Linda Lerner’s poetry has its roots in an unhappy Brooklyn childhood, in the blues. She lives in New York City & is the author of six collections of poetry. Her collections include Anytimeblues (Ye Olde Font Shoppe Press, 1999), No Earthly Sense Gets it Right, (Lummox Press, 2000, nominated for a Pushcart Prize). Her interview … Continued
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Sharon Dolin was educated at Cornell University and U.C. Berkeley and holds a Ph.D. in English from Cornell. She is the author of 6 books of poems: Heart Work (Sheep Meadow,1995), Serious Pink (Marsh Hawk Press, Spring 2003), Realm Of The Possible (Four Way Books, 2004), Burn and Dodge … Continued
Larry Zirlin was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1951. He has lived in Brooklyn, New York, for the past 25 and worked in New York printing and graphics industry during that time. Zirlin’s poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The Village Voice, Hanging Loose, The World, and many other magazines. He has published … Continued
(1923-1990) Writer, historian. Stanley Green was born in Manhattan, New York, and died in Brooklyn, New York. He was a theater historian focusing on musicals.
(1912-1967) Writer, lyricist, social activist. Woodrow Wilson (Woody) Guthrie lived in Coney Island, New York, and died at Creedmoor Hospital in Queens, New York.
(1895-1985) Lyricist, librettist, screenwriter. Morrie Ryskind was born in New York City and died in Washington, District of Columbia.
(1939-1995) Poet, novelist, anthologist. Toni Cade Bambara was born in Manhattan, New York. She was a valued anthologist of African American writing. Bambara grew up in Harlem, Manhattan, and Brooklyn, New York. She attended schools in New York City.
(1922-2004) Poet, composer. Jackson Mac Low taught at New York University from 1966-1973 and at SUNY Binghamton, Binghamton, New York.
(1857-1938) Lyricist, librettist. “Hurly Burly” (1898), “Robinson Crusoe, Jr.” (1916), was born in Brooklyn and died in Bayside.
(1922-2004) Poet. Irving Stettner was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1922 and died in Dallas, Pennsylvania in 2004.