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Contemporary Michigan poetry: poems from the third coast. Photographer Michael Delp. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-1924-6. Michael Delp; Conrad Hilberry; Josie Kearns, eds. (2000). "I Am Wearing Your Shirt". New poems from the third coast: contemporary Michigan poetry. Wayne State University Press. ISBN 978-0-8143-2797-5.
John Alexander Sinclair Jr. was born in Flint, Michigan, on October 2, 1941, [6] [7] and grew up in Davison. [3] [8] He was a member of the Class of 1960 at Albion College in Albion, Michigan, but he dropped out after his first year. [9] Sinclair subsequently attended the Flint College of the University of Michigan, now the University of ...
Bernard Keith Waldrop [1] was born in Emporia, Kansas, to Arthur Waldrop, a railroad worker, and Opal (née Mohler), a piano teacher.He received his bachelor's degree from the Kansas State Teachers College (now Emporia State University) and his M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Michigan (1958, 1964).
Frank O’Hara (MA 1951); author of A City Winter and Other Poems, Oranges: 12 Pastorals, Second Avenue, Odes, Lunch Poems, Love Poems Patrick O'Keeffe (MFA), winner of the Hopwood Program 's Chamberlain Award for Creative Writing for Above the Bar ; instructor in U-M's Sweetland Writing Center; won the 2006 Story Prize for The Hill Road ; won ...
Richard Tillinghast is a native of Memphis, Tennessee, a graduate of Sewanee (BA, 1962) and Harvard (MA, 1963; PhD, 1970).He has taught at Harvard as a Briggs-Copeland Lecturer, at the University of California at Berkeley, in the college program at San Quentin Prison, at Sewanee, The Poets' House in Ireland, The University of Michigan, and the low-residency MFA program at Converse College.
Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit. He taught for more than thirty years in the English department of California State University, Fresno and held teaching positions at other universities as well.
For a Limited Time Only, University of Pittsburgh, 2008, ISBN 9780822959960; Now You See it: Poems. UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-893311-57-2. Long for this world: new and selected poems, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2003, ISBN 9780822958147; Uses of Adversity, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1998, ISBN 9780822938682
Graduating from Michigan in 1942, Brinnin went to Harvard University for graduate work. From 1949 to 1956, Brinnin was Director of the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association Poetry Center, popularly known today as the 92nd Street Y. While he was there, he raised the center to national attention as a focal point for poetry in the ...