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Pedro García Cabrera (Canary Islands) 1905-1981
Pedro García Cabrera (Canary Islands)1905-1981Born in Vallehermoso, La Gomera, Pedro García Cabrera stayed for some of childhood in his father's home in Seville, before returning the Canaries, where he...
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Dennis Phillips (USA) 1951
Dennis Phillips (USA) 1951The fact that Dennis Phillips was born and raised in Los Angeles is quite apparent through his poetic writing, for he captures the sense of discontinuity that is so unique to...
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Klavs Bondebjerg (Denmark) 1953-2004
Klavs Bondebjerg (Denmark)1953-2004Born in Ålborg, Denmark in July 1953, Kavs Bondebjerg studied in Roskilde and Copenhagen’s University. He wrote for many years before his first poetry publication in...
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Michael Boughn (b. USA / Canada) 1946
Michael Boughn (b. USA/Canada) 1946Born and raised in Riverside, California where his great grandparents had settled in the late 19th century, Michael Boughn moved to Canada in October, 1966 to escape...
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Sándor Rákos (Hungary) 1921-1999
Sándor Rákos (Hungary)[1921-1999]Sándor Rákos was born in an Hungarian village, the son of the school teacher, in 1921. He studied economics in Budapest, but left his education for various...
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Christian Bök (Canada) 1966
Christian Bök (Canada) 1966Christian Bök has spent most of his childhood in the community of Georgetown, Ontario, but he has gone on to spend much of his adulthood in Toronto. Bök has earned degrees in...
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Susan M. Schultz (USA) 1958
Susan M. Schultz (USA)1958Susan M. Schultz was born in Belleville, Illinois in 1958, and grew up on the east coast. She has lived and taught in Hawai’i since 1990. Among her books are Aleatory...
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Gerrit Kouwenaar (Netherlands) 1923-2014
Gerrit Kouwenaar (Netherlands)1923-2014Born in Amsterdam in 1923, Gerrit Kouwenaar was one of the first poets to join the Experimental Group Holland, until then more or less dominated by painters. His...
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Thomas Boberg (Denmark) 1960
Thomas Boberg (Denmark)1960Born in Roskilde, Denmark in 1960, Thomas Boberg moved at the age of two with his mother and smaller sister to Copenhagen. He did not meet his real father, now a painter in...
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Michael Davidson (USA) 1944
Michael Davidson (USA) 1944Born in Oakland, California on December 18, 1944, Michael Davidson attended San Francisco State University and continued his graduate degrees at The State University of New...
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John Tranter (Australia) 1943-2023
John Tranter (Australia)1943-2023 Born on April 29, 2943 in Cooma, New South Wales, Australia, John Tranter attended country schools before his sporadic early university education, receiving at BA in...
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Bob Brown (USA) 1886-1959
Bob Brown (USA) 1886-1959Born in 1886 in Chicago, Illinois, Robert Carlton Brown attended the University of Wisconsin and at age 22 began writing for magazines and newspapers in New York City. He began...
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Robert Frost (USA) 1874-1963
Robert Frost (USA)1874-1963It is somewhat ironic that this poet—the personification of the New England voice in poetry—was born in San Francisco, and spent his first eleven years in the West Coast...
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Robert Crosson (USA) 1929-2001
Robert Crosson (USA)1929-2001 Born in Canonsburg, Pennsylvania in 1929, Robert Crosson remained in the East until his family moved to Pomona, California in 1944. He attended the University of...
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Pia Juul (Denmark) 1962-2020
Pia Juul (Denmark)1962-2020Pia Juul was born in Korsør, Denmark on May 30th, 1962. Her parents were both teachers and wrote books for children. She graduated with her General Certificate from Hobro...
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Paul Rodenko (Netherlands) 1920-1976
Paul Rodenko (Netherlands)1920-1976 Born in The Hague of a Russian father and a British-Dutch mother, Paul Rodenko had not read a poem in Dutch until 1947. This fact enabled him to have a truly...
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Karen Volkman (USA) 1967
Karen Volkman (USA)1967Karen Volkman was born in Miami, Florida, and received her B.A. from New College in Sarasota, Florida, and an M.A. from Syracuse University. She lived in Brooklyn for five years,...
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Deborah Meadows (USA) 1956
Deborah Meadows (USA) 1956 Born in Buffalo, New York, Deborah Meadows' father—and others in her family—were ironworkers, and she grew up in a working class neighborhood. But Buffalo is also hope to...
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Arnaldo Antunes (Brazil) 1960
Arnaldo Antunes (Brazil)1960Born in São Paulo in 1960, Arnaldo Antunes attended the University of São Paulo, but did not complete his degree. He edited several poetry magazines: Almanak 80 (1980),...
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Rupert Loydell (England) 1960
Rupert Loydell (England)1960Rupert Loydell was born in London in 1960. He founded Stride magazine in 1982, shortly before starting his degree in creative writing and painting, and just before founding...
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