Barbara Lefcowitz (1935 - October 8, 2015) was a professor of English at Anne Arundel College in Maryland and poet from Bethesda, Maryland, whose books include ''Red and White Lies'' and ''Photo, Bomb, Red Chair: New Poems''. Lefcowitz has been the recipient of grants and fellowships from the

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, the

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, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Biography

Lefcowitz was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1935. She attended Erasmus Hall H.S. and

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, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She received her M.A. in British and American Literature from the

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and her Ph.D in English from the University of Maryland, College Park. She published nine books of poetry and won writing awards and fellowships from such places as The National Endowment for the Arts. She lived in Bethesda, Maryland from 1965 - 2015. Her husband, Allan Lefcowitz was a professor of English at the United States Naval Academy in

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. They had two children, Marjorie Schwarzer of Oakland, California, and Eric Lefcowitz of Port Washington, New York, and three grandchildren. She died on October 8, 2015.

Selected works

*2007 - The Blue Train to America (Dancing Moon Press) *2004 - Photo, Bomb, Red Chair: New Poems ( Fithian Press) *2001 - The Politics of Snow, 100 New Poems (Dancing Moon Press) *1999 - A Hand of Stars ( Dancing Moon Press) *1996 - The Minarets of Vienna (Chestnut Hills Press) *1994 - Red Lies and White Lies (East Coast Books) *1992 - Shadows and Goatbones (Scop) *1986 - The Queen of Lost Baggage ( Washington Writers Publishing House) *1981 - The Wild Piano ( Dryad Press) *1978 - A Risk of Green (Gallimaufry)

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* * 1935 births 2015 deaths American women poets Writers from Maryland University of Maryland, College Park alumni University at Buffalo alumni 21st-century American women {{US-poet-1930s-stub