Elizabeth Macklin Explained

Elizabeth Macklin
Birth Place:	Poughkeepsie, New York, U.S.
Occupation:	Poet
Alma Mater:	State University of New York at Potsdam Complutense University of Madrid

Elizabeth Macklin (born 1952 in Poughkeepsie, New York) is an American poet.

Life

She read Spanish literature at SUNY Potsdam, and Complutense University of Madrid. In 1974 to 1999, worked at The New Yorker, living in New York City.

She spent a year in Bilbao, Spain, until February 2000.^[1]

She works as a translator with The Basque Literature Series.^[2] Her work has appeared in The Nation, New England Review, The New Republic, The New Yorker,^[3] The New York Times, Paris Review,^[4] The Threepenny Review,^[5] and The Yale Review.^[6]

Awards

• 1990 Ingram Merrill poetry prize
• 1993 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry ^[7]
• 1999 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship^[8]
• 2005 PEN Translation Fund Grant from PEN American Center

Works

• Wise. June 4, 2007. The New Yorker.
• Web site: Danger; Notes on a Loose Piece of Paper; Visit. Kirmen Uribe. Elizabeth Macklin (trans.). Graywolf Press. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20080517131150/http://www.graywolfpress.org/Related_Content/Book_Excerpts/Excerpt_from_Meanwhile_Take_My_Hand/. 2008-05-17.

Poetry Books

• Book: You've Just Been Told. registration. New York. W. W. Norton. 2000. 978-0-393-32158-6 .
• Book: A Woman Kneeling in the Big City. New York. W. W. Norton. 1992. 978-0-393-31105-1.

Anthologies

• Book: Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. Melissa Tuckey. University of Georgia Press. 2018. 978-0820353159.
• Book: Poems of New York. Elizabeth Schmidt . Everyman's Library. Knopf. 2002. 978-0-375-41504-3.
• The Penguin Book of the Sonnet, ed. Phillis Levin (Penguin Books, 2001)
• The KGB Bar Book of Poems, ed. David Lehman & Star Black (HarperCollins; 2000)
• Book: Stone and Steel. Bascove. Godine. 1998. 978-1-56792-081-9. registration.
• Prayers at 3 A.M., ed. Phil Cousineau (Harper San Francisco; 1995)
• Best American Poetry 1993, ed. Louise Glück and David Lehman (Scribners).
• Book: Best American Poetry 1991. 1991. Mark Strand, David Lehman. Scribners. 978-0-684-19311-3. ^[9]

Essays

• "Who Put the Code in the Dagoeneko?" Barrow Street, Fall 2001.
• Book: It's a Woman's Prerogative to Change Her Mind. By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry. Molly McQuade. Graywolf Press. 2000.
• What is American About American Poetry? . Poetry Society of America . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20080515120956/http://www.poetrysociety.org/macklin.html . May 15, 2008 .

Criticism

• News: Review: 'Blind Man' a sight to behold. Salon Magazine. August 3, 2000. May 1, 2010. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20090423155406/http://archives.cnn.com/2000/books/reviews/08/03/review.salon.blindman/index.html. April 23, 2009.
• News: A Multitude of Sins NIGHT PICNIC Charles Simic. October 21, 2001. The New York Times. Elizabeth. Macklin. May 1, 2010.
• News: The Road Home, Franz Wright. February 4, 2001. The New York Times. Elizabeth. Macklin. May 1, 2010.

Translations

• Book: Bitartean Heldu Eskutik (Meanwhile Take My Hand). Kirmen Uribe. Greywolf Press. 2007. 978-1-55597-458-9.

Reviews

In May 2000, The New York Times Deborah Weisgall noted:^[10]

External links

• Author's website

Notes and References

1. Web site: Elizabeth Macklin. 15 March 1988 .
2. Web site: Center for Basque Studies.
3. Search. The New Yorker.
4. Book: The Paris review book of heartbreak, madness, sex, love, betrayal, outsiders, intoxication, war, whimsy, horrors, God, death, dinner, baseball, travels, the art of writing, and everything else in the world since 1953 . 978-0-312-42239-4 . Review . The Paris . Plimpton . George . 2004-09-01. Picador .
5. Web site: Threepenny: Issue 58, Summer 1994.
6. Web site: Yale Review | vol. 87, no. 3 . 2009-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090418071823/http://www.yale.edu/yalereview/backissues/873.html . 2009-04-18 . dead .
7. Web site: Elizabeth Macklin - John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . 2009-06-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110603235413/http://www.gf.org/fellows/9200-elizabeth-macklin . 2011-06-03 . dead .
8. Web site: Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholarship- List of Past Recipients.
9. Web site: The Best American Poetry 1991, Guest Edited by Mark Strand.
10. News: Deborah Weisgall. The New York Times. YOU'VE JUST BEEN TOLD Poems. May 14, 2000 .