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| Title | Other | Type of Content | School of Poetry |
| Number/Poets | 93 | Number/Members | 1 |
| Originally Posted | 17 Apr 2013 | Number/Content | 93 |
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| Creator | Modern American... | Tags | No Data |
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A. R. Ammons
Born in a farmhouse near Whiteville, North Carolina, the son of a tobacco farmer, Archie Randolph Ammons served on a Navy destroyer escort in World War II.
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Adrian C. Louis
Born and raised in Nevada, Louis is an enrolled member of the Lovelock Paiute Indian tribe. He was educated at Brown University, where he also went on to receive an M.A. in creative writing.
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Race/Ethnicity: Native
Gender:
Male
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Albert Goldbarth
Albert Goldbarth was born in Chicago and educated at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at the University of Iowa.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Alberto Rios
Alberto Alvaro Ríos was born in the city of Nogales, Arizona, on the Mexican border. His mother was British and his father Mexican.
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Race/Ethnicity: Latino/a
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Male
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Ana Castillo
Ana Castillo was born and grew up in Chicago of Aztec and Mexican ancestry. She was educated at Northern Illinois University and the University of Chicago, thereafter earning a Ph.D.
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Race/Ethnicity: Latino/a, Native
Gender:
Female
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Andrew Hudgins
Andrew Hudgins was born in Killeen, Texas, as part of a military family. That entailed relocating through the South repeatedly while he was growing up.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Anita Endrezze
Anita Endrezze was born in Long Beach, California, of Yaqui and European ancestry.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: European, Native
Gender:
Female
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Anthony Hecht
Born in New York City and educated at Bard College and Columbia, Hecht served in Europe and Japan in the U.S. army.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Audre Lorde
Lorde was born and raised in New York City as the child of West Indian immigrants. She was educated at Hunter College, also spending a year at the National University of Mexico.
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Race/Ethnicity: African
Gender:
Female
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C. D. Wright
Born and raised in the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, C(arolyn) D. Wright is the daughter of a judge and a court reporter.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Carolyn Forché
Carolyn Forché was born in Detroit; her father was a tool and die maker, while her mother was a journalist.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Charles Henri Ford
Born in Brookhaven, Mississippi, Charles Henri Ford was first known as the editor of Blues: A Magazine of Verse (1929-30), after which he lived in Paris for several years.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Charles Wright
Born in 1935 in Pickwick Dam, Tennessee, educated at Davidson College, the University of Iowa's Writer's Workshop, and the University of Rome, Charles Wright is currently a professor in the Writing
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Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Male
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Claudia Rankine
Claudia Rankine was born in Kingston, Jamaica and raised in Jamaica and New York City. She was educated at Williams College and Columbia University.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: African
Gender:
Female
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Denise Levertov
Born in Ilford, Essex, in England, Levertov was educated at home until she went briefly to ballet school and then trained to work as a nurse in London during World War II.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Derek Walcott
Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: African
Gender:
Male
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Donald Justice
Donald Justice was born in Miami and educated at Miami University, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Iowa.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: Western European
Gender:
Male
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Dorothy Parker
Born Dorothy Rothschild and raised in New York City, Parker worked early on for a number of magazines, including Vogue and Vanity Fair.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: European
Gender:
Female
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Dudley Randall
Dudley Randall was born in Washington, D.C., but moved to Detroit in 1920.
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Other
Race/Ethnicity: African
Gender:
Male
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