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Stuart, Dabney (1937– )
Dabney Stuart, a professor emeritus of English at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, is a prolific writer of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism. Stuart has published nineteen books and...
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Vanauken, Sheldon (1914–1996)
Sheldon Vanauken was a poet and novelist best known for his memoir A Severe Mercy (1977), about converting to Christianity and his wife's unexpected death at age forty. A less famous sequel, Under the...
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Belitt, Ben (1911–2003)
Ben Belitt was an American poet and translator born in New York City and educated at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He was a professor of comparative literature for fifty years at...
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Dillard, Annie (1945– )
Annie Dillard is a poet, essayist, and memoirist known for her intensely poetic and precise prose and her exploration of the natural environment. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Dillard graduated...
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Taylor, Henry (1942– )
Henry Taylor is an accomplished poet whose work, while often set in the South and concerned with nostalgia, does not succumb to the melancholy sentimentality of the Lost Cause clichés. He has worked...
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Simpson, Grace (1931– )
Grace Pow Simpson was Poet Laureate of Virginia (2000–2002) and is the author of the poetry collection Dancing the Bones (2001), which received the Writer's Digest National Self-Published Book Award...
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Dove, Rita (1952– )
Rita Dove is widely regarded as one of America's finest living poets, having published numerous collections of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize–winning Thomas and Beulah (1986). She served as Poet...
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Emerson, Claudia (1957– )
Claudia Emerson, a Virginia native and long-time resident of the state, is one of the South's most prominent poets, winning the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for her volume Late Wife. Although a narrative poet,...
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Daniels, Kate (1953– )
Kate Daniels is a Richmond-born poet and graduate of the University of Virginia who has been awarded the Pushcart Prize, the Crazyhorse Prize for Poetry, and the Louisiana Literature Poetry Prize, as...
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Gander, Forrest (1956– )
Forrest Gander is a poet, editor, translator, essayist, literary critic, and geologist. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, two Gertrude Stein Awards for Innovative...
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Giovanni, Nikki (1943– )
Nikki Giovanni is a poet, civil rights activist, and outspoken social critic—particularly on issues of gender and race—who uses her poetry as a vehicle for political commentary. Her self-published...
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Morgan, Elizabeth Seydel (1939– )
Elizabeth Seydel Morgan is a Richmond-based poet and writer. The author of several books of poetry, mostly free verse, she has drawn praise for her ironic depictions of commonplace activities and...
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Morland, Margaret Ward (1923– )
Margaret Ward Morland, Poet Laureate of Virginia from 1996 to 1998, has been active as an accomplished educator and poet since the 1960s. Two volumes of her poetry have been published: It Happens Thus...
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Poetry Society of Virginia
The Poetry Society of Virginia was founded in May 1923 in Williamsburg, Virginia, at the suggestion of Dr. C. E. Feidelsohn, a faculty member of the College of William and Mary. Its purpose is the...
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Roy, Lucinda (1955– )
Lucinda Roy is a poet, novelist, and painter who was raised in South London, England, and has taught at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (better known as Virginia Tech) in...
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Smith, Dave (1942– )
Dave Smith is a poet, editor, educator, and one of the foremost writers in contemporary southern poetry. Twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, Smith has won two National Endowment for the...
View ArticleBryan, Daniel (ca. 1789–1866)
Daniel Bryan was a poet, a lawyer, and a member of the Senate of Virginia (1818–1820) representing Rockingham and Shenandoah counties. Publishing his works in periodicals and short books, he wrote in a...
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Philip Pendleton Cooke was a poet whose work emphasized lost love, the natural world, and exoticism, placing him firmly within the romantic literary movement. Cooke practiced law in western Virginia...
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Moore, Virginia (1903–1993)
Virginia Moore was a poet, biographer, and scholar. She is perhaps best known for her work Virginia Is a State of Mind (1942), which has been described as the "biography of a state." In it, she...
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Burial of Latané, The
The Burial of Latané was one of the most famous Lost Cause images of the American Civil War (1861–1865). Painted by Virginian William D. Washington in Richmond in 1864, the work shows white women,...
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