Her interests include American poetry, American Literature-1900, Religion and Literature, and Jewish literature.
James L. McMichael (born 1939) is an award-winning American poet.
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July 15 – Clement Moore (died 1863), American credited as the author of "A Visit from St. Nicholas" (more commonly known today as "Twas the Night Before Christmas")
April 1 – Thomas Dunn English (born 1819), American politician, poet, author, songwriter who was elected to the United States House of Representatives and had a feud with Edgar Allan Poe
A champion of American poetry since the 1960s, when he translated George Oppen and published John Ashbery and Louis Zukofsky, he has edited (with Emmanuel Hocquard) two anthologies of American poetry, 21+1: Poètes améicains d'aujourd'hui (1986) and 49+1: nouveaux poètes américains (1991).
Nevertheless, in tone and content, she affiliates most readily with the transcendental poets, often finding in natural details and themes the touch of the eternal or other-worldly.
The poem was included in Louis Untermeyer's anthology, Modern American Poetry, published in 1919 (see 1919 in poetry).
Born in Saint George, South Carolina, Miller published one of the first collections of modern African-American poetry, as well as four books of poetry and a memoir, Ticket to Exile about his life growing up in the Jim Crow South.
He translated the work of Lyn Hejinian, John Ashbery, Robert Creeley, Charles Olson, Michael Palmer, Eliot Weinberger, Barrett Watten and others in Russian, and served as co-editor for The Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry in Russian Translation, as well as for The Anthology of Contemporary New Zealand Poetry.
Audrey Wurdemann (January 1, 1911 – May 20, 1960 Coral Gables, Florida) was an American poet.
She edited the anthologies Old Flame: 10 Years of 32 Poems Magazine (2012) John Poch and scholar Bill Beverly and The Bloomsbury Anthology of Contemporary Jewish American Poetry (2013) with poet M.E. Silverman.
He has edited two anthologies of African-American poetry and eight works by Henry Dumas.
Mullen has taught at Cornell University, and currently teaches courses in American poetry, African American literature, and creative writing at the University of California, Los Angeles.
James William Hackett is an American poet and philosopher born in Seattle, Washington in 1929, most notable for his work with haiku in English.
Electronic Poetry Review, The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, The Virginia Quarterly, The Antioch Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1990.
Over the years, Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Alice Notley, Anne Waldman, Maureen Owen, Ed Sanders, and many other representative writers of The New American Poetry were frequent visitors to the Institute — thanks to Joe Cardarelli.
Her next Broadway appearance garnered her a second Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony Award nomination for her role in A Hand Is on the Gate, where she performed African American poetry works alongside James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, and Gloria Foster.
Burt Kimmelman (born 1947), Jewish-American poet and scholar noted for his criticism of modern American poetry.
Nadia Janice Brown (born December 17, 1973, in Queens, New York) is an American poet, writer, and author.
From 1967-9, he joined Cape as General Editor of the international series Cape Editions and as a Founding Director of the Cape-Goliard Press, specializing in contemporary American Poetry with emphasis on Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Louis Zukofsky and their peers and successors.
His best-known book, Working Classics (1990), co-edited with Peter Oresick, was the first to highlight a seldom acknowledged working-class presence within contemporary American poetry.
The Pittsburgh Book of Contemporary American Poetry is a literary anthology of American poetry commemorating the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Pitt Poetry Series (1968-1993), one of the most prominent in the United States.
However, in late 2013, Copper Canyon Press, with support from The Poetry Foundation, will publish Pinholes in the Night: Essential Poems from Latin America, an intensely focused bilingual anthology of Latin American poetry.