Are Harper Lee and Rosario Castellanos both poets?
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Harper Lee Nelle Harper Lee (April 28, 1926February 19, 2016), better known by her pen name Harper Lee, was an American novelist widely known for "To Kill a Mockingbird", published in 1960. Immediately successful, it won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and has become a classic of modern American literature. Though Lee had only published this single book, in 2007 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom for her contribution to literature. Additionally, Lee received numerous honorary degrees, though she declined to speak on those occasions. She was also known for assisting her close friend Truman Capote in his research for the book "In Cold Blood" (1966). Capote was the basis for the character Dill in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
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Rosario Castellanos Rosario Castellanos Figueroa (] ; 25 May 1925 – 7 August 1974) was a Mexican poet and author. Along with the other members of the Generation of 1950 (the poets who wrote following the Second World War, influenced by César Vallejo and others), she was one of Mexico's most important literary voices in the last century. Throughout her life, she wrote eloquently about issues of cultural and gender oppression, and her work has influenced feminist theory and cultural studies. Though she died young, she opened the door of Mexican literature to women, and left a legacy that still resonates today.
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Marisela Norte Marisela Norte is an American writer, poet and artist living in Los Angeles. She is known for her poetry that explores the unseen city. Her book "Peeping Peeping Tom Tom Girl" was published by City Works Press in 2008, and her work can be found in numerous anthologies including "Microphone Fiends", "Bordered Sexualities: Bodies on the Verge of a Nation", "The Geography of Home: California’s Poetry of Place", "Bear Flag Republic", "American Studies in a Time of Danger", "Rara Avis", "American Quarterly", and "Rolling Stone's Women of Rock". She has also written for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Metro Transit Authority.
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Mirla Castellanos Mirla Castellanos, is a noted Venezuelan singer with a career spanning over 40 years. Often referred to as "La Primerísima", she started her career as a singer with the band "Cuarteto Los Naipes" in the 1960s before taking up a solo career. Moving to Europe in the late 1960s, she recorded music by composers such as Domenico Modugno, with whom she later performed a duet of the song "Meraviglioso" during the preliminary of the 1968 Festival San Remo; she didn’t make the cut for the finals . In 1969, Castellanos won the Benidorm International Song Festival with a composition by Manuel Alejandro. After returning to South America in 1970, she took second place in the Latin American Song Festival. With the support of shows such as Sábado Sensacional and her own live show "Primerísima," Castellanos furthered her reputation in the 1970s and 1980s, making her first appearance in New York at the Chateau Madrid in 1976.
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Rosario García Orellana Rosario García Orellana (October 2, 1905 Havana – November 3, 1997 New York City) was a Cuban coloratura soprano. Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona composed "Escucha al Ruiseñor" (Listen to the Nightingale) for her which she recorded, among other Cuban music, in New York City for RCA Victor. She was thereafter known as Cuba's nightingale.
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Lee Mellor Lee Mellor (born August 4, 1982, Chester, England) is an Anglo-Canadian author, scholar, and alternative country musician distinguished by his intricate lyrics and growly vocal stylings.
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Nate Lee Nate Lee is an American author and former senior editor at Chicago's "Newcity" weekly magazine who advocated passionately for live theater. At Newcity, Lee wrote features, a weekly column called "Urbanitie", theatre and film reviews as well as stories on architecture and historic preservation, and at one point wrote a book which turned into a musical comedy revue entitled "Speak of the Twenties". Working with publishers Brian and Jan Hieggelke, he attracted top writers to write for Newcity including top theater critics who became prominent at other publications later, including Chris Jones of the "Chicago Tribune" and Rohan Preston of the "Minneapolis Star-Tribune". He wrote numerous books published by Abingdon Press and reviews for websites. Lee attended Phillips Academy in Andover and graduated in the school's first co–educational class in 1974 along with classmates jazz Grammy–winner Bill Cunliffe, actor Dana Delany, poet Karl Kirchwey, editor Sara Nelson, and sculptor Gar Waterman; Lee and painter Julian Hatton were close friends and studied Latin at Andover. At present, he lives in California, writes and edits for Demand Studios, and works in advertising.
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Osiris Rodríguez Castillos Osiris Rodríguez Castillos (July 21, 1925 - October 10, 1996) was a Uruguayan writer, poet, composer and singer.
