(1935-2007) Writer, reporter. Edwin McDowell was a reporter for The New York Times for 26 years. He served in the Marine Corps and graduated from Temple University. McDowell also worked for The Arizona Republic and The Wall Street Journal.
(1910-2007) Writer. M. M. Graff wrote about gardening and New York City’s Central Park.
(1919-2007) Poet. William Meredith was born in New York City. He was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1978 to 1980.
(1911-2004) Poet. Czeslaw Milosz was born in Szetejnie, Lithuania in 1911 and died in Krakow, Poland in 2004. He was a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley, and a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1980.
(1911-2007) Librettist. Gian Carlo Menotti was born in Italy in 1911 and died in Monaco in 2007. He lived for many years in a house known as Capricorn in Mount Kisco, New York.
(Died in 2006, aged 61 years) Writer. John Mohawk was a longtime professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York, and author of many essays, speeches, books and articles.
Daniel Thomas Moran, Poet Laureate, Suffolk County, New York, born in New York City in 1957, is the author of six volumes of poetry, the most recent of which, “Looking for the Uncertain Past,” was published by Poetry Salzburg at The University of Salzburg in 2006. He has read widely throughout New York City and … Continued
Wendy Mnookin’s most recent book of poems is The Moon Makes Its Own Plea, published by BOA Editions in 2008. Her other books are What He Took, To Get Here, and Guenever Speaks. The recipient of an NEA fellowship, Mnookin lives in Newton, Massachusetts, and teaches poetry at Emerson College and at Grub Street, a … Continued
Philip Memmer is a widely published poet, and Executive Director of The YMCA’s Downtown Writer’s Center in Syracuse. His poems have appeared in journals such as Poetry, Mid-American Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Poetry Northwest, and in several anthologies, including 180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day and Don’t Leave Hungry: Fifty Years of Southern … Continued
Author of five books of poetry, two critical works, one novel, a musical drama, a creative writing workbook, over 50 published essays, and editor of three anthologies, D. H. Melhem was born in Brooklyn, New York, and died in Long Beach, California. Her Gwendolyn Brooks: Poetry and the Heroic Voice (1987) was the first comprehensive … Continued