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Bobbie Louise Hawkins was born July 11, 1930, in Abilene, Texas. The author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose, including Fifteen Poems (Belladonna, 2012), she was a prolific member of the Beat movement. She studied at the Slade School of Fine Art of the University College London. After returning to the United States, she met Robert Creeley and the two were married for eighteen years. She was a recipient of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and taught at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado, for more than thirty years, retiring in 2010. She died on May 4, 2018, in Boulder.
Poet, editor, literary critic, and teacher Michael Benedikt was born in 1935 in New York...
The author of numerous books of poetry and prose, former
Poet and translator Lawrence Ferlinghetti is the author of more than thirty books of poetry and...
Born in 1925, Bob Kaufman is credited with popularizing Beat attitudes and philosophies in...
Born in South Bend, Indiana, in 1905, Kenneth Rexroth is the author of several collections of...