Rae Armantrout
(USA, 1947)
Rae Armantrout, one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets, …
Amy Beeder
(USA, 1965)
A former human rights observer in Haiti and Suriname, and a high school teacher in West …
Umar Bin Hassan
(USA, 1948)
Umar Bin Hassan was born in Akron, Ohio, into a poor black worker’s family. Already as …
Marianne Boruch
(USA, 1950)
In an interview with Brooke Horvath for Denver Quarterly, Marianne Boruch noted, …
Ann Cotten
(USA, 1982)
Born in Iowa in 1982, Ann Cotten moved to Vienna with her parents at the age of five. …
Averill Curdy
(United States, 1961)
A lyric poet influenced by Donne, Hopkins, Merrill, and Auden, Averill Curdy notes, …
W.S. Di Piero
(USA, 1945)
Poet, critic and essayist W.S. Di Piero spent the first 21 years of his life in South …
Stephen Dunn
(USA, 1939)
Stephen Dunn’s unadorned language lends itself to poems of calm observation and …
Claudia Emerson
(USA, 1957)
Born and raised in Chatham, Virginia, Claudia Emerson studied writing at the University …
Jill Alexander Essbaum
(USA, 1971)
Born in Bay City, Texas, poet and editor Jill Alexander Essbaum was educated at the …
Linda Gregerson
(USA, 1950)
Linda Gregerson is the author of several collections of poetry and literary criticism. …
Eliza Griswold
(USA, 1973)
Eliza Griswold is a poet and reporter whose work has appeared in the New Yorker, the …
Robert Hass
(USA, 1941)
Born in San Francisco in 1941, Robert Hass is a poet of the personal and of the …
Christian Hawkey
(USA, 1969)
Christian Hawkey, a poet and translator of German poetry, was born in Hackensack, New …
Bob Hicok
(USA, 1960)
Bob Hicok’s poems are humorous, but while the reader might chuckle at the speaker’s …
Jane Hirshfield
(USA, 1953)
Frequently short and spare, Jane Hirshfield’s poems highlight the smallest details, …
Tony Hoagland
(United States, 1953)
Tony Hoagland was born in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and attended Williams College, …
Katia Kapovich
(Moldova, 1960)
Katia Kapovich (1960) is a bilingual Russian poet. Born in Chişinău, the …
Mary Karr
(United States, 1955)
Poet and memoirist Mary Karr was born in 1955 and raised in Texas. The author of …
Laura Kasischke
(USA, 1961)
Poet and novelist Laura Kasischke was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and teaches in the …
John Koethe
(USA, 1945)
The author of several collections of poetry, including North Point North: New and …
Yusef Komunyakaa
(USA, 1947)
Born in Bogalusa, Louisiana in 1947, Yusef Komunyakaa grew up during the Civil Rights …
Hailey Leithauser
(USA, 1954)
Poet Hailey Leithauser was born in Baltimore and raised in Maryland and Central …
Dana Levin
(USA, 1965)
Dana Levin grew up in California’s Mojave Desert and earned a BA from Pitzer …
Sarah Lindsay
(USA, 1958)
The Greek word ‘historia’ means “a learning or knowing by inquiry, history, record, …
Thomas Lynch
(USA, 1948)
Thomas Lynch is the author of a collection of essays, The Undertaking - Life Studies …
Randall Mann
(USA, 1972)
Randall Mann’s poems are often set within the landscape of Florida or California. …
Campbell McGrath
(USA, 1962)
Born in Chicago to Irish-Catholic parents, McGrath earned his BA from the University of …
Heather McHugh
(USA, 1948)
Heather McHugh’s work is noted for its rhetorical gestures, sharp puns and interest in …
Joshua Mehigan
(United States, 1969)
Joshua Mehigan grew up in upstate New York and received a BA from Purchase College and …
Ange Mlinko
(USA, 1969)
Ange Mlinko is the author of two books, Matinées (Zoland Books, 1999) and Starred Wire …
Michael Palmer
(USA, 1943)
Michael Palmer was born in New York City and educated at Harvard University, where he …
Robert Pinsky
(USA, 1940)
Robert Pinsky was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. He teaches in a graduate writing …
D.A. Powell
(USA, 1963)
Poet Carl Phillips observed on awarding Powell the fourth annual Boston Review Poetry …
Atsuro Riley
(USA, 1960)
Atsuro Riley grew up in South Carolina and lives in California. His heavily stressed, …
Kay Ryan
(USA, 1954)
Many of Ryan’s poems follow a similar formula: the lines are short, there are few of …
Ron Silliman
(USA, 1946)
Ron Silliman (1946, Pasco, Washington) is a poet, critic, essayist, blogger and market …
Tom Sleigh
(USA, 1953)
Tom Sleigh is the author of more than half a dozen volumes of poetry. Space Walk (2007) …
Patricia Smith
(USA, 1955)
Patricia Smith began her career in the Chicago of the late 1980s: the cradle of poetry …
A.E. Stallings
(USA, 1968)
A.E. (Alicia) Stallings studied classics in Athens, Georgia and has lived since 1999 in …
Mark Strand
(USA, 1934)
Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, and raised and educated in the …
Arthur Sze
(USA, 1950)
Arthur Sze was born in New York in 1950. He studied at the University of California in …
Truong Tran
(Vietnam, 1969)
Truong Tran, a poet and visual artist, was born in Saigon in 1969. He is the author of …
Brian Turner
(USA, 1967)
Brian Turner was born in Visalia in California. He gained his MA in poetry writing from …
Wendy Videlock
(USA, 1961)
Wendy Videlock’s poems seem to grow from the same plot as myths, fables and morals. Her …
C.K. Williams
(USA, 1936)
Poet and translator C.K. Williams was born in New Jersey in 1936 and was educated at …
Eleanor Wilner
(USA, 1937)
Eleanor Wilner was born in 1937 in Ohio. She earned a BA from Goucher College and a PhD …
Franz Wright
(USA, 1953)
Ceaseless blue lightning, thislove passing through me:I know somehow it will go …
Dean Young
(USA, 1955)
Strongly influenced by the New York School poets, and Surrealists such as André Breton, …
 

 
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