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Janet Abramson
Janet Abramson was born in Detroit and graduated cum laude in English and history from Wayne State University. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (Ford Foundation) to atte...visualizza altroJanet Abramson was born in Detroit and graduated cum laude in English and history from Wayne State University. She was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (Ford Foundation) to attend graduate school for one year at any university in the U.S. and Canada. She earned a master’s degree in English from the University of California, Berkeley. She witnessed the beginning of the anti-Vietnam War movement in Berkeley. She completed all but the dissertation of a PhD at Michigan State University. She taught in a girls’ high school in London, England for 10 months in 1966 and taught English at a community college in Michigan for 27 years. She married Paul Abramson, a political science professor. They had two children. The Abramson family lived in Israel in 1987–1988, and in 1994.
Janet published a chapbook of her poetry and art in 1996 (The Ploughman Press, Canada). She won second prize in the Poet Magazine national contest in 1994–95, and she has published poetry and articles in Peace and Freedom (England), Psychopoetica (Hull University, England), Ariel (Triton College, Illinois), Prism, The Burning World, Way Station, Struggle, and elsewhere. In 2019, she published The Manifesto of the Red-Haired Woman Gunslinger: Collected Poems. Also, in 2023, Janet published Corona-Copeia: Pandemic Poems 2020 - 2021.visualizza meno