Naomi Shihab Nye

Naomi Shihab Nye was born on March 12, 1952, in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Jordan, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas, where she later received her B.A. in English and world religions from Trinity University. Nye is the author of numerous books of poems, including You and Yours (BOA Editions, 2005), which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award, as well as 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East (2002), a collection of new and selected poems about the Middle East, Fuel (1998), Red Suitcase (1994), and Hugging the Jukebox (1982). Nye gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. About her work, the poet William Stafford has said, \"her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and...

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Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979), was an American poet and writer from Worcester, Massachusetts. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956. Elizabeth Bishop was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. After her father died when she was eight months old, Bishop’s mother descended into mental illness and was institutionalized in 1916. Although Bishop’s mother would live until 1934 in an asylum, they would not meet again. Effectively orphaned, Bishop lived with her grandparents in Nova Scotia, a period she would later idealize in her writing. Bishop boarded at the Walnut Hill School in Natick, Massachusetts, where her first poems were published by her friend Frani Blough in a student magazine. She entered Vassar College in the fall of 1929, shortly before the stock market crash. In 1933 she co-founded Con Spirito, a rebel literary magazine at Vassar, with writer Mary McCarthy (one year her senior), Margaret...

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American Beauty

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Raymond Carver

The American short story writer and poet Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, on May 25, 1938, and lived in Port Angeles, Washington during his last ten, sober years until his death from cancer on August 2, 1988. He was a Guggenheim Fellow in 1979 and was twice awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1983 Carver received the prestigious Mildred and Harold Strauss Living Award which gave him $35,000 per year tax free and required that he give up any employment other than writing, and in 1985 Poetry magazine\'s Levinson Prize. In 1988 he was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and was awarded an honorary Doctorate of Letters from the University of Hartford. He received a Brandeis Citation for fiction in 1988. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages. At least that\'s the basic biography. Of course there\'s no room in it for the nature of the hardship he and his family went through during most of those fifty...

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Sinclair Lewis

-primul american care a luat Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură -1885 - s-a născut Sinclair Lewis în Sauk Centre, Minnesota -părinții: Dr. Edwin J. Lewis și Emma Kermott Lewis -1891- mama sa moare -1892- tatăl se căsătorește cu Isabel Warner -1912 ,,Hike and Aeroplane” e publicat sub pseudonimul ,,Tom Graham” -1922 ,,Babbitt” -1926 – răsplătit cu premiul Pulitzer penru ,, Main Street” și ,,Babbitt”, pe care îl refuză; în acest an moare tatăl său -1927 ,,Elmer Gantry” -1929 ,,Dodsworth” -1930 – se naște fiul său, Michael. Obține Premiul Nobel pentru Literatură -1945 ,,Cass Timberlane” 1947 ,,Kingsblood Royal 1949 ,,The God-Seeker” -moare în 1951 la Roma.

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James Laughlin

Poet american și publicist, James Laughlin s-a născut in 1914 în Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Personalitatea sa poetică s-a dezvoltat sub influența lui Ezra Pound și a lui William Carlos Williams. James Laughlin a publicat primele poezii în culegeri la editura pe care a fondat-o, "New Directions". Dintre operele sale, cităm: In Another Country (1979) Selected Poems (1986) The House of Light (1986) Tabellae" (1986) The Owl of Minerva (1987) Collemata and Pound As Wuz (1988) Collected Poems of James Laughlin (1992) Angelica" (1992) The Man in the Wall (1993) The Country Road (1995) The Secret Room (1997) A Commonplace Book of Pentastichs (1998) Byways: A Memoir (2005) The Way It Wasn't: From the Files of James Laughlin (2006). În 1992 a câștigat premiul "Distinguished Contribution to American Letters". Poet protestatar, stăpânit de dorința de a transforma lumea, James Laughlin a fost un solitar, trăind izolat la Connecticut. Lirica sa respiră o puternică sinceritate, curaj și fervoare,...

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Alice Walker

Alice Walker is an American novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist, and activist. Her most famous novel, The Color Purple, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1983. Alice Walker\'s creative vision is rooted in the economic hardship, racial terrorism, and folk wisdom of African American life and culture, particularly in the rural South. Her writing explores multidimensional kinships among women, among men and women, among humans and animals and embraces the redemptive power of social, spiritual and political revolution.

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Anthony McCann

Anthony McCann is an American poet. He is the author of two collections of poetry, including Father of Noise, and Moongarden. He is also the author of Gentle Reader!, a book of erasures of the English Romantics, written with fellow poets Joshua Beckman and Matthew Rohrer. He currently resides in Los Angeles where he teaches poetry at California Institute of the Arts and University of Southern California. He is also the acting Poet Laureate of Machine Project.

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Elizabeth Bishop

Elizabeth Bishop was an American poet and short-story writer. She was the Poet Laureate of the United States from 1949 to 1950, a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1956 and a National Book Award Winner for Poetry in 1970. Elizabeth Bishop House is an artists' retreat in Great Village, Nova Scotia dedicated to her memory. She is considered one of the most important and distinguished American poets of the 20th century.

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Hal Sirowitz

Hal Sirowitz (born 1949) is an American poet. Sirowitz first began to attract attention at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe where he was a frequent competitor in their Friday Night Poetry Slam. He eventually made the 1993 Nuyorican Poetry Slam team, and competed in the 1993 National Poetry Slam (held that year in San Francisco) along with his Nuyorican teammates Maggie Estep, Tracie Morris and Regie Cabico. Sirowitz would later perform his poetry on stages across the country, and on television programs such as MTV's Spoken Word: Unplugged and PBS's The United States of Poetry. He has written six books on poetry and is arguably best known for the volumes Mother Said, My Therapist Said and Father Said. Sirowitz is a 1994 recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Poetry and is the former Poet Laureate of Queens, New York. He worked as a special education teacher in the New York public school system for 23 years. He is married to the writer Mary Minter Krotzer. Sirowitz is the best-selling translated...

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