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Jerome Mazzaro (born November 25, 1934) was an American editor and poet. Mazzaro graduated from Wayne State University with a A.B. in 1954, and with a Ph.D. in 1963, and from the University of Iowa with a M.A. in 1956. He worked as a technical writer for General Motors from 1955 to 1956.
Emanuel Carnevali (December 4, 1897 - January 11, 1942) was an Italian-American writer. His body of work includes poetry, literary criticism, autobiography, and other prose writings. His body of work includes poetry, literary criticism, autobiography, and other prose writings.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (February 22, 1892 – October 19, 1950) was an American lyrical poet and playwright. Millay was a renowned social figure and noted feminist in New York City during the Roaring Twenties and beyond.
The Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry is an annual prize, administered by the Sewanee Review and the University of the South, awarded to a writer who has had a substantial and distinguished career.
New Formalism is a late 20th- and early 21st-century movement in American poetry that has promoted a return to metrical, rhymed verse and narrative poetry on the grounds that all three are necessary if American poetry is to compete with novels and regain its former popularity among the American people.
The New Formalism is a movement originating ca. 1977 in American poetry that promotes a return to metrical and rhymed verse. [ 101 ] [ 102 ] Rather than looking to the Confessionalists, they look to Robert Frost , Richard Wilbur , James Merrill , Anthony Hecht , and Donald Justice for poetic influence.
Since the 1990s he has increasingly focused on issues in higher education. In the words of Alan Wald, "With the appearance of Manifesto of a Tenured Radical in 1997. Nelson became an example of the committed scholar who conceived of the advance of his own career in the context of the amelioration of the rank-and-file of the academic community; more specifically, graduate students, part-time ...
Louise Bogan (August 11, 1897 – February 4, 1970) was an American poet. [1] She was appointed the fourth Poet Laureate to the Library of Congress in 1945, and was the first woman to hold this title. [2] Throughout her life she wrote poetry, fiction, and criticism, and became the regular poetry reviewer for The New Yorker. [1]