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John Haines
John Meade Haines (June 29, 1924 – March 2, 2011) was an American poet and educator who had served as the poet laureate of Alaska. Published in 2024, the book May the Owl Call Again, A Return to Poet John Meade Haines, 1924-2011 focuses on the last 2 years of the poet’s life. With 32 poems, 5 essays, and 2 Letters to the Editor, it is an intimate correspondence of words, writings, and letters with reflections on life, death, and friendship. Early life John Mead Haines was born in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the son of a career Navy officer and moved from state to state, living in California, Hawaii, Washington, and New England. He later moved to Washington, D.C where he attended St. John's College High School. He served in the Navy as Sonar Man Third Class from 1943 to 1946. Haines was sent to San Diego Naval Training Station. Once his training was finished, he was sent to San Pedro to crew a Battleship for a few months and later sent to Norfolk, Virginia. In Norfolk, he was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graywolf Press
Graywolf Press is an independent, non-profit publisher located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Graywolf Press publishes fiction, non-fiction, and poetry. Graywolf Press collaborates with organizations such as the College of Saint Benedict, the Mellon Foundation, and Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Graywolf Press currently publishes about 27 books a year, including the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize winner, the recipient of the Emily Dickinson First Book Award, and several translations supported by the Lannan Foundation. History Graywolf Press was founded by Scott Walker and Kathleen Foster in 1974, in a space provided by Copper Canyon Press in Port Townsend, Washington. The press was named for the nearby Graywolf Ridge and Graywolf River, and for the canid. The press had early successes publishing poetry heavyweights such as Denis Johnson and Tess Gallagher. In 1984, Graywolf Press was incorporated as a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and moved to St. Paul, Minnesota, in 198 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Lowell
Amy Lawrence Lowell (February 9, 1874 – May 12, 1925) was an American poet of the imagist school. She posthumously won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1926. Life Amy Lowell was born on February 9, 1874, in Boston, Massachusetts, the daughter of Augustus Lowell and Katherine Bigelow Lowell. A member of the Brahmin Lowell family, her siblings included the astronomer Percival Lowell, the educator and legal scholar Abbott Lawrence Lowell, and Elizabeth Lowell Putnam, an early activist for prenatal care. They were the great-grandchildren of John Lowell and, on their mother's side, the grandchildren of Abbott Lawrence. School was a source of considerable despair for the young Amy Lowell. She considered herself to be developing "masculine" and "ugly" features and she was a social outcast. She had a reputation among her classmates for being outspoken and opinionated. At fifteen she wanted to be a photographer, poet, and coach racer. Lowell never attended college because her fam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Endowment For The Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government by an act of the Congress of the United States, U.S. Congress, signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson on September 29, 1965 (20 U.S.C. 951). It is a sub-agency of the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities, along with the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The NEA has its offices in Washington, D.C. It was awarded Tony Honors for Excellence in Theatre in 1995, as well as the Special Tony Award in 2016. In 1985, the NEA won an honorary Oscar from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for its work with the American Film Institute in the identification, acquisition, restoration and preservation of histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poets' Prize
The Poets' Prize is awarded annually for the best book of verse published by a living American poet two years prior to the award year. The $3000 annual prize is donated by a committee of about 20 American poets, who each nominate two books and who also serve as judges. The Nicholas Roerich Museum in New York City hosts the annual awards reception in May, which includes readings by the winner and finalists. The founders of the prize were Robert McDowell (poet), Robert McDowell, Frederick Morgan (poet), Frederick Morgan, and Louis Simpson. The current co-chairs of the prize committee are Robert Archambeau (poet), Robert Archambeau and Marc Vincenz. Winners Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article: *2018—Dana Gioia—''99 Poems: New and Selected'' (Graywolf Press, 2016). *2017—Ernest Hilbert—''Caligulan'' (Measure Press, 2015). *2016—Erica Dawson—''The Small Blades Hurt'' (Measure Press, 2014). *2015—Mary Jo Salter—''Nothing by Design'' (Alfred A. K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Library Of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C., serving as the library and research service for the United States Congress and the ''de facto'' national library of the United States. It also administers Copyright law of the United States, copyright law through the United States Copyright Office, and it houses the Congressional Research Service. Founded in 1800, the Library of Congress is the oldest Cultural policy of the United States, federal cultural institution in the United States. It is housed in three buildings on Capitol Hill, adjacent to the United States Capitol, along with the National Audio-Visual Conservation Center in Culpeper, Virginia, and additional storage facilities at Fort Meade, Fort George G. Meade and Cabin Branch in Hyattsville, Maryland. The library's functions are overseen by the librarian of Congress, and its buildings are maintained by the architect of the Capitol. The LOC is one of the List of largest libraries, largest libra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Academy Of American Poets
