Marya Zaturenska Explained

Marya Zaturenska
Birth Date:	September 12, 1902
Birth Place:	Kyiv, Ukraine
Death Place:	Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts
Education:	Valparaiso University University of Wisconsin, Madison (BA)
Genre:	Lyric poetry
Notableworks:	Cold Morning Sky
Spouse:	Horace Gregory (m. 1925)
Awards:	Pulitzer Prize for Poetry (1938)

Marya Zaturenska (September 12, 1902  - January 19, 1982) was an American lyric poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1938.^[1]

Life

She was born in Kyiv and her family emigrated to the United States, when she was eight and lived in New York. Like many immigrants, she worked in a clothing factory during the day, but was able to attend night high school. She was an outstanding student and won a scholarship to Valparaiso University;^{[2] [3]} she later transferred to the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a degree in library science.^[4] She met her husband, the prize-winning poet Horace Gregory there; they married in 1925.^[1] Her two children were Patrick and Joanna Gregory. She wrote eight volumes of poetry, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Cold Morning Sky, and she edited six anthologies of poetry.

Her work appeared in The New York Times,^[5] Poetry Magazine,^[6]

Awards

• 1938 Pulitzer Prize

Works

Poetry

• Book: Threshold and Heart. The Macmillan company. 1934 .
• Book: Cold Morning Sky. Macmillan. 1937 .
• Book: The Golden Mirror. New York. The Macmillan company. 1944 .
• Book: Selected poems. Grove Press. 1954 .
• Book: Collected Poems. registration. Viking Press. 1965 .
• Book: The Hidden Waterfall: poems. registration. Vanguard Press. 1974 .
• Book: New selected poems of Marya Zaturenska. Robert S. Phillips. Syracuse University Press. 2002. 978-0-8156-0717-5 .

Editor

• Book: Selected poems of Christina Rossetti. Christina Georgina Rossetti. Marya Zaturenska. Macmillan. 1970 .

Non-fiction

• Book: The diaries of Marya Zaturenska, 1938-1944. Mary Beth Hinton. Syracuse University Press. 2002. 978-0-8156-0714-4 .
• Book: A History of American poetry, 1900-1940. Marya Zaturenska . Horace Gregory . Harcourt, Brace and Co.. 1946 .
• Marya Zaturenska, (1949). Christina Rossetti, A Portrait With Background, The MacMillan Company.

Notes and References

1. News: MARYA ZATURENSKA, LYRIC POET RECEIVED PULITZER PRIZE IN '38. January 21, 1982. The New York Times.
2. Web site: ⁨‭A JEWISH GIRL SHOCKS KU KLUXIA ⁩ | ⁨פארװערטס⁩ | 14 פברואר 1926 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית. www.nli.org.il.
3. Web site: ⁨‭How She Shocked Ku Kluxia ⁩ | ⁨פארװערטס⁩ | 14 פברואר 1926 | אוסף העיתונות | הספרייה הלאומית. www.nli.org.il.
4. Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=18J48gmmwrAC&q=Marya+Zaturenska&pg=PA122. Marya Zaturenska. The tenement saga: the Lower East Side and early Jewish American writers. Sanford V. Sternlicht. Terrace Books. 2004. 978-0-299-20484-6 .
5. News: The New York Times - Search . The New York Times . Marya . Zaturenska . May 12, 2010.
6. Web site: Search Marya Zaturenska. Poetry Foundation . 2017-03-28 . 2022-10-06.