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Mary Jo Salter
Mary Jo Salter (born August 15, 1954) is an American poet, a co-editor of The '' Norton Anthology of Poetry'' and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University. Life Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit and Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1976 and her M.A. from Cambridge University in 1978. In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest. While at Harvard, she studied with the noted poet Elizabeth Bishop. She has been an editor at the ''Atlantic Monthly'' and at ''The New Republic''. From 1984 to 2007, she taught at Mount Holyoke College and was, from 1995 to 2007, a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America. She has two daughters, Emily and Hilary Leithauser. She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine '' The Common'', based at Amherst College. Works Books of poetry * ''Henry Purcell in Japan'', Knopf, 1985, * ''Unfinished Painting'', Knopf, 1989, , ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Amherst College
Amherst College ( ) is a Private college, private Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1821 as an attempt to relocate Williams College by its then-president Zephaniah Swift Moore, Amherst is the third oldest institution of higher education in List of colleges and universities in Massachusetts, Massachusetts. The institution was named after the town, which in turn had been named after Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst, Jeffery, Lord Amherst, Commander-in-Chief of British forces of North America during the French and Indian War. Originally established as a Men's colleges, men's college, Amherst became Mixed-sex education, coeducational in 1975. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution; 1,971 students were enrolled in fall 2021. Admissions are highly selective. Students choose courses from 42 major programs in an Curriculum#Open curriculum, open curriculum and are not required to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2004 In Poetry
This article presents lists of historical events related to the writing of poetry during 2004. The historical context of events related to the writing of poetry in 2004 are addressed in articles such as ''History of Poetry'' Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events * April 1 — Foetry.com Web site is launched for the announced purpose of "Exposing fraudulent contests. Tracking the sycophants. Naming names." Members and visitors contribute information which links judges and prize winners in various poetry contests in attempts to document whether some contests have been rigged. * February 16 — Edwin Morgan (poet), Edwin Morgan becomes Scottish poetry, Scotland's first ever official national poet, The Scots Makar, appointed by the Scottish Parliament. * Jang Jin-sung Defection, defects from North Korea. * Publication of remaining fragments of Sappho's Tithonus poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * January 29 – Poet Dana Gioia, who had retired early from his career as a corporate executive at General Foods to write full-time, becomes chair of the National Endowment for the Arts, the United States government's arts agency. * February 12 – After First Lady Laura Bush invites a number of poets to the White House for this date, one of them, Sam Hamill, starts organizing a protest in which poets would bring anti-war poems. The conference is postponed, but Hamill organizes a "Poets Against the War" Web site with contributions from others. More than 5,000 poems are contributed, including work by John Balaban, Gregory Orr, Rita Dove, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Marilyn Nelson, Jay Parini, Jamaica Kincaid, Grace Paley and U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins. Also on the Web site, W. S. Merwin contributes the statement: "T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Laughlin Award
The James Laughlin Award, formerly the Lamont Poetry Prize, is given annually for a poet's second published book; it is the only major poetry award that honors a second book. The award is given by the Academy of American Poets, and is noted as one of the major prizes awarded to younger poets in the United States. It is currently named after James Laughlin, an American poet and editor who founded New Directions Publishing, the distributor of English-translated ''Siddhartha (novel), Siddhartha''. In 1959, Harvey Shapiro referred to the award as "roughly, a Pulitzer for bardlings." Laughlin Award Winners (1996–present) This partial listing is taken from the website of the Academy of American Poets. Lamont Poetry Selections (1975–1995) Lamont Poetry Selections (1954–1974) For the first 20 years, a poet's first published volume was the annual Lamont Poetry Selection. See also *American poetry *List of literary awards *List of poetry awards *List of years in poetry *List of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1989 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * April 15–June 4 – 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing (China): Poets are active in the events (see '' Collection of June Fourth Poems''). * June 2 – ''Dead Poets Society'', a film incorporating excerpts from many traditional poets, ending with the title and opening line of Walt Whitman's lament on the death of Abraham Lincoln, "O Captain! My Captain!", is released in the United States * November 10 – ''My Left Foot'', a film about Christy Brown, the Irish poet, and based on his autobiography, is released Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Robert Adamson ''The Clean Dark'' * Les Murray, ''The Idyll Wheel'' * Philip Salom: ''Barbecue of the Primitives''. (University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work. When poet Amy Lowell died in 1925, her will established the scholarship, which is administered by the trustees at the law firm of Choate, Hall & Stewart in Boston, Massachusetts. Winners Source: * 1953–1954 E. L. Mayo * 1954–1955 Stanley Kunitz * 1955–1956 Joseph Langland * 1956–1957 William Alfred * 1957–1958 Elizabeth Bishop * 1958–1959 Kenneth Rexroth * 1959–1960 May Swenson * 1960–1961 Judson Jerome * 1961–1962 Adrienne Rich Conrad * 1962–1963 Byron Vazakas * 1963–1964 Miller Williams * 1964–1965 Robert Bly * 1965–1966 Thomas McGrath * 1966–1967 Robert Grenier * 1967–1968 Robert Francis * 1968–1969 Edwin Honig * 1969–1970 Galway Kinnell * 1970–1971 Keith Waldrop * 1971–1972 Michael Wolfe * 1972–1973 Robert Peterson * 1973– ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish poetry, Irish or French poetry, France). Events * April – National Poetry Month established by the Academy of American Poets as a way to increase awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. * Summer/Autumn – Ledbury Poetry Festival established in England. * November 11 – A memorial to John Betjeman is unveiled in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey by Mary Wilson, Baroness Wilson of Rievaulx, Lady Wilson. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australian literature, Australia * Raewyn Alexander, ''Fat'', Auckland: Penguin [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events *February 16 – It is announced that 300 poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge have been discovered. *February 17 – Sotheby's announce discovery of four Walt Whitman notebooks. *March 1 – The Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea (Wales) is opened by Jimmy Carter. *May 26 – Cannes Film Festival première of movie ''Dead Man'', written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, about a man named William Blake on a trek through the American West who is taken as the resurrected Romantic poet by a character named Nobody. Works published Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * Jennifer Harrison: ''Mosaics & Mirrors: Composite poems'' (Black Pepper) * Chris Mansell, ''Day Easy Sunlight Fine in Hot Collation'' (Penguin, Melbourne) * Chris Wallace-Crabb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Frost Place
The Frost Place is a museum and nonprofit educational center for poetry located at Robert Frost's former home on Ridge Road in Franconia, New Hampshire, United States. The property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ... in 1976. History According to local family lore, poet Robert Frost spotted this property on the west side of Franconia's Ridge Road in 1915 while looking for a home in the area. He purchased it from farmer Willis Herbert, for whom he supposedly procured an adjacent property. The house is 1½ stories in height, with a long front facade covered by a porch. The facade affords fine views of the Franconia Range and Mount Lafayette. Frost and his family lived in the house until 1920, when it was sol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1981 In Poetry
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature (for instance, Irish or France). Events * American poet Jane Greer launches ''Plains Poetry Journal'', an advance guard of the New Formalism movement. * Final issue of '' L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E'' magazine published in the United States. * First issue of '' Conjunctions'' literary journal published in the United States. * This year, "the word ' Martianism' comes into use, through the verse of Craig Raine and his associates, presenting a vision of life on Earth as seen by a visiting Martian," the ''1982 Britannica Book of the Year'' reports (p. 504). Some note that "Martianism" is an anagram for one of Raine's associates, Martin Amis. Works published in English Listed by nation where the work was first published and again by the poet's native land, if different; substantially revised works listed separately: Australia * R. Hall, editor, ''Collins Book of Australian Poetry'', anthologyPreming ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Keller
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. Born in West Tuscumbia, Alabama, she lost her sight and her hearing after a bout of illness when she was 19 months old. She then communicated primarily using home signs until the age of seven, when she met her first teacher and life-long companion Anne Sullivan. Sullivan taught Keller language, including reading and writing. After an education at both specialist and mainstream schools, Keller attended Radcliffe College of Harvard University and became the first deafblind person in the United States to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Keller was also a prolific author, writing 14 books and hundreds of speeches and essays on topics ranging from animals to Mahatma Gandhi. Keller campaigned for those with disabilities and for women's suffrage, labor rights, and world peace. In 1909, she joined the Socialist Party of America (SPA). She w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
