Elizabeth Macklin (born 1952 in
Poughkeepsie, New York
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) is an American
poet
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.
Life
She read Spanish literature at
SUNY Potsdam
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, and
Complutense University of Madrid
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. In 1974 to 1999, worked at ''The New Yorker'', living in
New York City
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.
She spent a year in
Bilbao, Spain
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, until February 2000.
She works as a translator with The Basque Literature Series. Her work has appeared in ''The Nation'', ''New England Review'', ''The New Republic'', ''The New Yorker'', ''The New York Times'', ''Paris Review'', ''The Threepenny Review'', and ''The Yale Review''.
Awards
* 1990
Ingram Merrill poetry prize
* 1993
Guggenheim Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...
in Poetry
* 1999
Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
The Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship is given annually to a U.S.-born poet to spend one year outside North America in a country the recipient feels will most advance his or her work.
When poet Amy Lowell died in 1925, her will established ...
* 2005
PEN Translation Fund Grant from PEN American Center
Works
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Poetry Books
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Anthologies
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* ''The Penguin Book of the Sonnet'', ed. Phillis Levin (Penguin Books, 2001)
* ''The KGB Bar Book of Poems'', ed. David Lehman & Star Black (HarperCollins; 2000)
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* ''Prayers at 3 A.M.'', ed. Phil Cousineau (Harper San Francisco; 1995)
* ''Best American Poetry 1993'', ed. Louise Glück and David Lehman (Scribners).
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Essays
* "Who Put the Code in the Dagoeneko?" Barrow Street, Fall 2001.
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Criticism
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Translations
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Reviews
In May 2000, ''
The New York Times
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'' Deborah Weisgall noted:
References
External links
Author's website
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Complutense University of Madrid alumni
Writers from Poughkeepsie, New York
1952 births
Living people
State University of New York at Potsdam alumni
American women poets
21st-century American women