Eleanor Wilner Explained

Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937) is an American poet and editor.

Life

Wilner obtained her bachelor's from Goucher College and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.^[1] Her graduate dissertation concerned the topic of imagination and was later published as Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society (1975).^[2]

She was editor of The American Poetry Review and she is Advisory Editor of Calyx.^[3] She has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Smith College. She is on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College,^[4] and lives in Philadelphia.

In 2019, she won the Robert Frost Medal, the Poetry Society of America's award for a "distinguished lifetime service to American poetry."

She has been active in civil rights and peace movements.

Awards

• Robert Frost Medal (2019)
• MacArthur Fellowship (1991)
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• Juniper Prize
• Pushcart Prizes (awarded twice)

Works

• Shekhinah (poems), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984.
• Book: Sarah's Choice (poems). University of Chicago Press. 1989. 978-0-226-90028-5 .
• Book: Otherwise (poems). University of Chicago Press. Chicago, IL. 1993. 978-0-226-90029-2 .
• Book: Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems. Copper Canyon Press. Port Townsend, WA. 1998. 978-1-55659-082-5.
• The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004)^[5]
• Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010)

Anthologies

• Book: Best American Poetry. Jorie Graham . David Lehman. Charles Scribner's Sons. 1990. 978-0-684-19187-4.
• Book: The Norton Anthology of Poetry . registration . Margaret Ferguson . Mary Jo Salter . Jon Stallworthy . W. W. Norton & Company. August 1996. 978-0-393-96820-0 .
• Book: Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry. registration. 305. Eleanor Wilner.. Facing Into It. Hilda Raz. University of Nebraska Press. 2001. 978-0-8032-8972-7 .
• Book: The 1997 Pushcart prize XXI: best of the small presses. Bill Henderson. Pushcart Press. 1996. 978-0-916366-96-4.
• Book: The Pushcart Prize Xxviii 2004: Best of the Small Presses. Bill Henderson. Pushcart Press. 2003. 978-1-888889-37-6. registration.
• Book: Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. Melissa Tuckey. University of Georgia Press. 2018. 978-0820353159 .

Translations

• Book: Euripides: Medea. Hecuba. Andromache. The Bacchae. registration. 1. Eleanor Wilner.. Medea. David R. Slavitt. David R. Slavitt. Smith Palmer Bovie. University of Pennsylvania Press. 1998. 978-0-8122-1626-4 .

Non-fiction

• "Poetry and the Pentagon: Unholy Alliance?", Poetry Foundation, 3.2.06
• Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1975.

Awards

• Robert Frost Medal (2019)
• MacArthur Fellowship (1991)
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• Juniper Prize
• Pushcart Prizes (awarded twice)

External links

• "An E-view with Eleanor Wilner", The Drunken Boat", Rebecca Seiferle, 2000
• https://www.poetrysociety.org/psa/poetry/blog/announcing-the-2019-frost-medalist/

Notes and References

1. Web site: Goucher College: News Story -- Eleanor Rand Wilner . 2009-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20091025080447/http://www.goucher.edu/x13565.xml . 2009-10-25 . dead .
2. Web site: Eleanor Wilner : The Poetry Foundation. www.poetryfoundation.org. 2016-01-15.
3. Web site: About Eleanor Wilner | Academy of American Poets.
4. Web site: Warren Wilson College - College Catalog . 2009-12-10 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110518235237/http://www.warren-wilson.edu/academics/catalog/catalog.php?contents=yes&name=staff_faculty&id=mfa_staff . 2011-05-18 . dead .
5. Web site: The Girl with Bees in Her Hair by Eleanor Rand Wilner.