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

- 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

- 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 can’t leave her

Personification of weather into lover

He’s dying winter is coming again

Abandoned chapel = loneliness

Weather’s 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 CITY’S 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