Primary Writing small press records and Phyllis Rosenzweig personal correspondence collection
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Ward, Diane, 1956-
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Diane Ward was born in Washington, DC on November 9, 1956. She attended the Corcoran School of Art where she met Doug Lang and Terence Winch, both of whom taught creative writing. She was initially associated with the first wave of Language poetry in the 1970s. Ward has published more than a dozen works of poetry and has been included in numerous anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Postmodern American Poetry (1994) and From the Other Side of the Century (1994). She has read widely in ...
Lang, Doug, 1941-2022
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Doug Lang was born as William Douglas Allen in Swansea, Wales on April 11, 1941 to parents William I. and Anne (Lang) Allen. Lang and his sister Synde (alternatively known as Sindy and Daphne) adopted their mother's maiden name when their father left early in their childhood. Before moving to the United States, Lang attended Coleg Harlech, an alternative residential college in Wales, and married fellow poet Andrea Wyatt in London in 1972. Lang settled in Washington, DC in 1973 and ran an infl...
Mandel, Tom, 1942-
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Tom Mandel (born Thomas Oskar Poeller on September 12, 1942) is an American poet whose work is often associated with the Language poets. He was born in Chicago and has lived in New York City, Paris and San Francisco. He lives in Lewes, Delaware with his wife the poet and psychotherapist Beth Joselow. Mandel he was the child of Jewish immigrants who fled Vienna (after the Anschluss) and then Vichy France (after France's defeat by Germany). He was educated in Chicago's jazz and blues clubs (e....
Lally, Michael, 1942-
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Michael Lally (May 25 1942- ) is an American-born poet and the author of more than 30 books of poetry. He is considered part of the New York School of poetry, which began in the early 1950s. Lally was born in Orange, New Jersey. His autobiographical style of poetry and prose reflects on American culture from the 1950s. Lally started out reading his poetry in coffeehouses and bars in 1959. In 1962, he joined the United States Air Force and after leaving the military used the the G.I. Bill to att...
Winch, Terence, 1945-
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Terence Patrick Winch was born on November 1, 1945 in New York City to Patrick and Bridie (Flynn) Winch, who both emigrated from Ireland. He earned his Bachelor's degree from Iona College in 1967 and a Master's degree from Fordham University in 1969.In the 1970s, Winch worked for Dover Publications as a copywriter and Corcoran School of Art as an instructor and artist-in-residence. He published a number of poetry chapbooks, including Boning Up (1972), The Beautiful Indifference (1975), and The A...
Joselow, Beth 1948-
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Poet and writer Beth Baruch Joselow was born in Washington and raised in Baltimore. The city of Baltimore and the people Beth knew while growing up have heavily influenced her poetry, particularly her early work. She began writing poetry seriously in her 20s. Having settled in Washington in 1970, Beth was part of the Mass Transit Poets in Washington in the early 1970s. This Dupont Circle poetry group held weekly readings, produced five issues of Mass Transit, a poetry magazine, and led to the es...
Downs, Buck 1964-
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Buck Downs (1964-) is a poet, publisher, and editor who has been a long-time resident of Washington, D.C. Buck Jordan Downs was born in Jones County, Mississippi on 07/28/1964. His parents are Jordon Downs and Fronia Gail Ulmer Downs. He resides and works in Washington, D.C. Some of his poems have appeared in journals including Puppyflowers, Brooklyn Rail, and Columbia Poetry Review. His books include Ladies Love Outlaws, In Memory of D. Thompson, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, twist riffs & stiff...
Rosenzweig, Phyllis D., 1943-
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Phyllis D. Rosenzweig was born in 1943. She taught adjunct classes at George Washington University and the Corcoran College of Art + Design, and organized several exhibitions of contemporary art in Washington D.C. and the Bronx, New York. She is associated with a group of D.C. poets (including Tina Darragh, Lynne Dreyer, Peter Inman, Diane Ward, Bernard Welt, and Terence Winch), and the community originally formed around Folio Bookstore and readings organized there by poet Doug Lang in the 1970s...
