Field-Of-Study: Poetry

Catherine Barnett

Catherine Barnett’s first collection of poems, