Elizabeth Spires
OccupationPoet and university professor
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerica
Alma materVassar College, Johns Hopkins University

Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.

Early life and education

Spires was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.

Career

Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement.[1] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Paris Review and many other literary magazines and anthologies.

Awards and honors

She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association.

Selected works

Poetry

  • Globe. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan. March 1, 1981. ISBN 978-0-8195-1101-0.
  • Annonciade. New York: Puffin. July 1, 1989. ISBN 978-0-14-058638-1.
  • Worldlings. W. W. Norton & Company. May 1, 1992. ISBN 978-0-393-31628-5.
  • Swan's Island. New York: Carnegie-Mellon University Press. February 1997. ISBN 978-0-88748-249-6.
  • Now the Green Blade Rises. W. W. Norton. 2004. ISBN 978-0-393-32485-3.
  • The Wave-Maker. W. W. Norton. 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-06659-3.
  • "Riddle". The Atlantic. June 2009.
  • A Memory of the Future. W. W. Norton. 2018. ISBN 978-0-393-65105-8.

Children's books

Edited

  • The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen.

Anthologies

  • A. R. Ammons; David Lehman, eds. (1994). The Best American Poetry 1994. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-89948-6.

References

  1. ↑ Catherine Cucinella, ed. (2002). "Elizabeth Spires". Contemporary American women poets: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 978-0-313-31783-5.
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