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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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Edwin Arlington Robinson
Although much of Robinson's work was done before American modernism's heyday, in several respects his poetry heralds elements of what was to come.
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Emily Dickinson
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, to a well-known family—her father was a lawyer—Emily Dickinson was educated at Amherst Academy and enrolled in what was then Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, but retur
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight was born in Corinth, Mississippi. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and joined the Army in 1947.
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Race/Ethnicity: African
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Galway Kinnell
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Galway Kinnell was educated at Princeton and the University of Rochester. He served in the U.S.
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Garrett Hongo
Born in Volcano, Hawaii, of Japanese-American parents, Hongo grew up on the North Shore of Oahu and later in California. His father was an electrician and his mother a personnel analyst.
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Race/Ethnicity: Japanese
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Gary Snyder
Born in San Francisco and raised on a farm north of Seattle, Gary Snyder was educated at Reed College, where he studied literature, Buddhist philosophy, and Native American mythology.
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Henry Dumas
Henry Dumas was born in Sweet Home, Arkansas, where he spent the first ten years of his life. It was long enough to absorb gospel music and the folk traditions of the South.
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Race/Ethnicity: African
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Ishmael Reed
A versatile, unpredictable, and frequently iconoclastic figure, Ishmael Reed has written ten novels, edited several anthologies, written songs and operas, and recorded some of the poetry from his b
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Race/Ethnicity: African
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James Dickey
Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, and in the surrounding area, James Dickey was first a public figure as a high school football star.
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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James Wright
Born and raised in a steelworker's family in the steel town of Martin's Ferry, Ohio, James Wright joined the army after high school; he was sent to occupied Japan.
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Janice N. Harrington
Janice N. Harrington was born in Vernon, Alabama, and grew up there and in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is a poet, a children’s book author, and a professional storyteller.
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Race/Ethnicity: African
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Female
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Jayne Cortez
Born in Fort Huachuca, Arizona, Jayne Cortez grew up in the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles, but spent most of her adult life in the New York City area.
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Race/Ethnicity: African
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Female
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Jessica Hagedorn
Born in Manilla and raised in the Philippines before coming to the U.S., Jessica Hagedorn is known as a novelist, a performance artist, a poet, and a playwright.
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Race/Ethnicity: No Data
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Jimmy Baca
Born in Sante Fe, New Mexico, of Chicano and Apache Indian descent, but abandoned at age two, Jimmy Baca lived part of the time with a grandparent.
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Race/Ethnicity: Latino/a, Native
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Male
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John Beecher
John Beecher was born in New York, the great-great-nephew of Abolitionists Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher; it was a heritage his life would honor.
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Male
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John Crowe Ransom
Born in Pulaski, Tennessee, John Crowe Ransom was educated at Vanderbilt University and Christ Church College at Oxford University in England.
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Judy Grahn
Born and raised in Chicago until her parents, a cook and a photographer's assistant, moved to New Mexico, Judy Grahn graduated from San Francisco State University and remained in the Bay Area there
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Female
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Kathleen Fraser
Kathleen Fraser grew up in Oklahoma, Colorado, and California, graduating from Occidental College, then working in New York as an editorial assistant for Mademoiselle for a time before tak
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Race/Ethnicity: European
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Lawson Fusao Inada
Born in Fresno, California, Lawson Inada as a child spent World War II in a concentration camp with his family.
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Race/Ethnicity: Japanese
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Male
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