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Ralph La Rosa

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Chicago, The United States

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Poetry, Fiction, Philosophy

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Robert Frost; Emerson; Thoreau; Dickinson; Whitman

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His youth inspired by a Danforth Leadership Award, Ralph La Rosa later earned a Ford Foundation grant, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Fulbright Lectureship to the Soviet Union. He was educated at the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor (BA & MA) and the University of Wisconsin—Madison (PhD). A teaching career included appointments at the University of Wisconsin—Madison, UCLA, Tbilisi State University in the Soviet Georgian Republic (the first extensive appointment outside Moscow), and Northwestern University--Evanston. After his assignment to the USSR, he was invited to teach in Budapest and Munich but was unable to accept the offers. In recent years, he taught at several colleges and universities in California.

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“Seers and Sayers

Finding cosmos
in the chaos,

seeing, hearing
beauty’s being,

a poet gives
the gift of saying.”
― Ralph La Rosa

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“Omegas & Alphas

raw & cooked
soft & hard

whole & scrambled
pure & deviled

shirred & coddled
poached & painted

in rebirth baskets
& natal nogs

on our faces
& in our noodles—

eggs are words
& words are eggs

first & last
last & first”
― Ralph La Rosa

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Aug 14, 2017 09:36PM

It would be really cool if you could print his name properly:

Ralph La Rosa

See, there's a La between Ralph and Rosa, so it isn't correct to call him Ralph Rosa. Okay?

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