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David Trinidad
David Trinidad (born 1953 in Los Angeles, California) is an American poet. David Trinidad was born in Los Angeles, California, and raised in the San Fernando Valley. He attended California State University, Northridge, where he studied poetry with Ann Stanford and edited the literary journal ''Angel’s Flight''. While at Northridge, he became friends with the poet Rachel Sherwood, a fellow student. On July 5, 1979, Sherwood and Trinidad were involved in an automobile accident in which Sherwood was killed and Trinidad severely injured. Later, Trinidad published a book of Rachel Sherwood's poems and established Sherwood Press in her honor. His first book of poems, ''Pavane'', was published in 1981. The ''Los Angeles Times Book Review'' noted that Trinidad’s "voice has assurance and integrity.” In the early 1980s, Trinidad was one of a group of poets who were active at the Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center in Venice, California. Other members of this group included Dennis C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, cultural center of Southern California. With an estimated 3,878,704 residents within the city limits , it is the List of United States cities by population, second-most populous in the United States, behind only New York City. Los Angeles has an Ethnic groups in Los Angeles, ethnically and culturally diverse population, and is the principal city of a Metropolitan statistical areas, metropolitan area of 12.9 million people (2024). Greater Los Angeles, a combined statistical area that includes the Los Angeles and Riverside–San Bernardino metropolitan areas, is a sprawling metropolis of over 18.5 million residents. The majority of the city proper lies in Los Angeles Basin, a basin in Southern California adjacent to the Pacific Ocean in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lizzie Skurnick
Lizzie Skurnick is a writer, critic and editor. In 2007, she started Jezebel's Fine Lines column, "the feature in which we give a wrinkled look at the books we loved as youth," which she wrote until 2009. ''Shelf Discovery'', her book on young adult fiction of her youth, appeared from HarperCollins in 2009. Her YA publishing imprint, Lizzie Skurnick Books, was founded in 2013. The press's classic YA reprints have been praised by ''The Boston Globe'', ''The New York Times'' many other publications and organizations. The press's first original book, ''Isabel's War'', published in 2014, received praise from ''The Wall Street Journal'' and other critical outlets and the Association of Jewish Libraries named it a Sydney Taylor Honor Book (second to the first prize winner). Skurnick's "That Should Be a Word" column appeared weekly in ''The New York Times Magazines One Page Magazine from 2011 to 2014. Her coinages have been praised and/or used by '' Bust Magazine'', ''Salon'', and ''ABC'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Seaton
Maureen Therese Seaton (October 20, 1947 – August 26, 2023) was an American Lesbian literature, lesbian poet, memoirist, and professor of creative writing. She authored fifteen solo books of poetry, co-authored an additional thirteen, and wrote one memoir, ''Sex Talks to Girls'', which won the 21st Lambda Literary Awards, 2009 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir/Biography. Seaton's writing has been described as "unusual, compressed, and surrealistic," and was frequently created in collaboration with fellow poets such as Denise Duhamel, Samuel Ace, Neil de la Flor, David Trinidad, Kristine Snodgrass, cin salach, Niki Nolin, and Mia Leonin. Background Seaton received her MFA in Creative Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts in 1996. She taught poetry workshops and served as Artist-in-Residence at Columbia College Chicago from 1993-2002, teaching concurrently in the MFA in Creative Writing program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago from 1997-1999. She began tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denise Duhamel
Denise Duhamel (born 1961 in Woonsocket, Rhode Island) is an American poet. Background Duhamel received her B.F.A. from Emerson College and her M.F.A. from Sarah Lawrence College. She is a New York Foundation for the Arts recipient and has been resident poet at Bucknell University. She has had residencies at Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony. Duhamel's earliest books take a feminist slant, beginning with ''Smile'' (1993) and ''Girl Soldier'' (1996); ''The Woman with Two Vaginas'' (1995) explores Eskimo folklore from the same perspective. Her best selling and most popular book to date, ''Kinky'' (1997), marries her bent for satire, humor, and feminism in portraying an icon of popular culture, the Barbie doll, through an extended series of satirical postures ("Beatnik Barbie," "Buddhist Barbie," etc.). Two collections that followed, ''The Star Spangled Banner'' (1998) and ''Queen for a Day'' (2001), move more broadly into American culture to display the same satire through the lens o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Scates
Maxine Scates is an American poet. Life Born and raised in Los Angeles, she received a B.A. in English from California State University, Northridge, where she studied with the poet Ann Stanford, whose selected poems ''Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford'' she later co-edited with another former student of Stanford's, the poet David Trinidad. She moved to Eugene, Oregon in 1973 to pursue an M.F.A. at the University of Oregon which she received in 1975. She is the author of four books of poems, ''My Wilderness'' (forthcoming October 2021, University of Pittsburgh Press), ''Undone'' (New Issues 2011), ''Black Loam'' (Cherry Grove, 2005) which received the Lyre Prize and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award for Poetry, and ''Toluca Street'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989), which received the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, and subsequently the Oregon Book Award (Stafford/Hall Award) for Poetry. She has taught throughout the state of Oregon, most recentl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gillian McCain
