Mildred Barker grew up on an orange ranch in Pasadena, California, has worked in a cannery as a technician counting worm fragments in tomato products and in a hospital doing blood counts, taught in a rural school in New Mexico, was a job counselor at a Youth Opportunity Center in Manhattan, New York, helped rewrite … Continued
(1925-2023) Novelist, essayist, poet. Helen Barolini was born and grew up in Syracuse, New York, and graduated from Syracuse University. She did work at the University of London and traveled in Europe as a special columnist for the Syracuse Herald-Journal. In Italy she met and married fellow journalist and writer, Antonio Barolini. During her residence … Continued
John Barr has pursued parallel careers as poet and investment banker for the past 25 years. He has founded the country’s largest natural gas marketing company and a prominent investment-banking boutique. He is President Emeritus of the Poetry Society of America, and Chairman of the Board of Bennington College. Story Line Press published the trade … Continued
A SUNY Buffalo Ph.D. and Manhattan resident, Marleen Barr is the scholar who pioneered the study of feminist science fiction as an academic discipline. The author of four scholarly books who has lectured and taught throughout the world, Barr has won the Science Fiction Research Association Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction criticism. … Continued
Bruce Bennett was born in 1940 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He started to write poetry when he was eight. In the 1970s his poems began appearing regularly in magazines and anthologies. He received his AB, AM and PhD from Harvard, and taught English at Oberlin College from 1967-70, where he co-founded and served as an editor … Continued
Carole Bernstein is the author of Familiar (Hanging Loose Press, 1997) which J. D. McClatchy called “an exhilarating book.” Her chapbook, And Stepped Away from the Circle, won the 1994 Sow’s Ear Chapbook Competition. Bernstein’s poems have appeared in the anthology Unsettling America (Viking, 1994) and in magazines including Antioch Review, Bridges, Chelsea, Poetry, Shenandoah, … Continued
David Baratier was born in Schenectady, New York. Various pieces have appeared in Denver Quarterly, Jacket, Poet Lore, Slipstream, Quarter After Eight, Riverwind, Phoebe, and many others. His poems are anthologized in American Poetry: the Next Generation, from Carnegie Mellon UP; Red, White & Blues, Univ of Iowa Press and others. Collections include A Run … Continued
(1663-1752) Printer, publisher. William Bradford emigrated to Philadelphia in 1685 where he set up the first printing press in Pennsylvania. He added a bookstore in 1688 and was in 1690 one of the founders of the first paper mills in the colonies. He was arrested for printing a pamphlet critical of the Quaker government; his … Continued
(1898-1956) Poet, playwright, lyricist. Bertoldt Brecht stayed in Manhattan, New York while in exile from Germany. He was the father of the theater historian Stefan Brecht.
(1917-2000) Poet. Gwendolyn Brooks taught creative writing at Columbia University and City College of the City University of New York in Manhattan, New York. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1985 to 1986.