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Since that time, Canan has authored many books of poetry, translations, anthologies, essays and stories. In 1989, her anthology, She Rises like the Sun: Invocations of the Goddess by Contemporary American Women Poets , illustrated by Mayumi Oda , considered "one of the best books from the women's spirituality movement" by Booklist and widely ...
The following is a list of Radio Disney Music Award winners and nominees for Best Female Artist. Hilary Duff is the most awarded artist in this category with 4 wins. Winners and nominees
Douglas was born in the United Kingdom to Jamaican parents. Her family returned to Jamaica when Douglas was six, and she grew up in Kingston.. Douglas received an MFA in creative writing from Ohio State University and a Ph.D. in English from Binghamton University, where she studied African American/Caribbean literature and creative writing (fiction and poetry).
She wrote in various media. Her first book of poetry, Riddym Ravings, was published in 1988 by the Race Today Collective, [7] with the title poem, also known as "The Mad Woman's Poem", being described by Linton Kwesi Johnson as "a classic in contemporary Caribbean poetry" [13] and featuring in Margaret Busby's 1992 anthology Daughters of Africa ...
Jeni Couzyn (born 1942), Canadian poet and anthologist of South African extraction; Rosemary Daniell (born 1935), American poet and author, known as a second-wave feminist and for writing about the deep south; H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886–1961), American poet, novelist and memoirist known for Imagist poetry; Diane Di Prima (1934–2020 ...
Marilyn Chin (陈美玲) is a prominent Chinese American [1] poet, writer, activist, [2] and feminist, [3] [4] as well as an editor and Professor of English. She is well-represented in major canonical anthologies and textbooks and her work is taught all over the world.
Julie Kane (born July 20, 1952 in Boston) is a contemporary American poet, scholar, and editor and was the Louisiana Poet Laureate for the 2011–2013 term. [1] [2]Although born in Massachusetts, Kane has lived in Louisiana for over three decades and writes about the region with the doubled consciousness of a non-native.
Burt received significant attention for coining the term "elliptical poetry" in a 1998 book review of Susan Wheeler's book Smokes in Boston Review magazine: Elliptical poets try to manifest a person—who speaks the poem and reflects the poet—while using all the verbal gizmos developed over the last few decades to undermine the coherence of speaking selves.