Wendy Battin (May 27, 1953 - December 21, 2015) was an American

poet A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems ( oral or wri ...

Life

Wendy Battin was born in

Wilmington, Delaware Wilmington (Lenape: ''Paxahakink /'' ''Pakehakink)'' is the largest city in the U.S. state of Delaware. The city was built on the site of Fort Christina, the first Swedish settlement in North America. It lies at the confluence of the Christina ...

and graduated from

Cornell University Cornell University is a private statutory land-grant research university based in Ithaca, New York. It is a member of the Ivy League. Founded in 1865 by Ezra Cornell and Andrew Dickson White, Cornell was founded with the intention to tea ...

and the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattl ...

. She taught at

MIT The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private land-grant research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Established in 1861, MIT has played a key role in the development of modern technology and science, and is one of the m ...

, Smith College, Syracuse University,

Boston University Boston University (BU) is a Private university, private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is nonsectarian, but has a historical affiliation with the United Methodist Church. It was founded in 1839 by Methodists with ...

Connecticut College Connecticut College (Conn College or Conn) is a private liberal arts college in New London, Connecticut. It is a residential, four-year undergraduate institution with nearly all of its approximately 1,815 students living on campus. The college w ...

. Her work has appeared in ''Field'', ''Georgia Review'', ''Gettysburg Review'', ''Poetry'', ''The Nation'', ''Mississippi Review'', ''Threepenny Review'', and ''Yale Review''. She was the director of CAPA, th
Contemporary American Poetry Archive
She taught

yoga Yoga (; sa, योग, lit=yoke' or 'union ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consci ...

, and lived in

Mystic, Connecticut Mystic is a village and census-designated place (CDP) in Groton, Connecticut, Groton and Stonington, Connecticut, United States. Historically, Mystic was a significant Connecticut seaport with more than 600 ships built over 135 years starting in ...

Awards

Fine Arts Work Center The Fine Arts Work Center is a non-profit enterprise devoted to encouraging the growth and development of emerging visual artists and writers through residency programs, to the propagation of aesthetic values and experience, and to the restoratio ...

Fellowship *

Ingram Merrill Foundation 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. Retrie ...

Fellowship *

National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal ...

Fellowship * 1982 Discovery / The Nation Award * 1983

National Poetry Series The National Poetry Series is an American literary awards program. Every year since 1979, the National Poetry Series has sponsored the publication of five books of poetry. Manuscripts are solicited through an annual open competition, judged and cho ...

, for ''Solar Wind'' * Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, for ''Little Apocalypse''

Works

"One Man Watches a Horse Race"; "Coelacanth", ''Eclectica''"THE NEWS FROM MARS", ''The Blue Moon Review''

"Seven", ''fieralingue''

"And the Two Give Birth to the Myriad of Things", ''fieralingue''

* ttp://strever.us/kimerav1n1/wendy.htm "Eve, Before"; "Drosophila"; "The Two of Cups"; "Triptych", ''Kimera: A Journal of Fine Writing''
"On a Line by Su Tung-p'o"; "Another Line from Su Tung-p'o"; "A Contract"; "Aubade: How Truth Will Out", ''Mississippi Review''

"Silver"; "Aubade, The Truth Will Out"; "One Man Watches a Racehouse"; "Seven"; "How Nothing Happens"; "The Telling", ''Pares'', University of Chile
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Anthologies

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References

External links

"Author's website"
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