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Judith Baumel is the author of two books of poetry: Now (University of Miami Press, 1996) and The Weight of Numbers (Wesleyan University Press, 1988), for which she won the Walt Whitman Award, judged by Mona Van Duyn. She has received fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, among others. A former director of the Poetry Society of America, Baumel is the founding director of the creative writing program at Adelphi University, where she is currently a professor of English. She lives in the Bronx.
Prageeta Sharma is the author of Undergloom (Fence Books, 2013); Infamous...
Stanley Miller Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, on April 8, 1930. Williams first attended...
The first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman is the author of The One for...
Poet and teacher Diana Goetsch is author of the poetry collections The Job of Being...
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Adrienne Rich wrote poems examining such things as...
The 2010 winner of the National Book Award in poetry, Terrance Hayes is the author of seven...