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Birth Name:

Lorna Gaye Goodison

Female

Birth Date:

Fri, Aug 01, 1947

Time of Birth:

06:00 AM

Place of Birth:

Kingston, Kingston, Jamaica

Age:

77

Zodiac Sign:

Leo

Astrology Data:

Sun

8°

Leo

21'

Moon

1°

Aqu

34'

Asc

10°

Leo

51'

MC

9°

Tau

50'

About Lorna Goodison

Lorna Goodison CD (born 1 August 1947) is a Jamaican poet, a leading West Indian writer of the generation born after World War II, currently dividing her time between Jamaica and Ann Arbor, Michigan, where she is Professor Emerita, English Language and Literature/Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Jamaica in 2017, succeeding Mervyn Morris. In 2019 she was awarded the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.

Link to Wikipedia biography

External Links:

• "Louise Welsh meets Jamaica's Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison", The National, 7 April 2019.

• "Lorna Goodison: Jamaican Poet Laureate", In the Studio, BBC World Service, 29 August 2017

• Regents of the University of Minnesota Biography

• "Poor Mrs. Lot" from Travelling Mercies, online at CBC Words at Large

• Caribbean Review of Books index to material on Goodison.

• "Lorna Goodison" at The Poetry Archive.

• Akaninyene, "SPOTLITE Exclusive: Lorna Goodison", Literandra, 15 March 2020.

• The Lorna Goodison Papers are held at the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto.

• Pádraig Ó Tuama, "A Conversation with Lorna Goodison", Image, Issue 104.

Birth Chart and Planetary Positions of Lorna Goodison

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Astrological aspects and planetary data / tags for Lorna Goodison: Sun 8 Leo, Moon 1 Aquarius, Mercury 19 Cancer, Venus 29 Cancer, Mars 21 Gemini, Jupiter 18 Scorpio, Saturn 11 Leo, Uranus 24 Gemini, Neptune 8 Libra, Pluto 12 Leo, Asc 10 Leo, Mc 9 Taurus, Sun Conjunct Ascendant, Moon Opposition Venus, Sun Square Midheaven, Sun Sextile Neptune, Sun Semi Square Mars, Sun Conjunct Saturn, Sun Semi Square Uranus, Sun Conjunct Pluto, Mercury Trine Jupiter, Mars Conjunct Uranus, Saturn Semi Square Uranus, Saturn Sextile Neptune, Saturn Conjunct Pluto, Saturn Conjunct Ascendant, Saturn Square Midheaven, Uranus Semi Square Ascendant, Uranus Semi Square Midheaven, Neptune Sextile Ascendant, Neptune Quincunx Midheaven, Pluto Conjunct Ascendant, Pluto Square Midheaven, Ascendant Square Midheaven

Categories related to Lorna Goodison: Living people, 1947 births, Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, August 1 births, University of Michigan faculty, Commanders of the Order of Distinction, 20th-century Jamaican women writers, International Writing Program alumni, 20th-century Jamaican poets, Jamaican women poets, Recipients of the Musgrave Medal, 21st-century Jamaican women writers, Jamaican women artists