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John Koethe
John Koethe (born December 25, 1945) is an Americans, American poet, essayist and professor of philosophy at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Biography Koethe is originally from San Diego, California. He was educated at Princeton University and Harvard University. Inspiration and influences Koethe has stated that the inspiration for many of his poems comes "in the shower, and while I'm shaving." He has said he loves living in Wisconsin, and that he finds the state beautiful. He has titled several of his poems after places in his hometown of Milwaukee, including "Hackett Avenue." As influences on his poetry, he identifies several people, including famed writers William Wordsworth and Marcel Proust. In his philosophy, Koethe's research focuses on the philosophy of language, Wittgenstein, and epistemology. Writing career In addition to the work listed in the bibliography below, Koethe has also contributed poetry and essays to several publications including ''Poetry ( ...
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Paris Review
''The Paris Review'' is a quarterly English-language literary magazine established in Paris in 1953 by Harold L. Humes, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton. In its first five years, ''The Paris Review'' published new works by Jack Kerouac, Philip Larkin, V. S. Naipaul, Philip Roth, Terry Southern, Adrienne Rich, Italo Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Nadine Gordimer, Jean Genet, and Robert Bly. The ''Review''s "Writers at Work" series includes interviews with Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, T. S. Eliot, Jorge Luis Borges, Ralph Ellison, William Faulkner, Thornton Wilder, Robert Frost, Pablo Neruda, William Carlos Williams, and Vladimir Nabokov, among hundreds of others. Literary critic Joe David Bellamy wrote that the series was "one of the single most persistent acts of cultural conservation in the history of the world." The headquarters of ''The Paris Review'' moved from Paris to New York City in 1973. Plimpton edited the ''Review'' from its founding until his death in 2003. Hi ...
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Lisa Samuels
Lisa Nell Samuels is an American–New Zealand experimental poet and academic, and is a professor emeritus at the University of Auckland. She has published a number of books of poetry, an experimental novel, and adapted one poem into a soundscape and a short film. Academic career Samuels completed a Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, followed by a Master of Arts and a PhD titled ''Poetic Arrest: Laura Riding, Wallace Stevens, and the Modernist Afterlife'' at the University of Virginia. Samuels completed visiting fellowships at the University of Alabama and University of Louisville, before taking a position at Eastern Michigan University. In 2000 she moved to University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she spent six years and achieved tenure, before moving to New Zealand. Samuels joined the faculty of the University of Auckland in 2006, as professor in the Faculty of Arts, English and Drama. Samuels has published a number of books of p ...
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Susan Firer
Susan Firer (born October 14, 1948) is an American poet who grew up along the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan in Milwaukee, WI. She was poet laureate of the city from 2008 to 2010, and from 2008 to 2014, she edited the Shepherd Express online poetry column. Education and career Firer received her MA from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and in 2009 was honored as a distinguished alumnus of the University of Wisconsin. She is Adjunct Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. In addition to publishing six full-length books, she has contributed to numerous local and national literary magazines and anthologies, including '' Best American Poetry 1992''; ''Visiting Dr. Williams: Poems Inspired by the Life and Work of William'' ''Carlos Williams'' (University of Iowa Press); ''The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems'' (Red Hen Press); and ''The Book of Irish American Poetry: From the'' ''Eighteenth Century to the Present'' (University of Notre Dame ...
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Martha Berglund
Martha (Aramaic: מָרְתָא‎) is a biblical figure described in the Gospels of Luke and John. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, she is described as living in the village of Bethany near Jerusalem and witnessing Jesus resurrecting her brother, Lazarus. Etymology of the name The name ''Martha'' is a Latin transliteration of the Koine Greek Μάρθα, itself a transliteration of the Aramaic מָרְתָא‎ ''Mârtâ'', "the mistress" or "the lady", from מרה "mistress", feminine of מר "master." The Aramaic form occurs in a Nabatean inscription found at Puteoli, and now in the Naples Museum; it is dated AD 5 (Corpus Inscr. Semit., 158); also in a Tadmor, Syria, Palmyrene inscription, where the Greek translation has the form ''Marthein''. Biblical references In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary, visits the home of two sisters named Mary and Martha. The two sisters are contrasted: Martha was "encumbered about many thing ...
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