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Humanities

Theodore Roethke

Theodore Roethke was born in Saginaw, Michigan, in 1908.

Theodore Roethke - The Academy of American Poets

Main Roethke Page

My Papa's Waltz

Peter Meinke

Peter Meinke (b. 1932). Born in Brooklyn, New York.

His Biography

 Robert Hayden

He was born Asa Bundy Sheffey in 1913. He is one of the best African American poet.

.Robert Hayden - The Academy of American Poets or Robert Hayden

Those Winter Sundays

Gary Snyder

Gary Snyder was born in San Francisco in 1930. A beat generation poet.

Gary Snyder - The Academy of American Poets or Gary Snyder

Axe Handles

Raymond Carverfishing salmon

Born Oregon, 1938. Died, 1988. He was a minimalist or either a Precisionist

Raymond Carver Page or Biography of Raymond Carver .

The most comprehensive is Raymond Carver web site

Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year

and other Poems by Raymond Carver

Teresa Paloma Acosta

A young poetess from Texas writing in spanish.

"My Mother Pieced Quilts"--Raw Text

Alice Walker

Alice Malsenior Walker was born on February 9, 1944 in Eatonton, Georgia. She is a very

involved Black American Woman. She wrote “The Color Purple”

the Alice Walker Page or Anniina's Alice Walker Page.

Voices From the Gaps: Alice Walker

Alice Walker links-

Sandra Cisneros

Born December 20, 1954 in Chicago. She brought the Chicana women perspectivein the literature

Voices From the Gaps: Sandra Cisneros and Sandra Cisneros

Julia Alvarez

Julia Alvarez born 1950 in the Dominican Republic.
A nice profile of this poet and novelist, see also Voices From the Gaps

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Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland - The Academy of American Poets was born 1944 in Dublin, Ireland. She is the most preeminent Irish poet today.

Eavan Boland - Poetry-in-the-Round - Seton Hall Univeristy

The Blossom

Langston Hughes

(February 1, 1902 - May 22, 1967) Born in Joplin, Missouri, James Langston Hughes was born into an abolitionist family. He is a real jazz age poet.

Langston Hughes - The Academy of American Poets - or Langston Hughes

Mother to Son

Poems written by my sophomores from Head Royce

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