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Lapp, Claudia E., 1946-
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1946-
History
Claudia Lapp was born in 1946 in Stuttgart, Germany.
She is an American poet and critic. After graduating from Bennington College, Vermont (B.A. in French and German Literature, minor in Music, 1968), she lived for eleven years in Montreal, publishing and performing with the Vehicule Poets. She also taught Literature at John Abbott College, St.-Anne-De-Belle-Vue, Quebec, and worked at the Montreal Museum of Fine Art in the Education department. In 1979, she moved to Maryland and then Oregon in 1991. She has given readings in Montreal, Vancouver, the Northeast, Santa Fe and in many local Oregon venues including the Newport Arts Center, Portland, Corvallis, TSUNAMI Books, and COZMIC PIZZA, where she hosted a popular weekly poetry series in 2002. She also worked as an Exhibit Interpreter at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum, University of Oregon. Lapp published several collections of poems, e.g., "Honey" (1973/1977), "Dakini" (1974), "Water and Fire" (1998), and "Buch" (2013). She received the Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award in 1996. She is also a practicing astrologer and film photographer.
She lives in Eugene, Oregon, with her husband.