Pamela Alexander Explained

Pamela Alexander
Birth Date:	^[1]
Birth Place:	Natick, Massachusetts, USA
Occupation:	Poet, writer, editor
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Iowa Writers Workshop

Pamela Alexander (born 1948) is an American poet and editor.

Life

She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with a Master of Fine Arts in 1973.^[2] She has taught at MIT^[3] and Oberlin College.^[4]

Career

Alexander is the author of four books of poetry.^[5] Her first book, Navigable Waterways, won the 1984 Yale Younger Poets Series.

Her work has appeared in journals including The New Yorker,^[6] Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.

Her papers are held at Bates College.^[7]

She was an associate editor of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.^[8]

Awards

• 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize
• 1984 Yale Younger Poet award, Selected by James Merrill^[9]
• Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
• Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship
• Ohio Arts Council grant

Books

Poetry

• Book: Slow Fire . Ausable Press. 2007. 978-1-931337-34-2 .
• Book: Inland . University of Iowa Press. 1997. 978-0-87745-582-0 .
• Book: Commonwealth of Wings. Wesleyan University Press. 1991. 978-0-8195-1193-5 .
• Book: Navigable Waterways . registration . Yale University Press. 1985. 978-0-300-03331-1 .

Anthologies

• Book: American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets . David Walker. Oberlin College Press. 2006. 978-0-932440-28-0 .
• Book: Best American Poetry 2000. https://books.google.com/books?id=CIlRNa78TJkC&q=Pamela+Alexander&pg=PT30. Semiotics . Rita . Dove . David . Lehman. Simon and Schuster. 2000. 978-0-7432-0033-2 .
• The Extraordinary Tide
• American Voices
• Poetry for a Small Planet
• Cape Discovery
• Book: Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology . Melissa Tuckey. University of Georgia Press. 2018. 978-0820353159.

Notes and References

1. Book: Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets . 2019 . Yale University Press . 243-249 . 18 June 2024.
2. Web site: Collection: Pamela Alexander papers | Welcome to Bates College Archives.
3. Web site: Pamela Alexander- Copper Canyon Press . Copper Canyon Press . 18 June 2024.
4. Web site: The Oberlin Creative Writing Department . 2009-12-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090919064814/http://www.oberlin.edu/crwrite/faculty_Alexander.htm . 2009-09-19 . dead .
5. Web site: The Oberlin Creative Writing Department . 2009-12-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090919064814/http://www.oberlin.edu/crwrite/faculty_Alexander.htm . 2009-09-19 . dead .
6. Web site: Howard Hughes Leaves Managua: Peacetime, 1972 . The New Yorker . 18 June 2024.
7. Web site: Guide to the Pamela Alexander papers, 1970-1997, n.d. . Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library . 29 May 2019 . https://archive.today/20150104163129/http://abacus.bates.edu/muskie-archives/EADFindingAids/MC012.html . 4 January 2015 . live .
8. Web site: Field . Oberlin College Press . 18 June 2024.
9. Web site: About Pamela Alexander . Academy of American Poets . 18 June 2024.