Intimate, Layered, Mythic, Open-ended, Pathos, Polychromatic, Serial, Spectral

Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, and a professor of Classics and comparative literature at the University of Michigan. Carson lived in Montreal for several years and taught at McGill University. She is reticent about her private life; the biography published in current editions

Baroque, Erotic, Feminist, Intimate, Open-ended, Playful, Polychromatic, Sophisticated, Spiritual, Sublime, Witty

Playwright, professor, and Performance artist Anna Deveare Smith grounds her avant-garde theater in the infinitely strange world of reality. "I look for the poem that the person is," Smith says of the real-people inspirations for her dramatic characters. Instead of creating intricate backgrounds for

Collage, Huge, Layered, Open-ended, Political, Polychromatic, Sincere, Social protest, Solo performance