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John Logan

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(1923-1987) John Logan was born in Red Oak, Iowa, in 1923. From 1966 to 1985, he was an English professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He died in 1987 in San Francisco, California.

Dick Lourie

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Dick Lourie’s most recent collection (2009), If the Delta Was the Sea, was published by Hanging Loose Press. Lourie is a blues musician as well as a poet, and this book of poems about the Mississippi Delta is the result of his experiences playing music, interviewing local people, and researching history in the small Mississippi … Continued

Diane Lockward

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Diane Lockward is the author of three poetry books, most recently, Temptation by Water. Her previous books are What Feeds Us, which received the 2006 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and Eve’s Red Dress. Her poems have been included in such anthologies as Poetry Daily: 360 Poems from the World’s Most Popular Poetry Website and … Continued

Robert Long

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(1954-2006) Poet. The most recent of Robert Long’s four collections is Blue, of which Mary Karr writes, “Robert Long is one of the neglected beauties of American poetry. Cross the hilarity of Cummings with the intelligence of Proust and ardor of Cavafy, and you’ve begun to outline his powers. Blue is one of this year’s … Continued

Richard Levine

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Richard Levine, a retired New York City school teacher, is the author of Richard Levine: Selected Poems (FutureCycle Press, 2019), Contiguous States (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and five chapbooks: The Cadence of Mercy (FLP, 2014) A Tide of a Hundred Mountains (2012 Bright Hill Press Chapbooks Award), That Country’s Soul (FLP, 2010), A Language Full … Continued

Linda Lerner

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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

Gary Lenhart

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Gary Lenhart is the author of five collections of poems, including Father and Son Night (Hanging Loose, 1999). He edited The Teachers & Writers Guide to William Carlos Williams (T&W, 1998) and from 1986-91 the magazine Transfer. From 1977-85 he was an editor of Mag City and with others edited The Collected Poems of Michael … Continued

Alan Lomax

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(1915-2002)Writer, folklorist. “Mister Jelly Roll: The Fortunes of Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Creole and ‘Inventor of Jazz’” (1973), lived at 215 W. 98th Street in Manhattan, New York.

Frederico Garcia Lorca

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(1898-1936) Spanish poet, playwright and dramatist. Attended Columbia University, living in Furnald Hall, for a year. The poetry, passion, and violence of his work and his own tragic and bloody death, brought him enduring international acclaim. A joyous, versatile person, he was an accomplished musician and had an enormously original theatrical imagination. GarcÍa Lorca’s works … Continued

Audre Geraldine Lorde

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(1934-1992) Poet, writer, essayist, novelist, and teacher. Audre Lorde was born in New York City, and grew up in Manhattan, New York, where she attended Catholic school. She was a Hunter graduate in 1959 with a bachelor’s degree. In 1961 she received a Masters in library science from Columbia University and worked as a librarian … Continued