Terese Coe Explained

Terese Coe is an American writer, translator, and dramatist. Her work has been published in over 100 journals in the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and India. She is the author of three collections of poetry, four published prose stories, and many translations from the French, German, and Spanish. She is a professor at the New York Institute of Technology.[1]

Background

Terese Coe (née Napolitano) was born in Manhattan and grew up in Brooklyn. She received a B.A. in English with a minor in comparative literature from the City College of New York and in 1967 an M.A. in dramatic literature from the University of Utah.[2] Her M.A. thesis, “Paradigms of Ritualism,” examined ritualism in Euripides’ The Bacchae; Ulysses in Nighttown, a play based on the 15th episode of James Joyce's Ulysses; Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding; Albee's Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf; Genet's The Maids; and Beckett's Happy Days. Her poems, translations, and stories have appeared in US journals including 32 Poems,[3] Able Muse, Alaska Quarterly Review,[4] American Arts Quarterly, The Cincinnati Review,[5] The Connecticut Review, The Evansville Review, High Times, The Hopkins Review, The Huffington Post,[6] The Literary Review, Measure, Mezzo Cammin, New American Writing,[7] The New York Times, Nimrod International, Ploughshares,[8] Poetry,[9] Smartish Pace, The Shakespeare Newsletter, Stone Canoe, Tar River Poetry, The Threepenny Review[10] and Xavier Review; in the UK, in Agenda, Anon, Interlude, Interpreter’s House, Leviathan Quarterly, New Walk, New Writing Scotland, Poetry Review, the Times Literary Supplement, and Warwick Review; in Ireland, in Crannog, Cyphers, The Moth, and The Stinging Fly;[11] and in Australia in Soapbox Media. The EBSCO research database lists numerous poems and translations by Coe.[12]

Coe's poem "More" was among those chosen by Poetry Review Guest Editor George Szirtes to be heli-dropped across London as part of the 2012 London Olympics' Poetry Parnassus' Rain of Poems event.[13]

Terese Coe's first collection of poems, The Everyday Uncommon, was published in 2005 by Wordtech.[14] Her second collection, Shot Silk, was published in 2015 by Kelsay Books.[15] Her third collection, Why You Can't Go Home Again, was published in 2018 by Kelsay Books.[16] Her work appears in anthologies such as Anthology One (Alsop Review Press),[17] Grace Notes: Poetry from the Pages of First Things,[18] The Cento: A Collection of Collage Poems,[19] Irresistible Sonnets,[20] Jiggery Pokery Semicentennial (from Waywiser Press),[21] Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle (from Kelsay Books),[22] and Phoenix Rising from the Ashes (from Friesen Press, Canada).[23]

Coe has worked as editor and writer for publications including The New York Free Press and Changes (NY, 1969); English teacher and director of poetry workshops in Kathmandu, Nepal; director of children's poetry workshops at the Sun Valley (ID) Center for the Arts; and as editorial consultant for numerous financial publications at investment banks in Manhattan. She worked for ten years as an adjunct professor of English writing and literature in New York.[24]

Awards and Scholarships

Critical reception

Hayden Carruth wrote about The Everyday Uncommon: “It’s clear to me that she knows what she’s doing, she’s doing what she wants to do, and she does it well.” The book has also received critical praise from Rhina Espaillat, R. S. Gwynn, David Mason,[28] and Deborah Warren, among others.

Terese Coe's work was discussed in depth by editors of the Cincinnati Review in 2012,[29] [30] and has been reviewed and discussed by Paul Hoover[31] and other critics. Reviews of Shot Silk are by A.M. Juster, in Angle,[32] Gregory Dowling, in Semicerchio,[33] and D.A. Prince, in New Walk, reprinted at Eratosphere.[34]

Works

Sample poems, translations, and prose

Collections

Essays

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 404. New York Tech.
  2. Web site: Terese Coe bio and book description, Wordtech Communications (publisher). https://web.archive.org/web/20141119035803/http://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/coe.html. dead. November 19, 2014.
  3. Web site: 4.2 Fall/Winter 2006 | 32 Poems Magazine. 32poems.com.
  4. Coe . Terese . 2014 . Godardian . Alaska Quarterly Review . 31 . 1&2 . 28 Nov 2023.
  5. Web site: The Cincinnati Review.
  6. Web site: In Spate. September 11, 2013. HuffPost.
  7. Web site: New American Writing. https://web.archive.org/web/20080828165034/http://newamericanwriting.com/25/borges.htm. dead. August 28, 2008.
  8. Web site: Read By Author | Ploughshares. www.pshares.org.
  9. Web site: JSTOR Detail. Poetry. Foundation. May 8, 2024. Poetry Magazine.
  10. http://www.threepennyreview.com/tocs/132_w13.html The Threepenny Review
  11. Web site: Terese Coe. December 9, 2011. Poets & Writers.
  12. Web site: Citations with the tag: COE, Terese. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214140/http://connection.ebscohost.com/tag/COE,+Terese. dead. 2016-03-03. EBSCO.
  13. . 2021. Contributors . The Threepenny Review . 164 . 2.
  14. Book: Coe, Terese . 2005 . The Everyday Uncommon . Wordtech. https://web.archive.org/web/20141119035803/http://www.wordpoetrybooks.com/coe.html . 2014-11-19 .
  15. Book: Coe, Terese . 2015 . Shot Silk . Kelsay Books.
  16. Book: Coe, Terese . 2018 . Why You Can't Go Home Again . Kelsay Books.
  17. Book: James . Alsop . 2004 . Anthology One . Alsop Review Press.
  18. Book: Paul . Lake. Losana . Boyd . 2010 . Grace Notes: Poetry from the Pages of First Things. First Things.
  19. Book: Teresa . Welford . 2011. The Cento: Collection of Collage Poems . Red Hen Press.
  20. Book: Meriam . Mary . 2014 . Irresistible Sonnets . Headmistress Press.
  21. Book: Daniel . Groves . Greg . Williamson . 2018 . Jiggery Pokery Semicentennial . Waywiser Press.
  22. Book: Marilyn . Taylor . J.P.. Roberts . 2018 . Love Affairs at the Villa Nelle . Kelsay Books.
  23. Book: Vallance . Richard . Marshall . Marie . 2014 . The Phoenix Rising from the Ashes . Friesen Press.
  24. Web site: 404. New York Tech.
  25. Web site: Terese Coe . The Hypertexts. Michael Burch, Editor.
  26. Web site: McLean. Susan. Helen Schaible Shakespearean/Petrarchan Sonnet Contest. Eratosphere.
  27. Web site: "Vanessa Stephen Bell" . Coe . Terese . The Orchards. December 2019 . November 27, 2023.
  28. Web site: Terese Coe's book - Eratosphere. www.ablemuse.com.
  29. Web site: Collaborative Feature—Soapbox and CR. Ampleman. Lisa. McBride. Matt. Bogen. Dan. The Cincinnati Review. 24 January 2012 .
  30. Web site: Coe. Terese. For I Will Consider. Soapbox.
  31. Web site: Hoover. Paul. Clayton Eshleman in conversation with Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff. Jacket Magazine.
  32. Web site: Juster. A.M.. Terese Coe: Shot Silk. Eratosphere.
  33. Web site: Dowling. Gregory. Terese Coe, Shot Silk. Semicerchio.
  34. Web site: Prince. D.A.. Review of Terese Coe's Shot Silk in New Walk Magazine. Eratosphere.