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Paula Gunn Allen
2007 Lannan
Literary Fellowship
Paula Gunn Allen, of Laguna, Sioux and Lebanese descent, is a literary critic, poet, and novelist, and a noted scholar of Native American literature. During a long and distinguished academic career, she edited numerous seminal texts including The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in Native American Traditions (1986) and Spider Woman’s Granddaughters (1990) as well as works on poetry and critical essays on Native American literature. She retired from her position as Professor of English/Creative Writing/American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1999.
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A. R. Ammons
1992 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Simon Armitage
1994 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Frank Bidart
1998 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Eavan Boland
1994 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Eavan Boland explores the relationship between gender, art, and national identity in her work. She was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1944 and educated in London, New York and Dublin.
Her most recent book of poetry, Against Love Poems, concerns marriage and “the stoicism of dailyness” she explains. Of writing poetry she says,“I don’t write a poem to express an experience. I write it to experience the experience.”
Boland first read for the Readings & Conversations series in 1994 and was a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry that year. A regular reviewer for the Irish Times, she has been a professor of English at Stanford University since 1995, and serves as the Director of Stanford’s Creative Writing Center.
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William Bronk
1991 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Hayden Carruth
1995 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Anne Carson
1996 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Anne Carson is a poet, essayist, and scholar of classics who lives in Montreal. Her books include Men in the Off Hours; Autobiography of Red; Plainwater; Glass, Irony, and God; and Eros the Bittersweet.
Ms. Carson, who received a Lannan Literary Award and a MacArthur Fellowship, has said, “I will do anything to avoid boredom…It is the task of a lifetime. You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.”
Ms. Carson teaches at McGill University.
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Cyrus Cassells
1993 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Cyrus Cassells is the author of four books of poetry, including his most recent collection, More Than Peace and Cypresses (Copper Canyon Press, 2004). Among his honors are a Lannan Literary Award, a William Carlos Williams Award, a Pushcart Prize, two National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Lambda Literary Award. He is a tenured associate professor of English at Texas State University-San Marcos.
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Thomas Centolella
1992 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Thomas Centolella is the author of several books of poetry including Terra Firma, selected by Denise Levertov for the 1990 National Poetry Series, and Lights & Mysteries, which received the 1996 Poetry Medal from the Commonwealth Club of California. In 1992 he was a recipient of a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.
Mr. Centolella was a Stegner Fellow at Stanford University and has taught at the University of California, Berkeley, the College of Marin California, and in the California Poets in the Schools Program. He is currently living in San Francisco. He has just completed his third book of poetry.
During his residency Mr. Centolella worked on new poems and some short prose pieces and gave a public reading at Downtown Subscription in Santa Fe.
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Chrystos
1991 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Killarney Clary
1992 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Killarney Clary, who received the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1992, has published two books of poetry, Who Whispered Near Me, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and By Common Salt.
In a review of Who Whispered Near Me, Gary Young wrote, “There is no glamour here, little drama. Her subjects are prosaic, but her prose captures the internal rhythms of both memory and casual speech, and has been wrenched into a fierce lyricism. Clary’s poetry is a gymnastic of mind. We may feel submerged, lost in someone else’s thought, but her poems are maps, and Clary leads us surely through a maze we discover is nothing less than the rich pattern of a life.”
Ms. Clary was born in Los Angles in 1954, and was educated at the University of California at Irvine, where she received degrees in studio art and poetry writing. She has taught at the University of California at Irvine and at the University of Iowa Writer’s Workshop.
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Lucille Clifton
1996 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
Lucille Clifton was born in 1936 in Depew, New York. Her luminous and incisive poems have been published in nine books, including The Book of Light, Quilting, and Next.
Ms. Clifton has said, “I’ve always been a person who found more interesting the stories between the stories. I’ve always wondered the hows and the whys to things. Why is this like this? What has gone into making us who we are? Is it good or not so good? What is destroying us? What will keep us warm?”
Ms. Clifton, who has also written numerous books for children, received a Lannan Literary Award for Poetry in 1996. She is Distinguished Professor for Humanities at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.
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Cid Corman
1989 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Jon Davis
1998 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Carol Ann Duffy
1995 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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Alan Dugan
2002 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
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George Evans
1989 Lannan
Literary Award for Poetry
San Francisco writer George Evans is the author of five poetry books published in the USA and England, most recently The New World (2002). Recipient of many literary awards, he has also published two volumes of contemporary poetry translations. A veteran of the Vietnam American War, his internationally published writings are those of a longtime antiwar activist, advocate for the homeless, and promoter of social change.
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George Evans
2003 Lannan
Literary Fellowship
San Francisco writer George Evans is the author of five poetry books published in the USA and England, most recently The New World (2002). Recipient of many literary awards, he has also published two volumes of contemporary poetry translations. A veteran of the Vietnam American War, his internationally published writings are those of a longtime antiwar activist, advocate for the homeless, and promoter of social change.
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William Everson
1993 Lannan
Literary Fellowship
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