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John Frederick Freeman (29 January 1880 – 23 September 1929) was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full-time. He was born in London , and started as an office boy aged 13.
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]
Logan taught at many colleges and universities including Saint John's College in Annapolis, University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College in California, and, finally at the State University of New York, Buffalo. His many students include the poets Marvin Bell and Bill Knott. He was the poetry editor for The Nation and Critic.
John Whitworth (11 December 1945 - 20 April 2019) [1] was a British poet. Born in India in 1945, he began writing poetry at Merton College , Oxford . He went on to win numerous prizes and publish in many highly regarded venues.
He attended Mater Christi High School (now St. John’s Prep) in Astoria, graduating in 1967. He did his undergraduate work at Fairfield University and attended workshops at The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery, where he was a student of Dick Gallup and Lewis MacAdams.
John Thompson (17 Mar 1938 – 26 Apr 1976) was an English-born, Canadian poet, translator and university professor. He is noted for his mastery of poetic forms, which he used to express the intensity and power of images in spare and precise language evoking beauty and wonder, anguish and despair.
John Maxwell Edmonds (21 January 1875 – 18 March 1958) was an English classicist, poet and dramatist and the author of several celebrated martial epitaphs. Biography [ edit ]
John Douglas Mole (born 1941) is an English poet for adults and children, born in Taunton. [1] He is also a jazz clarinetist. [ 1 ] Mole graduated from Magdalene College , Cambridge University, and began his career as a teacher.