Nancy Eimers Explained

Nancy Eimers (born 1954 Chicago) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Indiana University with an M.A., from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A., and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. She teaches at Western Michigan University.^[1] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.

Her work has appeared in Paris Review,^[2] TriQuarterly, Field, The Nation, Antioch Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Dunes Review.^[3]

She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.^[4]

Awards

• 1987 Nation “Discovery” Award^[5]
• 1989, 1996 Two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships
• 1997 Verna Emery Prize, for No Moon
• 1998 Whiting Award

Works

• "AFTERLIVES"; "SEPTEMBER RAIN", Bucknell
• Book: A Grammar to Waking . Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2006. 978-0-88748-447-6 .
• Book: No Moon. Purdue University Press. 1997. 978-1-55753-099-8 .
• Book: Destroying Angel . Wesleyan/University Press of New England. 1991. registration . Nancy Eimers. . 978-0-8195-2194-1 .
• Book: Stars too small to receive us: poems. University of Houston. 1988 .
• Book: Woman with a mango. Indiana University. 1979 .

Anthologies

• Book: https://books.google.com/books?id=iiG_MOtag50C&pg=PA115. A Grammar of Waking. Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. William J. Walsh. Mercer University Press. 2006. 978-0-88146-047-6 .
• Book: The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women. https://books.google.com/books?id=sCjZY4dDuSAC&dq=Nancy+Eimers+tide&pg=PA91. Morbid. Susan Aizenberg . Erin Belieu . Jeremy Countryman. Columbia University Press. 2001. 978-0-231-11963-4 .
• Book: Poets of the New Century. Roger Weingarten . Richard Higgerson. David R. Godine Publisher. 2001. 978-1-56792-177-9 .
• Book: The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. https://books.google.com/books?id=5a5_Ii2R3qUC&dq=Nancy+Eimers&pg=PA70. Arlington Street. Michael Collier . Stanley Plumly. UPNE. 1999. 978-0-87451-950-1 .
• Book: Best American Poetry 1996. Adrienne Rich . David Lehman. Scribner. 1996. 978-0-684-81455-1 .

External links

• Profile at The Whiting Foundation

Notes and References

1. Web site: Nancy Eimers . 2009-09-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090621154348/http://www.wmich.edu/english/facultyandstaff/profiles/eimers . 2009-06-21 .
2. Web site: The Paris Review - Summer 1993 . 2009-09-13 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090709024915/http://www.theparisreview.org/viewissue.php/prmIID/127 . 2009-07-09 .
3. The Dunes Review. Volume 16 Issue 2. Summer, 2012.
4. Web site: Nancy Eimers. pw.org. live. https://web.archive.org/web/20100626055810/http://www.pw.org/content/nancy_eimers. 2010-06-26.
5. http://www.since1865.com/archive/detail/14197730{{dead link|date=March 2018}}