Erika Meitner Explained

Erika Meitner
Birth Place:	New York
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Dartmouth College, 1996 A.B. University of Virginia, M.F.A.
Occupation:	Poet, author, professor of English at University of Wisconsin-Madison^[1]
Spouse:	Steven Trost, married on April 22, 2006^[2]

Erika Meitner (born 1975 in New York) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA in creative writing, and an MA in religious studies.

She taught at University of Virginia, University of California, Santa Cruz.,^[3] and Virginia Tech^{[4] [5]} She was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing, at Queen's University Belfast.^[6] She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.^[7]

Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review,^[8] and Virginia Quarterly Review.^[9]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, Anhinga Press, 2003.
• Ideal Cities, HarperCollins, 2010.
• Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Anhinga Press, 2011. ^[10]
• Copia, BOA Editions, 2014. ^[11]
• Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, 2018. ^[12]
• Useful Junk, BOA Editions, 2022. ISBN 978-1-950774-53-1^[13]

List of poems

width=25%	Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
To gather together	2021	Meitner, Erika . October 4, 2021 . . The New Yorker . 97 . 31 . 60–61 . 2023-06-16-->.

• "The Book of Dissolution", AGNI online
• "Big Box Encounter", Slate, April 20, 2010
• "January Towns"; "With/out", Anti-
• "Quisiera Declarar", From the Fishouse
• "Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2010, pp. 202–203

Essays

• "On Rita Dove", Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, Editors Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008,
• "On Rita Dove", Best African American Essays 2010, Editors Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Random House, Inc., 2009,

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Notes

Awards

• 2009 National Poetry Series, for Ideal Cities
• 2018 National Jewish Book Award: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me^[14]
• 2018 Finalist: National Book Critics Circle Award: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me
• 2019 Finalist: Library of Virginia: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me

External links

• Author's website
• "Erika Meitner Discusses Peeps, Virginia and Yi-Fu Tuan: An Interview by Serena Agusto-Cox", 32poems, May 5, 2009
• "Erika Meitner", From the Fishouse
• "Five Questions With . . .Erika Meitner, poet", Sentinel, Rebecca Swain Vadnie
• http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-craft-tips/interview-with-poet-erika-meitner

Notes and References

1. Web site: About Erika . Erika Meitner . July 6, 2017.
2. Web site: The Poetry of Parenthood . Gordon . Jane . The New York Times . August 11, 2011 . July 6, 2017.
3. Web site: Anhinga Press: Erika Meitner . 2010-05-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110719183355/http://www.anhinga.org/books/poet_info.cfm?poet_name=Erika%20Meitner . 2011-07-19 . dead .
4. Web site: Erika Meitner and Honora Ankong to Read from ‘Useful Junk’ and ‘Our Gods are Hungry for Elegies’ . 2023-06-23 . liberalarts.vt.edu . en.
5. Web site: Erika Meitner, Blackbird .
6. Web site: An Open Letter From 1,500+ Fulbrighters Regarding The Election Of Trump. Tubosun. Kola. Dinh. Claire. 2016-11-15. Huffington Post. en-US. 2018-04-24. Downs. Benjamin.
7. Web site: UW Madison Department of English .
8. Web site: Erika Meitner, Blackbird. blackbird.vcu.edu. 2018-04-24.
9. Web site: Erika Meitner VQR Online. www.vqronline.org. en. 2018-04-24.
10. News: 30 Poetry Collections By Women That Will Light Your Political Fire. Miller. E. Ce. Bustle. 2018-04-24. en.
11. Web site: Copia . 2024-09-19 . BOA Editions, Ltd..
12. News: The Personal Is Always Political: A 2018 Poetry Preview. NPR.org. 2018-04-24. en.
13. Web site: Useful Junk . 2022-05-15 . BOA Editions, Ltd..
14. Web site: Past Winners. Jewish Book Council. en. 2020-01-24.