Elizabeth Spires Explained
Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.
Early life and education
Spires was raised in Circleville. She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University.
Career
Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement.[1] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, The Paris Review and many other literary magazines and anthologies.
Awards and honors
She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association.
Selected works
Poetry
- Book: Globe. Middletown, Conn.. Wesleyan. March 1, 1981. 978-0-8195-1101-0. registration.
- Book: Annonciade. New York. Puffin. July 1, 1989. 978-0-14-058638-1.
- Book: Worldlings. W. W. Norton & Company. May 1, 1992. 978-0-393-31628-5 .
- Book: Swan's Island. New York. Carnegie-Mellon University Press . February 1997. 978-0-88748-249-6 .
- Book: Now the Green Blade Rises. W. W. Norton. 2004. 978-0-393-32485-3 .
- Book: The Wave-Maker. W. W. Norton. 2008. 978-0-393-06659-3. registration.
- Web site: Riddle. The Atlantic. June 2009.
- Book: A Memory of the Future. W. W. Norton. 2018. 978-0-393-65105-8 .
Children's books
Edited
- The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen.
Anthologies
- Book: The Best American Poetry 1994. A. R. Ammons . David Lehman. Simon & Schuster. 1994. 978-0-671-89948-6 .
External links
Notes and References
- Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=uIhM0n05FJMC&pg=PA356. Contemporary American women poets: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2002. 978-0-313-31783-5. Catherine Cucinella. Elizabeth Spires.
