Category: Winter 2012 Poets

Nathaniel Tarn
was born in 1928 in Paris and educated in France, Belgium, and England, obtaining degrees from Cambridge, the Sorbonne, and Chicago. He

Hugh Seidman
was born in Brooklyn, New York. His poetry has won several awards including the 2004 Green Rose Prize from New Issues Press for his sixth poetry

Jerome Rothenberg
began his literary career in the late 1950s working primarily as a translator. He is responsible for the first English appearances of Paul Celan

Kenneth Rosen
has been a Professor of English at the University of Southern Maine since 1981. He spent a sabbatical semester as Balkan Scholar at the American

Ron Padgett
was born in 1942 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His father was a bootlegger who also traded cars, his mother a housewife who also helped with the

Rochelle Owens
is the author of twenty books of poetry, plays, and fiction, the most recent of which are Solitary Workwoman, (Junction Press, 2011), Journey to

Barbara Moraff
known as “the baby of the Beat generation” because she was just 18 and had already being published by Leroi Jones (Amiri Baraka) in Evergreen

Thomas Meyer
began writing as a teenager in Seattle, Washington. At that age, he was already a veteran of the arts, having been a child actor, beginning at

Daphne Marlatt
lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. She was born in 1942 in Melbourne, Australia, and immigrated to Canada in 1951 from Malaysia. She studied

Steve Luttrell
was born and continues to live in Portland, Maine. He is a graduate of Franklin Pierce College and is the author of ten books of poetry; the