Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published eleven collections of poetry, most recently, Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013). Ruefle's debut collection of prose, The Most Of It, appeared in 2008 and her collected lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was published in August 2012, both published by Wave Books.[1]

She has been widely published in magazines and journals including The American Poetry Review[2] Verse Daily, The Believer, Harper's Magazine, and The Kenyon Review,[3] and in such anthologies as Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems (2003), American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006), and The Next American Essay (2002).

The daughter of a military officer, Ruefle was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1952,[4] but spent her early years traveling around the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College in 1974 with a degree in Literature. She currently teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and is a visiting professor at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

Awards and honors

Published works

Full-length Poetry Collections

Prose Collections

Non-Fiction

Essays

References

  1. ↑ Mary Ruefle official website, featuring erasure work, maryruefle.com; accessed December 15, 2015.
  2. ↑ The American Poetry Review>July/Aug 2002 Vol. 31/No. 4, aprweb.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Mary Ruefle: A Custom of Mourning (Spring 2009 • Vol. XXXI • No 2), kenyonreview.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
  4. ↑ Lehman, David (2013). The Best American Poetry 2013. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781476708140.
  5. ↑ Profile, The Whiting Foundation website; accessed December 15, 2015.
  6. ↑ Lannan Foundation: Past Residents, lannan.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
  7. ↑ John Williams (January 14, 2012). "National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists". New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  8. ↑ "Robert Creeley Foundation". robertcreeleyfoundation.org. Retrieved March 19, 2015.

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