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Born March 28, 1976 (age 50) • Sonoma • California
Title / Office poet laureate (2022-)
Notable Works “Against Breaking: On the Power of Poetry” • “Bright Dead Things” • “Lucky Wreck” • “Sharks in the Rivers” • “Startlement: New and Selected Poems • “The Carrying” • “The Hurting Kind” • “The Slowdown” • “This Big Fake World: A Story in Verse”

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American writer
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American author
American feminist, lecturer, writer, and publisher Charlotte Perkins Gilman, c. 1900
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American author and social reformer
Hearn, Lafcadio
Lafcadio Hearn
British-born writer and translator
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William Meredith
American poet
Layli Long Soldier
Layli Long Soldier
American poet
Robert Lowell, c. 1960
Robert Lowell
American poet
Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
American poet, scholar, and critic
John Updike
John Updike
American author
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
American poet
Elizabeth Bishop, 1938
Elizabeth Bishop
American poet
Kingston, Maxine Hong
Maxine Hong Kingston
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Louise GlĂźck
Louise GlĂźck
American poet
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Robert Hass
American poet and translator
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C.K. Williams
American poet
Philip Levine
Philip Levine
American poet
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James Merrill
American poet
Joseph Brodsky, 1988
Joseph Brodsky
American poet
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Carol Shields
American author

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