Erin Belieu Explained

Erin Belieu
Birth Date:	25 September 1965
Birth Place:	Omaha, Nebraska
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Erin Belieu (born September 25, 1965) is an American poet.^[1]

Early life

Belieu was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, graduating from Central High School. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where she learned how to construct poetry.^[2] Belieu then attended Boston University, and Ohio State University receiving advanced degrees in the area of poetry.

Career

Belieu previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Boston University, Kenyon College, Ohio University, and Florida State University. She is presently on faculty at the University of Houston MFA/Ph.D. Creative Writing Program.^[3]

Her work has appeared in places such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate,^[4] Nerve, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Tin House, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.^[5] Her poetry collections include Infanta, One Above & One Below, Black Box and Slant Six. She has served as managing editor of AGNI.

In September 2006, Belieu was invited to join the Wave Press Poetry Bus Tour, along with notable poets such as Matthew Zapruder, Joshua Beckman, Eileen Myles and Arthur Sze.

In August 2009, Belieu cofounded the national feminist organization VIDA: Women In Literary Arts, notable for its influential annual survey of the rates of publication between male and female authors. This VIDA survey, known as The Count, has been highly influential in addressing sweeping gender bias in contemporary American literary publishing. Belieu formerly served as VIDA's co director, along with notable American poet Cate Marvin.

In August 2015, Belieu was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing Jeremy Corbyn's the campaign in Labour Party leadership election.^{[6] [7]}

Awards and honors

• 1994 National Poetry Series, for Infanta, selected by Hayden Carruth
• 1995 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
• Ohioana Award
• Society of Midland Authors Award
• invited to read at the Library of Congress by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
• 2007 finalist for the Los Angeles Times book award in poetry for Black Box

Bibliography

Collections

• Book: Infanta. registration. Copper Canyon Press. 1995. 9781556591013.
• Book: One Above and One Below. Copper Canyon Press. 2000. 978-1-55659-144-0 .
• Book: Black Box. Copper Canyon Press. 2006. 978-1-55659-251-5.
• Book: Slant Six. Copper Canyon Press. 2014. 978-1-55659-471-7 .

List of poems

• "For Catherine: Juana, Infanta of Navarre", AGNI 56, 2002
• "The Last Of The Gentlemen Heartbreakers"; "In Ecstasy"; "Of The Poet’s Youth", Reading Between A&B, Fall 2007
• "Two Weeks On The Island", electronic poetry review
• "The Birthmark", Ploughshares, Spring 2003

width=25%	Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
Après moi	2013	Belieu, Erin . June 10–17, 2013 . Après moi . The New Yorker . 89 . 17 . 99 .

Anthologies

• The Best American Poetry, 2011 editors Kevin Young, David Lehman
• Book: The Best American poetry, 2000. Rita Dove . David Lehman. Scribner. 2000. 978-0-684-84281-3.
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=s05KPXEpvjwC&q=Erin+Belieu&pg=PA17. Radio Nebraska. The new American poets. Michael Collier. UPNE. 2000. 978-0-87451-964-8 .
• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=NyL5_87HdxwC&q=Erin+Belieu&pg=PA136. Tick. The body and the book: writings on poetry and sexuality. Glennis Byron . Andrew J. Sneddon. Rodopi. 2008. 978-90-420-2422-9 .
• Book: Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. William J. Walsh. Mercer University Press. 2006. 978-0-88146-047-6 .

As editor

• Book: The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. Columbia University Press. 2001. Susan Aizenberg . Erin Belieu . Jeremy Countryman . 978-0-231-11963-4 .

External links

• "Erin Belieu", Web Del Sol
• "Erin Belieu Does the Poetry Bus and Other Associated Necrophilia", eclectica, Gilbert Wesley Purdy
• "Erin Belieu", How a Poem Happens, July 13, 2009

Notes and References

1. Web site: Erin Belieu. Erin Belieu. 2019-02-13.
2. Web site: Saw Palm interview with Erin Belieu. Saw Palm: florida literature and art. en. 2019-02-13.
3. Web site: Erin Belieu: Professor . University of Houston . August 29, 2022 . en . August 16, 2022.
4. Web site: Poems 1997 - A weekly poem, read by the author. - Slate Magazine . www.fray.slate.com . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110716083102/http://www.fray.slate.com/id/3333/year/1997/landing/1/ . 2011-07-16.
5. Web site: VQR » the Last of the Gentlemen Heartbreakers. www.vqronline.org . https://web.archive.org/web/20090703052937/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2005/summer/belieu-last-gentlemen-heartbreakers/ . July 3, 2009.
6. Book: Bennetts, Russell. Poets for Corbyn. 2015. Pendant Publishing. 978-0-9928034-5-2. 2017-07-15. 2016-03-04. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304103302/http://www.berfrois.com/uploads/2015/08/poets_for_corybn_v2_cover1.pdf. dead.
7. News: Bennetts. Russell. Yes we scan: Poets line up for Jeremy Corbyn. The Guardian. 25 August 2015. 15 July 2017.