Ai: mixed ancestry

Poetry contest in middle school, but moved away before

Lived close to poverty, bad parent, influences poetry
Dramatic monologues, dread
Priority on fiving others opportunity to
Conversation
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Theme: death is inevitable

Talking to herself
Death is too powerful
Metaphor: life to dress (many chances of mistakes)
Metaphor: how people grow
Life is chains: one day will snap
What death is like
Death is harsher than what people think
Life and death irony conclusion

Dan Beachy Quick

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Chicago, upstate new York

Hamilton college, discovered poetry
Became a professor
CRICKET AND GRASSHOPPER:
o Describes transition from fall to winter
o Uses descriptive imagery
o World changing from fall to winter
o Personification (of leaf)
o Relaxing and beautiful ring to poem

Talks about making choices and hope and human mistakes

Influenced by past life and childhood

Says reading is escape and obsession
Loved English, discriminated
Phd, masters
Many awards won
LEARNING TO LOVE AMERICA
Lin talks about acceptance and wanting to be an American herself
Artichokes: fresh, is reason for her to love treasures of CA
I could walk barefoot in house: reflecting on childhood

Poems influenced by racial discrimination, life in college, Mexico

Intense imagery
Love in the Weather Bells
Snowberries and strawberries: late winter
Summer into autumn = when slow melts
Oldest memory is 1st time they met
He cant leave her
Personification of weather into lover
Hes dying winter is coming again
Abandoned chapel = loneliness
Weathers bells == signs of changing weather

JANE MILLER
Influenced by many classic poets
Style of juxtaposing 2 different points of views
Many works and awards
Teaches at Uni of Ar
May you always be the darling of fortune
Talks about snow fleeing = coming of spring
More rain
Imperceptible change: relating it to people and how change in ppl is similar to
change in spring
Priorities (what you want is worked for)
Create own sword for myself
Takes ppl to happy place sunlight flowers

NATASHA TRETHEWAY
Father was poet
Mixed, parents divorced, mother murdered by new husband -> seen in poetry
Many awards, well edu.
Uses both modern and traditional themes as well as description
Sonnet, civil war, etc.
SOUTH
Variety of pains
Coming to terms with self and south

Journey to come home

References of civil war (magnolias = surrender)
Ghosts of slaves in cotton field = refers to ancestors
Helps us realize our heritage
ADA LIMON
California, working class family
Influenced by visual arts and artists, like mother
Criticized by many peers
Many fellowships, awards and honors
Poems are auto. And experiences
Discovered in life
SHARKS IN THE RIVERS
Theme: death, motion of life
Dreams of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men represent fear of death
World is always moving quickly with risks like rivers sharks
Dealing with many deaths and hardships
Death was eminent everyday
Mysterious and overwhelming and no one knows when they will suddenly pop up.

SUSAN HOWE
Mother actress, father professor at Harvard
Degree in boston

Succeeded in poetry in 70s, incorporates own hardships

Many famous works
Pierce arrow and the midnight
Several honors and awards
SILENCE WATER STORIES
Power of love, life and death
Greek allusions (Orpheus), Christian history
Deeply spiritual
Al Young
Mississippi raised
Degree in UC B, not alfea
Writing style: jazz
Influenced by Langston Hughes and Paul Laurence Dunbar
Many awards
Professor, has unique style, original unique voice
One west coast
Theme: depression, loneliness, and hope
Resident torrest
Imagery
Gate = pale, unhealthy
DEREK ALTON WALCOTT
Born in Santa Ruca
Bad family condition

Single mother was seamstress

Took interest in painting until exposed to poetry
Asked for 200 dollars to publish in newspaper
Start career
Started Trinidad theatre workshop
Influenced by many famous poets and painters like Elizabeth Dishop
Many awards
Many plays and poems and works
A CITYS DEATH BY FIRE
Figurative language
Similes and metaphors\talks about solemn and gloomy theme in beginning then
hopefulness

Jessica Greenbaum
I HAD JUST HUNG UP FROM TALKING TO YOU
Theme: loss of love
Love is harsh, forgive me for not helping
Without love = alone, guilt
Metaphors: books = beauty and ppl
Simile: conversation like floors of pine forest
Imagery: talks about silvery red autumn deep boreal forest

CLARK COOLIDGE

Jazz musician
None books recognized
Influenced by Rainer Maria Rilke, Samuel Becket
BUT IT SAYS NOTHING:
Talking about how things do not advertise that they exist, they still are there (table,
chair, and the wall