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti Lawrence Monsanto Ferlinghetti (born March 24, 1919) is an American poet, painter, liberal activist, and the co-founder of City Lights Booksellers & Publishers. Author of poetry, translations, fiction, theatre, art criticism, and film narration, he is best known for "A Coney Island of the Mind" (1958), a collection of poems that has been translated into nine languages, with sales of more than one million copies.
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Lee Rourke Lee Rourke is the author of the short-story collection EVERYDAY, the novel THE CANAL (winner of the Guardian’s Not The Booker Prize 2010) and the poetry collection VARROA DESTRUCTOR. His latest novel, VULGAR THINGS (‘poignant and unsettling’ – Eimear McBride) is published in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and the US by 4th Estate, Harper Collins. He is a contributing editor at both The White Review and 3AM Magazine, has a literary column at the New Humanist, and has written regularly for The Guardian, TLS, Bookforum, The Independent, and The New Statesman. From 2012-2014 he was Writer-in-Residence at Kingston University, where he lectured on the MFA Programme in creative writing and critical theory. He once taught creative writing at Middlesex University, and now works as an English teacher at an Essex high school not far from the sea. He currently lives in Southend-on-Sea.
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Justin Hyde Justin Hyde is an American poet, Editor and correctional officer from Iowa.
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R. Alton Lee Roy Alton Lee (born 24 May 1931) is professor emeritus of history at the University of South Dakota, where he taught American history. After retiring in 1996, he moved to Kansas and authored works on Kansas history. He has written books on John Romulus Brinkley and other purveyors of pseudoscience. He was nominated for the sixth annual William Rockhill Nelson Award honoring literary excellence by Kansas and Missouri writers.
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Castellanos, Santa Fe Castellanos is a locality in Santa Fe Province in northeastern Argentina.
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Garrett Caples Garrett Caples (born 1972) is an American poet. Born in Lawrence, Massachusetts, he currently lives in San Francisco, California, after fifteen years in Oakland. An editor at City Lights Books, Caples curates the new American poetry series, City Lights Spotlight. From 2005 to 2014, he wrote on hip hop, literature, and painting for the San Francisco Bay Guardian, and has written fiction on unusual sexual practices, like omorashi.
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Eduardo C. Corral Eduardo C. Corral is an American poet and teacher. His first book "Slow Lightning" was published by Yale University Press in 2012 as the winner of the Yale Younger Series Poets Prize.
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The Poet (novel) The Poet is the fifth novel by award-winning American author Michael Connelly. Published in 1996, it is the first of Connelly's novels not to feature Detective Harry Bosch and first to feature Crime Reporter Jack McEvoy. A sequel, "The Narrows", was published in 2004. "The Poet" won the 1997 Dilys Award.
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Francisco X. Alarcón Francisco Xavier Alarcón (21 February 1954 – 15 January 2016) was an American poet and educator. He was one of the few Chicano poets to have "gained recognition while writing mostly in Spanish" within the United States. His poems have been also translated into Irish and Swedish. He made many guest appearances at public schools so that he could help inspire and influence young people to write their own poetry especially because he felt that children are "natural poets."
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Lorna Dee Cervantes Lorna Dee Cervantes (born August 6, 1954) is an award-winning Chicana, of Mexican and Native American (Chumash), ancestry. She is a feminist, activist poet who is considered one of the major Chicana poets of the past 40 years. She has been described by Alurista, as "probably the best Chicana poet active today ."
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The Blood of a Poet The Blood of a Poet (French: Le sang d'un poète ) (1930) is an avant-garde film directed by Jean Cocteau, financed by Charles de Noailles and starring Enrique Riveros, a Chilean actor who had a successful career in European films. Photographer Lee Miller made her only film appearance in this movie, which features an appearance by the famed aerialist Barbette. It is the first part of the Orphic Trilogy, which is continued in "Orphée" (1950) and concludes with "Testament of Orpheus" (1960).
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Cecília Meireles Cecília Benevides de Carvalho Meireles (1901 – 1964) was a Brazilian writer and educator, known principally as a poet. She is a canonical name of Brazilian Modernism, one of the great female poets in the Portuguese language, and is widely considered the best female poet from Brazil, though she combatted the word "poetess" because of gender discrimination.
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Aemilia Laracuen Aemilia Laracuen (Emilia MacKinley) (1925 – 2007) was an American artist and muse of poet Robert Graves
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David Dodd Lee David Dodd Lee (born 1959) is an American poet and editor.