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55 relations: Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka, Amnesty International, Bernard Cooper, Billy Collins, Charles Baxter (author), Dai Qing, Dave Moore (newscaster), Dinkytown, Etheridge Knight, Eugene McCarthy, Galway Kinnell, Garrison Keillor, Global Minnesota, Hennepin County Library, Humphrey School of Public Affairs, Jack Mapanje, John Irving, Junot Díaz, Kate DiCamillo, Kathy Acker, Li-Young Lee, Lorrie Moore, Louise Erdrich, Madeleine Albright, Margaret Atwood, Marge Piercy, Mary Oliver, Michael Ondaatje, Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minnesota Historical Society, Minnesota Public Radio, Mona Simpson, Nat Hentoff, Nguyễn Chí Thiện, Nikki Giovanni, Open Book Minneapolis, Patricia Hampl, Patricia Smith (poet), Philip Levine (poet), Poetry Out Loud, Quincy Troupe, Rita Dove, Robert Bly, Ruhollah Khomeini, Salman Rushdie, Stanley Kunitz, ..., Star Tribune, Toi Derricotte, Tracy K. Smith, Vince Flynn, Zwelakhe Sisulu. Expand index (5 more) »
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997) was an American poet, philosopher, writer, and activist.
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Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka (born Everett LeRoi Jones; October 7, 1934 – January 9, 2014), previously known as LeRoi Jones and Imamu Amear Baraka, was an African-American writer of poetry, drama, fiction, essays and music criticism.
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Amnesty International
Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is a London-based non-governmental organization focused on human rights.
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Bernard Cooper
Bernard Cooper is an American novelist and short story writer.
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Billy Collins
William James Collins, known as Billy Collins, (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet, appointed as Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003.
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Charles Baxter (author)
Charles Baxter (born May 13, 1947) is an American novelist, essayist, and poet.
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Dai Qing
Dai Qing (born August 1941, Chinese: 戴晴, Pinyin: Dài Qíng) is a journalist and activist for China-related issues; most significantly against the Three Gorges Dam Project.
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Dave Moore (newscaster)
David Dalrymple "Dave" Moore (June 4, 1924 – January 28, 1998) was a popular Minnesota television personality and beloved figure in the area from the 1950s through the time of his death.
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Dinkytown
Dinkytown is a commercial district within the Marcy-Holmes neighborhood in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
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Etheridge Knight
Etheridge Knight (April 19, 1931 – March 10, 1991) was an African-American poet who made his name in 1968 with his debut volume, Poems from Prison.
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Eugene McCarthy
Eugene Joseph McCarthy (March 29, 1916December 10, 2005) was an American politician, poet, and a long-time Congressman from Minnesota.
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Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell (February 1, 1927 – October 28, 2014) was an American poet.
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Garrison Keillor
Gary Edward "Garrison" Keillor (born August 7, 1942) is an American author, storyteller, humorist, voice actor, and radio personality.
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Global Minnesota
Global Minnesota – formerly the Minnesota International Centre – is a nonprofit nonpartisan organization that connects individuals, organizations, and communities to the world.
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Hennepin County Library
Hennepin County Library is a public library system serving the entire population of Hennepin County, Minnesota, USA.
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Humphrey School of Public Affairs
The Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota is one of the country's top-ranked professional public policy and planning schools.The school is noted for equipping students to play key roles in public life at the local, state, national, and global level and offers six distinctive master's degrees, a doctoral degree, and six certificate programs.
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Jack Mapanje
Jack Mapanje (born 25 March 1944), ProQuest Learning: Literature.
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John Irving
John Winslow Irving (born John Wallace Blunt Jr.; March 2, 1942) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
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Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz (born December 31, 1968) is a Dominican-American writer, creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and fiction editor at Boston Review.
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Kate DiCamillo
Katrina Elizabeth "Kate" DiCamillo (born March 25, 1964) Includes "Autobiographical Statement" by DiCamillo".
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Kathy Acker
Kathy Acker (April 18, 1947 – November 30, 1997) was an American experimental novelist, punk poet, playwright, essayist, postmodernist and sex-positive feminist writer.
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Li-Young Lee
Li-Young Lee (李立揚, pinyin: Lǐ Lìyáng) (born August 19, 1957) is an American poet.
