Joyce Sutphen

Sutphen speaking after Governor Dayton, at right, announced her appointment as the Poet Laureate of Minnesota

Joyce Sutphen (born August 10, 1949) is an American poet, currently serving as Minnesota's Poet Laureate. She is the state's second laureate, appointed by Governor Mark Dayton in August, 2011. Sutphen also serves as a professor of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.^[1]

Life

Sutphen was raised in Saint Joseph, Minnesota and currently resides in the city of Chaska. She holds degrees from the University of Minnesota including her Ph.D. in Renaissance Drama.

Her first book of poetry, Straight Out of View (Beacon Press, 1995), won the Barnard New Women's Poets Prize. Her second, Coming Back to the Body (Holy Cow! Press, 2000), was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award, and her third, Naming the Stars (2004), also from Holy Cow! Press, won the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry.

In 2005, Red Dragonfly Press published a fine press edition of Fourteen Sonnets. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review,^[2] Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Water~Stone, Hayden's Ferry, Shenandoah, Luna.^[3]

Prizes

• 1994 Barnard Women Poets Prize

Works

• "From The 6th Floor". THE CORTLAND REVIEW. December 2006. 
• "Winter’s Night", Todd Boss, February 16, 2008

• Naming the stars: poems. Holy Cow! Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-930100-05-6.  (1st edition Beacon Press (Boston, MA), 1995)
• Straight Out of View. Boston, MA: Beacon Press. 1995. ISBN 978-0-8070-6825-0. 
• Coming Back to the Body. Minneapolis, MN: Holy Cow!. 2000. ISBN 978-0-930100-98-8. 
• Fourteen sonnets. Red Dragonfly Press. 2005. 
• First Words. Red Dragonfly Press. 2010. ISBN 978-1-890193-91-1. 
• Modern Love & Other Myths. Red Dragonfly Press. 2015. ISBN 978-1-937693-68-8. 

Editor

• Joyce Sutphen, Connie Wanek, Thom Tammaro, eds. (2006). To sing along the way: Minnesota women poets from pre-Territorial days to the present. New Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-89823-232-5. 

Anthologies

• Billy Collins, ed. (2005). 180 more: extraordinary poems for every day. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-8129-7296-2. 
• Pamela Gemin, Paula Sergi, eds. (1999). Boomer girls: poems by women from the baby boom generation. University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-0-87745-687-2. 

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