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She is the co-creator (with Sylvia Vardell) of The Poetry Friday Anthology series and the Poetry Friday Power Book series, published by Pomelo Books. Her most recent book is HOP TO IT: Poems to Get You Moving , an anthology of 100 poems by 90 poets that focuses on the topics of movement, the pandemic, and social justice.
Ron Padgett (born June 17, 1942) is an American poet, essayist, fiction writer, translator, and a member of the New York School. Great Balls of Fire, Padgett's first full-length collection of poems, was published in 1969. He won a 2009 Shelley Memorial Award. [1] In 2018, he won the Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America. [2]
Jay Parini (born April 2, 1948) is an American writer and academic. He is known for novels, poetry, biography, screenplays and criticism. He has published novels about Leo Tolstoy, Walter Benjamin, Paul the Apostle, Herman Melville, and a novelized memoir about his road trip with Jorge Luis Borges.
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator. She served as the 22nd Poet Laureate of the United States from 2017 to 2019. [1] She has published five collections of poetry, winning the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her 2011 collection Life on Mars.
2.2 Fiction. 2.3 Screenplays. 2.4 ... (born 1956 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American poet and writer. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, the writer Kristin ...
Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet and writer of fiction, plays and screenplays based in New York; she was known for her caustic wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.
Jeffery Renard Allen (born 1962) is an American poet, essayist, short story writer and novelist. [1] He is the author of two collections of poetry, Harbors and Spirits (Moyer Bell, 1999) and Stellar Places (Moyer Bell, 2007), and four works of fiction, the novel Rails Under My Back (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000), the story collection Holding Pattern (Graywolf Press, 2008) a second novel ...
John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. [1] At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University , having previously taught at Connecticut College , Hunter College , and the Graduate Center, CUNY .