Are Connie May Fowler and Vladimir Mayakovsky both poets?
Connie May Fowler Connie May Fowler (born January 3, 1960 to parents of multi-cultural backgrounds) is an American novelist, essayist, memoirist, screenwriter, and poet. Her semi-autobiographical novel, "Before Women had Wings", received the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award (League of American Pen Women). She adapted the novel for Oprah Winfrey and the subsequent Emmy-winning film starred Winfrey, Ellen Barkin, Julia Stiles, and Tina Majorino. "Remembering Blue" received the Chautauqua South Literary Award. Three of her novels were Dublin International Literary Award nominees. Her other novels include "Sugar Cage" and "River of Hidden Dreams". "The Problem with Murmur Lee" was Redbook’s premier book club selection. Her memoir, "When Katie Wakes", explores her family’s generational cycle of domestic violence. "How Clarissa Burden Learned to Fly", a novel oft compared to Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway" in term of its structure, was published in 2010. Her latest book, a memoir titled "A Million Fragile bones," will be published April 20, 2017 by Twisted Road Publications. It explores her life on an isolated barrier island and the horrific impact and aftermath of the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill. Her books have been translated into eighteen languages (http://www.conniemayfowler.com/about.html).
Fishtown (art colony) Fishtown was an informal artists' community housed in a cluster of old cabins and fishing shacks on the Skagit River delta in Skagit County, Washington, USA, from the late 1960s to the mid 1980s. It was part of the larger Skagit Valley arts community, centered on the town of La Conner, but was rustic and isolated, without electricity or plumbing, and tended to attract younger and more eccentric artists. It was home to several noted painters, poets, and sculptors. Charles Krafft, who went on to international attention and controversy as a ceramicist, was for over ten years the "self-proclaimed Mayor of Fishtown"; another longtime resident was Robert Sund, who, along with several other poets, developed a recognizable Pacific Northwest style of poetry. Scholar, painter, and poet Paul Hansen, who became a professor of Chinese languages and noted translator of early Chinese poetry lived in Fishtown for several years, and best-selling author Tom Robbins was a frequent visitor.