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Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore (born Marie Lorena Moore; January 13, 1957) is an American fiction writer known mainly for her humorous and poignant short stories.
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Louise Erdrich
Louise Erdrich (born Karen Louise Erdrich, June 7, 1954) is an American author, writer of novels, poetry, and children's books featuring Native American characters and settings.
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Madeleine Albright
Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright (born May 15, 1937) is an American politician and diplomat.
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Margaret Atwood
Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher and environmental activist.
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Marge Piercy
Marge Piercy (born March 31, 1936) is an American poet, novelist, and social activist.
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Mary Oliver
Mary Oliver (born September 10, 1935) is an American poet.
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Michael Ondaatje
Philip Michael Ondaatje, (born 12 September 1943), is a Sri Lankan-born Canadian poet, fiction writer, essayist, novelist, editor and filmmaker.
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Milkweed Editions
Milkweed Editions is an independent, nonprofit literary publisher founded in Minneapolis in 1980.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States.
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Minnesota
Minnesota is a state in the Upper Midwest and northern regions of the United States.
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Minnesota Center for Book Arts
Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBA) is the largest and most comprehensive independent nonprofit book arts center in the United States.
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Minnesota Historical Society
The Minnesota Historical Society (MNHS) is a nonprofit educational and cultural institution dedicated to preserving the history of the U.S. state of Minnesota.
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Minnesota Public Radio
Minnesota Public Radio (MPR), is a public radio network for the state of Minnesota.
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Mona Simpson
Mona Simpson (née Jandali; June 14, 1957) is an American novelist.
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Nat Hentoff
Nathan Irving "Nat" Hentoff (June 10, 1925 – January 7, 2017) was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media.
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Nguyễn Chí Thiện
Nguyễn Chí Thiện (27 February 19392 October 2012) was a Vietnamese-born American dissident, activist and poet who spent a total of twenty-seven years in prison by the Hanoi communist regime of both North Vietnam and post-1975 Vietnam.
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Nikki Giovanni
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. (born June 7, 1943) is an American poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator.
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Open Book Minneapolis
Open Book is a nonprofit literary arts center in Minneapolis, Minnesota housing The Loft Literary Center, Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Milkweed Editions and Conexion Coffeeshop.
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Patricia Hampl
Patricia Hampl (born March 12, 1946) is an American memoirist, writer, lecturer, and educator.
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Patricia Smith (poet)
Patricia Smith (born 1955) is an American poet, spoken-word performer, playwright, author, writing teacher, and former journalist.
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Philip Levine (poet)
Philip Levine (January 10, 1928 – February 14, 2015) was an American poet best known for his poems about working-class Detroit.
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Poetry Out Loud
The Poetry Out Loud: Recitation Contest was created in 2006 by the National Endowment for the Arts under chairman Dana Gioia and The Poetry Foundation.
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Quincy Troupe
Quincy Thomas Troupe, Jr. (born July 22, 1939) is an American poet, editor, journalist and professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California.
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Rita Dove
Rita Frances Dove (born August 28, 1952) is an American poet and essayist.
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Robert Bly
Robert Bly (born December 23, 1926) is an American poet, essayist, activist, and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement.
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Ruhollah Khomeini
Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini (سید روحالله موسوی خمینی; 24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian Shia Islam religious leader and politician.
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Salman Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist.
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Stanley Kunitz
Stanley Jasspon Kunitz (July 29, 1905May 14, 2006) was an American poet.
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Star Tribune
The Star Tribune is the largest newspaper in Minnesota.
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Toi Derricotte
Toi Derricotte (pronounced DARE-ah-cot) (born April 12, 1941) is an American poet and a professor of writing at University of Pittsburgh.
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Tracy K. Smith
Tracy K. Smith (born April 16, 1972) is an American poet and educator.
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Vince Flynn
Vincent Joseph "Vince" Flynn (April 6, 1966 – June 19, 2013) was an American author of political thriller novels surrounding the story of the fictional assassin Mitch Rapp.
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Zwelakhe Sisulu
Zwelakhe Sisulu (17 December 1950 – 4 October 2012) was a South African black journalist, editor, and newspaper founder.
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