1. Rae Armantrout was born on April 13,1947 and is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets.
11 Facts About Rae Armantrout
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Rae Armantrout has published more than two dozen books, including both poetry and prose.
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Rae Armantrout is retired from her long tenure teaching at the University of California, San Diego, where she was Professor of Poetry and Poetics.
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In 1965, while living in the Allied Gardens district with her parents, Rae Armantrout attended San Diego State University, intending to major in anthropology.
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At Berkeley, Rae Armantrout studied with poet Denise Levertov and befriended Ron Silliman.
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Rae Armantrout published poetry in Caterpillar in the early 1970s, and from this point began to view herself as a poet.
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Rae Armantrout took a master's degree in creative writing from San Francisco State University, and wrote Extremities, her first book of poetry.
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Rae Armantrout has twice received a Fund For Poetry Grant and was a California Arts Council Fellowship recipient in 1989.
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Rae Armantrout was one of a group of ten poets who participated in The Grand Piano: An Experiment In Collective Autobiography.
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Rae Armantrout was a member of the original West Coast Language group.
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Rae Armantrout graduated from University of California, Berkeley in 1970 and married Chuck Korkegian in 1971, whom she had dated since her first year at the university.