series, poet, Columbia University alumni, American Academy of Arts, University of Michigan Press, graduated from Columbia University…Ingram Merrill Foundation, GuggenheimFoundation
David Lehman was born in New York City in 1948. He graduated from Columbia College and attended Cambridge University in England as a Kellett...
Donald Justice

Donald Justice

male, deceased (2004)
Tad Richards, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, Syracuse University, from Florida, poet, academy of american poet…Guggenheim Fellowship, rockefeller foundation, GuggenheimFoundation
Donald Justice (born in Miami, Florida, August 12, 1925 - died in Iowa City, Iowa, August 6, 2004) was an American poet and teacher of writing. He...
Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff

female, 48 years old
Williams College alumni, book editor, Stacy Madeleine Schiff, journalist, Biographer, historian…GuggenheimFoundation
Stacy Madeleine Schiff (born October 26, 1961) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American author and guest columnist for [[The New York Times]]....

Ann Lauterbach

female
poet, John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation, Iowa Writers Workshop, Ingram Merrill Foundation, GuggenheimFoundation, macarthur foundation
Ann Lauterbach is an American poet and academic who has taught at Bard College since 1991. She is currently a David and Ruth Schwab III Professor...
Howard Nemerov

Howard Nemerov

male, deceased (1991)
American Poet Laureate, United States National Medal of Arts recipient, Diane Nemerov Arbus, photographer, from New York City, poet…GuggenheimFoundation
Howard Nemerov (February 29, 1920 - July 5, 1991) was United States Poet Laureate on two separate occasions: from 1963 to 1964, and from 1988 to...
Laura Kipnis

Laura Kipnis

female
Northwestern University, The Female Thing Dirt, Sex, Envy, Vulnerability, gender issues, media studies, Bachelor of Fine Arts, GuggenheimFoundation…rockefeller foundation
Laura Kipnis is a professor of media studies at Northwestern University. She is also an active cultural and media critic who focuses especially on...