Dorianne Laux, a poet, was born in Augusta, Maine, in 1952. Nickname: Motto: Official website: www. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...

She worked as a sanatorium cook, a gas station manager, and a maid before receiving a B.A. in English from Mills College in 1988. A cook is a person that prepares food for consumption. ... Modern gas station A filling station, gas station or petrol station is a facility that sells fuel for road motor vehicles – usually petrol (US: gas/gasoline), diesel fuel and LPG. The term gas station is mostly particular to the United States of America and Canada, where petrol is known... A maidservant or in current usage maid is a female employed in domestic service. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B., from the Latin Artium Baccalaureus) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Mills College is a liberal arts womens college in Oakland, California. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Laux is the author of four collections of poetry: Smoke (BOA Editions, 2000), What We Carry (1994), Awake (1990), and from Norton, "Facts About the Moon" (2005). With Kim Addonizio, she is the co-author of The Poet's Companion: A Guide to the Pleasures of Writing Poetry (1997). The Chinese poem Quatrain on Heavenly Mountain by Emperor Gaozong (Song Dynasty) Poetry (from the Greek , poiesis, making or creating) is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning. ... Kim Addonizio (b. ...

Among her awards are a Pushcart Prize, an Editor's Choice III Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. She has twice been chosen for Best American Poetry. Laux is a Professor at the University of Oregon's Program in Creative Writing and is currently the program's director. The Pushcart Prize - Best of the small Presses series, published every year since 1976, is the most honored literary project in America. ... The National Endowment for the Arts is a United States federally funded program that offers support and funding for projects that exhibit artistic excellence. ... The University of Oregon is a public university located in Eugene, Oregon. ... Creative writing is a term used to distinguish certain imaginative or different types of writing from generic writing. ...

She lives in Eugene, Oregon with her husband, poet Joseph Millar, and her daughter Tristem. To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

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