Poetry Section, Part 1 - Jessica Hagedorn

For this blog I will be taking about an Asian-American poet named
Jessica Hagedorn. The reason that I will be taking about her
is because my ethnic studies professor told my class to pick
a poet, so Ms. Hagedorn is who I chose. Before I start talking
about her I feel that I should disclose, that I am not a poetry
buff by any means, and that I did not know anything about Ms.
Hagedorn before this assignment. The way that I found her was
that I googled "Asian-American poets" and a list of poets came up.
After reading their bios and whatever samples of their work that
they had online, I chose Jessica Hagedorn both because she was a
woman and mostly because of her poem "Sorcery."
According to my research on her, Jessica Hagedorn was born in
Manila, Philippines in 1949. She moved to the United States at the
age of thirteen. After being her for about three years, Jessica's
poetry caught the attention of San Franciscan, Kenneth Rexroth. In
fact, according to my research, it was Rexroth who edited the book
that first featured her poetry, which was titled Four Young Women.
Since that first book, Jessica Hagedorn has gone on to write
several more books and even write and produce a play.