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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 December 2024. American poet and writer Gary Soto Soto at the 2001 National Book Festival Born Gary Anthony Soto (1952-04-12) April 12, 1952 (age 72) Fresno, California Occupation Author, poet Education MFA Alma mater UC Irvine, CSU Fresno Period 1977-present Genre poetry, novels, memoirs, children's ...
Living up the Street is a book written by Gary Soto. It was published in 1985. The book is a collection of short stories, recollections of growing up Chicano in Fresno, California. It won a Before Columbus Foundation's American Book Award in 1985.
Allan Ahlberg is an English writer known for several best-selling children's books, both full of poetry and children's literature, illustrated by his wife Janet. [32] Andy Tooze (born 1963 or 1964), is an English Childrens Poet and former Primary School teacher. [33]
Gary Sieber has been part of our television lives for 40 or so years at WNDU-TV. He did a lot of things there, including reporter, news director, managing editor, and a professor when teaching ...
Button Poetry was founded in 2011 by Sam Van Cook to promote performance poetry through video and social media. [2] [3] As of 2018 they had over 774,000 YouTube subscribers and over 1.2M Facebook followers. [4] In 2013 they began publishing books. [4]
Gary Snyder (born May 8, 1930) is an American poet, essayist, lecturer, and environmental activist. His early poetry has been associated with the Beat Generation and the San Francisco Renaissance and he has been described as the "poet laureate of Deep Ecology". [2] Snyder is a winner of a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry and the American Book Award.
Gary Jackson is an American educator and poet. He had received a Cave Canem and Bread Loaf fellowship and was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize in 2009. [ 1 ]
Ferlinghetti was born on March 24, 1919, in Yonkers, New York. [5] Shortly before his birth, his father, Carlo, a native of Brescia, died of a heart attack; [2] and his mother, Clemence Albertine (née Mendes-Monsanto), of Portuguese Sephardic Jewish descent, was committed to a mental hospital shortly after.