Steven Cramer
See also: Stephen Cramer
| Steven Cramer | |
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| Born |
July 24, 1953 Orange, New Jersey |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater |
Antioch College; University of Iowa |
| Genre | Poetry |
Steven Cramer (born July 24, 1953 Orange, New Jersey) is an American poet.
Life
He graduated from Antioch College, and University of Iowa.[1]
He taught at Bennington College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University. He teaches at Lesley University.[2][3]
His work appeared in Antioch Review,[4] The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review,[5] Partisan Review, Poetry, and Triquarterly.
Family
He lives with his wife, Hilary, and their two children, Charlotte and Ethan, in Lexington, Massachusetts.[6]
Awards
- 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship
- 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club, for Goodbye to the Orchard
- 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
- Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
Works
- The Eye that Desires to Look Upward. Galileo Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-913123-11-9.
- The World Book. Copper Beech Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-914278-59-7.
- Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand. Lumen Editions. 1997. ISBN 978-1-57129-033-5.
- Goodbye to the Orchard. Sarabande Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-932511-05-5.
- Clangings. Sarabande Books, Incorporated. 23 October 2012. ISBN 978-1-936747-46-7.[7]
Reviews
- "Cramer’s poems fight sentiment with our only available weapons: knowledge and integrity."—H.L. Hix, Ploughshares
- "Steven Cramer's fourth book of poems, Goodbye to the Orchard, provides page after page of graceful inquisition and controlled musicality."—Shrode Hargis, Harvard Review
Anthologies
- Sue Ellen Thompson, ed. (2005). The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Autumn House Press. ISBN 978-1-932870-06-0.
- Joseph Parisi, Stephen Young, ed. (2002). The Poetry anthology, 1912-2002: ninety years of America's most distinguished verse magazine. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-468-7.
References
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=sbjbBSNoKdgC&pg=PA120&dq=Steven+Cramer+poet&lr=#v=onepage&q=Steven%20Cramer%20poet&f=false
- ↑ http://www.pw.org/content/steven_cramer_1
- ↑ http://www.lesley.edu/faculty/steven-cramer/
- ↑ http://books.google.com/books?id=yRk0AAAAIAAJ&q=Steven+Cramer+poet&dq=Steven+Cramer+poet&lr=
- ↑ http://www.theparisreview.org/printissue.php/prmIID/169
- ↑ http://www.tarpaulinsky.com/Spring03/SCMaurice.htm
- ↑ Lisa C. Krueger (October 10, 2013). "Clangings by Steven Cramer". Poets’ Quarterly.
In the madness is method. Immersion in the loose, musical associations and musings of this book renders a lightness, a sense that one could emerge from life’s craziness intact, even whole.
External links
- "Author's website"
- "An Interview With Steven Cramer", E. Christopher Clark
- "Interview with Poet Steve Cramer Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University", Doug Holder
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