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Language Poetry
Language, or LANGUAGE, poetry is an avant garde poetry movement that emerged in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s that tends to draw the reader’s attention to the uses of language in a poem that contribute to the creation of meaning.
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- Glossary TermsLanguage, or LANGUAGE, poetry is an avant garde poetry movement that emerged in the late 1960’s and early 1970’s that tends to draw the reader’s attention to the uses of language in a poem that contribute to the creation of meaning.
- AuthorBorn in Brooklyn, New York, Ted Greenwald earned a BA from Queens College, CUNY. He has authored more than 25 books of poetry, including Lapstrake (1965); Blink (1972); The Life (1975); You Bet! (1978); Common...
- AuthorStephen Rodefer is the author of author of many books of poetry, prose, plays, and translations, including Call it Thought: Selected Poems (2008), Left Under A Cloud (2000), Mon Canard (2000), Erasures (1994...
- AuthorPoet and performer Steve Benson was born in Princeton, New Jersey. He earned a BA from Yale, an MFA from the University of California at Irvine, and a Phd in Psychology from the Wright Institute. Benson moved...
- AuthorPoet and visual artist Ray DiPalma was born in New Kensington, Pennsylvania. He earned his BA at Duquesne University and his MFA at the Iowa Writers Workshop. As a co-author of L E G E N D (L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E...
- AuthorPoet and essayist Alan Davies was born in Alberta, Canada, and earned his BA from Atlantic Union College in Massachusetts. In the mid-70s he edited the poetry journal A Hundred Posters. As a Harvard summer...
- AuthorBorn and raised in Providence, Rhode Island, experimental poet and jazz musician Clark Coolidge has been connected to both the Language movement and the New York School. His poetry utilizes syntactical and...
- AuthorP. (Peter) Inman’s collections of poetry include Platin (1979), ocker (1982), Red Shift (1988), Criss Cross (1994), Vel (1995), at. least (1999), and Ad Finitum (2008). His work has been published in Ron Silliman...
- AuthorBorn in Chicago, Illinois, Language poet and political scientist Bruce Andrews earned a BA and MA from the Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD from Harvard University. He moved to New York in 1975, where with...
- AuthorOften associated with Language poetry, David Bromige was born in London in 1933. He received a BA from the University of British Columbia in 1962 and studied for a MA and a PhD from the University of California...
- AuthorPoet, essayist, translator, and publisher Lyn Hejinian was a founding figure of the Language poetry movement of the 1970s and an influential force in the world of experimental and avant-garde poetics. Her ...
- AuthorRae Armantrout (she/her), one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets, stands apart from other Language poets in her lyrical voice and her commitment to the interior and the domestic...
- AuthorMichael Palmer was born in New York City on October 9, 1942. He earned a BA in French and an MA in Comparative Literature from Harvard University. He is the author of the poetry collections Thread (2011), ...
- AuthorAn avant-garde writer associated with the New York School of poets, Bernadette Mayer was born in Brooklyn, New York, and has spent most of her life in New York City. Her collections of poetry include Midwinter...
- AuthorFanny Howe is the author of more than 20 books of poetry and prose. Howe grew up in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and studied at Stanford University. “If someone is alone reading my poems, I hope it would be like...
- AuthorPoet, essayist, theorist, and scholar Charles Bernstein was born in New York City in 1950. He is a foundational member and leading practitioner of Language poetry. Bernstein was educated at the Bronx High ...
- AuthorPoet Ann Lauterbach's work has been compared to the poetry of John Ashbery and Barbara Guest. She has published several volumes of poetry, including Many Times, but Then (1979), Before Recollection (1987),...
- AuthorAn influential figure in contemporary poetics, Ron Silliman became associated with the West Coast literary movement known as Language Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s. He edited In the American Tree (1986), which...
