- Eavan Boland
Eavan Boland explores the relationship between gender, art, and national identity in her work. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944 and educated in London, New York and Dublin. Her most recent book of poetry, Against Love Poems , concerns marriage and "the stoicism of dailyness" she explains. Of writing poetry she says,"I don't write a poem to express an experience. I write it to experience the experience." - Michael McClure
Michael McClure, an American poet, playwright, songwriter and novelist, was born in Marysville, Kansas on (October 20, 1932) before moving to San Francisco as a young man. He found fame as one of the five poets (including Allen Ginsberg) who read at the famous San Francisco Six Gallery reading in 1955 rendered in barely fictionalized terms in Jack Kerouac's "Dharma Bums". - 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, … - Christa Wolf
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 writers to emerge from the former East Germany. She is a literary critic, novelist, and essayist. In 1945 Wolf and her family were expelled from her home across the new Oder River border and they settled in Mecklenburg, in what would become East Germany. - Patrick Herron
My Writing Bio. - Lorna Goodison
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 belief that "if you have nine children you can just as easily care for ten, eleven, or twelve." As a child, Goodison was exposed to books; her mother loved books and her sister loved books. "So we always had books in my house. I read most of those books and magazines that my sister brought home. So from a very early age, I read." - Michael Guillen
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 travels the world in search of the ancient roots of everything we presume to constitute modern life—from speed bumps and fire engines to dry cleaners and antibiotics. For 14 years, Dr. Guillen was the Emmy-award-winning Science Correspondent for ABC News. - Ouyang Yu
Ouyang Yu (born 1955) is a contemporary Chinese-Australian author, translator and academic. Ouyang Yu was born in the People's Republic of China, arriving in Australia in 1991 to study for a Ph. D. at La Trobe University which he completed in 1995. Since then his literary output has been prodigious. Apart from several collections of poetry and a novel he has translated authors as diverse as Christina Stead, Xavier Herbert, Germaine Greer and David Malouf among others. - Juliette Rossant
Juliette Rossant (born 1959) is an American author, journalist, and poet, best known for her writings about top-grossing celebrity chefs about whom she first wrote for "Forbes" magazine and for whom she has defined if not coined the term "Super Chef," also the title of her first book and of her online magazine. - 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. - Lawrence Joseph
Lawrence Joseph was born in 1948 in Detroit, Michigan. He is the author of the books of poems Into It ; Codes, Precepts, Biases, and Taboos: Poems 1973-1993 ; Before Our Eyes ; Curriculum Vitae ; and Shouting at No One . He is also the author of Lawyerland , a book of prose. He lives in New York City and teaches law at St. John's University School of Law. - Sean Mulvihill
13 years sales management experience. Solid, top line performer with vigilant eye for process improvements. Expert communicator able to drive sales traffic to and through the intersection of technology and money. “Dot-com entrepreneur Sean Mulvihill has a salesman’s rapid-patter energy, but a post-bust sense of humility.” - San Jose Business Journal. Also profiled by Entrepreneur.com, NBC TechNow!, The Industry Standard, Silicon Valley Biz Ink (cover story) and Smart Business Magazine. - Philippe Phebus Dubois
Philippe Phébus Dubois started painting at the age of 30. During several years he studied the art of painting and drawing. Between 1989 en 1990 he spent a lot of time in Amsterdam, studying the work of Vincent Van Gogh. In the nineties his work evolved to more abstract art. In December 1998 he exposed his abstract work for the first time in the museum of Tubize (Belgium). Phébus currently lives and works in Brussels. (Brigitte Descartes, Doctor of Philosophy/History of Art.) - Gary Williams
I work in international IT and change management. See LinkedIn and ecademy for my professional profile, references and resume. I'm an Open Networker open to connect on gary.williams@runbox.com at ecademy.com, plaxo.com, linkedin.com, konnects.com, naymz.com and facebook.com. Email is best to contact me. I work hard, love friends and family, having fun, sport, cars, motorbikes and very loud music. Life is short, you get one shot and I figure I've had more than half of mine already! :-) - Dr. Peter James
Dr. Peter James aka Boffin1157 born in the late 1950's in the United Kingdom. I currently live, work, and tutor in Northern Romania. I am engaged to Dr. Cristina Felea, teacher, translator and daughter of Romanian Poet & Writer: Victor Felea (1923-1993).Among my numerous qualifications to-date are a degree in Psychology and a 2nd in Forensic Psychology, the latter is my speciality. - Rikki Arundel
Rikki Arundel Founder and First President of the Professional Speakers Association, Rikki Arundel is a truly unique International Keynote Speaker, a master communicator and entertainer with a unique ability to transition the gender divide. - Achy Obejas
Achy Obejas was born in 1956 in Havana, Cuba, a city that she left six years later when she came to the United States with her parents after the Cuban revolution. She grew up in Michigan City, Indiana, and moved to Chicago in 1979. At the age of thirty-nine, Obejas returned to the island of her birth "for a brief visit and was seduced by a million things"(Shapiro 4). The Cuba of her imagination and experience recur throughout her writings. - Cristina Felea
I currently teach ESP to sociology and social work students in my home town Cluj, Romania. My professional interests also include literature studies - I've got a Ph.D. in Beat literature. I've always been fascinated by translation work - I've tried my best to give a Romanian "voice" to authors such as Henry Miller, Jack Kerouac, and Peter Beagle. - Nurit Berman
