Hannah Weiner (November 4, 1928-1997 ) was an American poet who was a prominent member of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E group of poets.

Early Life and Writings

Weiner was born in Providence, Rhode Island and attended Radcliffe College, graduating with a B.A in 1950. She began writing poetry in 1963 and published her first book, The Magritte Poems in 1966. In the late 1960s, she participated in a number of artistic events in New York, where she had been living for some time.

Mature Work

In the early 1970s, Weiner began writing a series of journals that were partly the result of her experiments with clairvoyant or automatic writing and partly a result of her schizophrenia. She influenced a number of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets and was included in the In the American Tree anthology. Her books include Clairvoyant Journal (1974), Little Books/Indians (1980), The Fast (1992), Silent Teachers Remembered Sequel (1994) and And We Speak Silent (1996).

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