John Ashbery

John Ashbery

male, 82 years old
New York School poet, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winner, poet, LGBT writer, from the United States, gay…PoetrySocietyofAmerica, American Academy of Arts
John Ashbery (born July 28, 1927) is an American poet who has won nearly every major American award for poetry and is recognized as one of...
Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

female
writer, Creek tribe, American, Tulsa, creek, Native American…PoetrySocietyofAmerica, Academy of American Poets, 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...
Jennifer Michael Hecht

Jennifer Michael Hecht

female, 44 years old
Adelphi University alumni, From Long Island, Phi Beta Kappa Society, PoetrySocietyofAmerica, Doubt, The American Scholar…Society of Mutual Autopsy, The End of the Soul, University of Wisconsin
Jennifer Michael Hecht (b. November 23, 1965) is a poet, historian, philosopher, and author. Hecht's scholarly articles and poetry have been...
Alice Notley

Alice Notley

female, 64 years old
East Village, Manhattan, New York School poet, Barnard College alumni, Modernist writer, PoetrySocietyofAmerica, Barnard College alumnae…The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan, University of Iowa, American Academy of Arts and Letters, M.F.A. from The University of Iowa
Alice Notley (born in 1945) is an American poet. She was born in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A from...
Frank Bidart

Frank Bidart

male, 70 years old
Bollingen Prize, American, riverside, Brandeis University, Harvard, Reuben Brower…University of California, PoetrySocietyofAmerica, Academy of American Poets, 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...
Barbara Guest

Barbara Guest

female, deceased (2006)
New York School poet, from North Carolina, Frost Medal, PoetrySocietyofAmerica, Herself Defined The Poet H.D. and Her World, Modernist writer
Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (6 September, 1920 – 15 February, 2006) was an American poet and critic most often associated with the New Yor...
Alicia Ostriker

Alicia Ostriker

female, 72 years old (New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States)
University of Wisconsin, The Imaginary Lover, nonfiction, Writing Like A Woman, Alicia Suskin Ostriker, The Mother-Child Papers…San Francisco State Poetry Center, PoetrySocietyofAmerica, University of Pittsburgh Press, poetry, Professor of English
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. Ostriker was born in Brooklyn, New York to David Suskin...
David Ray

David Ray

male, 77 years old
Cornell University, New Letters On The Air, William Carlos Williams Award, Music of Time Selected and New Poems, PoetrySocietyofAmerica, Reed College…university of missouri-kansas city, University of Iowa
David Ray (born May 20, 1932), is an American poet and author of fiction, essays, and memoir. He is particularly noted for poems that, while being...
Sara Teasdale

Sara Teasdale

female, deceased (1933) (SAINT LOUIS, Missouri, United States)
American women writer, From st. louis, missouri, Drug-related suicide, poet, PoetrySocietyofAmerica, Drug-related death…Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
Sara Teasdale, was an American lyrical poet. She was born Sarah Trevor Teasdale in St. Louis, Missouri. Teasdale's major themes were love, nature's...