Ruth Lilly

female, 94 years old
from Indiana, American, From Indianapolis, Indiana, PoetryMagazine, Poetry Foundation, American for the Arts…The Poetry Foundation
Ruth Lilly is an American philanthropist. She is the sole living heiress to the Eli Lilly pharmaceutical fortune, built by her great-great...
Harriet Monroe

Harriet Monroe

female, deceased (1936)
Magazine editor, Literary critic, American, Arequipa, PoetryMagazine, H. D.
Harriet Monroe (12 December 1860 - 26 September 1936) was an American editor, scholar, literary critic, and patron of the arts. She is best known...
Basil Bunting

Basil Bunting

male, deceased (1985)
Ackworth Old Scholar, Royal Grammar School, quaker, newcastle upon tyne, British, conscientious objector…modernist poetry, PoetryMagazine
Basil Cheesman Bunting was a British modernist poet. He had a lifelong interest in music and this led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of...
Samuel Menashe

Samuel Menashe

male, 84 years old
Russian-American Jew, writer, Jewish American, bard college, C. W. Post College, Jewish…PoetryMagazine
Samuel Menashe (born 16 September 1925) is an American poet. He was born in New York City, the son of Russian-Jewish immigrant parents. He grew up...
Charles Reznikoff

Charles Reznikoff

male, deceased (1976)
Jewish, poet, objectivist, Objectivist poet, modernist poetry, American…PoetryMagazine
Charles Reznikoff (August 31, 1894 - January 22, 1976) was the poet for whom the term Objectivist was first coined. When asked by Harriet Munroe to...
Linda Pastan

Linda Pastan

female, 77 years old
Alice Fay di Castagnola Award, Radcliffe College alumni, Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, Potomac, Poetry Society of America, PoetryMagazine
Linda Pastan is an American poet of Jewish background. She was born in the Bronx in 1932. Today, she lives in Potomac, Maryland. She is known for...
Simon Perchik

Simon Perchik

male
New York University, jacketmagazine.com, Library Journal, Partisan Review, North American Review, PoetryMagazine…CLUTCH magazine
Simon Perchik (born 1923, Paterson, New Jersey) is an American poet with published work dating from the 1960s. Perchik worked as an attorney before...
John Frederick Nims

John Frederick Nims

male, deceased (1999)
University of Missouri–Columbia faculty, Harvard University, From Muskegon, Michigan, University of florence, Guggenheim Foundation, PoetryMagazine
John Frederick Nims was an American poet born in 1913 in Muskegon, Michigan and died in 1999 in Chicago, Illinois. In 1945 he received a Ph.D. from...
Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert

male, 84 years old
PoetryMagazine, The Kenyon Review, American Poetry Review, Poetry as Magic, From Pittsburgh, East Liberty
Jack Gilbert (1925-) is an American poet. Born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA's neighborhood of East Liberty, he attended Peabody High...
Countee Cullen

Countee Cullen

male, deceased (1946)
novelist, harlem renaissance, romantic, Romanticism, African-American, gay…PoetryMagazine, Century Magazine
Countee Cullen (May 30, 1903-January 9, 1946) was an African-American Romantic poet and an active participant in the Harlem Renaissance.