Gillian McCain (born January 1, 1966) is a Canadian poet, author, and photography collector best known for ''Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk'', which she co-wrote with Legs McNeil. McCain is the author of two books of poetry: ''Tilt'' and ''Religion''. Portions of her "found photo" collection have been featured in magazines, published as limited edition books, and exhibited at the Camera Club of New York gallery. She sat on the board of directors of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax and was the Chair of the Board of Directors of the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery New York City. Education and personal life McCain was born in Bath, New Brunswick, Canada. She attended the University of King's College in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where she earned a B.A in Literature. She moved to New York City in 1987 where she went on to complete a M.A. in Literature at New York University in 1990. In 1988, McCain studied in the Naropa Institute ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynn Crosbie
Lynn Crosbie (born 7 August 1963) is a Canadian poet and novelist. She teaches at the University of Toronto. Life and career Crosbie was born in Montreal, Quebec, and now lives in Toronto, Ontario. She received her PhD in English from the University of Toronto, writing her PhD thesis on the work of the American poet Anne Sexton. She has taught at York University, University of Toronto, University of Guelph, and OCAD University, and has taught shorter classes/workshops at Rutgers University, Workman, Sistering, Flying Books and more. In 1997, Insomniac Press published her controversial book on the Canadian criminal Paul Bernardo, ''Paul's Case''. In 2006, Crosbie published a book-length poem titled ''Liar'', available through House of Anansi Press. ''Liar'' is a personal work that deals with the end of her seven-year relationship with the professional wrestling fan Michael Holmes, author of the poetry book ''Parts Unknown''. Her long relationship with the writer Tony Burges ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New York School (art)
The New York School was an informal group of American poets, painters, dancers, and musicians active in the 1950s and 1960s in New York City. They often drew inspiration from surrealism and the contemporary avant-garde art movements, in particular action painting, abstract expressionism, jazz, improvisational theater, experimental music, and the interaction of friends in the New York City art world's vanguard circle. People Frank O'Hara was at the center of the group before his death in 1966. Because of his numerous friendships and his post as a curator at the Museum of Modern Art, he provided connections between the poets and painters such as Jane Freilicher, Fairfield Porter, and Larry Rivers (who was O'Hara's lover). There were many joint works and collaborations, particularly between poets such as O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, and James Schuyler: Rivers inspired a play by Koch, Koch and Ashbery together wrote the poem "A Postcard to Popeye", Ashbery and Schu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Schuyler
James Marcus Schuyler (November 9, 1923 – April 12, 1991) was an American poet. His awards include the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 1980 collection ''The Morning of the Poem''. He was a central figure in the New York School and is often associated with fellow New York School poets John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, and Barbara Guest. Life and death James Marcus Schuyler was the son of Marcus Schuyler (a reporter) and Margaret Daisy Connor Schuyler. Born in Chicago, he spent his teen years in East Aurora, New York. After graduating high school, Schuyler attended Bethany College in West Virginia from 1941 to 1943, though he was not a very successful student; in a later interview, he recalled, "I just played bridge all the time." Schuyler moved to New York City in the late 1940s where he worked for NBC and first befriended W. H. Auden. In 1947, he moved to Ischia, Italy, where he lived in Auden's rented apartment and worked as his secretary. Between 1947 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Smith (poet)
Aaron Smith is an American poet. Three of his poetry collections have been finalists for the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Poetry. His poetry often covers "what it means to be a gay man from a rural, working class environment." Education and career Smith received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pittsburgh. He previously taught at West Virginia Wesleyan College and currently serves as an associate professor of Creative Writing at Lesley University Lesley University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. It was founded in 1909 to educate teachers. Originally founded as a women's college, male students were admitted beginning in 2005. History 1909–1998 Th .... He has also been the recipient of fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Mass Cultural Council. Awards Publications Poetry collections * ''Blue on Blue Ground'', Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005) * ''A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Trigilio
Tony Trigilio (born 1966 in Erie, Pennsylvania) is an American poet, editor, and scholar. He is best known for his work with documentary poetics, popular culture, and autobiography, and for his innovative approaches to poetic form. Education Trigilio earned a bachelor's degree from Kent State University in 1988, and a master's degree (1990) and Ph.D. (1997) from Northeastern University.Columbia College Chicago, School of Communication and Culture Retrieved 2024-09-14. Career Trigilio has taught since 1999 at , where he is a professor of English and Creative Writing. He directed Colu ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arielle Greenberg
Arielle Greenberg (born 1972) is a feminist poet and the poetry editor of ''Black Clock''. She named and described the concept of the Gurlesque in the anthology ''Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque, burlesque poetics'', which she co-edited with Lara Glenum. Biography Greenberg was an assistant professor in the English Department at Columbia College Chicago. She is now living with her family in Belfast, Maine. They are working on an oral history-style book on the back-to-the-land movement in that area.Greenberg, Arielle. "Biography." ArielleGreenberg.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 30 October 2011. . Concept of The Gurlesque "The words of the gurlesque „luxuriate: they roll around in the sensual while avoiding the sharpness of overt messages, preferring the curve of sly mockery to theory or revelation‟.Sheehy, John. "Pleasure in the Gap: Kate Lille'ys Cross-Pollinated Poetic and Academic Discourses." Sydney Studies. 35. (2009): 100-101. Web. 30 October 2011. . " "The term Gurlesqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
