The PIP (Project for Innovative Poetry) Blog: Table of Contents

G. C. Waldrep (USA)
1968
Born in 1968 in South Boston, Virginia, G. C. Waldrep attended Harvard as an undergraduate and earned a Ph.D. in American history from Duke University.

KoUn (South Korea) 1933
The South Korean poet Ko Un was born Ko Untaeon August 1,1933. He grew up in a peasant family living in Gensan in the NorthJeolla Province during a time with the national culture was suppressed underthe Japanese occupation.
Hisgrandfather taught him to read and write Korean, however, and he had alsolearned Chinese by the age of 8. By chance he discovered a book of poems by thenomadic Korean poet suffering leprosy, Han Ha-un whose work so impressed Ko thathe began writing...

Ben Lerner (USA)
1979
Ben Lerner was born in Topeka, Kansas, in 1979. He holds a B.A. in political science and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brown University. A former Fulbright Scholar in Madrid, Lerner co-founded and co-edits No: a journal of the arts....

Daniel Bouchard (USA)
1969
Born in Cincinnati, Daniel Bouchard grew up in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. He received an undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, and an M.A. from Temple University.