- John Ashbery
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 America's most important, though still controversial, poets. - Joy Harjo
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 composed songs that could translate heartache. Other important influences include Leslie Silko , Simon Ortiz , Galway Kinnell, and Leo Remero . She attended class with Leslie Silko and Galway Kinnell which inspired her to become a poet and use the beauty of words to her advantage. - Jennifer Michael Hecht
Jennifer Michael Hecht (b. November 23, 1965) is a poet, historian, philosopher, and author. Hecht's scholarly articles and poetry have been published in many journals and magazines. She has also written book reviews for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The American Scholar and other publications. She has written several columns for The New York Times online "Times Select." - Alice Notley
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 Barnard College in 1967 and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1969. She married the poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she was active in the Chicago poetry scene and with whom she had two sons. In the early 70s she became rooted in New York's Lower East Side, where she was an important force from 1976 through 1992. - Frank Bidart
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 California at Riverside and went on to Harvard, where he was a student and friend of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop. He began studying with Lowell and Reuben Brower in 1962. He has taught at Wellesley College since 1972 and is currently (as of 2007) a professor of English there. - Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest née Barbara Ann Pinson (6 September, 1920 – 15 February, 2006) was an American poet and critic most often associated with the New York School. Born in Wilmington, North Carolina and raised in California, Guest earned a B.A. in General Curriculum-Humanities in 1943 at UC Berkeley. She spent years in New York City where she became involved with the New York School Poets. She was also well-known for her book on the poet H.D., … - William Matthews
William Matthews (November 11, 1942 - November 12, 1997) was an American poet and essayist. - Alicia Ostriker
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. Ostriker was born in Brooklyn, New York to David Suskin and Beatrice Linnick Suskin. Her mother read her Shakespeare, and Alicia began writing poems at an early age. Ostriker holds a bachelor’s degree from Brandeis University (1959), and an M.A. (1961) and Ph.D. (1964) from the University of Wisconsin. Her doctoral dissertation, on the work of William Blake, became her first book, … - David Ray
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 rooted in the personal, also show a strong social concern. Ray is the author of sixteen volumes of poetry and is the founding editor of "New Letters" magazine and "New Letters On The Air". - Sara Teasdale
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 beauty, and death, and her poems were much loved during the early 20th century. In 1918 she won the Columbia University Poetry Society prize (the forerunner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry) and the annual prize of the Poetry Society of America for her volume, "Love Songs". - Linda Pastan
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 writing short poems that address topics like family life, domesticity, motherhood, the female experience, aging, death, loss and the fear of loss, as well as the fragility of life and relationships. Linda Pastan has published at least 12 books of poetry and a number of essays. - Henri Cole
Henri Cole (born 1956) is an American poet born in Fukuoka, Japan and raised in Virginia, United States. From 1982 until 1988 he was executive director of The Academy of American Poets. Since that time he has held many teaching positions and been the artist-in-residence at various institutions, including Brandeis University, Columbia University, Davidson College, Harvard University, Reed College, Smith College, and his alma mater, The College of William and Mary. - David Ignatow
David Ignatow (February 7, 1914-November 17, 1997) was a noted US poet. - Josephine Jacobsen
Josephine Jacobsen was an American poet, short story writer, and critic. Born in Cobourg, Ontario, Canada, she moved with her family to New York at a young age. When she was fourteen, she moved to Maryland where she lived for the rest of her life. Jacobsen served as poetry consultant to the Library of Congress from 1971 to 1973 and as honorary consultant in American letters from 1973 to 1979. - Wanda Coleman
