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Famous Poets From New Orleans and Their Selected Works.


Bob Kaufman

Bob Kaufman was born on April 18, 1925, in New Orleans, Louisiana, one of thirteen children. His mother was a black Catholic from Martinique, his father a German Orthodox Jew. He was known as "the American Rimbaud." His books of poetry include The Ancient Rain: Poems, 1956-1978 (New Directions, 1981); Watch My Tracks (1971); Golden Sardine (1966), collected by Kaufman's friend, Mary Beach, during his first period of silence; and Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness (1965), consists of three earlier broadsides, Does the Secret Mind Whisper?, Second April, and the Abomunist Manifesto. Kaufman died of emphysema in 1986.
Poetry
    Solitudes Crowded With Loneliness (1965)
    Golden Sardine (1966)
    Watch My Tracks (1971)
    The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956-1978 (1978)

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Jan Heller Levi

Jan Heller Levi was born in New York City in 1954 and grew up in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the author of Once I Gazed at You in Wonder (Louisiana State University Press, 1999), which won the 1998 Walt Whitman Award. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Ploughshares, Antioch Review, New Orleans Review, and Pequod. In 1998 she received the George Bogin Memorial Prize from the Poetry Society of America. Jan Heller Levi divides her time between New York City and St. Gallen, Switzerland.

Jan Heller Levi books 

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Nicole Cooley

Nicole Cooley grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana. She received her B.A. from Brown University, her M.F.A. from The Iowa Writers' Workshop, and her Ph.D. from Emory University. She is the author of Resurrection (Louisiana State University Press, 1996), which was chosen by Cynthia Macdonald to receive the 1995 Walt Whitman Award. Nicole Cooley lives in New York City, and is working on a book of poetry about the Salem witch trials of 1692, titled The Afflicted Girls.
Nicole Cooley books

Other Nicole Cooley exhibits on the web:

  • Two poems
    "New Orleans, 1995" and "A Woman Dreams in Cincinnati," from the Weber Studies website
     
  • Resurrection
    A review of Resurrection from Louisiana State University Press.


Terrance Hayes

 

Terrance Hayes, a native of Columbia, South Carolina, earned a B.A. from Coker College and an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of Hip Logic (Penguin, 2002) and Muscular Music (1999). His poems have appeared in The Beloit Poetry Journal, Chelsea, Callaloo, Crab Orchard Review and in two anthologies: Giant Steps: The New Generation of African American Writers (ed. Kevin Young, 2000) and American Poetry: The Next Generation (eds. Gerald Costanzo and Jim Daniels, 2000). He received his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh in 1997, and is an assistant professor of English at Xavier University in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he lives with his wife, poet Yona Harvey, and their daughter.
Terrance Hayes books

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Walt Whitman

Born on May 31, 1819, Walt Whitman was the second son of Walter Whitman, a housebuilder, and Louisa Van Velsor. The family, which consisted of nine children, lived in Brooklyn and Long Island in the 1820s and 1830s. At the age of twelve Whitman began to learn the printer's trade, and fell in love with the written word.
In the early 1870s, Whitman settled in Camden, where he had come to visit his dying mother at his brother's house. However, after suffering a stroke, Whitman found it impossible to return to Washington. He stayed with his brother until the 1882 publication of Leaves of Grass gave Whitman enough money to buy a home in Camden. In the simple two-story clapboard house, Whitman spent his declining years working on additions and revisions to a new edition of the book and preparing his final volume of poems and prose, Good-Bye, My Fancy (1891). After his death on March 26, 1892, Whitman was buried in a tomb he designed and had built on a lot in Harleigh Cemetery.
Poetry
    Leaves of Grass (1855) First edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1856) Second edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1860) Third edition.
    Drum Taps (1865)
    Sequel to Drum Taps (1865)
    Leaves of Grass (1867) Fourth edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1870) Fifth edition.
    Passage to India (1870)
    Leaves of Grass (1876) Centennial edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1881) Sixth edition.
    Leaves of Grass (1891) "Deathbed" edition.
    Good-Bye, My Fancy (1891)
Prose
    Franklin Evans; or, The Inebriate (1842)
    Democratic Vistas (1871)
    Memoranda During the War (1875)
    Specimen Days and Collect (1881)
    November Boughs (1888)
    Complete Prose Works (1892)

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