Mary Jo Salter

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Mary Jo Salter (August 15, 1954 - ) is an American poet, a coeditor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry [1] and is the Emily Dickinson Senior Lecturer in the Humanities at Mount Holyoke College.

Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit, Michigan and Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1976 and her M.A. from Cambridge University in 1978. In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest.

While at Harvard, she studied with the noted poet, Elizabeth Bishop. She has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New Republic.

She has taught at Mount Holyoke since 1984 and has been vice president of the Poetry Society of America since 1995.

Salter is married to the writer and poet, Brad Leithauser, who teaches at both Mount Holyoke College and the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Contents

[edit] Select Works

[edit] Poems

[edit] Poetry collections

  • The Norton Anthology of Poetry (coeditor)
  • Open Shutters (2003)
  • A Kiss in Space (1999)
  • Sunday Skaters (1994)
  • Unfinished Painting (1989)
  • Henry Purcell in Japan (1985)

[edit] Play

  • Falling Bodies (2004)

[edit] Children's literature

  • The Moon Comes Home (1989)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Awards

  • 2004: Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship
  • 2003: New York Times Notable Book of the Year - Open Shutters
  • 1989: Lamont Selection for the year’s most distinguished second volume of poetry - Unfinished Painting
  • Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship

[edit] External links


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