Linda Hogan: Quick Facts

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Born	July 16, 1947 (age 79) • Denver • Colorado
Notable Works	“Calling Myself Home” • “Dark. Sweet.” • “Daughters, I Love You” • “Dwellings: A Spiritual History of the Living World” • “Mean Spirit” • “People of the Whale” • “Seeing Through the Sun” • “Solar Storms” • “The Woman Who Watches Over the World”

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Reynolds Price

American writer

N. Scott Momaday

N. Scott Momaday

American author

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Leslie Marmon Silko

American author

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Janet Campbell Hale

Native American poet and novelist

Joy Harjo

Joy Harjo

American author, academic, musician and artist

Alice Walker smiling and wearing glasses, a beaded necklace, and a burgundy velvet top at the opening of The Color Purple in New York City.

Alice Walker

American writer

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Larry Woiwode

American author

Paula Gunn Allen

Paula Gunn Allen

American author and scholar

Mark Twain

Mark Twain

American writer

Portrait of Jack Kerouac, American novelist and poet, looking over his shoulder in a collared shirt, circa 1965.

Jack Kerouac

American writer

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Tillie Olsen

American author

Theodore Dreiser

Theodore Dreiser

American author

Joan Didion, 1970

Joan Didion

American author

Jesmyn Ward

Jesmyn Ward

American author

Rita Dove

Rita Dove

American author

Maggie Nelson

Maggie Nelson

American writer

Wendell Berry, wearing a tan suit and patterned tie, smiles while seated among other attendees at a conference, holding papers in his hand.

Wendell Berry

American author

Edmund White

Edmund White

American author

Dorothea Tanning

Dorothea Tanning

American painter and writer

Joyce Carol Oates, 2012

Joyce Carol Oates

American author

Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry

A Study of Poetry

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:

Poetry: First Lines

4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul

Famous Poets and Poetic Form