Were both Louis Zukofsky and Melinda Haynes known for their poetry?
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Louis Zukofsky Louis Zukofsky (January 23, 1904 – May 12, 1978) was an American poet. He was one of the founders and the primary theorist of the Objectivist group of poets and thus an important influence on subsequent generations of poets in America and abroad.
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Melinda Haynes Melinda Haynes (born 1955) is an American novelist. She grew up in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. For much of her adult life she was a painter. In 1999, she wrote her first published novel, "Mother of Pearl", while living in a mobile home in Grand Bay, Alabama. Melinda Haynes currently resides in Mobile, Alabama with her husband, Ray. Her writing is intimately connected with the Mississippi of the 1950s and the 1960s.
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Carol Smallwood Carol Smallwood is an American poet and writer. She won the National Federation of State Poetry Societies Award. Smallwood also was awarded the Franklin-Christoph Poetry Contest Winner title, and the Eric Hoffer Award for Prose.
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Carolyn Lei-Lanilau Carolyn Leilani Yu Zhen Lau (aka Carolyn Lau) (born 1946 Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American poet.
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Diane Gilliam Fisher Diane Gilliam Fisher (born 1957) is an American poet. She is author of several poetry collections, most recently, "Kettle Bottom" (Perugia Press, 2004).
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Naomi Lazard Naomi Lazard (born 1936) is an American poet, children's literature author, and playwright. She is the winner of two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a former president of the Poetry Society of America. Her translations of Faiz Ahmed Faiz have been widely acclaimed.
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Joel Oppenheimer Joel Lester Oppenheimer (Jacob Hammer) (February 18, 1930 – October 11, 1988) was an American poet associated with both the Black Mountain poets and the New York School. He was the first director of the St. Marks Poetry Project (1966–68). Though a poet, Oppenheimer was perhaps better known for his columns in the "Village Voice" from 1969 to 1984.
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Tom McKeown (poet) Thomas Shanks McKeown (born 29 September 1937) is an American poet. He published his first poetry chapbooks in the late 1960s and continued to develop his reputation as a poet of surrealist sensibilities throughout the 1970s, publishing in major magazines such as "The New Yorker".
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Warren Woessner Warren Woessner (born 1944), poet and lawyer, studied creative writing with James McConkey and A. R. Ammons at Cornell University. He moved to Madison, Wisconsin, in 1966 and co-founded "Abraxas Magazine" with poet James Bertolino in 1968. He was also a founder of WORT-FM and hosted its poetry program. He received a Ph.D. in organic chemistry and a law degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1971. His poetry has appeared in "Poetry", "Poetry Northwest", "The Nation", "Midwest Quarterly", "CutBank", "Poet Lore", and "5 A.M." Woessner's poetry and literary reviews have been published in "The New York Times Book Review", "American Book Review", "Rain Taxi", and "Midwest Review".
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Albert Huffstickler Albert Huffstickler (December 17, 1927 – February 25, 2002) was an American poet. He was born in Texas and lived in Austin during his later years, contributing to the poetry scene there and further afield. Huffstickler published hundreds of poems in his lifetime in both chapbooks and academic and underground journals. A 1990 "Sow’s Ear Poetry Review" article reporting on an interview by Felicia Mitchell described Huffstickler’s natural poetic voice as "an attempt to meld the human voice with the poetic spirit to present a highly charged, story-filled verse.”
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Dorothy K. Haynes Dorothy Kate Haynes, (1918 – December 1987) was a Scottish horror/supernatural writer. She frequently wrote articles for The Scotsman, and had much of her work published in ghost and horror anthologies.
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Louisa Lawson Louisa Lawson (née Albury) (17 February 1848 – 12 August 1920) was an Australian poet, writer, publisher, suffragist, and feminist. She was the mother of the poet and author Henry Lawson.
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Gwen Davis Gwen Davis (born May 11, 1936) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, songwriter, journalist and poet.
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Terrance Hayes Terrance Hayes (born November 18, 1971) is an American poet and educator who has published five poetry collections. His 2010 collection, "Lighthead", won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2010. In September 2014, he was one of 21 recipients of the prestigious MacArthur fellowships awarded to individuals who show outstanding creativity in their work.
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Eleanor Lerman Eleanor Lerman (born 1952) is an American poet, novelist, and short story writer.
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Sheryl St. Germain Sheryl St. Germain (born 1954 in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American poet, essayist, and professor.
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Alta (poet) Alta Gerrey (born 1942, Reno, Nevada) is a British-American poet, prose writer, and publisher, best known as the founder of the feminist press Shameless Hussy Press and editor of the "Shameless Hussy Review". Her 1980 collection "The Shameless Hussy" won the American Book Award in 1981. She is featured in the feminist history film "She's Beautiful When She's Angry".
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Alice Notley Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945) is an American poet. Notley came to prominence as a member of the second generation of the New York School of poetry--although she has always denied being involved with the New School movement, or any specific movement in general--having been a workshop leader and frequent attendee and reader at the school's hub, the St. Mark's Poetry Project. Notley's early work laid both formal and theoretical groundwork for several generations of poets; she is considered a pioneering voice on topics like motherhood and domestic life.
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Allen Grossman Allen Grossman (January 7, 1932 – June 27, 2014) was a noted American poet, critic and professor.
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Louis K. Anspacher Louis Kaufmann Anspacher (March 1, 1878, Cincinnati, Ohio – May 10, 1947, Nashville, Tennessee) was an American poet, playwright and script writer.
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Vijayalakshmi (poet) Vijayalakshmi (born August 2, 1960) is a Malayalam–language poet from the south Indian state of Kerala. She has composed about 199 poems between 1980 and 2010.
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Paul Zukofsky Paul Zukofsky (October 22, 1943 – June 6, 2017) was an American violinist and conductor known for his work in the field of contemporary classical music.