Poets Timeline
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Bio Dewey, Anne Day. "Denise Levertov". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 165: American Poets Since World War II, Fourth Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Joseph Conte, State University of New York at Buffalo. Gale Research, 1996. pp. 147-164. Levertov, Denise.…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets One Train May Hide Another Talking to Patrizia The Study of Happiness and The Poetry Foundation A Momentary Longing To Hear Sad Advice from One Long Dead Bel Canto Down at the Docks Fresh Air From Seine From The Duplications Gigue In…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement New York PoetsLiterary Period Modern
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Bio Sheldon Zitner taught English literature at the Hampton Institute in Virginia, Grinnell College in Iowa, and the University of Toronto (1969-ca. 1990). Beaumont, Francis. The Knight of the Burning Pestle.. Ed. Sheldon P. Zitner. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984. Shakespeare…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Phyllis Gotlieb, born in Toronto on May 25, 1926, to parents who owned a movie theatre, received her B.A. (1948) and M.A. (1950) from the University of Toronto. She published five volumes of poetry from 1964 to 2002, one of them nominated for a Governor General's Award. In 1964 she…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio Derek Walcott's works are in copyright. Permission to reproduce them must be obtained from his publishers. For a brief biography of the poet, see the Nobel Foundation Web site. Walcott, Derek. 25 Poems. Port-of-Spain, Trinidad: Guardian Commercial Printery, 1948. --.Epitaph…Nationality West IndiesLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio McClaurin-Allen, Irma. "Audre Lorde". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 41: Afro-American Poets Since 1955. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Trudier Harris, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Thadious M. Davis, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets The End Orpheus Alone The Idea the Poetry Archive Eating Poetry From the Long Sad Party Man and Camel My Mother on an Evening in Late Summer The Coming of Light and The Poetry Foundation…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Carol's Shield's works include Poetry Others. Ottawa: Borealis, 1972. Intersect. Ottawa: Borealis, 1974. Coming to Canada. Ed. Christopher Levenson. Ottawa: Carleton University Press, 1992. Novels Small Ceremonies. McGraw-Hill Ryerson, 1976. The Box Garden.…Nationality Canadian and AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio McDowell, Margaret. "Jon Stallworthy". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 40: Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Since 1960. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Vincent B. Sherry Jr., Villanova University. The Gale Group, 1985. pp. 547-557. Stallworthy, Jon. The…Nationality EnglishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Edward Dickinson Blodgett, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Alberta, and a member of the Royal Society of Canada, has authored seventeen books of poetry. His Apostrophes: Woman at a Piano (1996) won the Governor- General's Award for English language poetry.…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Marge Piercy was born March 31, 1936, in Detroit, of mother Bert Bunnin Piercy and father Robert Douglas Piercy. She was brought up Jewish by her mother and grandmother. In Early Grrrl, Marge Piercy says, "I started writing poetry regularly and seriously when I was fifteen and my family…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Colombo, John Robert. Abracadabra. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967. --. The Sad Truths: New Poems. Toronto: Peter Martin Associates, 1974. --. Selected Translations. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1982. --. Selected Poems. Windsor, ON: Black Moss Press, 1982. --.…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Governor General Lord Tweedsmuir of Elsfield (John Buchan, author of The Thirty-Nine Steps), the representative of the British monarch in Canada, established the annual Governor General's Literary Awards in 1936 for the best books of the year. These are the most prestigious such awards…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets and The Poetry Foundation Apparitions Are Not Singular Occurrences Belly Dancer Blue Monday Dancing on the Grave of a Son of a Bitch Inside Out Picture of a Girl Drawn in Black and White Smudging Tearing Up…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern -
Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets Birdcall Demeter to Persephone Exile Insomnia psalm and The Poetry Foundation A Clearing by a Stream A Young Woman, A Tree After the Shipwreck Anxiety About Dying April Boil Contest…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement PostmodernismLiterary Period Unknown -
Bio For a biography, see the Nobel site at http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1995/heaney-bio.html. Heaney, Seamus. Eleven Poems. 1965. --. Death of a Naturalist. 1966. --. Door into the Dark. 1969. --. Wintering Out. 1972. --. North. 1975. --. Field…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Gillespie, Alyssa Dinega. "Joseph Brodsky (1940-1996)". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 285: Russian Writers Since 1980. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Marina Balina and Mark Lipovetsky. Gale Group, 2004. pp. 17-39. Brodsky, Joseph. Elegy for John Donne and…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Simon J. Ortiz, poet, writer, storyteller, and Doctor of Letters, is author of over a dozen books, including Out There Somewhere, Men on the Moon, After and Before the Lightning, and Woven Stone. He is also the editor of numerous collections, including Speaking for the Generations:…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Unknown
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Bio For one poem by Bob Dylan, see The Poetry Foundation The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll Wenke, Joseph. "Bob Dylan". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 16: The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by Ann…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern
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Bio Grace, Sherrill. "Gwendolyn MacEwen". Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 53: Canadian Writers Since 1960, First Series. A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Edited by W. H. New. The Gale Group, 1986. 279-82. MacEwen, Gwendolyn. Selah. Toronto, Ontario: Aleph, 1961. PR6063 .A2 S4 E…Nationality CanadianLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Postmodern -
Bio Rosemarie Rowley was born in Dublin in 1942. After a spell working in the Agricultural Institute in Dublin, which she left for ecological reasons, she went to England to work for the BBC and as a schoolteacher in Birmingham. She attended Trinity College, Dublin, for her first degree in…Nationality IrishLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
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Bio For more poems, see the Academy of America Poets Against Elegies Cleis Coda For K. J., Leaving and Coming Back Iva's Pantoum Morning News Nearly a Valediction You did say, need me less and I'll want you more the Poetry Archive Crepuscule for…Nationality AmericanLiterary Movement UnknownLiterary Period Modern
