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Sara Teasdale Edwin Muir Robinson Jeffers Jorie Graham Lucia AUTHORS

 ( ) born in St. Louis, Missouri & started publishing poems when she was 20yrs old.  Rivers to the Sea 1915, Bestseller.  Love Songs 1918, won the Pulitzer prize for poetry.  “There Will Come Soft Rains” produces the image of a world after humankind has been wiped out. Poem inspired Ray Bradbury.  1933 committed suicide SARA TEASDALE

 ( ) Scottish man, journalist, novelist, translator, memoirist, and poet.  Family were poor farmers and when they lost the farm they moved to a big industrial town, he did not like the transition.  Pessimism towards modernity, industry, and technology. All show up in his later works bc of his ruined childhood (but aint that all of us?)  Wishes for the world to be a type of Garden of Eden EDWIN MUIR

 ( )one of California’s best known poets. He was kinda a controversial figure bc of his refusal to support the war effort, those who supported him before the war didn’t anymore.  His poems depict the stark beauty of California’s landscapes before and at the start of the massive mid twentieth century population explosion. ROBINSON JEFFERS

 Born American poet and the Boylston Professor at Harvard University teaching creative writing and literature courses.  Born to a privileged family.  The Dream of a Unified Field: Selected Poems = won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in  Held the position of Chancellor of American Academy of Poets from  Sea Change (2008) consists of a series of poems about the environment, global climate change, and the increasingly dire condition of the worlds oceans. JORIE GRAHAM

 Born Raised in New York, worked for the United States Fish and Wildlife Service.  Published six books of poetry and has won the MacArthur Fellowship and a nomination for the Pulitzer Prize.  Very scientific LUCIA PERILLO