Pamela Alexander

Pamela Alexander (born 1948) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an M.F.A. in 1973.^[1] She teaches at Oberlin College.^[2]

Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.

Her papers are held at Bates College.^[1]

Awards

• 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize
• 1985 Yale Younger Poet award
• Fine Arts Work Center Feellowship
• Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship
• Ohio Arts Council grant hi

Works

• "Dingle Way", Perihelion

• Slow Fire. Ausable Press. 2007. ISBN 9781931337342. 
• Inland. University of Iowa Press. 1997. ISBN 9780877455820. http://books.google.com/books?id=2GWQXZSLhb4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Pamela+Alexander&client=firefox-a&cd=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Commonwealth of Wings. Wesleyan University Press. 1991. ISBN 9780819511935. http://books.google.com/books?id=7qiUO7BrpuQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Pamela+Alexander&lr=&client=firefox-a&cd=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false. 
• Navigable Waterways. Yale University Press. 1985. ISBN 9780300033311. 

Anthologies

• David Walker, ed (2006). American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets. Oberlin College Press. ISBN 9780932440280. 
• Rita Dove, David Lehman, ed (2000). "Semiotics". Best American Poetry 2000. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743200332. http://books.google.com/books?id=CIlRNa78TJkC&pg=PT30&dq=Pamela+Alexander&client=firefox-a&cd=2#v=onepage&q=Pamela%20Alexander&f=false. 
• The Extraordinary Tide
• American Voices
• Poetry for a Small Planet
• Cape Discovery

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