biography
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Harper, Michael (Steven)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1938– )
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| biography:
| Poet and writer, born in New York City, New York, USA. He studied at City College (1954), California State, Los Angeles (1961 BA; 1962 MA), the University of Iowa (1963 MA), and the University of Illinois (1970–1). He taught at many institutions, notably at Brown University (1983), and lived in Providence, RI. He wrote poems linked to the sensibilities of African-Americans, as in Healing Song for the Inner Ear (1985). |
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