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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States was initiated by Ed Ochester and developed by Frederick A. Hetzel. The prize is named for a former director of the Press. It has both recognized and supported emerging poets, which has allowed their work to become available to readers around the world. The award is open to any poet writing in English who has not had a full-length book published previously. Entry requires the payment of a significant fee. A "full-length book" of poetry is defined as a volume of 48 or more pages published in an edition of 500 or more copies. The prize carries a cash award of $5,000 and publication by the University of Pittsburgh Press in the ''Pitt Poetry Series''. The winner is announced in the fall of each year. Winners *1981 — Kathy Callaway, ''Heart of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States
The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, nine Minor Outlying Islands, and 326 Indian reservations. The United States is also in free association with three Pacific Island sovereign states: the Federated States of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and the Republic of Palau. It is the world's third-largest country by both land and total area. It shares land borders with Canada to its north and with Mexico to its south and has maritime borders with the Bahamas, Cuba, Russia, and other nations. With a population of over 333 million, it is the most populous country in the Americas and the third most populous in the world. The national capital of the United States is Washington, D.C. and its most populous city and principal financial center is New York City. Paleo-Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nancy Vieira Couto
Nancy Vieira Couto (born 1942) is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry award. Life She received her BS in Education from Bridgewater State College in 1964, and her MFA in English from Cornell University, in 1980. She has been poetry editor at ''Epoch'' magazine for the past ten years. Her work has appeared in ''American Voice'', ''Black Warrior Review'', ''Diagram'', ''Iowa Review'', ''Kalliope'', ''Mississippi Review'', ''Nimrod'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Salamander'', ''Shenandoah'', ''Southern Review''. She lives in Ithaca, New York. Awards * 1989 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States, American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Penn ... * National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry 1987 and 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shao Wei (American Poet)
Shao Wei (born 1965) is a Chinese-American poet and memoir author. Life Shao was born in 1965 and grew up by the Yangtze River in the city of Wanxian, later renamed to the Wanzhou District, Chongqing after the construction of the Three-Gorges Dam. Her parents divorced when she was young, and she lived mostly with her grandfather as an only child. She would see travelers in passing-by ships, which caused her to desire the freedom to travel. Living a frugal life and with not much to enjoy, she would take pleasure in reading books and watching Peking Opera. At the age of 16, she would go to Chongqing to attend college and major in English. She finished graduate study in China in 1991 and took the Test of English as a Foreign Language and Graduate Record Examinations. In 1996 she received a scholarship to study at New York University (NYU) and came to the U.S. as a graduate student. She credits her professor Galway Kinnell for encouraging her to keep writing poetry through many d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriel Gudding
Gabriel Gudding is an American poet, essayist, and translator. Life Gudding attended The Evergreen State College, an experimental school in Olympia, Washington, Purdue University and Cornell University. He is Professor of English in the English Studies Department at Illinois State University in Normal, Illinois where he was hired to teach experimental poetry writing and poetics. His work has been translated into French, Danish, Portuguese, Vietnamese and Spanish. Gudding is the author of the books, ' (Ahsahta Press, 2015), Rhode Island Notebook' (Dalkey Archive, 2007), and A Defense of Poetry' (University of Pittsburgh Press), which won the 2001 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. He has given hundreds of poetry readings and lectures in Europe, the Caribbean, and America. He has published poems and essays in periodicals such as ''Harper’s Magazine'', ''The Nation'', and ''The Journal of the History of Ideas''. His poetry appears dozens of anthologies, including ''Best American Experi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Quan Barry
Amy Quan Barry (born Saigon) is a Vietnamese American poet, novelist, and playwright. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Barry is a Lorraine Hansberry Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Biography She was raised in Danvers, Massachusetts, where she played on the Danvers High School field hockey team in the late 1980s. She graduated from the University of Michigan, with an MFA, and was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and the Diane Middlebrook poetry fellow at the University of Wisconsin. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her work has appeared in ''The Kenyon Review'', ''The Missouri Review'', ''The New Yorker'', ''Southeast Review'', and ''Virginia Quarterly Review''. In 2000, Barry's poetry book ''Asylum'' won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and was a finalist for the 2002 Society of Midland Authors' poetry award. Barry spoke at an event hosted and sponsored by Central Washington Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daisy Fried
