Joel Oppenheimer
(1930-1988) Poet. Joel Oppenheimer was born in Yonkers, New York. He was a columnist for the Village Voice from 1969 to 1984 and lived for many years in the Westbeth artists’s community in Manhattan, New York.
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Budd Schulberg
(1914-2009) Writer. Budd Schulberg was born in New York City and lived in Westhampton Beach, New York. He founded the Frederick Douglass Creative Arts Center in New York in 1971.
Barbara Dimmick
Barbara Dimmick’s first novel, In The Presence Of Horses, was published by Doubleday in 1998. Translated into five foreign languages, it was a bestseller in Germany and named a Notable Book of the Season by The Brisbane Times. Her second novel, Heart-Side Up, published by Graywolf Press in 2002, was awarded the New Hampshire Writers’ … Continued
James Gates Percival
(1795-1856) Poet. James Gates Percival was appointed assistant surgeon in the United States Army, and professor of chemistry at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, in 1824.
Richard Horan
Richard Horan is an award-winning fiction writer and educator, as well as a book reviewer, and travel writer. Mr. Horan has lived and taught all over the world. His most recent job was as a writing instructor at the State University of New York at Oswego. Prior to that he taught English in the Wisconsin … Continued
Anthony Piccione
(1939-2001) Poet. Anthony Piccione was born in Sheffield, Alabama, and died in Prattsburgh, New York. He grew up on Long Island and taught at the State University of New York at Brockport for twenty-five years.
John Pierpont
(1785-1866) Poet. John Pierpont was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, and was pastor of a church in Troy, New York, for a time.
Hilda Morley
(1916-1998) Poet. Hilda Morley was born in Manhattan, New York, and died at Royal Free Hospital in Hampstead, London. She had resided in Sag Harbor, New York.
Georganna Millman
Georganna Millman lives in the Catskill Mountains with her husband. They have two grown sons. She is self-employed, owning an independent retail pharmacy. She graduated Skidmore College. Her poetry has appeared in national and regional publications including Blueline, The Margie Review, Vanguard Voices of the Hudson Valley, The Literary Gazette, and Chronogram. She is a … Continued
Alexander (Sandy) Taylor
(1931-2007) Poet. Alexander “Sandy” D. Taylor was born in Rumford, Maine, and raised in Glens Falls, New York. He taught English for many years, translated Danish literature, and published his own poetry. He and his wife were founders of Curbstone Press.