April Bernard Explained

April Bernard
Birth Place:	New England, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Harvard University

April Anne Bernard (born 1956)^[1] is an American writer, poet, and novelist.

Early life and education

Bernard was born and raised in Williamstown, Massachusetts. Her father, Walter Bernard, held a BA from the University of New Hampshire and a PhD from MIT. For many years he was a research scientist at Sprague Electric.^[2] Her mother, Claire, was a teacher, writer and librarian who taught 5th and 6th grade at the local elementary school.^[3]

Bernard graduated from Mt. Greylock Regional High School in 1974. She attended Harvard University, earning a BA magna cum laude in History and Literature in 1978.^[4] While at Harvard, Bernard was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the recipient of several awards including the Sonier Thesis Prize in History and Literature, the Untermeyer Poetry Prize, and the Roger Conant Hatch Prize for Lyric Poetry.

She earned a master's degree from Yale University^[5] in 1981.^[6]

Writing career

She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Manhattan, inc. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares,^[7] Parnassus, and The New York Review of Books.^[8]

In 2017, Bernard was deputy editor of US Magazine.^[9]

Academic career

In the early 1990s, Bernard taught at Amherst College.^[10] She later taught at writing at as part of the MFA program at Bennington College from 1999 to 2009.^[11]

In Fall 2003, Bernard was the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College.^[12]

She is a professor of English and director of creative writing at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York.^[13]

Personal life

In 1981, Bernard married Peter Craig Freeman, the director of the Blum-Heiman Gallery in New York. Bernard later was married to writer Marc Robinson.

She has a son, Henry Robinson.^[14]

Honors and awards

• 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship^[15]
• 2006 Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry^[16]

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• Book: The World Behind the World: Poems . March 14, 2023. W.W. Norton & Co. 978-1324036203 .
• Book: Brawl & Jag: Poems . March 28, 2016. W.W. Norton & Co. 978-0393351736 .
• Book: Romanticism: Poems . June 1, 2009. W.W. Norton & Co. 978-0-393-06807-8 .
• Book: Swan Electric. W. W. Norton. 2002. 978-0-393-05114-8.
• Book: Psalms. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. 1995. 978-0-393-31304-8 .
• Book: Blackbird Bye Bye. registration. Random House. 1989 . 9780394575360.

Novels

• Book: Pirate Jenny. registration. W. W. Norton & Company. 1990. 978-0-393-33430-2 .
• Book: Miss Fuller. Steerforth Press. 2012. 978-1-58642-195-3.

Anthology Publications

• Book: The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. Phillis Levin. Penguin . November 2001. 978-0-14-058929-0 .
• Book: By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry. registration. April Bernard poet.. Molly McQuade. Graywolf Press. 2000. 978-1-55597-297-4 .

External links

• "Interview: April Bernard", Reb Livingston, Post Road Magazine, Issue 7
• Audio: April Bernard reads "Beagle or Something" from Romanticism: Poems (2009)
• Audio: April Bernard reads "Heimatlos" from Romanticism: Poems (2009)
• Beagle or Something. The New Yorker. April 30, 2007 .
• "Song of Yes and No", Baruch College
• That's What I Said. AGNI. 47. 1998. 2009-06-17. https://web.archive.org/web/20090701121443/http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2002/56-bernard.html. 2009-07-01. dead.
• Not Rome . Summer 2002 . Boston Review . 2009-06-17 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100614234606/http://bostonreview.net/BR27.3/not%20rome.html . 2010-06-14 . dead .
• Web site: Notes on the First Person. Aug 21, 2009. Poems Out Loud. August 21, 2009. July 21, 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110721143910/http://poemsoutloud.net/columns/archive/notes_on_the_first_person/. dead.
• Escape from the Ivory Tower. Lapham's Quarterly. Fall 2008 .
• Web site: Famous Last Words: Harold Brodkey's deathbed memoir. Oct 22, 1996. slate .

Notes and References

1. Web site: Miss Fuller A novel written by April Bernard Steerforth Press Publishing. www.steerforth.com. 16 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20160913070212/http://www.steerforth.com/miss_fuller.html. 13 September 2016. dead.
2. Web site: Walter Bernard Obituary (1923 - 2016) - North Adams, MA - The Berkshire Eagle . 2024-05-06 . Legacy.com.
3. Web site: Claire Bernard Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information . 2024-05-06 . flynndagnolifuneralhomes.com.
4. Web site: Jun 12, 1978, page 13 - North Adams Transcript at Newspapers.com . 2024-05-06 . Newspapers.com . en.
5. Web site: Poets . Academy of American . April Bernard . 2024-05-06 . Poets.org . en.
6. Web site: Sep 26, 1981, page 7 - The Berkshire Eagle at Newspapers.com . 2024-05-06 . Newspapers.com . en.
7. Web site: Read By Author Ploughshares. www.pshares.org. en. 2018-03-21.
8. Web site: April Bernard. The New York Review of Books. en-US. 2018-03-21.
9. Web site: Coleman . Oil . 2017-04-04 . Us Weekly employees are still going through hell Page Six . 2024-05-06 . en-US.
10. Web site: Dec 07, 1994, page 19 - Daily Hampshire Gazette at Newspapers.com . 2024-05-06 . Newspapers.com . en.
11. Web site: 2017-12-13 . W.H. Auden and Campus Sexism: an Interview with April Bernard . 2024-05-06 . LITERARY BENNINGTON . en-US.
12. Web site: April Bernard - Harman Writer-In-Residence Program - Weissman School of Arts and Sciences - Baruch College . 2018-03-21 . www.baruch.cuny.edu . en.
13. Web site: April Bernard - Artist . 2024-05-06 . MacDowell . en.
14. Web site: Walter Bernard - Tuesday, October 4th, 2016 . 2024-05-06 . flynndagnolifuneralhomes.com . en.
15. Web site: April Bernard - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . es.gf.org . 22 May 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110726102656/http://es.gf.org/fellows/1168-april-bernard . 26 July 2011 . dead.
16. Web site: Harman Writer-In-Residence, Fall 2003 . Baruch College.