Selected US of A poets from Poemhunter.com: One sentence from each biography

Homage to Kari Aronpuro

Her father helped invent the X-Acto Knife.

She is considered one of the most important and original poets of the 20th century, as often hailed by the noted critic Harold Bloom.

He was serving in the Royal Canadian Air Force, which he joined before the United States officially entered the war.

He and his brother were very close, but very different.

He spent 1942 to 1946 in these work camps and was paid $2.50 per month for assigned duties such as fire fighting, soil conservation, and building and maintaining roads and trails.

She had poor health for most of her life, and it was only at age 14 that she was well enough to begin school.'

He is a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York and is the Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Winter Park Institute, Florida.

This was also where she developed into a first-class fisherwoman.

After an interval spent at Lombard College in Galesburg, he became a hotel servant in Denver, then a coal-heaver in Omaha

Collaborated, in 1943, in the musical comedy, One Touch of Venus '

At school, he was an avid outdoorsman, and active in the school's literary society.

Growing up, he faced the anti-Semitism embodied by the pro-Hitler radio priest Father Coughlin.

Three years later, he wrote home and asked his parents to allow him to attend art school.

He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1959.

His parents, in the middle of divorce proceedings, were upset.

While at times whimsical and possessing a sly humor, there is an underlying sadness in much of her work.

He is an associate professor at Emerson College in Boston.'

He is equally well known for his tender depictions of the bleak landscapes of the post-industrial American Midwest.

He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.

They considered him a racial chauvinist.

His mother was of Scottish descent, and his father descended from Nicholas Frost of Tiverton, Devon, England, who had sailed to New Hampshire in 1634 on the Wolfrana.

It brought her international recognition, and was nominated for a National Book Award.

Most of her friendships were therefore carried out by correspondence.

He spent much of 1872 caring for his mother who was now nearly eighty and struggling with arthritis.

He was held for 17 days in Philadelphia's Moyamensing Prison. 

During high school, he was both the editor of the school newspaper and class president, as well as the president of the school literary society.

He believed strongly that traditional formalist considerations were archaic and did not apply to reality.

This abuse was refuted in interviews with her mother and other relatives.

Her physician reported that she had had a heart attack following a coronary occlusion.

She struggled to support herself and had completed a second volume of poetry, but no publisher seemed interested in it.

However, less than two years after the birth of their first child the marriage disintegrated.

She moved to New York City, whe she wrote during the day and earned money at night playing the piano in a dancing school.

Both parents' ancestors had emigrated from England in the 17th century.

The two homes they built on Long Island Sound, along with several cottages, became known as Bungalow Court, and they would hold gatherings there of literary and artistic friends.

These four schools gave her a perspective on racial dynamics in the city that continued to influence her work.

He became more popular in spite of the bad press he received, and as a result extricated himself from poorly negotiated contracts that limited his earnings; he quickly became very wealthy. 

He studied philosophy, psychology, and flunked English three times before dropping out. 

From that day forward, nearly all of his writing was in meter and rhyme.

She currently teaches creative writing at New York University.

Despite his difficulties with mathematics and Greek, he stood at the head of his class in preparatory school.

He is buried in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters and received many other honors.

The following year he earned a master's degree at Harvard.

He died in 1972.

He suddenly felt sick to his stomach, which was nothing unusual, and headed for the bathroom.

Later in life he was a professor of creative literature and writing at Fisk University.

He believed meter was imposed on poetry by man, not a fundamental part of its nature. 

She smoked cigars constantly, claiming that they lasted longer than cigarettes.

He died the next day of a ruptured liver.

He serves on the contributing editorial board of the literary journal Conjunctions.

A few days later he was stationed at Fossalta di Piave.

The coarse poem ridicules the failed attempts of Billy to woo girls.

A nearsighted boy, he was often ostracised by his peers and was excluded from many physical pursuits.

He left a suicide note that simply read: "Messy, isn't it?".

The expedition proceeded by horseback and wagon from Omaha, Nebraska, arriving toward year's end in San Francisco, California.

All of her books share a focus on women's lives.

In 1974 she held a Fulbright Scholarship from Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany.
She also received the Radcliffe College Distinguished Alumnae Award.
He was a slave his entire life, and the date of his death is unknown.

Although his manic depression was often a great burden (for himself and his family), the subject of that mental illness led to some of his most important poetry, particularly as it manifested itself in his book Life Studies. 

Her father was a railroad executive whose investments in streetcar lines and real estate made the family wealthy.

They were sent to a military detention camp, the Dépôt de Triage, in La Ferté-Macé, Orne, Normandy, where they languished for 3½ months.

He was educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, then earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard in 1951 and a B.Litt, from Oxford in 1953.

He was either born in New York, Baltimore, or Lexington, Kentucky, with his widow being convinced he was born in Lexington.

At the time of his death he was a professor of English and director of the creative writing program at City College of New York.

His career there, however, did not last long.

In 1981, and after six years of study at Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, she became a research graduate there.

There he formally joined the Quakers and began to withdraw from society. 

She suffered a series of strokes thereafter, and died in 1972.

Her ashes were returned to Bethlehem, and were buried in the family plot in the Nisky Hill Cemetery on October 28, 1961.

She is also an important forerunner of the Zionist movement.

Until this revelation, little had been known of his religious affiliation.

She was the sister-in-law of the Chicago architect John Wellborn Root.

He was also in a significant long term relationship with the Beat poet Laura Ulewicz during the fifties in San Francisco.

He was educated at Yale University and the University of California - Berkeley.

They both spent hours on the phone and the initial forgiveness displayed in the film became a living reality.

The son of a grape grower, he grew up driving a tractor, picking grapes, and pruning vines of Selma, California, a small fruit-growing town in the San Joaquin Valley.

He was killed in action at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916, famously cheering on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge after being hit several times by machine gun fire.

His interest in the work of Federico García Lorca, especially as it involved the canto jondo ideal, also brought him near the poetics of the deep image group.

His honors also included grants from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

At fourteen, she found work as a seamstress.

In 1866, his body was moved to his family plot in Frederick at Mount Olivet Cemetery.

In the private sector, he practiced law and was as a senior executive at several biotechnology companies.

The work remains a classic of Native American Literature.

He married in 1944, and after the war, having earned the rank of first lieutenant, returned to New York with his wife to complete his first book.

Any feed back is welcome, including constructive criticism.
He later lived in Truro on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, where he directed the Fine Arts Work Center and was a mentor and teacher to younger poets for decades.
Though publicly discreet, their correspondence reveals an exalted intimacy.
He is a distant cousin of poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, e. e. cummings and T. S. Eliot, as well as playwrights Thornton Wilder and Tennessee Williams.
The epic poem, part of large but unfinished work, reflected the view that the frontier was the dominant force in American history.
He wrote about humanity's relationship to nature in alternately comic and solemn tones.
He is buried on the grounds of the Santa Barbara Cemetery Association overlooking the sea, and while all the other graves face inland, his alone faces the Pacific.

23.02.2014