Leslie Scalapino Writer

Leslie Scalapino (July 25, 1944 – May 28, 2010) was a United States poet, experimental prose writer, playwright, essayist, and editor, sometimes grouped in with the Language poets, though she felt closely tied to the Beat poets. A longtime resident of California's Bay Area, she earned an M.A. in English from the University of California at Berkeley. One of Scalapino's most critically well-received works is way (North Point Press, 1988), a long poem which won the Poetry Center Award, the Lawrence Lipton Prize, and the American Book Award.

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Birth date	July 25, 1944
Birth place	Santa Barbara California , United States
Date of death	May 28, 2010
Place of death	Berkeley California , United States
Education	Reed College University of California Berkeley

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influenced	Carla Harryman Lyn Hejinian Laura Moriarty (poet and novelist) Norma Cole Zoketsu Norman Fischer Ann Lauterbach Stephen Ratcliffe
influenced by	Philip Whalen Buddhism Gertrude Stein Virginia Woolf Beat Generation Michael McClure
movement	Language poets