DescriptionSimon J. Ortiz was born and raised in New Mexico as a member of the Acuna tribe. In books such as Woven Stone (1992), Ortiz's poems often speak to the contradictions and even absurdities of Indian life in America. He teaches at the University of Toronto.
DescriptionBorn in India, Seshadri grew up in Ohio. A former editor and writer for The New Yorker, Seshadri now directs the Graduate Program in Creative Nonfiction at Sarah Lawrence College and lives in Brooklyn. His book The Long Meadow (2004) won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
DescriptionThroughout his life, William Carlos Williams pursued careers as both a physician and a poet. He was close to Ezra Pound and other poets of the Imagist school but eventually decided to make his voice more associated with American culture and the richness of its language than with Europe's. Williams won a Pulitzer Prize for his last book of poems, Pictures From Brueghel And Other Poems .
DescriptionLi-Young Lee's father was Chinese and the personal physician to Mao Zedong. Lee was born in Indonesia and fled with his family to many Asian countries before coming to America in 1964. Book of My Nights (2001) is Lee's most recent book of poems. He lives in Chicago.
