November 19, 1942 -
American poet and professor
Author of "The Dead and the Living" (for which she won the National Book Award for Poetry in 1983), "The Father" (for which she won the National Critics Circle Award in 1992), "The Unswept Room" (was a nominee for the National Book Award for Poetry in 2002) and "Stag's Leap" (for which she won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 2012)
Was the N. Y. State Poet Laureate from 1998 - 2000