Valerie Wohlfeld, (b. 1956 in
Sacramento, California
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) is an American poet.
Life
She was educated at
American University
The American University (AU or American) is a private federally chartered research university in Washington, D.C. Its main campus spans 90 acres (36 ha) on Ward Circle, mostly in the Spring Valley neighborhood of Northwest D.C. AU was charte ...
, and
Sarah Lawrence College
Sarah Lawrence College is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York. The college models its approach to education after the Supervision system, Oxford/Cambridge system of one-on-one student-faculty tutorials. Sara ...
, and received an M.F.A. from
Vermont College
Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) is a private graduate-level art school in Montpelier, Vermont. It offers Master's degrees in low-residency and residential programs. Its faculty includes Pulitzer Prize finalists, National Book Award winners, ...
in 1983. Valerie Wohlfeld's 1994 collection, ''Thinking the World Visible'', won the
Yale Younger Poets Prize
The Yale Series of Younger Poets is an annual event of Yale University Press aiming to publish the debut collection of a promising American poet. Established in 1918, the Younger Poets Prize is the longest-running annual literary award in the Uni ...
. Her book, ''Woman with Wing Removed,'' came out in 2010 from Truman State University Press. Her work has appeared in ''The Antioch Review'', ''New England Review'', ''Journal of the American Medical Association'', and elsewhere.
Works
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* ''Nautilus''; ''Beeyard'', The Antioch Review, Volume 58 Number 1, Winter 2000
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* ''The Sugar Tooth'', AGNI, Boston University, Volume 37, 1993
* ''Trinkets'', AGNI, Boston University, Volume 34, 1991
''Vessel'', The New Criterion, November 2002* ''The Cut Hair of Nuns'', The Antioch Review, Volume 61 Number 2, Spring 2003
* ''Apple'', The Seneca Review, Vol. 33 Issue 2, Fall 2003
''Fruit for the Fall'', The Antioch Review, Volume 63 Number 3, Summer 2005''Poppies'', Ploughshares, Spring 2007
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* ''Wind'', The Antioch Review, Volume 66 Number 1, Winter 2008
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Books
* ''Thinking the World Visible'', Yale University Press, 1994,
* ''Woman with Wing Removed'', Truman State University Press, 2010,
Anthologies
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* ''Poets of the New Century'' Editors Roger Weingarten and Richard M. Higgerson, David R. Godine, Publisher, Inc., 2001,
* ''The Yale Younger Poets Anthology'' Editor George Bradley, Yale University Press, 1998,
References
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Living people
Sarah Lawrence College alumni
Vermont College of Fine Arts alumni
American University alumni
1956 births
American women poets
21st-century American women