Nathalie Anderson Explained

Birth Name:	Nathalie Frances Anderson
Birth Date:	2 June 1948
Birth Place:	Columbia, South Carolina
Alma Mater:	Agnes Scott College Georgia State University Emory University
Occupation:	Poet, author, professor

Nathalie F. Anderson (born 1948) is an American poet and librettist. She is a 1993 Pew Fellow, and author of several books of poetry: Following Fred Astaire, Crawlers, Quiver, Held and Firmly Bound (a chapbook), and Stain. In collaboration with composer Thomas Whitman, she authored four libretti: The Black Swan,^[1] Sukey in the Dark, Babylon and A Scandal in Bohemia.^{[2] [3]}

Life

Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Anderson earned her bachelor's degree from Agnes Scott College in 1970, her master's degree from Georgia State University, and her Ph.D. degree from Emory University.^[4]

She has been teaching at Swarthmore College since 1982 and is currently a Professor Emerita in their Department of English Literature. She is also Director of their Program in Creative Writing as well as a Poet in Residence at the Rosenbach Museum & Library.^[5]

Anderson runs Philadelphia's literary event listserv, Lit-Philly.

Some of Anderson's work has been featured in various print and online journals: Atlanta Review,^{[6] [7]} Poetry Daily,^[8] Fox Chase Review,^[9] Natural Bridge,^{[10] [11] [12]} The New Yorker,^[13] Paris Review,^{[14] [15] [16] [17]} The Recorder: The Journal of American Irish Historical Society,^[18] Prairie Schooner,^{[19] [20] [21]} Denver Quarterly,^[22] Nimrod,^[23] Inkwell Magazine,^[24] The Louisville Review,^[25] and Southern Poetry Review.^[26]

On November 8, 2012, University of Pennsylvania's Kelly Writers House inaugurated the Eva and Leo Sussman Poetry Program with poetry readings by featured guest writers and instructors, Nathalie Anderson, Elaine Terranova, and Joan Hutton Landis.^[27]

Awards

• 1998 Washington Prize from Word Works for Following Fred Astaire^[28]
• 2000 "Slow Airs" - Grand Prize Co-Winner in Inkwell Magazine's poetry competition for 2000^[29]
• 2004 "Squeeze" - Finalist for the James Hearst Poetry Prize,^[30] published in the North American Review^[31]
• 2005 The Robert McGovern Publication Prize, Ashland University, Ashland Poetry Press, for Crawlers^[32]

Works

Poetry books

• Book: Anderson, Nathalie. My Hand, My Only Map: 13 poems. House of Keys. 1978. 9780932656018. Atlanta, GA.
• Book: Anderson, Nathalie . Following Fred Astaire . The Word Works . Washington, D.C. . 1998 . 9780915380411 .
• Book: Anderson, Nathalie. Crawlers: poems. Ashland Poetry Press, Ashland University. 2006. 9780912592596. Ashland, OH.
• Book: Anderson, Nathalie. Quiver. Penstroke Press. 2011. 9780966917789. Rochester, VT.
• Anderson, Nathalie (2017). Held and Firmly Bound. Chapin, SC: Muddy Ford Press.
• Anderson, Nathalie (2017). Stain. Washington, D.C.: The Word Works.

Anthology appearances

• Book: Alenier, Karren L. . Hilary Tham . Hilary Tham . Miles D. Moore . Winners : a retrospective of the Washington Prize . Washington, D.C. . The Word Works . 1999 . 9780915380435.
• Book: Rice, Adrian . Angela Reid . A Conversation Piece: Poetry and Art . Belfast . Newry: Museums and Galleries of Northern Ireland in association with Abbey Press . 2002 . 0900761423 . . Poets' responses to an exhibition at the Ulster Museum..
• Book: Potter, Jacklyn W. . Dwaine Rieves . Gary Stein . Cabin fever : poets at Joaquin Miller's Cabin, 1984-2001 . Washington, D.C. . The Word Works . 2003 . 9780915380510.
• Book: McEneaney, Sarah . Ingrid Schaffner . Ingrid Schaffner . Sarah McEneaney . Philadelphia . . 2004 . 9780884541042. Sarah McEneaney .
• Book: Mark, Enid . Ars Botanica . Wallingford, Pa. . ELM Press . 2004 . 9780915380411 . 57614320.
• Book: Follett, CB . Susan Terris . Runes : a review of poetry, signals . Sausalito, CA . Arctos Press . 2005 . 9780972538459 . registration .
• Book: Tobin, Daniel . The book of Irish American poetry: from the eighteenth century to the present . University of Notre Dame Press . Notre Dame, Ind . 2007 . 9780268042301 .
• Book: Datlow, Ellen . Kelly Link . Gavin J. Grant . The year's best fantasy & horror 2007: twentieth annual collection . St. Martin's Griffin . New York . 2007 . 978-0312369422 .
• Book: Datlow, Ellen . Kelly Link . Gavin J. Grant . The year's best fantasy & horror 2008: twentieth annual collection . St. Martin's Griffin . New York . 2008 . 9780312380489 .

