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Ralph Angel was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1951. The author of Twice Removed (Sarabande Books, 2001); Neither World (Miami University Press, 1995), which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award; and Anxious Latitudes (Wesleyan University Press, 1986), his honors included a Pushcart Prize and awards from the Fulbright Foundation and Poetry magazine. Angel was the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English at the University of Redlands, and he died in March, 2020.
Stanley Miller Williams was born in Hoxie, Arkansas, on April 8, 1930. Williams first attended...
Elizabeth Alexander was born in 1962 in Harlem, New York, and grew up in Washington, D.C. She...
The author of numerous collections of poetry, Adrienne Rich wrote poems examining such things as...
Richard Blanco is the Education Ambassador of the Academy of American Poets. In his role, he...
The 2010 winner of the National Book Award in poetry, Terrance Hayes is the author of five poetry...