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She was raised in California and is the oldest of three children. Her parents were migrant field workers who lived in a farm labor camp, California Packing Company Camp #15, when she was born. She graduated from Merced High School in 1968 and attended Fresno State College for one year before leaving college to work and care for her son.
Bors is a muralist, painter and photographer based in Portero Hill, San Francisco, California. Bors has created murals with Precita eyes muralists and has collaborated with artists Luis and Susan Cervantes and Tony Parrinello.
Cathy Park Hong is an American poet, writer, and professor who has published three volumes of poetry. Much of her work includes mixed language [1] and serialized narrative. . She was named on the 2021 Time 100 list for her writings and advocacy for Asian American wo
California Poetry: From the Gold Rush to the Present (California Legacy) (editor, with Chryss Yost and Jack Hicks) (2003) The Misread City: New Literary Los Angeles (editor, with Scott Timberg) (2003) Twentieth-Century American Poetry (editor, with David Mason and Meg Schoerke) (2004) "The Art of the Short Story" (editor, with R. S. Gwynn) (2006)
The Poetry Out Loud Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation. The contest seeks to promote the art of performing poetry, by awarding cash prizes to participating schools.
The poet was one of seven featured writers to give a reading at the American Literature Association Conference held in San Francisco in May 2012. Ciento: 100 100 Word Love Poems was nominated for a Northern California Book Award in 2012 under the poetry category. [11]
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Robert L. Hass (born March 1, 1941) is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. [2] He won the 2007 National Book Award [3] and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry [4] for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. [5]