Will Inman (poet)
Will Inman( born William Archibald McGirt, Jr.)( May 4, 1923 – October 3, 2009), was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, and graduated from Duke University in 1943.
He took his mother's maiden name, Inman, in part because his name became" Will In Man".
He worked in a shipyard during World War II, and became an activist in 1947 after summers of work in the Blue Ridge mountains.
He attempted, unsuccessfully, to organize tobacco industry workers.
Like many in the American left, he joined the Communist party but became disillusioned with its lack of humanity and left the organization.
He was called before the Un- American Activities Committee in 1956 where he was accused of being the head of the Communist Party in North Carolina.
Inman took the fifth in response to all questions.
Attempting a new start, he moved to New York City to begin life anew, working in libraries while focusing on writing in his free time.
From 1964 to 1977 he edited and published the seminal poetry newsletter" Kauri", part of the Mimeo Revolution of the Sixties, where he published the work of Charles Bukowski, Clarence Major, Walter Lowenfels, William Packard, Ron Silliman, John Sinclair.
The title, Kauri, is the Hindi word for the seashell known to English speaking peoples as a cowrie shell.
In 1967 he was appointed Poet- in- Residence at American University, teaching there and at Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland.
He has also been an activist for many humanist causes including anti-war and gay rights efforts.
He moved to Tucson, Arizona in 1973.
[ 1] His anthology Fired Up with You:
Poems of a Niagara Vision was one of the earliest anthologies to include the poetry of Jimmy Santiago Baca as well as the pioneering feminist writer Barbara Mor.
He completed a memoir in 1998 but Red Crane Books decided not to publish it.
A copy of his memoir has been donated to the Rubenstein Rare Book Library at Duke University.
He died in 2009 after having Parkinson's disease.
His letters, manuscripts, and publications are collected at Duke University and at the University of North Carolina Wilmington.
Richard Shelton (writer)
Richard Shelton( born 1933, Boise, Idaho) is an Arizona writer, poet and emeritus Regents Professor of English at the University of Arizona.
He has written nine books of poetry; his first collection of poems," The Tattooed Desert," won the International Poetry Forum's U.S. Award.
His 1992 memoir" Going Back to Bisbee", a New York Times Notable Book was selected for the" One Book Arizona" program in 2007.
Shelton also won the" Western States Book Award" for Creative Nonfiction in 1992 for" Going Back to Bisbee".
In 2000, Shelton received a$ 100,000 grant from the Lannan Foundation to complete two books.
His poems and prose pieces have appeared in more than two hundred magazines and journals including" The New Yorker The Atlantic The Paris Review", and" The Antioch Review".
They have been translated into Spanish, French, Swedish, Polish, and Japanese.
In 1974, Shelton established a writer's workshop at the Arizona State Prison, and a number of books of prose and poetry written by men in Shelton's prison workshops have been published, including the writing of authors Jimmy Santiago Baca and Ken Lamberton.
Shelton is currently directing three prison writer's workshops in three units of the Arizona State Prison.
His latest book," Crossing the Yard: Thirty Years as a Prison Volunteer" is about this experience.
It won the 2007" Southwest Books of the Year" award.
John Divane
John Divane( VC)( Also known as Devine and Duane)( November 1823 – 1 December 1888) was an Irish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Jimmy Santiago Baca( born January 2, 1952 in Santa Fe, New Mexico) is a Chicano- American poet and writer.
Willem Brakman
Willem Pieter Jacobus Brakman( 1922 – 2008) was a Dutch writer who made his literary debut with the novel" Een winterreis" in 1961.
Brakman received the P. C. Hooft Award in 1980.
He was born on June 13th, 1922 in The Hague, Netherlands, and died on May 8th, 2008 in the same country.
Jimmy Paredes
Jimmy Santiago Paredes Terrero( born November 25, 1988), is a Dominican professional baseball utility player who is a free agent.
Paredes previously played in Major League Baseball( MLB) for the Houston Astros, Kansas City Royals, Baltimore Orioles, Toronto Blue Jays, and Philadelphia Phillies, in Nippon Professional Baseball( NPB) for the Chiba Lotte Marines, and in the KBO League for the Doosan Bears.
Godwin Davy
Godwin Davy( born 15 December 1979) is an Anguillan international footballer who plays as a goalkeeper.
He made his international debut in a World Cup qualifying match against El Salvador, resulting in a lopsided match, losing 12- 0 in February 2008, and also played in the 4 – 0 loss to the same country in the return match in March 2008.
Duane Armstrong
Duane Albert Armstrong is an American painter, best known for his oil on canvas paintings.
He was born December 25, 1938 in Fresno California, and was raised near San Luis Obispo California.
His mother taught him to paint as a child.
His best- known works are his" Fields of Grass" series of oil on canvas paintings, which depict California landscapes and are noted for their inclusion of a small ladybug near the bottom of some or all of the paintings in the series.
A story claims that he began adding the ladybug to his" Fields of Grass" paintings after a customer saw one in another painting and requested he add it to the painting she just bought.
He has painted over 7,000 paintings over the years, over 185 of which are in print, including reproductions by Heritage Publications, Illinois Moulding Co., Windsor Art Co., Turner Art Co., Continental Art Co., and Art Market International.
His work is included in the exhibitions of Stanford University, The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, and in the Cal Poly Graphic Communication Support Program gallery.
Martin & Meditations on the South Valley
Martín& Meditations on the South Valley is a semiautobiographical poetry collection or" novel in verse" written by Jimmy Santiago Baca and published in 1987.
Contents of the book include an introduction by Denise Levertov,( poetry editor at" Mother Jones" to whom Baca sent his early poems while in prison)," Martín", an epic poem in nine parts," Meditations on the South Valley", a continuation of" Martín" in twenty- eight parts, and two glossaries of Spanish words, phrases, and references in English.
Nodesha
Nodesha( born Nodesha Felix; 1985 in San Bernardino, California) is an American R&B singer, who was signed to Arista Records when she was only sixteen years old.
She released her debut album," Nodesha", in 2003.
Her singles included," Get It While It's Hot" and" That's Crazy".
Executive producers on the album were Jimmy Jam, Terry Lewis, and L.A. Reid.
Nodesha co -wrote all of her songs.

Question: Were Jimmy Santiago Baca and Duane Armstrong from the same country?
Answer: yes