OBJECTIVIST POETS
OBJECTIVIST POETSA group of mostly American poets, the Objectivists (not to be confused with the philosophical positions of Ayn Rand) came together quite incidentally through the editorial efforts of...
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Anselm Hollo
Anselm Hollo [b. Finland/USA]1934-2013Born in Helsinki, Finland in 1934, Anselm Hollo lived for several years in England, where he was employed by the BBC European Services, before moving, in 1967, to...
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Demonsthenes Agrafiotis
Demosthenes Agrafiotis [Greece]1946 Artist, photographer and poet Demosthenes Agrafiotis was born in Greece in 1946. His poetic focus has been on the intersecting aspects of his various arts. From...
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JAPANESE AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP KAIKO HAIKU
JAPANESE AMERICAN CONCENTRATION CAMP KAIKO HAIKU (USA) The dark time in American history of the arrest and internment of Japanese American citizens in World War II is contextualized in terms of the...
View ArticleSUN & MOON PRESS LITERARY SALONS
SUN AND MOON PRESS LITERARY SALONS (Los Angeles, USA)When Douglas Messerli, editor of Sun and Moon Press, moved to Los Angeles in 1985, he perceived that one of the major problems of Los Angeles...
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Xi Murong (Hsi Muren)
Xi Murong (Hsi Muren) [b. China/Taiwan]1943Born in Sichuan, China in 1943 of Mongolian royal lineage, Xi Murong moved with her family to Hong Kong in 1949 and then to Taiwan in 1955. Xi was...
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Tove Meyer [Denmark]1913-1972Born on July 1, 1913 in Usserød (Bikerød parish) Tove Meyer was the daughter of merchant, Louis August Meyer and his wife Suzanne Hedevig Kathrine. After graduation...
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Cid Corman
Cid (Sidney) Corman [USA]1924-2004Born in Boston’s Roxbury area, Sidney Corman grew up with parents from the Ukraine in the Dorchester neighborhood. He attended Boston Latin School, in 1941 entering...
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ORIGIN MAGAZINE AND ORIGIN PRESS (USA and Japan)
ORIGIN MAGAZINE AND ORIGIN PRESS (USA and Japan)In 1951, in response to a planned but failed project by his friend Robert Creeley, Corman began the magazine, Origin, devoted, primarily, to one writer...
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David Jones
David Jones [England]1895-1974Born Walter David Michael Jones on November 1, 1895 in Brockley, Kent, now a suburb of South East London, David Jones was the son of a Welsh-speaking family. However,...
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John Beecher
John Beecher [USA]1904-1980John Beecher, generally described as an activist poet, was born in New York City on January 22, 1904. His father, a steel industry executive, was from a long line of New...
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Mário de Andrade
Mário de Andrade [Brazil]1893-1945Born in São Paulo, Brazil on October 9, 1945, Mário Raul de Morais Andrade, was the child of a mixed marriage. As a child, we was a piano prodigy, and studied at the...
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GRUPO DOS CINO (THE GROUP OF FIVE) (Brazil)
GRUPO DOS CINCO (Brazil) Beginninng in the early 1920’s Brazilian writer, musicologist, folklorist, and photographer Mário de Andrade became close friends with several other São Paulo poets and...
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SEMANA DE ARTE MODERNA (MODERN ART WEEK) Brazil
SEMANA DE ARTE MODERNA (MODERN ART WEEK) (Brazil) Just before the publication of his book of poetry Paulicéia Desvairada, Brazilian poet Mário de Andrade collaborated with artist Antia Malfatti and...
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Franceso Levato
Francesco Levato (USA)1968Francesco Levato was born in 1968, in Chicago, Illinois. He is a poet, a translator of Italian poetry, and an experimental filmmaker. He received his MFA in Poetry from New...
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Henriqueta Lisboa
Henriqueta Lisboa [Brazil]1901-1985Brazilian poet Henriqueta Lisboa was born in 1901. Throughout a career in which she published over nine works of poetry, numerous essays, and translations, Lisboa was...
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essay "The Unshackling of Albanian Poetry," by John Taylor
The Unshackling of Albanian Poetryby John TaylorLightning from the Depths: An Anthology of Albanian Poetry, translated by Robert Elsie and Janice Mathie-Heck (Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern...
View Articlereview "Phantom of the Arts" (on Timothy Materer's Vortex Pound, Eliot, and...
phantom of the artsby Douglas MesserlliTimothy Materer Vortex Pound, Eliot, and Lewis(Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1979)Over the past decade a number of new books, essays, and gallery...
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essay-review "The Woman Most Like to Raise Dogs" (on Lois Gordon's Nancy...
the woman most likely to raise dogsby Douglas MesserliLois Gordon Nancy Cunard: Heiress, Muse, Political Idealist (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)If there is one figure of the Twentieth...
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essay-review "Dramatic Disproportionment" (on F. T. Marinetti: Critical...
dramatic disproportionmentby Douglas MesserliGünter Berghaus, editor F. T. Marinetti: Critical Writings, translated by Doug Thompson (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006)Reading the new...
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