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The May Swenson Poetry Award, sponsored by Utah State University Press, is a competitive prize granted annually to an outstanding collection of poetry in English. Open to published and unpublished writers, with no limitation on subject, the competition honors May Swenson as one of America's most vital and provocative poets of the twentieth century.
May Swenson (1913–1989), American poet and playwright; Magda Szabó (1917–2007), Hungarian novelist, poet and playwright; Maria Luise Thurmair (1912–2005), Austrian/German hymnist and writer; Joan Ure (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwright; Margaret Walker (1915–1998), American poet and novelist
Norma Meras Swenson (born 1932) is an activist, a medical sociologist and a leader in the developing woman's health movement.She co-founded the Boston Women's Health Book Collective (BWHBC), and co-authored with the Collective, Our Bodies, Ourselves (OBOS), and served as president of the OBOS nonprofit organization for several years.
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The Faber Book of Twentieth-Century Women's Poetry is a poetry anthology edited by Fleur Adcock that was published in 1987 by Faber and Faber. Sixty-four writers born between 1869 (Charlotte Mew) and 1945 (Selima Hill) are represented. Adcock organizes the anthology chronologically according to the birth of each contributor. [1]
"Karen Swenson". Truthtellers of the times: interviews with contemporary women poets. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-06680-3. "Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow Karen Swenson, a Poet, Journalist and World Traveler, at Centenary Nov. 15-19"
The woman question was raised in many different social areas. For example, in the second half of the 19th century, in the context of religion, extensive discussion within the United States took place on the participation of women in church. In the Methodist Episcopal Church, the woman question was the most pressing issue in the 1896 conference ...
Inherent in the study of women's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimised or ignored the contributions of women to different fields and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, women's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the ...