Mary Kinzie (born September 30, 1944) is an
American
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poet.
Life
She received her B.A. from
Northwestern University in 1967, and returned there to teach in 1975. She won
Fulbright
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and
Woodrow Wilson fellowships to do graduate work at the
Free University of Berlin and
Johns Hopkins University.
Kinzie won the
Folger Shakespeare Library's 2008
O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize
The O.B. Hardison Jr. Poetry Prize was awarded by the Folger Shakespeare Library to honor a U.S. poet whose art and teaching demonstrated great imagination and daring. , the only major American prize to recognize a poet for teaching as well as writing.
Bibliography
Poetry
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* ''Masked Women'' (1990)
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Essays
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The Rhapsodic Fallacy 'The Rhapsodic Fallacy' is an essay by United States poet Mary Kinzie in which she defines and attacks a "rhapsodic" conception of poetry. It was first published in '' Salmagundi'' of Fall 1984 and was collected in ''The Cure of Poetry in an Age of ...
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Theory
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References
External links
An interview with Mary Kinzie and audio clips of her reading three of her poems at the National Humanities Center
1944 births
Living people
Formalist poets
American women poets
Northwestern University alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Northwestern University faculty
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
American women academics
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