Daisy Fried (born 1967, Ithaca, New York) is an American poet. Life Fried graduated from Swarthmore College in 1989. Her work has appeared in ''The London Review of Books'', ''The Nation'', ''Poetry'', ''The New Republic'', ''American Poetry Review'', ''Antioch Review'', ''Threepenny Review'', ''Triquarterly''. She teaches creative writing in the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers, and has taught creative writing as the Grace Hazard Conkling Poet-in-Residence at Smith College, at Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College, Villanova University, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, the low-residency MFA program at Warren Wilson College and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. She has written prose about poetry for ''Poetry'', ''The New York Times'' and ''The Threepenny Review'' and has been a blogger for Harriet, the blog of the Poetry Foundation. She lives with her husband, Jim Quinn, a writer (not the radio talk show host), and their daughter, in Phil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shara McCallum
Shara McCallum is an American poet. She was awarded a 2011 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship for Poetry.National Endowment of the Arts 2011 Poetry Fellows . Nea.gov. Retrieved 20 October 2011. McCallum is the author of four collections of poems, including '''', which won the 2018 in the poetry category. She currently lives in |
Richard Blanco
Richard Blanco (born February 15, 1968) is an American poet, public speaker, author and civil engineer. He is the fifth poet to read at a United States presidential inauguration, having read the poem " One Today" for Barack Obama's second inauguration. He is the first immigrant, the first Latino, the first openly gay person and at the time the youngest person to be the U.S. inaugural poet. Blanco's books include ''How to Love a Country''; ''City of a Hundred Fires'', which received the Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press; ''Directions to The Beach of the Dead'', recipient of the Beyond Margins Award from the PEN American Center; and ''Looking for The Gulf Motel'', recipient of the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Thom Gunn Award. He has also authored the memoirs ''For All of Us, One Today: An Inaugural Poet's Journey'' and '' The Prince of Los Cocuyos: A Miami Childhood'', winner of the Lambda Literary Prize. In addition, Blanco has collaborated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Conkling
Helen Conkling (born 1933) is an American poet. Her work has appeared in the ''Antioch Review'', '' Georgia Review'', the ''Hudson Review'', ''Chicago Review'', the '' Ohio Review'' and ''Prairie Schooner''. In 1996, she was the recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States, American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Penn .... Works"Snakes", ''Poetry Daily''ref>"Never to Go Out in a City in the Rain,” “December 1941,” and “At the Winter Solstice”, ''Traffic East'', Issue 3* Notes References 1933 births Living people Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners American women poets 21st-century American women {{US-poet-1930s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Solomon
Sandy Solomon (born Baltimore, Maryland) is an American poet. Life Solomon was raised in Baltimore, Maryland. She graduated from the University of Chicago. She worked in Washington, DC for the National Urban Coalition and then directed two groups: the National Neighborhood Coalition and the Coalition on Human Needs. She received an MA from Johns Hopkins University and an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. She teaches at Vanderbilt University. Her work has appeared in ''The New Yorker'', ''The New Republic'', ''The Threepenny Review'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''Ploughshares'', and ''Partisan Review''. Her book, Pears, Lake, Sun, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in 1996. She held fellowships from the Radcliffe's Bunting Institute, now the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard, in 1997-8 and 1998-9. She participated in Poets Against the War. Awards * 1995 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Beatty
Jan Beatty is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and the Creative Achievement Award in Literature. Life Born in 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she received her Bachelor of Arts from the West Virginia University and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of Pittsburgh. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with her husband, musician Don Hollowood. Her most recent poetry collection is ''The Switching/Yard'' (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013), and her poems have appeared in literary journals and magazines including ''Quarterly West'', ''Gulf Coast'', ''Indiana Review'', and ''Court Green'', and in anthologies published by Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, and University of Iowa Press. Her honors include fellowships from the Ucross Foundation, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Yaddo. She was awarded the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry from the Tulsa Arts a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natasha Sajé
Natasha Sajé (born June 6, 1955, in Munich, Germany) is an American poet. Life She grew up in New York City, and New Jersey. She graduated from the University of Virginia, Johns Hopkins, and the University of Maryland, College Park. She teaches at Westminster College. and Vermont College. Her work appeared in ''The New York Times'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''The Kenyon Review'', ''New Republic'', ''Parnassus'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Shenandoah'', and ''The Writers Chronicle''. Awards * 2020 Pushcart Prize XLIV * 2015 15 Bytes Award, ''Vivarium'' * 2008 Alice Fay Di Castagnola Award * 2004 Utah Poetry Book of the Year, ''Bend'' * 1993 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States, American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Penn ..., ''Red Under the Skin'' * Towson State Prize in Literature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