"Even Sky is not the limit to your targets". Almost 20 years of consulting and assisting to people and organisations in exceling and getting to their target. Market leader in HR strategies,leading The Emda Group-, 3 companies dealing with:EXECUTIVE SEARCH, CHANGE MANAGMENT, TOP TALENT MANAGMENT. The groups portfolio includes israels major global companies as well as local companies - Sandra Monteiro
I have been working for over 10 years in sw,svs and hw IT solutions to small and big market companies. A top sales professional in selling deals to large as well as SMB sectors. Experience in business evaluations, looking for line of business needed * Im goal oriented * I am self-motivated with excellent inter-personal skills to lead and operate at very senior levels. * Specialties: IBM software, system i plataform (sales certified). As a hobby Im a jazz singer - Raleigh St. Clair
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- Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish (May 7, 1892 - April 20, 1982) was an American poet, writer and the Librarian of Congress. He is associated with the modernist school of poetry. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times. - Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz /'kju:nɪts/ (July 29, 1905 – May 14, 2006) was a noted American poet who served two years (1974-1976) as the Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress (a precursor to the modern Poet Laureate program), and served another year as United States Poet Laureate in 2000. - Shannon Poetry
- Ashok Banker
Ashok Kumar Banker (born February 7, 1964) is a novelist born and living in Mumbai, India. - Robinson Jeffers
John Robinson Jeffers (January 10 1887-January 20 1962) was an American poet, known for his work about the central California coast. Most of Jeffers' poetry was written in classic narrative and epic form, but today he is also known for his short verse, and considered an icon of the environmental movement. - Charles Simic
Charles Simic (born May 9, 1938) is a Serbian-American poet. Having emigrated in his youth from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Simic represents an interesting counterpoint to many North American contemporaries, so many of whom have evolved from the traditions of American 19th century writers such as Dickinson and Whitman, both of whom wrote about the details of the world surrounding them. - Giambattista Marino
Giambattista Marino (or Giovan Battista Marino) (october 18, 1569 - March 25, 1625) was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his long epic "L'Adone". The "Cambridge History of Italian Literature" thought him to be "one of the greatest Italian poets of all time". He is considered the founder of the school of Marinism, later called Secentismo, characterised by its use of extravagant and excessive conceits. - William Blake
William Blake was an English poet, visionary, painter, and printmaker. Largely unrecognized during his lifetime, Blake's work is today considered seminal and significant in the history of both poetry and the visual arts. He was voted 38th in a poll of the 100 Greatest Britons organized by the BBC in 2002. According to Northrop Frye, who undertook a study of Blake's entire poetic corpus, … - Kazi Nazrul Islam
Kazi Nazrul Islam (25 May, 1899–29 August, 1976) was a Bengali poet, musician, revolutionary, and philosopher who pioneered poetic works espousing intense spiritual rebellion against orthodoxy and oppression. His poetry and nationalist activism earned him the popular title of "Bidrohi Kobi" (Rebel Poet). Accomplishing a large body of acclaimed works through his life, Nazrul is officially recognised as the national poet of Bangladesh and commemorated in India. - Lewis Carroll
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (January 27 1832 - January 14 1898), better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. His most famous writings are "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and its sequel "Through the Looking-Glass" as well as the poems "The Hunting of the Snark" and "Jabberwocky", all considered to be within the genre of literary nonsense. - 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". - Anthony Hecht
Anthony Evan Hecht, (January 16 1923 - October 20 2004), was an American poet. His work combined a deep interest in form with a passionate desire to confront the horrors of 20th century history, with the Second World War, in which he fought, and the Holocaust being recurrent themes in his work. - Bronwyn Lea
Bronwyn Lea (born 1969) is a contemporary Australian poet, academic and editor. Born in Tasmania, Bronwyn Lea grew up in Queensland and Papua New Guinea, moving to San Diego to study at California State University. She has completed a PhD at University of Queensland and currently teaches there in the School of English, Media Studies and Art History. - William Carlos Williams
Dr. William Carlos Williams (sometimes known as WCW) (September 17, 1883 - March 4, 1963), was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. - Wayne Ray
Wayne Scott Ray (born 1950 in Alabama) is a Canadian poet and photographer. Ray is the founder of HMS Press publishing, Scarborough Arts Council Poetry Contest, co-founder of the Canadian Poetry Association and co-chairman of the League of Canadian Poets: Associates (Toronto) for 1985/1986. - 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. - Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon is a poet from County Armagh, Northern Ireland. Muldoon's poetry is known for difficulty, allusion, casual use of extremely obscure or archaic words, understated wit, punning, and deft technique in meter and slant rhyme. Muldoon has lived in the United States since 1987; he teaches at Princeton University and is an Honorary Professor in the School of English at the University of St Andrews.
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