Jennifer Clarvoe

Jennifer Clarvoe is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Princeton University, and University of California at Berkeley, with a Ph.D.

She has taught at Harvard Summer School, Wellesley College, Boston University, and in the MFA Program at the University of California at Irvine.

She teaches at Kenyon College.^[1]

Her work has appeared in Antioch Review,^[2][3] AGNI,^[4]

Awards

• 2002-2003 Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which allowed her to spend the year writing at the American Academy in Rome.^[5]
• Poets Out Loud Prize, for Invisible Tender
• 2001 Kate Tufts Discovery Award, for Invisible Tender

Works

Poetry

• "Day of Needs". Slate. February 19, 2002. 
• Kinsella, John (2003-07). "Pelt of Unwant". Salt 17.1. ISBN 978-1-84471-006-5.  Check date values in: |date= (help)

• Invisible Tender. Fordham Univ Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8232-2090-8. 

Review

Jennifer Clarvoe's vision of progression, tied up with childhood memories and marked by the "fall" into adulthood, is highly personalized. The early poems of Invisible Tender serve as close studies of childhood events; their glance is backward, but the past is reclaimed in new form, allowing forward movement. These poems also acknowledge loss (of memory, of family ties, etc.), and in the course of each poem these losses are transformed into gifts, albeit imperfect ones.^[6]

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