Wanda Coleman (1946 -) is an award-winning American poet. She is known as "the L.A. Blueswoman," and "the unofficial poet laureate of Los Angeles." - Peter Meinke
Peter Meinke (b. 1932) is an American poet and author. He has published 14 books of poems and his book of short stories, "The Piano Tuner", won the 1986 Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. His poetry has received many awards, including 2 NEA Fellowships and 3 prizes from the Poetry Society of America. His work has appeared in "The New Yorker", "Atlantic Monthly", "Poetry", and other magazines. - Edwin Markham
Charles Edwin Anson Markham (April 23, 1852 - March 7, 1940) was an American poet. - Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Brigit Pegeen Kelly (born 1951) is an award-winning American poet. She was born in Palo Alto, California, and is married to the poet, Michael Madonick. She is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her work has been included in five volumes of the "Pushcart Prize Anthology" and six volumes of "The Best American Poetry". - Gustav Davidson
Gustav Davidson (1895 - 1971) was a poet, writer, and publisher. He is best remembered as the author of "A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels," detailing the types of Angel classes and their roles. Davidson attended Columbia University in New York City and worked for the Library of Congress. In addition to the "Dictionary," Davidson published several collections of his poems, including "Songs of Adoration" (1919), … - Andrew Zawacki
Andrew Zawacki is an American poet. His first book "By Reason of Breakings" won the 2001 University of Georgia Contemporary Poetry Series chosen by Forrest Gander. His second book "Anabranch" won the 2002 Cecil Hemley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. The book also includes his 2001 chapbook "Masquerade" that won the 2002 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award. He coedits VERSE literary magazine with Brian Henry. - William Logan
William Logan (born 1950) is an American poet, critic and scholar. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts to W. Donald Logan, Jr. and Nancy Damon Logan. He lives in Gainesville, Florida and Cambridge, England with his life-partner, the poet and artist, Debora Greger. Educated at Yale (BA, 1972) and the University of Iowa (MFA, 1975), he has authored seven books of poetry as well as four books of criticism. He is a professor of creative writing at the University of Florida. - Arthur Guiterman
Arthur Guiterman (November 20, 1871 - January 11, 1943) was an American writer best known for his humorous poems. He was born of American parents in Vienna, graduated from the College of the City of New York in 1891, and was married in 1909 to Vida Lindo. He was an editor of the "Woman's Home Companion" and the "Literary Digest". In 1910, he cofounded the Poetry Society of America, and later served as its president in 1925-26. - Leo Connellan
Leo Connellan (1928 - February 22, 2001) was an American poet born near Portland, Maine. He grew up in Rockland, Maine, and lived at the time of his death in Sprague, Connecticut. Connellan's rough, "everyman" lyricism won him the admiration of such poet-critics as Karl Shapiro, Robert Penn Warren, Richard Eberhart, Richard Wilbur, David B. Axelrod and other major voices of the twentieth century. - Philip Appleman
Philip D. Appleman (born February 8th 1926) is an American poet. He is the distinguished Professor Emeritus of Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington. He has published seven volumes of poetry, the latest of which is New and Selected Poems, 1956-1996 (University of Arkansas Press, 1996); three novels, including Apes and Angels (Putnam, 1989); and half a dozen nonfiction books, including the widely used Norton Critical Edition, … - Nan Fry
Nan Fry is an American poet, based in Washington, DC. Her work has appeared in numerous anthologies and journals. She is the author of several books of poetry, including Relearning The Dark, published by Washington Writers Publishing House. Some of her poems also appeared in a series of posters in the Washtington and Baltimore transit systems, during the Poetry Society of America's Poetry in Motion program. Fry is a teacher in Corcoran College of Art + Design. - George Edward Woodberry
George Edward Woodberry, Litt. D., LL. D. (1855-1930) was an American literary critic and poet, born in Beverly, Mass. He graduated from Harvard in 1877, and became professor of English at the University of Nebraska. In 1891-1904 he was professor of comparative literature at Columbia University. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters. - Molly Peacock
