Jean Valentine

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Jean Valentine (born April 27, 1934) is an American poet and was the New York State Poet Laureate from 2008–2010.[1] Her poetry collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.[2]

Her most recent book Break the Glass[3] (Copper Canyon Press, 2010) was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry.[4] Her first book, Dream Barker, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1965. She has published poems widely in literary journals and magazines, including The New Yorker,[5] and Harper's Magazine,[6] and The American Poetry Review. Valentine was one of five poets including Charles Wright, Russell Edson, James Tate and Louise Gluck, whose work Lee Upton considered critically in The Muse of Abandonment: Origin, Identity, Mastery in Five American Poets (Bucknell University Press, 1998).[7] She has held residencies from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony,[8] Ucross, and the Lannan foundation,[9] among others.

She was born in Chicago, USA, received bachelor of arts and a master of arts degrees at Radcliffe College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. She has taught with the Graduate Writing Program at New York University, at Columbia University, at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, and at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.[10][11] She was married to the late American historian James Chace from 1957–1968, and they have two daughters, Sarah and Rebecca.

Published works

Full-length poetry collections
  • Break the Glass (2010, Copper Canyon Press)
  • Little Boat (2007, Wesleyan University Press)
  • Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003 (2004, Wesleyan University Press) —winner of the National Book Award[2]
  • The Cradle of the Real Life (2000, Wesleyan University Press)
  • Growing Darkness, Growing Light (1997, Carnegie Mellon University Press)
  • The Under Voice: Selected Poems (1995, Salmon Publishing)
  • The River at Wolf (1992, Alice James Books)
  • Home Deep Blue: New and Selected Poems (1989, Alice James Books)
  • The Messenger (1979, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • Ordinary Things (1974, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • Pilgrims (1969, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
  • Dream Barker, and Other Poems (1965, Yale University Press)
Anthology publications
  • Leaving New York: Writers Look Back (Hungry Mind Press, 1995)
Anthologies edited

Awards and honors

References

  1. ↑ Sarah Lawrence College > News & Events: Jean Valentine, Poetry Faculty Member Since 1974, Named New York State Poet for 2008-2010 > March 13, 2008
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "National Book Awards – 2004". National Book Foundation. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
    (With acceptance speech by Valentine, essay by Dilruba Ahmed from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog, and other material.)
  3. ↑ https://www.coppercanyonpress.org/pages/browse/book.asp?bg={72768156-60E5-43EF-9012-CFBEE2290650}
  4. ↑ "Poetry". Past winners & finalists by category. The Pulitzer Prizes. Retrieved 2012-04-08.
  5. ↑ The New Yorker > Poetry > Hawkins Stable > by Jean Valentine > March 9, 2009
  6. ↑ Harper's Magazine Poem: Forces > by Jean Valentine
  7. ↑ Library of Congress Online Catalog: Jean Valentine
  8. ↑ The MacDowell Colony > Index of Fellows
  9. ↑ Lannan Foundation > Past Residents
  10. ↑ Vermont College of Fine Arts — Faculty
  11. ↑ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > About Jean Valentine > by Amy Newman > Winter 2008 - 2009
  12. ↑ NEA Literature Fellowships - Creative Writing Fellows

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