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4 giorni fa · She died of carbon monoxide poisoning in her car after lunching with her long-time friend and sister poet Maxine Kumin. In a few weeks, she would have been 46 years old.
3 giorni fa · She won the National Poetry Series, judged by Maxine Kumin, in 2002 and the Donald Justice Poetry Prize, judged by David Mason, in 2009. From 2011-2013 she served as the Louisiana Poet Laureate. In 2018 she joined the poetry faculty of the Western Colorado University low-residency MFA program.
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1 giorno fa · En octubre de 1974, tras revisar con su amiga Maxine Kumin las galeradas de su manuscrito The Awful Rowing Toward God (El horrible remar hacia Dios), llegó a su casa, se vistió un abrigo de piel que había pertenecido a su madre, se despojó de sus anillos, y tras beber un vaso de vodka, se encerró en el garaje de su casa, encendiendo el motor de su coche, para suicidarse por inhalación ...
4 giorni fa · Maxine Kumin is most widely known as a nature poet for her well-crafted descriptions of life on her New Hampshire farm. Yet increasingly her social conscience prompted her also to write “poetry of witness,” protesting torture and other injustices.
1 giorno fa · Empathetic, truth-telling, and fiercely perceptive, Passing through a Gate is a literary tour de force. As Maxine Kumin reminds us, Balaban seems to me our moral spokesperson, our lyricist, our polemicist, exhorter, and consoler: in short, the poet we need.
1 giorno fa · David Eggers, double winner of the Book Prize in 2009. Since 1980, the Los Angeles Times has awarded a set of annual book prizes. The Los Angeles Times Book Prize currently has nine categories: biography, current interest, fiction, first fiction (the Art Seidenbaum Award added in 1991), history, mystery/thriller (category added in 2000), poetry, science and technology (category added in 1989 ...
5 giorni fa · All things are new; the buds, the leaves, That gild the elm-tree's nodding crest, And even the nest beneath the eaves; There are no birds in last year's nest! All things rejoice in youth and love, The fulness of their first delight! And learn from the soft heavens above The melting tenderness of night. Maiden, that read'st.
