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John Hollander (October 28, 1929 – August 17, 2013) was an American poet and literary critic. [1] At the time of his death, he was Sterling Professor Emeritus of English at Yale University , having previously taught at Connecticut College , Hunter College , and the Graduate Center, CUNY .
Godfrey John was born and grew up in Wales. He served in the Royal Air Force, and graduated from Cambridge University, [1] where he was boxing team captain and a "light blue", and was a British amateur heavyweight boxing champion. For more than 40 years, poems and essays by John were published in the Christian Science Monitor. [2]
Upon awarding Keene the National Book Award for Poetry, the judges stated that "John Keene’s poems in Punks: New & Selected Poems invoke the notion of flow—which speaks beautifully to the idea of fluidity and movement in form—a flow that is constantly being interrupted by philosophical musings and deep longings, thick with queer desire ...
John Martin Finlay (January 24, 1941 – February 17, 1991) was an American poet and writer of essays, reviews, fiction, letters, and diaries.. Finlay is best known for his posthumously published poetry collection, Mind and Blood: The Collected Poems of John Finlay.
Black Sparrow Press released two collections edited by Raymond Foye: Selected Poems: 1958-1984 and Cultural Affairs in Boston, in 1986 and 1988 respectively.A previously unpublished journal by Wieners came out in 1996, entitled The Journal of John Wieners was to be called 707 Scott Street for Billie Holliday 1959, documenting his life in San Francisco around the time of The Hotel Wentley Poems.
John Skoyles (born December 11, 1949, in Queens, New York) is an American poet and writer. Early years ... Skoyles, John (1981). A little faith : poems. Pittsburgh ...
John Allyn McAlpin Berryman (born John Allyn Smith, Jr.; October 25, 1914 – January 7, 1972) was an American poet and scholar. He was a major figure in American poetry in the second half of the 20th century and is considered a key figure in the " confessional " school of poetry.
John Sleigh Pudney (19 January 1909 – 10 November 1977) was a British poet, journalist and author. He was known especially for his popular poetry written during the Second World War, but he also wrote novels, short stories and children's fiction. His broad-ranging non-fiction, often commissioned, served as his primary source of income.