Nancy Vieira Couto (born 1942) is 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 ...

. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry award.

Life

She received her BS in Education from

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in 1964, and her MFA in English 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 ...

, in 1980. She has been poetry editor at ''Epoch'' magazine for the past ten years. Her work has appeared in ''American Voice'', ''Black Warrior Review'', ''Diagram'', ''Iowa Review'', ''Kalliope'', ''Mississippi Review'', ''Nimrod'', ''Prairie Schooner'', ''Salamander'', ''Shenandoah'', ''Southern Review''. She lives in

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Awards

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Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize The Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize is a major United States, American literary award for a first full-length book of poetry in the English language. This prize of the University of Pittsburgh Press in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Penn ...

* National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry 1987 and 1999

Works

"THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT"; "THE COMMON ACCIDENT"; "BEYOND MODERNITY, WE ARE WARNED"; "THE ACCIDENTALS", ''Poems x 4''
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Anthology

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Translation

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Couto, Nancy Vieira Living people Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize winners American people of Portuguese descent Cornell University alumni 1942 births American women poets 21st-century American women