Penny Harter has published sixteen books of poems, six in the last decade. Her work appears in numerous anthologies and magazines worldwide, and her autobiographical essay appears in Contemporary Authors Autobiography Series, Volume 28 (1998) as well as in Contemporary Authors, Volume 172 (1999). Her essays on the teaching of writing and related subjects have … Continued
(1938-2008) Bill Higginson authored or edited: The Haiku Handbook: How to Write, Share, and Teach Haiku, which Booklist called “the standard work in the field”, and some 20 other books of poems and other literary works. While best known for his translations from Japanese and commentary on haiku as nature poems, he published three collections … Continued
Gerard Houarner is a Breton-American who has translated the dark and stubborn sensibility of his heritage into a career as a rehabilitation counselor, most recently at a state psychiatric facility. He has worked in the mental health/substance abuse field for twenty years throughout New York City. He is also a science fiction/fantasy/horror writer, with 19 … Continued
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Rockland County, New York, John Hoppenthaler’s books of poetry are Lives of Water (2003) and Anticipate the Coming Reservoir (2008), both titles from Carnegie Mellon University Press. His poetry appears in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, Southern Review, Barrow Street, Laurel Review, West Branch, the anthologies Blooming … Continued
Akua Lezli Hope has won two Artists Fellowships from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1987, 2003), a Ragdale United States-Africa Fellowship (1993), and a Creative Writing Fellowship from The National Endowment For The Arts (1990). She received an Artists Crossroads grant (2003) from The Arts of the Southern Finger Lakes for her project … Continued
(1889-1968) Writer, novelist, lecturer. Fannie Hurst was born in Hamilton, Ohio, and educated at Washington University. She lived in Manhattan, New York, at the Hotel des Artistes.
(1891-1960) African American fiction writer, novelist. Born in Alabama in 1891, Zora Neale Hurston was educated at Howard University and at Barnard College, specializing in folklore and anthropology, and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1936. She co-founded the magazine “Fire” with Langston Hughes. She lived in Manhattan, New York. In 2003 the United States … Continued
(1895-1943) Lyricist, librettist. Lorenz Hart was born, lived, and died in Manhattan, New York. He and Richard Rodgers collaborated on many musicals with Rodgers writing the music and Hart the lyrics.
(1923-2004) Poet. Anthony Evan Hecht was born in Manhattan, New York, in 1923. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1982 to 1984.
(1899-1961) Writer, novelist. Ernest Hemingway stayed at the Brevoort Hotel, 5th Avenue and 8th Street, the Sherry-Netherland, 781 5th Avenue and the Barclay, 111 East 48th Street, now Hotel Intercontinental. He also owned an apartment at 1 East 62nd Street. In 1989 the United States Postal Service issued its seventh stamp in the Literary Arts … Continued