MOLLY PEACOCK is the author of six volumes of poetry including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems and The Second Blush , forthcoming in June 2008. She is also the author of a memoir, Paradise, Piece by Piece and the editor of an essay collection, The Private I: Privacy in a Public World . Peacock is the writer/actor of a one-woman show in poems, "The Shimmering Verge." - Mark McMorris
- Joy Harjo
Joy Harjo was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her books of poetry include �How We Became Human: New and Selected Poems;� �A Map to the New World: Poems;� �The Woman Who Fell From the Sky,� which received the Oklahoma Book Arts Award; �In Mad Love and War,� which received the American Book Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; �Secrets from the Center of the World;� �She Had Some Horses;� and �What Moon Drove Me to This? - Karl Kirchwey
Karl Kirchwey Associate Professor, Director of the Creative Writing Program Associate Professor and Director of Creative Writing Karl Kirchwey holds degrees in English Literature from Yale College (B.A.) and Columbia University (M.A.). - Margaret Gibson
MARGARET GIBSON A Reading by Margaret Gibson - Lois Klein
Lois Klein Lois Klein holds a BA in English literature from Tufts University and an MA in psychology from Antioch University. Her chapbook Naming Water was published in 1998. Her new book, A Soldier’s Daughter , will be published by Turning Point Books in early 2008. - Ellen A. Kelley
Ellen A. Kelley Ellen A. Kelley has been writing professionally for both children and adults for over two decades. Her poems have appeared in many literary journals, anthologies, and children’s books. She was awarded an Academy of American Poets prize in 1998, and was an Intro Journals National Prize winner and recipient of the Benjamin Saltman poetry award in 2000. - Perie Longo
Perie Longo Perie Longo ’s love of poetry influences all aspects of her life. She is a poet-teacher through the California-Poets-in-the-Schools program, a registered poetry therapist and mentor/supervisor for those seeking training in that field, and a marriage and family therapist. For many years she has led the morning poetry writing workshop for the Santa Barbara Writers Conference. She has published two volumes of poetry, Milking the Earthand and The Privacy of Wind . - Josephine Jacobsen
Josephine Jacobsen Josephine Jacobsen , an award-winning poet, died Wednesday of kidney failure. She was 94. Jacobsen was 10 years old when she published her first poem in St. Nicholas Magazine. But it wasn't until her later years that her work appeared regularly in The New Yorker. She published numerous poetry collections , including "In the Crevice of Time," which received a nomination for a National Book Award. - Helen Driscoll
Helen Driscoll started Fine Paper Co. in 1995 with the donated sweat and labor from friends and by cashing out her pension plan and selling her mint 1965 bathtub 356 Porche. Since then, she has worked extensively with paper and printing technologies, designing and manufacturing the Fine Paper and Invitesite lines. Helen is extremely interested in the history of knowledge, technology, paper and book arts. - William Matthews
WILLIAM MATTHEWS William Matthews was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and earned a BA from Yale and an MA from the University of North Carolina. - Gary Myers
Gary Myers , Professor of English, joined the English Department at MSU in 1989 and helped to build the Creative Writing Program which now has five writers. Since arriving at MSU Myers has also served two terms on the Holland Faculty Senate and numerous other committees. A recipient of the John Grisham Faculty Excellence Award, Gary directed the Freshman English Program for six years prior to coming to the Dean's Office. - Eugene Gloria
Eugene Gloria earned his BA from San Francisco State University, his MA from Miami University of Ohio, and his MFA from the University of Oregon. He is the author of two books of poems -- Hoodlum Birds (Penguin, 2006) and Drivers at the Short-Time Motel (Penguin, 2000), which was selected for the 1999 National Poetry Series and the 2001 Asian American Literary Award. - Donald Hall Reading
Donald Hall is the current United States Poet Laureate. He has published fifteen books of poetry, most recently White Apples and the Taste of Stone: Selected Poems 1946-2006 (2006); The Painted Bed (2002) and Without: Poems (1998), which was published on the third anniversary of the death from leukemia of his wife, the poet Jane Kenyon.
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