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An annual poetry contest, the Pat Schneider Poetry Contest, was established in her honor by Amherst Writers and Artists in 2011. [5] Schneider had four children, all of them published authors: Rebecca Schneider, Laurel Schneider , Paul Schneider and Bethany Schneider. [ 6 ]
The Writer's Almanac is a daily podcast and newsletter of poetry and historical interest pieces, usually of literary significance. Begun as a radio program in 1993, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] it is hosted by Garrison Keillor and was produced and distributed by American Public Media through November 2017.
Baron Wormser was born in Baltimore on February 15, 1948. He earned his BA from Johns Hopkins University, and later completed graduate studies at the University of California-Irvine and University of Maine. [2]
Phillips' 2015 poetry collection, Elegy for a Broken Machine (Alfred A. Knopf), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry.His poems have appeared in many magazines, including Poetry, Ploughshares, [4] The American Poetry Review, [5] Harvard Review, [6] DoubleTake, New England Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, [7] and have been featured on Garrison Keillor's show The Writer's ...
Several of his poems, including "One of the Locals", were read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac. [4] A chapter dedicated to Starck's poetry, “Clemens Starck: ‘poems in my head, a hammer in my hand,” is within Durable Goods: Appreciations of Oregon Poets, [5] written by Erik Muller and published by Mountains & Rivers Press in 2017.
Priscilla Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-born naturalised American poet. [3] She was heavily influenced by the Black Mountain poets and by the political context of the Vietnam War, which she explored in her poetry book The Freeing of the Dust.
The conversations were held in 2008 at New York's 92nd Street Y [10] and The Winter Park Institute, [11] in 2013 at the Chautauqua Institution, [12] and in 2013 at Emory University as part of the Richard Ellman Lectures in Modern Literature, where Simon was the 2013 Richard Ellman Lecturer.
Sharon Olds (born November 19, 1942) is an American poet. Olds won the first San Francisco Poetry Center Award in 1980, [1] the 1984 National Book Critics Circle Award, [2] and the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. [3]