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Sylvester Graham
Sylvester Graham 1794-1851, American reformer and Presbyterian minister, b. West Suffield, Conn. He advocated a vegetable diet as a cure for intemperance and the use of coarsely ground whole-wheat flour. Graham flour was named for him. ... Read more
George Graham
George Graham 1674?-1751, English instrument maker. A clockmaker by trade, Graham designed clocks and watches that earned him membership in the Royal Society and were still manufactured into the present century. In 1725 he built a very accurate 8-ft (2.4-m) quadrant for the royal astronomer, Edmund... Read more
Nathaniel Brown Palmer
Nathaniel Brown Palmer 1799-1877, American sea captain and antarctic explorer, b. Stonington, Conn. While on a whaling voyage (1820-21) in the South Shetlands, he commanded the Hero on an exploring trip to the south and came back with a report that he had sighted land. Hence the name Palmer Land ... Read more
Thomas Graham
Thomas Graham 1805-69, Scottish chemist, best known for research in diffusion in both gases and liquids that led to his formulation of Graham's law. His discovery that certain substances (e.g., glue, gelatin, starch) pass through a membrane more slowly than others (inorganic salts, e.g., common s... Read more
Kenneth Grahame
Kenneth Grahame , 1859-1931, English author. He was a secretary in the Bank of England from 1908 until 1918. His works, noted for their humor and charm, include The Golden Age (1895) and Dream Days (1898), scenes of his childhood in England, and the children's classic The Wind in the Willows (... Read more
Billy Graham
Billy Graham (William Franklin Graham) , 1918-, American evangelist, b. Charlotte, N.C., grad. Wheaton College (B.A., 1943). Graham was ordained a minister in the Southern Baptist Church (1939), was the pastor of a Chicago church (his first and last pastorate), and in 1944 became an evangelist for... Read more
Henry Duncan Graham Crerar
Henry Duncan Graham Crerar , 1888-1965, Canadian general in World War II. He fought in World War I and later headed the Royal Military College. In 1940 he was made chief of the Canadian general staff. In 1941 he was given command of the Canadian 2d Division Overseas; in 1944 he became commander of t... Read more
Graham Land
Graham Land part of the Antarctic Peninsula , W Antarctica. This ice-covered, mountainous area was thought to be a group of islands but further exploration (1934) showed it to be peninsular. Claimed by Britain in 1832, it was also claimed by Argentina and Chile. Its name is sometimes used to descr... Read more
Graham Sutherland
Graham Sutherland 1903-80, English painter. Sutherland began his career as a painter at 35 and gained international acclaim with his paintings of war devastation. Among his major religious works are a tapestry for Coventry Cathedral and a series of paintings entitled Thorns. Realistically painted... Read more
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham
Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham , 1852-1936, British politician and author. He lived as a cattle rancher in Argentina and traveled widely in Latin America, Morocco, and Spain. He served (1886-90) as a Liberal member of Parliament from Scotland, took part in early labor politics, and, with James Ke... Read more

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About Jorie Graham.
Magazine article from: Ploughshares; 12/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; Jorie Graham is the kind of poet whose life is nothing...her totemic structures. As a child, Jorie hid inside old churches; she helped out...life is marked by such defining moments, Jorie Graham became not only a lover of poetry, but...
Jorie Graham. Sea Change.(Book review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 7/1/2008; ; 700+ words ; Jorie Graham. Sea Change. New York. Ecco. 2008. xii + 56 pages. $23.95. ISBN 978-0-06-153717-2 The theme of Sea Change, Jorie Graham's eleventh book of poems, is large--the fate of the earth--and...
Exquisite disjunctions, exquisite arrangements: Jorie Graham's "strangeness of strategy." (contemporary woman poet's use of the long line of poetry)
Magazine article from: The Antioch Review; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...reinvigorated by strangeness of strategy." (Letter from Jorie Graham to Charles Wright, quoted in Quarter Notes.) In a...inhabit, and revitalize the long line. Most recently, Jorie Graham has confronted this tradition by using and reinvigorating...
Jorie Graham; essays on the poetry.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News; 11/1/2005; 434 words ; 0299203204 Jorie Graham; essays on the poetry. Ed. by Thomas Gardner. U. of Wisconsin...PS3557 American scholars of literature examine the work of American poet Graham (b. 1951), mostly in reviews and articles reprinted since 1992...
JORIE GRAHAM AT SKIDMORE.(PREVIEW)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/6/1997; 324 words ; SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Jorie Graham, winner of last year's Pulitzer Prize for poetry, will visit...March 12 event will feature discussion of the poet's work, with Graham responding to questions and suggestions coming from six members...
Accurate failures: the work of Jorie Graham.
Magazine article from: Hollins Critic; 10/1/1987; ; 700+ words ; Jorie Graham is a poet who has published three remarkable...but as the following reading suggests, Graham is in the process of developing an approach...ambitions and the subtlety of its unfolding. Graham frames her version of the problem in this...
POET LAUREATE CHARLES SIMIC TO INTRODUCE POETS JORIE GRAHAM AND JAMES TATE, DEC. 6
News Wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News; 11/27/2007; 534 words ; ...introduce Pulitzer Prize-winning poets Jorie Graham and James Tate, who will read from...public; no tickets are needed. Graham's latest book is the widely acclaimed...unusual in their approach to poetry-Graham for her loquacious lines and artistic...
The Sunday Poem: No. 111 Jorie Graham Each week Ruth Padel discusses a contemporary poet through an example of their work
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 5/20/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...quickness - like a drop. Swallow. Rouse says the dark. Jorie Graham is a prize-winning, philosophically-minded American...beyond the stars heard... something understood". Graham's "Prayer", representing another heart on pilgrimage...
"Fission and fusion both liberate energy": James Merrill, Jorie Graham, and the metaphoric imagination.(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: Twentieth Century Literature; 6/22/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...3) Twenty-five years later, Jorie Graham wrote: [this book] is written...particularly in Materialism and Never, Graham struggles to find a language in which...less powerful for being repressed. Graham's implicit resistance to apocalypse...
Eye on the prizes.(Pulitzer Prize winners for 1996 include George Walker for Music, Jonathan Larson for Drama, Richard Ford and Jorie Graham for Literature, and Alan Taylor, Jack Miles, and Tina Rosenberg for Nonfiction)(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report; 4/22/1996; 555 words ; ...LITERATURE FICTION: RICHARD FORD, Independence Day POETRY: JORIE GRAHAM, The Dream of the Unified Field In a sequel to his well...real-estate agent through a tense July 4 weekend. Graham, a 45-year-old professor at the University of Iowa...