Name Kenneth Hanson Role Teacher | Awards James Laughlin Award | |
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Books Lighting the Night Sky: Poems, The Distance Anywhere, The Uncorrected World Education | ||
Kenneth O. Hanson (1922 – November 28, 2003 in Athens, Greece) was an American teacher, translator, and poet.
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Life
Hanson, a native of Idaho, received his B.A. from the University of Idaho, in 1942. He then pursued graduate study in comparative literature and the Chinese language at the University of Washington, where he was an instructor. Hanson was a Kenan Professor of English and Humanities, at Reed College, from 1954 until 1986.
Hanson wrote numerous volumes of his poetry and published translated poems from both French and Chinese. His poetry was published in numerous magazines and journals including The New Yorker, the Nation, Botthege Oscure, Poetry Magazine, and Poetry Northwest.
He retired to permanently live in Greece, the country that he discovered in 1963 and where he had been visiting.
Some of his papers are held at Emory University.