Jane Cooper (October 9, 1924 – October 26, 2007) was an American poet.
''Jane Cooper, 83; poet wrote about her life and the challenges of being a female writer'', Mary Rourke, The Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2007
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Awards
* Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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* Maurice English Poetry Award Maurice may refer to:
People
*Saint Maurice (died 287), Roman legionary and Christian martyr
*Maurice (emperor) or Flavius Mauricius Tiberius Augustus (539–602), Byzantine emperor
* Maurice (bishop of London) (died 1107), Lord Chancellor and L ...
(1985)
* Shelley Memorial Award The Shelley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, was established by the will of Mary P. Sears, and named after the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The prize is given to a living American poet selected with reference to genius and need, and is ...
(1977)
* Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College - Fellowship
* Guggenheim Fellowship
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- (1960)
* Ingram Merrill Award The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retriev ...
* National Endowment for the Arts
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- Fellowship
* Lamont Poetry Prize
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(1968) for ''The Weather of Six Mornings''
Works
''The Blue Anchor''; ''The Earthquake''; ''Ordinary Detail''; ''In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman''; ''Rent''; ''The Winter Road (Part 4)''; ''The Flashboat'', Norton Poets online
Books
* ''The Weather of Six Mornings'' (1969), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets.
* ''Maps and Windows'' (1974)
* ''Scaffolding: Selected Poems'' (1993)
* ''Green Notebook, Winter Road'' (1994), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
* ''Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 1999)
Edited
* ''Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Women Writers'' (1982)
* ''The Sanity of Earth and Grass: Complete Poems of Robert Winner'' (1994)
Memories
* ttp://thebestamericanpoetry.typepad.com/the_best_american_poetry/2008/05/memories-of-j-1.html ''Memories of Jane Cooper part 2'', Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 14, 2008
References
External links
''Jane Cooper (1924 – 2007)'', The Poetry Foundation
''Jane Cooper'', Poets.org
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1924 births
2007 deaths
University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni
Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Poets Laureate of New York (state)
20th-century American poets