Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland

female, 65 years old
Irish women writer, Women poet, Trinity College, Dublin, Night Feed, After Every War, from County Dublin…poetry, author of nine books of poetry
Eavan Boland explores the relationship between gender, art, and national identity in her work. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944 and educated...
Michael McClure

Michael McClure

male, 77 years old
big sur, The Doors, mercedes benz, American, playground, onomatopoeia…poetry
Michael McClure, an American poet, playwright, songwriter and novelist, was born in Marysville, Kansas on (October 20, 1932) before moving to San...
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, Poetry Society of America, poetry
Alicia Suskin Ostriker is an American poet and scholar who writes Jewish feminist poetry. Ostriker was born in Brooklyn, New York to David Suskin...
Christa Wolf

Christa Wolf

female, 80 years old
Christa T, Landsberg an der Warthe, oder river, writer, The Quest for Christa T, Auf dem Weg nach Tabou…poetry
Christa Wolf, born March 18, 1929 in Landsberg an der Warthe, then in Germany but now in Poland, as Christa Ihlenfeld, is one of the best-known...
Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison

female, 62 years old
Jamaican women writer, caribbean, Caribbean women writer, writer, poet, Commonwealth Writers Prize…poetry
Lorna Goodison was born in 1947 in Kingston, Jamaica. She grew up in a home with eight siblings and her father and mother, who operated on the...
Michael Guillen

Michael Guillen

male, 55 years old
Harvard University, washington post, American, challenger, Raëlian, WCVB…poetry
Michael Guillen , Ph.D. can be seen weekly on The History Channel ’s popular new primetime series “Where Did It Come From?” Each week, he travel...
Ouyang Yu

Ouyang Yu

male, 54 years old
poet, Otherland, English, chinese, Chinese language, author…poetry
Ouyang Yu (born 1955) is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic. Ouyang Yu was born in the People's Republic of China,...

Juliette Rossant

female, 50 years old
poet, Dartmouth College alumni, Johns Hopkins University alumni, hospitality, food, business week…poetry
Juliette Rossant (born 1959) is an American author, journalist, and poet, best known for her writings about top-grossing celebrity chefs about whom...
Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

female
writer, Creek tribe, American, Tulsa, creek, Native American…Poetry Society of America
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...