Performances

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Black Swan Synopsis . 2013-03-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110414015553/http://www.swarthmore.edu/Humanities/twhitma1/black_swan_synopsis.htm . 2011-04-14 . dead .
2. Web site: The Baker Street Journal with a link to an mp3 audio excerpt from A Scandal in Bohemia . 2013-03-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303220452/http://bakerstreetjournal.com/scandalopera.html . 2016-03-03 . dead .
3. http://www.swarthmore.edu/news-and-events/watch-tom-whitman-82-and-nat-anderson-discuss-new-opera-ia-scandal-in-bohemiai.xml Thomas Whitman and Nathalie Anderson talk about A Scandal in Bohemia
4. http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=465 Swarthmore College Bulletin - Nathalie Anderson
5. http://media.swarthmore.edu/bulletin/?p=465 Swarthmore College Bulletin - Nathalie Anderson
6. Anderson . Nathalie . Bersiul . Atlanta Review . 14 . 1 . Fall–Winter 2007 . 83 .
7. Anderson . Nathalie . Revelation: Shatterings at Canterbury . Atlanta Review . 15 . 1 . Fall–Winter 2008 . 43 .
8. http://poems.com/feature.php?date=15459 Poetry Daily's Featured Poet for April 28, 2012
9. http://www.foxchasereview.org/10WS/AndersonN.html 2010 Winter/Spring Fox Chase Review
10. Anderson . Nathalie . Country Night, County Donegal . Natural Bridge . Spring 2002: Irish Issue . 7 . 2002 .
11. Anderson . Nathalie . Early Orangemen on the Road to Armagh . Natural Bridge . Spring 2002: Irish Issue . 7 . 2002 .
12. Anderson . Nathalie . Celebrity . Natural Bridge . Spring 2012 . 27 . 2012 .
13. http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/01/19/090119po_poem_anderson Eh? by Nathalie Anderson
14. Anderson . Nathalie . Cymophobia: fear of waves . The Paris Review . 30 . 107 . 46 . Summer 1988 .
15. Anderson . Nathalie . Aulophobia: fear of flutes . The Paris Review . 30 . 107 . 47 . Summer 1988 .
16. Anderson . Nathalie . Erythrophobia: fear of blushing . The Paris Review . 30 . 107 . 48 . Summer 1988 .
17. Anderson . Nathalie . Nephophobia: fear of clouds . The Paris Review . 30 . 107 . 49 . Summer 1988 .
18. http://www.aihs.org/American_Irish_Historical_Society/Recorderv22,no2.html The Recorder, volume 22, no. 2 - Four poems by Nathalie Anderson in this issue
19. Anderson. Nathalie. 1985. Oralee Dantzler. 40631649. Prairie Schooner. 59. 4. 89.
20. Anderson. Nathalie. 1985. Lost Sisters. 40631650. Prairie Schooner. 59. 4. 90.
21. Anderson. Nathalie. 1985. Gazelles. 40631651. Prairie Schooner. 59. 4. 91–92.
22. Nathalie. Anderson. 1989. Red Sea. Denver Quarterly. en. 24. 1.
23. Nathalie. Anderson. 1997. Formic Acid. Nimrod International Journal of Prose and Poetry. en.
24. Nathalie. Anderson. 2000. Slow Airs. Inkwell Magazine. 5. en.
25. Nathalie. Anderson. 1995. On Purchasing A Second Case Of R. W. Knudsen Family Pomegranate Juice. Louisville Review. en.
26. none. Anderson . Nathalie . Southern Poetry Review . 38 . 2 . Winter 1998 .
27. http://writing.upenn.edu/wh/calendar/1112.php Inauguration of the Eva and Leo Sussman Poetry Program including readings by Nathalie Anderson, Elaine Terranova and Joan Hutton Landis. Audio and Video clips of the event can be found here.
28. http://wordworksbooks.org/washington_prize.html#winners Washington Prize List of Winners
29. http://www.inkwelljournal.org/past-issues/past-issues.html "Slow Airs" appeared in the Winter 2000 issue of Inkwell Magazine
30. http://www.northamericanreview.org/hearst-poetry-winners North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize Winners
31. Anderson . Nathalie . Squeeze . North American Review . 289 . 2 . 6 . 2004 .
32. http://www.ashlandpoetrypress.com/pages/guidelines/mcgovern-prize- Robert McGovern Publication Prize for Crawlers.