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Larry Patrick Levis (September 30, 1946 – May 8, 1996) was an American poet and teacher who published five books of poetry during his lifetime. [3] Two more volumes of previously unpublished poems appeared posthumously, and received general acclaim. [4] [5]
The literary movement traditionally described as the "Black Mountain Poets" centered around Charles Olson, who became a teacher at the college in 1948. Robert Creeley, who worked as a teacher and editor of the Black Mountain Review for two years, is considered to be another major figure. [2] Creeley moved to San Francisco in 1957.
Kelly has worked as a translator and teacher, most notably at Bard College, where he has worked since 1961. [2] Kelly's other teaching positions have included Wagner College (1960–61), the University at Buffalo (1964), and the Tufts University Visiting Professor of Modern Poetry (1966–67).
William Corbett (October 11, 1942 – August 10, 2018) [1] was an American poet, essayist, editor, educator, and publisher.. Corbett's work and public readings acknowledge the influence on him of jazz, modernist and imagist poetry (especially William Carlos Williams and Ezra Pound in his later work), the group of poets in Donald Allen's seminal anthology The New American Poetry 1945–1960 ...
The Academy of American Poets administers several programs: National Poetry Month; [13] the website Poets.org, which includes a curated collection of poems and essays about poetry, over 800 recordings and videos of poets dating back to the 1960s, and free materials for K-12 teachers, including lesson plans; [14] the syndicated series, Poem-a ...
Kirby was raised in "the rural south" [1] by a polyglot "medievalist college professor" father [2] with an obsessive passion for the works of Chaucer [3] and a "farm-girl" mother [4] turned elementary school teacher [3] who "taught him how to shoot her single-shot .22 and paid him ten cents for every cottonmouth moccasin he knocked off" in aid of protecting the horses and sheep [4] on their ...
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Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet. He was the primary instigator and theorist of the so-called "Objectivist" poets, a short lived collective of poets who after several decades of obscurity would reemerge around 1960 and become a significant influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.