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New Hampshire.
    J ANE H IRSHFIELD (1953–): American poet who studied at the San Francisco Zen Center for eight years. She has translated several collections of Japanese poetry. Her latest works include
The October Palace, The Lives of the Heart
, and
Given Sugar, Given Salt.
    S AM H OLTZAPPLE (1965–) lives and writes in New York City.
    M ARIE H OWE (1950–): American poet and editor who currently teaches at Columbia University. Her poetry collection
The Good Thief
(1988) was chosen for the National Poetry series by Margaret Atwood.
    L ANGSTON H UGHES (1902–67): The most important writer of the Harlem Renaissance, he published ten books of poetry, including
Montage of A Dream Deferred.
He lived in New York City.
    J ANE K ENYON (1947–95): She published four volumes of poetry, including
Constance
(1993). She lived at Eagle Pond Farm in New Hampshire until she died of leukemia in 1995.
    E THERIDGE K NIGHT (1931–1991): Knight began writing poetry while he was incarcerated at Indiana State Prison. His book
Poems from Prison
received great critical acclaim in the United States.
    K IM K ONOPKA lives in New Mexico and France. Currently she is living in Bordeaux, where she works as an art model, repairs Harley Davidson motorcycles, and is writing her first novel.
    P HILIP L ARKIN (1922–85): Highly influential British poet whose collections of poetry include
The Less Deceived
and
High Window.
    J AMES L AUGHLIN (1914–1997): American poet and publisher. He founded the publishing house New Directions, through which he released some of the best experimental and avant-garde writing of the past fifty years.
    D ORIANNE L AUX (1952–): Born in Augusta, Maine, Laux has been widely anthologized and received the Pushcart Prize in 1986. She lives in Eugene, Oregon, where she teaches creative writing at the University of Oregon.
    L I -Y OUNG L EE (1944–): Chinese American poet who was born in Indonesia. He is the author of
The City in Which I Love You
and
Book of My Nights.
    R OBERT L OPEZ (1975–) and J EFF M ARX (1970–): New York composers and lyricists who rocketed to fame for their Tony Award–winning Broadway musical,
Avenue Q.
    A MY L OWELL (1874–1925): Born in Brookline, Massachusetts, into a prominent New England family. A collection of Lowell's work, published posthumously as
What's O'clock?
, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
    K ATHARYN H OWD M ACHAN (1952–): Prolific poet whose work has appeared in numerous literary publications and more than fifty anthologies and textbooks. A teacher of creative writing and women's studies at Ithaca College, she lives in Ithaca, New York, with her husband, the poet Eric Machan Howd, and their two children.
    K ATHERINE M ANSFIELD (1888–1923): New Zealand writer who became a member of the Bloomsbury literary group in London. Known for her brilliant short stories, she also wrote poetry.
    C HARLOTTE M ATTHEWS (1966–): Matthews's chapbook,
A Kind of Devotion
, is forthcoming from Palanquin Press. Her poems have appeared in the
Mississippi Review, Tar River Poetr y, Sou'wester, Meridian, Poet Lore, Potomac Review
, and
Eclipse.
Her manuscript
Green Stars
was named a finalist in the National Poetry series competition. She lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
    M ARK M C M ORRIS (1960–) has published in many journals, and his poetry has been widely anthologized. His latest book is
The Blaze of Poui.
He is currently an assistant professor of English at George town University in Washington, D.C.
    P ABLO N ERUDA (1904–73): Nobel Prize–winning Chilean poet. He received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1953.
    F RANK O'H ARA (1926–1966): O'Hara worked at the Museum of Modern Art in New York for most of his life. He published his first volume of poems,
A City in Winter and Other Poems
, in 1952, and over the course of his life he published five more collections.
    S HARON O LDS (1942–): Often described as a confessional poet, Olds won the National Book Critics Circle Award for
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