| LC control no. | n 83208007 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| LC classification | PS3568.Y38 |
| Personal name heading | Ryan, Kay |
| See also | Employer: College of Marin http://rdaregistry.info/Elements/u/P60679 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Marin County (Calif.) Fairfax (Calif.) |
| Birth date | 1945-09-21 |
| Place of birth | San Jose (Calif.) |
| Field of activity | Poetry |
| Affiliation | College of Marin |
| Profession or occupation | Poets Community college teachers |
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| Found in | Dragon acts to dragon ends, c1983: t.p. (Kay Ryan) Strangely marked metal, c1985: CIP t.p. (Kay Ryan) CIP data sheet (b. 1945) 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) 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) |
| Associated language | eng |
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