Naomi Clark (edit name/settings)

Naomi Clark helped establish the first San Jose Poetry Center and acted as its director for five years in the early 1980s. The on-campus library in the old home of poet Edwin Markham (SJSU) is named the Naomi Clark Library. Her 1988 book of poetry, "When I Kept Silence," earned the 1990 Washington Governor's Writer's Award. Her collection "The Single Eye" won the Quarterly Review of Literature international poetry competition. She earned her bachelor's and master's degrees from San Jose State, and her doctorate in literature from UC Santa Cruz. She taught poetry for 14 years at San Jose State University. She and her husband retired to a home in Port Townsend, Wash., where she died in 1992 at the age of 59.