Eleanor Wilner
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Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937 Ohio) is an American poet and editor.
Life
She graduated from Goucher College and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D.[1]
She was editor of The American Poetry Review and she is Advisory Editor of Calyx.[2] She has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Smith College. She is on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College,[3] and lives in Philadelphia.
She has been active in civil rights and peace movements.
Awards
- 1991 MacArthur Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
- Juniper Prize
- two Pushcart Prizes.
Works
- "Without Regret", Poetry Foundation
- "What loves, takes away", Poetry (September 2008)
- "The Messenger", Poetry Foundation
- "The Last Man", Poetry Foundation
- "The Girl with Bees in Her Hair", Poetry Foundation
- "Reading the Bible Backwards", Poetry Foundation
- "Magnificat", Poetry (August 2004)
- "Wreck" and "rise above", Poetry (January 2007)
- "Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s", Poetry Foundation
- "Last Self-Portrait, as Rembrandt, for Instance"; "Musical Chairs"; "Unstitch the Universe"; "Guardian"; "Lyrics for a Virtual Folk Song "; "Multiple Image, Retro-Girlhood '40s Style"; "No High Ground"; "Attic Light"; "Winter Conception"; "Daphne Planet as Urn"; "Like Warmed, Vague Stars", The Drunken Boat
- Maya (poems), University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1979.
- Shekhinah (poems), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984. ISBN 978-0-226-90025-4
- Sarah's Choice (poems). University of Chicago Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-226-90028-5.
- Otherwise (poems). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-226-90029-2.
- Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-55659-082-5.
- The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)[4] ISBN 978-1-55659-203-4
- Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-226-90032-2
Anthologies
- Jorie Graham, David Lehman, ed. (1990). Best American Poetry. Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-19187-4.
- Margaret Ferguson, Mary Jo Salter, Jon Stallworthy, ed. (August 1996). The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-96820-0.
- Hilda Raz, ed. (2001). "Facing Into It". Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-8972-7.
- Bill Henderson, ed. (1996). The 1997 Pushcart prize XXI: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-0-916366-96-4.
- Bill Henderson, ed. (2003). The Pushcart Prize Xxviii 2004: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-37-6.
Translations
- David R. Slavitt, Smith Palmer Bovie, ed. (1998). "Medea". Euripides: Medea. Hecuba. Andromache. The Bacchae. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1626-4.
Non-fiction
- Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1975.
References
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