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Stephen Toussaint (born 22 March 1965) is a British actor and writer. He first gained prominence through his role in the ITV crime drama The Knock (1994–2000). Currently, he plays Lord Corlys Velaryon in the HBO fantasy series House of the Dragon .
Catton met Chicago-born poet Steven Toussaint at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and Toussaint moved to New Zealand in 2011 to begin a PhD in US avant-garde poetry at Victoria University of Wellington. [ 6 ] [ 38 ] The couple later lived in Mount Eden with their two cats (Laura Palmer and Isis) while Catton taught creative writing part-time at the ...
Lee Mallory (poet) Judy Malloy; Tom Mandel (poet) Edwin Markham; Clive Matson; Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel; John S. McGroarty; Rachel McKibbens; Jane Mead; Robert Mezey; Jace Miller; May Merrill Miller; Deborah A. Miranda; Janice Mirikitani; K. Silem Mohammad; Rusty Morrison; Leila Mottley; List of municipal poets laureate in California; Carol ...
City Lights was the inspiration of Peter D. Martin, who relocated from New York City to San Francisco in the 1940s to teach sociology.He first used City Lights, in homage to the Chaplin film, in 1952 as the title of a magazine, publishing early work by such key Bay Area writers as Philip Lamantia, Pauline Kael, Jack Spicer, Robert Duncan, and Ferlinghetti himself, as "Lawrence Ferling".
Steve Richmond (1941 − October 21, 2009) was an American poet from Southern California whose notoriety comes primarily from his association with the mid-career of poet Charles Bukowski in the 1960s. [1] He is also associated with the "Meat School" of American poetry, [2] known for a direct, tough and masculine style of writing. [3]
His poetry workshops in public schools were acclaimed for "making writing fun." [10] Writing in the San Francisco Examiner, Sheila Farr wrote of Kowit's poetry: An easy charmer in his book The Dumbbell Nebula, Steve Kowit backs up the bantering narratives of a coffeehouse poet with drop-dead images and subtle control ... Kowit's work grows out ...
His poetry has won numerous accolades, including a Lamont Poetry Selection (Concurring Beasts), a National Poetry Series selection (Black Dog, Red Dog), and a Melville Cane Award (Cemetery Nights). His novel Cold Dog Soup (1985) has been made into two films, the American Cold Dog Soup and the French Doggy Bag .
Stephen Elliot Dunn (June 24, 1939 – June 24, 2021) was an American poet and educator who authored twenty-one collections of poetry. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for his 2000 collection, Different Hours, and received an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters .