Ryan, Kay

found: Her Strangely marked metal, c1985: CIP t.p. (Kay Ryan) CIP data sheet (b. 1945)

found: Lesbian poetry retrospective part 1, 2008, via AfterEllen website, viewed Sept. 5, 2012 (Kay Ryan (b. 1945); not the first lesbian Poet Laureate--Elizabeth Bishop served from 1949 to 1950--but she is the first to be out and open about her sexuality; her partner of 30 years, Carol Adair)

found: Wikipedia, Sept. 5, 2012 (Kay Ryan (born September 21, 1945); American poet and educator; born San Jose, California; since 1971, she has lived in Marin County, California, and has taught English part-time at the College of Marin; Carol Adair, who was also an instructor at the College of Marin, was Ryan's partner from 1978 until Adair's death in 2009; lives in Fairfax, in Marin County, CA; in July 2008, the Library of Congress announced that she would be the sixteenth Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress for a one-year term commencing in Autumn 2008. She succeeded Charles Simic. In April 2009, the Library announced that Ryan would serve a second one-year term extending through May 2010. She was succeeded by W.S. Merwin in June 2010)

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