Question: What profession does Louise Glück and Alice Walker have in common?

Context articles: The Best American Poetry 1993
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth
Louise Glück
Meadowlands (book)
Poetry Society of America
The Wild Iris
Tobe Levin
Alice Walker
Averno (poetry)
Symphony No. 5 (Harbison)

The Best American Poetry 1993, a volume in "The Best American Poetry series", was edited by David Lehman and by guest editor Louise Glück.
Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth is a documentary film directed by Pratibha Parmar, made by Kali Films production company.
 The film follows the life of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, poet and activist Alice Walker.
 Shooting began in May 2011.
 It was aired on the BBC on Monday July 8, 2013, and on PBS on February 7, 2014.
Louise Elisabeth Glück (born April 22, 1943) is an American poet.
 She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 2003, after serving as a Special Bicentennial Consultant three years prior in 2000.
 She won the National Book Award for Poetry in 2014 for "Faithful and Virtuous Night".
Meadowlands is a 1997 poetry book by Louise Glück.
 It is her tenth book.
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner.
 It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States.
 Past members of the society have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Marianne Moore, and Wallace Stevens.
 Current members include John Ashbery, Louise Glück, Rita Dove, Stanley Kunitz, Robert Pinsky, Molly Peacock, Billy Collins and James Tate.
The Wild Iris is a 1992 poetry book by Louise Glück, for which she received the Pulitzer Prize in 1993.
 The book also received the National Book Critics Award for Poetry and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award.
Tobe Levin Freifrau von Gleichen (*Feb 16, 1948), a multi-lingual scholar, translator, editor and activist, is an Associate of the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research at Harvard University; a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Gender Studies Centre, Lady Margaret Hall, University of Oxford; an activist against female genital mutilation (FGM) and professor of English Emerita at the University of Maryland, University College.
 Having received her PhD in 1979 from Cornell University, she is most known for combining her advocacy against FGM with her academic scholarship in comparative literature.
 She has published peer-reviewed and popular articles and book chapters, edited four books, launched UnCUT/VOICES Press in 2009 and founded "Feminist Europa Review of Books" (1998-2010).
 Her most notable works to date are "Empathy and Rage.
 Female Genital Mutilation in African Literature" and " Waging Empathy.
 Alice Walker, Possessing the Secret of Joy, and the Global Movement to Ban FGM."
 Alice Walker expressed appreciation for the text that shows worldwide solidarity with the novelist's literary abolition efforts in the early nineties.
 Levin has also teamed up with Maria Kiminta and photographer Britta Radike to publish a memoir and sourcebook, "Kiminta.
 A Maasai's Fight against Female Genital Mutilation."
Alice Malsenior Walker (born February 9, 1944) is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and activist.
 She wrote the critically acclaimed novel "The Color Purple" (1982) for which she won the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
 She also wrote the novels "Meridian" (1976) and "The Third Life of Grange Copeland" (1970), among other works.
Averno is Louise Glück's eleventh collection of poetry published in 2006 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
 It was a National Book Award Finalist for Poetry that year.
The Symphony No. 5 is a composition for baritone, mezzo-soprano, and orchestra by the American composer John Harbison.
 The work was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under the conductor James Levine.
 It was given its world premiere in Boston on April 17, 2008 by the mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey, the baritone Nathan Gunn, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra directed by James Levine.
 The text of the piece is set to "Orpheus and Eurydice" by Czesław Miłosz, "Relic" by Louise Glück, and the "Sonnets to Orpheus" by Rainer Maria Rilke.