Jonathan Aaron
Jonathan Aaron is the author of the poetry collection Journey to the Lost City (Ausable Press, 2006).
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Maya Angelou
Maya Angelou was born Marguerite Johnson in St. Louis, Missouri, on April 4, 1928.Read more about >
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Read more about >Ada Limón is the author of The Carrying (Milkweed Editions, 2018) and Bright Dead Things (Milkweed Editions, 2015), which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
Amanda Gorman
Read more about >The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough (Penmanship Books, 2015).
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Alice Fulton is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including Coloratura on a Silence Found in Many Expressive Systems (W. W. Norton, 2022) and Felt (W. W. Norton, 2002), which was awarded the 2002 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry from the Library of Congress and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has been adapted several times for musical and theatrical productions. Fulton lives in Ithaca, New York, the traditional homelands of the Gayogo̱hó:nǫɁ (the Cayuga Nation).Read more about >
David R. Slavitt
David R. Slavitt was born in White Plains, New York, in 1935,Read more about >
Dorothea Lasky
Read more about >Born on March 27, 1978, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dorothea Lasky received her BA from Washington University.