Tagliabue, John, 1923-....

John Tagliabue (1923-2006) was an American poet and playwright. Born in Italy, Tagliabue came with his family to the United States while still a child. He studied English at Columbia University where his fellow students inluded Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac, and over his career received six Fulbright fellowships which he spent in Italy, China, Japan, and Indonesia. He taught for more than 35 years (1953-1989) at Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, where he actively recruited notable poets like Denise Levertov and Stephen Sender to speak, and where he founded and presided over the "United Nations of Poetry," an informal gathering of students to read the poetry of others and their own work. He is the author of several books of poetry, including New and Selected Poems, 1942-1997 (National Poetry Foundation, 1998).

From the guide to the John Tagliabue Papers, 1943-1991, (Special Collections Research Center, Syracuse University Libraries)

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