Arda Collins Explained

Arda Collins
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Denver
Genre:	Poetry
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Arda Collins is an Armenian-American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.

Life

Collins was born in New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry.^{[1] [2]}

Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.^[3]

She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New York University, and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.^{[4] [5]} She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts.^[6]

Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker,^[7] jubilat,^[8] The American Poetry Review,^[9] A Public Space^[10] and Gutcult.

Awards

• 2008 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
• 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences' (AAAS) Poetry Prize
• 2008 May Sarton Prize ^[11]

Works

• Star Lake, New York : The Song Cave, 2022.
• It is daylight, New Haven : Yale University Press, 2009.,

Notes and References

1. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300148886/it-daylight It Is Daylight, Arda Collins, Yale University Press, Mar 23, 2009
2. Web site: Award-winning UI poets Collins and Thirkield read April 14. 2009-05-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20110720085911/http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2009/april/040209collins_PL.html. 2011-07-20. dead.
3. Web site: It Is Daylight - Collins, Arda; Glück, Louise - Yale University Press. 2009-05-02.
4. http://www.readab.com/cal_f2005.html Archives Calendar, Reading Between A&B
5. Web site: Q & A with Arda Collins.
6. Web site: 2019 Juniper Literary Festival : MFA for Poets & Writers : UMass Amherst.
7. Search. The New Yorker.
8. Web site: Number 30 - jubilat.
9. News: Spring . The American Poetry Review . Arda . Collins . 2004.
10. Web site: It is Daylight : Magazine : A Public Space.
11. Web site: Recipients of the May Sarton Prize . www.amacad.org . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100917064735/http://amacad.org/about/sarton.aspx . 2010-09-17.