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Rose Mary Prosen

Rose Mary Prosen

Slovene-American poet and essayist


Rose Mary Prosen (November 5, 1931  July 17, 2008) was a Slovene-American poet and essayist.

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Life

Prosen was born to Slovene parents who emigrated to Newburgh, Ohio, a village that was annexed by the city of Cleveland, from Lower Carniola, present-day Slovenia. She worked as professor of English at the Cuyahoga Community College at Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

Works

As an essayist she published several articles, including the 1974 "Ethnic Literature" – Of Whom and for Whom.[1] She also published four collections of poetry, the 1971 Poems, 1976 O The Ravages, and two collections in 1980, Apples and Thank You Michelangelo.[2]

Awards

Her short memoir Looking Back: Newburgh won the first prize for the 1976 Growing Up Slavic in America competition.[3]


References

  1. Rose Mary Prosen (1974) "Ethnic Literature" – Of Whom and for Whom; Digressions of a Neo-American Teacher, College English, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp.659–669
  2. Petrič, Jerneja (1992) A Poet in Search of Her Roots, Slovene Studies, 1412.
  3. In: G.E. Gobetz; A.Donchenko, Eds. (1977) Anthology of Slovenian American Literature, Slovenian Research Center of America, Willoughby Hills, Ohio.



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