Ada Limón
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Ada Limón is an American
poet.
Born in Sonoma, California
, She is the author of three full-length poetry collections, and two chapbooks.
She received her MFA from New York University in 2001, where she studied with Sharon Olds
, Philip Levine
, Marie Howe
, Mark Doty
, Agha Shahid Ali
, and Tom Sleigh
. Her graduate class included the noted poets, Jennifer L. Knox, Gregory Pardlo
, Jason Schneiderman
, Kazim Ali
, and Kathleen Graber. She received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including
The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, Pleiades, and Barrow Street.
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poet.
Born in Sonoma, California
Sonoma, California
Sonoma is a historically significant city in Sonoma Valley, Sonoma County, California, USA, surrounding its historic town plaza, a remnant of the town's Mexican colonial past. It was the capital of the short-lived California Republic...
, She is the author of three full-length poetry collections, and two chapbooks.
She received her MFA from New York University in 2001, where she studied with Sharon Olds
Sharon Olds
-Life:Sharon Olds was born in 1942 in San Francisco. She was raised as a “hellfire Calvinist”, as she describes it. She says she was by nature "a pagan and a pantheist" and notes "I was in a church where there was both great literary art and bad literary art, the great art being psalms and the bad...
, Philip Levine
Philip Levine
Philip Levine may refer to:*Philip Levine , American populist poet & professor of English, 2011-2012 Poet Laureate of the United States*Philip Levine , Russian-born American immuno-hematologist, researched blood groups...
, Marie Howe
Marie Howe
Marie Howe is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is The Kingdom of Ordinary Time . Her first book, The Good Thief, was selected by Margaret Atwood as the winner of the 1987 Open Competition of the National Poetry Series...
, Mark Doty
Mark Doty
Mark Doty is an American poet and memoirist.-Biography:He was born in Maryville, Tennessee, earned his Bachelor of Arts from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa, and received his Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Goddard College in Vermont.In 1989, his partner Wally Roberts tested...
, Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali
Agha Shahid Ali was a Kashmiri American poet...
, and Tom Sleigh
Tom Sleigh
Tom Sleigh is an American poet, dramatist, essayist and academic, who currently lives in New York City. He has published seven books of original poetry, one full-length translation of Euripides' Herakles and a book of essays. At least five of his plays have been produced...
. Her graduate class included the noted poets, Jennifer L. Knox, Gregory Pardlo
Gregory Pardlo
Gregory Pardlo is an American poet, writer, and professor. His poems, reviews, and translations have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Callaloo, Poet Lore, Harvard Review, Ploughshares, and on National Public Radio...
, Jason Schneiderman
Jason Schneiderman
-Life:He graduated from University of Maryland, and NYU with an MFA. He taught at Hunter College, and Hofstra University. He is completing a PhD at City University of New York....
, Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali
Kazim Ali is an American poet, novelist, essayist and professor. His most recent books are The Disappearance of Seth and Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities . His honors include an Individual Excellence Award from the Ohio Arts Council...
, and Kathleen Graber. She received fellowships from the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center and the New York Foundation for the Arts. Her work has appeared in numerous publications including
The New Yorker, The Harvard Review, Pleiades, and Barrow Street.