“ I am more who I am when I write it down on paper” said Julia Alvarez. Julia attended Connecticut College and received a poetry prize. But then she transferred to Middlebury College and received a bachelor degree in art. Then went on to Syracuse University and got her masters in fine arts. During the 1980’s she started publishing her work but she still had to go out and find jobs.
Projecting her own opinions and voice, forcing it into the world….and people had no choice but to listen. Everything she did, she did it well which landed her her first job as an associate professor of english in New Jersey and she continued to teach creative writing in 1985. There were many obstacles she had to face being a black woman in the 1960’s, 70’s, and 80’s. The black revolution and Civil Rights movement fueled her fiery poetry and also taught her as much as she taught everyone else. At age 25, she had a son named Thomas Watson Giovanni, she was never married.
To spread her love for poetry and literature to others, she taught college students the clarity of writing poetry. With this, her legacy will continue on through this as several have gone on to write poetry using her skills and ideas. Through all of her achievements, she was able to obtain
When she was fifteen she moved to Virginia where she first became interested in the arts. She attended the Art Institute in Chicago and went on to win many prizes in New York.
She was born in 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland and revived quite a nice education. She was enrolled at Radcliffe college, and Johns Hopkins University. She is quite an accomplished author, and has even written for the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. She is a woman in the middle upper class, if not upper class due to her education and her writing skills. She seems to have a very stable emotional state to be able to have worked for such important
As time presses on we can always look back at poetry to truly understand the emotions that were evoked at the time. In "The Pioneer Women" and "Grandma's Apron. " we are faced with similar although not exactly identical themes and imagery that conduct elements of interest in reference to daily life and objects that hide the truth of what we know. In “The Pioneer Women” we are shipped back to the west and the start of America; more specifically in the work of women.
Mari Evans and Carolyn Rodgers were poets and writers who were associated with the Black Arts Movement. These educated women had writings that get broken apart today to deeply understand the context and point of views they shared. Mari Evans’s writings studies African American uniqueness and focuses on the idea of all things black: social, cultural, and economical aspects. Carolyn Rodgers was considered an important poet in the late 20th century because she examined feminism and black power. She also assisted in creating the identity with her self-conscious and spiritual beliefs.
Susan Oliver writes an exceptional biography that describes in detail the life, success, struggles and failures of Betty Friedan. From her childhood as a divergent American-Jew living in Peoria, Illinois to being an outstanding student and writer in school, finding her path as a strong feminist at Smith College, her struggles as a mother and wife to mothering the second feminist movement. Susan Oliver explored all the factors that contributed to Betty Friedan’s strong private and public persona. Betty Friedan, a driving force of the second feminist movement, is barely recognized for the emancipation of women. Mostly known as the author of the Feminine Mystique, Susan Oliver made sure to demonstrate that Betty Friedan was more than a mere
This poem became the first nonfiction bestseller written by an African American female. This was a New York Times running bestseller for two years. The hardships that she encountered in her life made her strive to make change in the world by writing poetry and books about her life and feelings. Most of her works have shown people the true emotions and feelings of what it means to be a African American female in one of the most discriminating times in
Frances Harper was one of the most prominent African American poets during this time period. Frances Harper was not only important for her work as a poet but also for her work she did in helping with the Underground Railroad. Frances Harper worked directly with slave fugitives proving that she was going to do what it takes to help those people. Frances Harper’s second book, Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects I think helps make her a prominent writer. The book includes the poems “Eliza Harris” and “The Slave Auction” that attack slavery directly.
Along with that she also had received many honorary degrees from places such as Harvard University, Johnson Wales University, Smith college, Brown University, and many
each voice cried.” [Mary Oliver, The Journey 10] “But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do-- determined to save the only life you could save.” [Mary Oliver, The Journey 15] In the quotes the writer explains that other people held her back by telling her to help them, while in the next quote it illustrates what the writer has learned of herself, that she should look beyond what the others say and that when she did that she discovered her true
Creating writing class inspired her to write. With numerous bestselling books positive reviews and interesting personal life, Mary Higgins Clark is one of American’s most fascinating authors (McDonald). Clark grew up in Bronx and attended Villa Maria academy, and attended secretarial school. She
In high school, Constant had her first literary work published, a poem titled “The Dream Tree”. Throughout college, she continued to write poems, along with plays. Three of her plays were produced at Oklahoma City University, while her children’s plays were published in various collections. Constant also wrote articles for Holland’s Household, Southwest Review, and Reader’s Digest. Articles weren’t the only writings published in magazines.
Allen Ginsberg is known as one of the most influential poets, he was a key founder to to the Beat movement, and is very well known for his literary piece called “Howl.” He was born June 3, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey, and spent his life growing up in the city of Paterson. When Ginsberg was in highschool, he became eager to pursue a career of writing, which lead him to receive a scholarship at Columbia University. At Columbia University, he became friends with William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Neal Cassady who all became leading figures in the Beat movement. They were all interested in the street life of Paterson, and found inspiration in the culture that surrounded it.
