Mary Jo Salter

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.

[edit] Works

Henry Purcell in Japan (Knopf: 1985)
Unfinished Painting (Knopf: 1989) Lamont Selection for that year's most distinguished second volume of poetry
Sunday Skaters, nominated in 1994 for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Knopf)
A Kiss in Space (Knopf: 1999)
Open Shutters (Knopf: 2003), named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times

2004: Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship
2003: Open Shutters named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
1989: Lamont Selection for the year’s most distinguished second volume of poetry - Unfinished Painting
1995–1996: Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

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