Background
Unger, Barbara was born on October 2, 1932 in New York City. Daughter of David and Florence (Schuchalter) Frankel.
(Her sixth book of poetry, Impulse Toward Flight, reflects...)
Her sixth book of poetry, Impulse Toward Flight, reflects the skill of a mature poet at the top of her form. The poems in this collection blend self, family, history and community, forming an intimate autobiography. Her poems reveal how people both shape, and are shaped, by place and history. In many of these poems, Unger lays to rest past losses ? people, places and things that are no more. She invokes the landscape of the years preceding the Second World War in a small, ethnic enclave of New York City as well as the urban home front of the war years in the borough of The Bronx, New York. Her perspective encompasses the world of Minidoka, a Japanese-American internment camp located in Hunt, Idaho, where her husband Ted and his entire family were interned during that era. Unger?s poems are often intensely female and deal with experiences common to all women. These include marriage, work, parenting, growing older and the dance and struggle between men and women. A widely-published poet, Unger?s poems have appeared in such distinguished journals as New York Quarterly, George Washington Review, The Nation, Denver Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal and many others. They have been widely anthologized in books by New Rivers Press, Bright Hill Press and Milkweed Editions. ?Letter to the Co-Eds? won a John Williams Narrative Poetry Award. ?The Audition? won an H.G. Roberts Award. The poems in this collection display the work of a master poet at the peak of her craft.
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Unger, Barbara was born on October 2, 1932 in New York City. Daughter of David and Florence (Schuchalter) Frankel.
Bachelor, City College of New York, 1955. Master of Arts, City College of New York, 1957. Advanced certified, New York University, 1970.
; married Theodore Sakano, 1987. Bachelor of Arts, City College of New York, 1955, Master of Arts, 1957. Advanced certified New York University, 1970.
Children: Deborah, Suzanne.
Graduate assistant Yeshiva University, 1962-1963. Education editorCounty Citizen, Rockland County, New York, 1960-1963.
Teacher English, New York City Public Schools, 1955-1958, Nyack (New York) High School, 1963-1967. Guidance counselor Ardsley (New York) High School, 1967-1969.
Professor of English, Rockland Community College, Suffern, New York, 1969.
Poetry fellow Squaw Valley Community of Writers, 1980. Writer-in-residence Rockland Center for Arts, 1986. Author: (poetry) Basement, 1975, Learning to Fox Trot, 1989, The Manitoba Who Burned Money, 1980, Inside the Wind, 1986, Blue Depression Glass in Troika One, 1991.
(fiction) Dying for Uncle Ray, 1990.
Contributor poetry to over 50 literature magazines, including: Kansas Quarterly, Carolina Quarterly, Beloit Poetry Journal, Minnesota Review, Poet and Critic, The Nation, Poetry Now, Invisible City, Thirteenth Moon, Southern Poetry Review, Massachusetts Review, Nebraska Review, Wisconsin Review, Southern Humanities Review, Denver Quarterly, Mississippi Valley REv., The G.W. Review Wordsmith. Contributor to Anthology Magazine Verse, Yearbook American Poetry, 1984, 89.
Contributor poetry (anthologies) Two Worlds Walking, Life on the Lincolnshire, Looking for Home, 80 on the Eighties, Disenchantments, Women and Work, If I Had a Hammer, Sexual Harassment: Women Speak Out. Contributor fiction to True to Life Adventure Stories, Midstream, Esprit, Beloit Fiction Journal, American Fiction "89 and numerous others
Poetry reading in colleges and libraries throught New York andelsewhere.
Critical reviewer Contact World World War II Ragdale Foundation fellow, 1985, 86, 89, State University of New York Creative Writing fellow, 1981-1982, Edna Saint Vincent Millay Colony fellow, 1984, Djerassi Foundation fellow, 1991, Hambidge Center for Creative Arts and Sciences fellow, 1988. National Endowment for Humanities grantee, 1975.
(Her sixth book of poetry, Impulse Toward Flight, reflects...)
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Member of Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Association Writers and Writing Programs, Poets and Writers.
Married Bernard Unger, 1954 (divorced 1976). Married Theodore Sakano, 1987. Children: Deborah, Suzanne.