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Robert
Pinsky was born in Long
Branch, New Jersey, in
1940. Pinsky was the
Poet Laureate of the
United States from
1997-2000 and is the
poetry editor of the
online journal
Slate. He
teaches in the graduate
writing program at
Boston University.
He has published several
books of poetry
including Jersey
Rain, An Explanation of
America (a book
length poem), History
of My Heart, and
The Figured Wheel: New
and Collected Poems,
which was nominated for
Pulitzer Prize in Poetry
and also received the
Lenore Marshall Award
and the Ambassador Book
Award of the English
Speaking Union. Pinsky
has also published a
collection of essays,
Poetry and the World,
nominated for the
National Book Critics
Circle award in
criticism and a new
verse translation,
The Inferno of Dante. |
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Laura Furman was born in
Brooklyn, New York
in1945 and received her
B.A. in English from
Bennington College in
Vermont in 1968. In 1978
she moved to Houston to
serve as the senior
editor of Houston City
Magazine and since then
has continued to live in
Texas. In 1983 she began
her career at the
University
of Texas at Austin
Department of English as
a lecturer, and is
currently serving as an
Associate Professor of
English at the
University.
Furman has published two
novels; The Shadow
Line, Tuxedo Park;
one memoir, Ordinary
Paradise; three
collections of short
stories; The Glass
House, Watch Time
Fly, Drinking
with the Cook and an
anthology; Bookworms:
Great Writers and
Readers Celebrate
Reading with Elinore
Standard. Furman has
been the recipient of a
Guggenheim Fellowship
and a
Dobie-Paisano
Fellowship. She
founded the literary
journal American
Short Fiction which
was three times
nominated for the
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Kenneth
Brewer was born in
Indianapolis in 1942 and
came West to attend
Western New Mexico
University and later New
Mexico State University
where he earned a
master's degree in
English literature. In
1973, he earned a Ph.D. at
the University of Utah
while teaching at
Utah
State University. Brewer
retired from teaching at USU in 2000. In 2003,
Brewer was selected to
serve as Utah's Poet
Laureate until January
of 2008. Brewer has
published eight books of
poetry including The
Place In Between; Lake's
Edge and Hoping for all,
Dreading Nothing,
and has published over
300 poems, essays, and
reviews in literary
journals though out the
United States and
Canada. |
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