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Michael S. Harper

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Also known as Michael Steven Harper

American writer

Person · Open Library

Born
1938
Works
23

Top works

  • To an old man twiddling thumbs
  • Rhode Island
  • Chant of Saints
  • The family sequences
  • Sweet homeland

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1938-03-18
Active to
2016-05-07

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
102
Total plays
201

Michael Steven Harper (March 18, 1938 – May 7, 2016) was an American poet from Brooklyn, who was the Poet Laureate of Rhode Island from 1988 to 1993. He published ten books of poetry, two of which - Dear John, Dear Coltrane (1970) and Images of Kin (1977) - have been nominated for the National Book Award. A great deal of his poetry is influenced by jazz and history. Many of his poems have been included as important examples of African-American literature and jazz poetry in various anthologies. <

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Moderated estimation of fold change and dispersion for RNA-seq data with DESeq2

    · 2014 · cited 85,293x

  2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

    · 2005 · cited 47,753x

  3. Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure

    · 1976 · cited 43,862x

  4. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

    · 2021 · cited 41,509x

  5. Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water

    · 1983 · cited 38,972x

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date of birth
1938-03-18
date of death
2016-05-07
name in native language
Michael S. Harper
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1938 births2016 deaths20th-century African-American people21st-century African-American peopleAfrican-American poetsAmerican civil rights activistsBrown University facultyCalifornia State University, Los Angeles alumniPeople from Barrington, Rhode IslandPoets laureate of Rhode IslandSusan Miller Dorsey High School alumniUniversity of Iowa alumniWriters from Brooklyn