The Academy of American Poets is a national, member-supported organization that promotes poets and the art of poetry. The nonprofit organization was incorporated in the state of New York in 1934. It fosters the readership of poetry through outreach activities such as National Poetry Month, its website Poets.org, the syndicated series Poem-a-Day, ''American Poets'' magazine, readings and events, and poetry resources for K-12 educators. In addition, it sponsors a portfolio of nine major poetry awards, of which the first was a fellowship created in 1946 to support a poet and honor "distinguished achievement," and more than 200 prizes for student poets. In 1984, Robert Penn Warren noted that "To have great poets there must be great audiences, Whitman said, to the more or less unheeding ears of American educators. Ambitiously, hopefully, the Academy has undertaken to remedy this plight." In 1998, Dinitia Smith described the Academy of American Poets as "a venerable body at the symboli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Artists
United States Artists (USA) is a national arts funding organization based in Chicago. USA is dedicated to supporting living artists and cultural practitioners across the United States by granting unrestricted awards. Mission The organization's stated mission is "Believe in Artists". In addition, the organization asserts that "USA Fellowships honor and award an artist's unique vision as a whole rather than funding a particular project. Artists at different career levels, from emerging to established, are eligible." Awards Berresford Prize Established in 2019, The Berresford Prize is an unrestricted $50,000 award given annually to a cultural practitioner who has contributed significantly to the advancement, well-being, and care of artists in society. Awardees to date include Maori Karmael Holmes, Louise Erdrich, Lulani Arquette, Roberto Bedoya, Linda Goode Bryant and Kristy Edmunds. USA Fellowships USA Fellowships are annual $50,000 unrestricted awards recognizing t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aiken Taylor Award For Modern American Poetry
The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the '' Sewanee Review'' and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career. It was established through a bequest by Dr. K.P.A. Taylor, a poet and younger brother of Conrad Aiken. Winners * 1987 — Howard Nemerov * 1988 — Richard Wilbur * 1989 — Anthony Hecht * 1990 — W. S. Merwin * 1991 — John Frederick Nims * 1992 — Gwendolyn Brooks * 1993 — George Starbuck * 1994 — Wendell Berry * 1995 — Maxine Kumin * 1997 — Fred Chappell * 1998 — X. J. Kennedy * 1999 — George Garrett * 2000 — Eleanor Ross Taylor * 2001 — Frederick Morgan * 2002 — Grace Schulman * 2003 — Daniel Hoffman * 2004 — Henry Taylor * 2005 — B.H. Fairchild * 2006 — Brendan Galvin * 2007 — Anne Stevenson * 2008 — John Haines * 2009 &mdash ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Silkin
Jon Silkin (2 December 1930 – 25 November 1997) was a British poet. He was also the founder of ''Stand'' magazine in 1952. Early life Jon Silkin was born in London, in a Litvak Jewish family; his parents were Joseph Silkin and Doris Rubenstein. His grandparents were all from the Lithuanian part of the Russian Empire. His uncle was Lewis Silkin, 1st Baron Silkin. He was named Jon after Jon Forsyte in ''The Forsyte Saga'', and attended Wycliffe College (Gloucestershire), Wycliffe College and Dulwich College. During the Second World War, he was one of the children evacuated from London (in his case, to Wales); he remembered that he "roamed the countryside incessantly" while in Wales, collecting "fool's gold" and exploring old Roman mines. For a period of about six years in the 1950s, after National Service, he supported himself by manual labour and other menial jobs. By 1956, he rented the top-floor flat at 10, Compayne Gardens, Hampstead, (), the house of Bernice Rubens, who la ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Lehman
David Lehman (born June 11, 1948) is an American poet, non-fiction writer, and literary critic, and the founder and series editor for '' The Best American Poetry''. He was a writer and freelance journalist for fifteen years, writing for such publications as ''Newsweek'', ''The Wall Street Journal'', and ''The New York Times''. In 2006, Lehman served as Editor for the new ''Oxford Book of American Poetry''. He taught and was the Poetry Coordinator at The New School in New York City until May 2018. Career Born in New York City on June 11, 1948,David Lehman at poets.org David Lehman grew up the son of European Holocaust refugees in Manhattan's northernmost neighborhood of Inwood. He attended |
The Best American Poetry 1999
''The Best American Poetry 1999'', a volume in ''The Best American Poetry series ''The Best American Poetry'' series consists of annual poetry anthologies, each containing seventy-five poems. Background The series, begun by poet and editor David Lehman in 1988, has a different guest editor every year. Lehman, still the genera ...'', was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Robert Bly. Poets and poems included See also * 1999 in poetry Notes External links Web page for contents of the book with links to each publication where the poems originally appeared Reviews "On the Prosing of Poetry: How Contemporary American Poets Are Denaturing the Poem", by Joan Houlihan at ''Boston Comment'' Web site. (A negative reaction to much in this volume) "What is Found", a positive review in ''Thumbscrew'', No. 16, Summer 2000 {{DEFAULTSORT:Best American Poetry 1999, The Best American Poetry series 1999 poetry books American poetry anthologies ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
