词条 | Steve Kowit |
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| name = Steve Kowit | image = 2011 Steve Kowit-by-Patty Mooney.jpg | caption = Kowit in 2011 | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1938|6|30|mf=y}} | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York United States | death_date = April 2, 2015 | death_place = Potrero, California | occupation = poet, author, teacher, activist | nationality = American | education = Brooklyn College | period = }}Steve Kowit (June 30, 1938 – April 2, 2015) was an American poet, essayist, educator, and human rights advocate.[1][2][3][4] He received multiple awards for his poetry.[5] His book In the Palm of Your Hand: A Poet's Portable Workshop has been used in high schools, colleges, universities and writing workshops across the country[6] since its publication in 1995. BiographyKowit was born in Brooklyn, New York where as a young man he frequently gave poetry readings at coffee houses. After a stint in the Army Reserve, he earned his BA from Brooklyn College. He moved to San Francisco at the age of 27 spending time in the Haight-Ashbury district. Kowit earned a MA at San Francisco State College (now San Francisco State University when he was 30. After refusing Army induction at the beginning of the Vietnam War – or as Kowit called it, “America’s genocidal slaughter of the Vietnamese people” – he traveled to Mexico, Central and South America with his wife, Mary. After the war Kowit returned to the States and resided in San Diego.[7][8][9] In San Diego he started teaching Poetry Writing in his Ocean Beach, San Diego home in the late 1970s. He went on to teach classes at San Diego State University, University of California, San Diego and Southwestern College. Awards
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References1. ^{{Cite news|url=http://sandiegofreepress.org/2015/04/last-will-by-steve-kowit/|title=Last Will by Steve Kowit - San Diego Free Press|date=2015-04-03|newspaper=San Diego Free Press|language=en-US|access-date=2016-10-11}} 2. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.servinghousejournal.com/KowitMemorial.aspx|title=Serving House Journal: Poetry: SHJ Editors: In Memory of Steve Kowit|website=www.servinghousejournal.com|access-date=2016-10-11}} 3. ^{{Cite news|url=http://www.eastcountymagazine.org/passages-acclaimed-potrero-poet-steve-kowit|title=PASSAGES: ACCLAIMED POTRERO POET STEVE KOWIT|date=2015-04-02|newspaper=East County Magazine|access-date=2016-10-11}} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sandiegouniontribune/obituary.aspx?n=steve-kowit&pid=174667474|title=Steve Kowit's Obituary on San Diego Union-Tribune|website=San Diego Union-Tribune|access-date=2016-10-11}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.servinghousejournal.com/KowitMemorial.aspx|title=Serving House Journal: Poetry: SHJ Editors: In Memory of Steve Kowit|website=www.servinghousejournal.com|access-date=2016-10-11}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.servinghousejournal.com/KowitMemorial.aspx|title=Serving House Journal: Poetry: SHJ Editors: In Memory of Steve Kowit|website=www.servinghousejournal.com|access-date=2016-10-11}} 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-steve-kowit-20150413-story.html|title=Steve Kowit dies at 76; San Diego poet championed numerous causes|last=Times|first=Los Angeles|website=latimes.com|access-date=2016-10-11}} 8. ^{{Cite web|url=http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/475/inexplicable_kowit|title=The Sun Magazine {{!}} The Whole Inexplicable Business|last=Kowit|first=Carol Ann Fitzgerald and Steve|website=thesunmagazine.org|access-date=2016-10-11}} 9. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.theswcsun.com/steve-kowit-1938-2015-brilliant-poet-was-revered-professor/|title=Steve Kowit (1938-2015): Brilliant poet was revered professor|website=www.theswcsun.com|access-date=2016-10-11}} External links
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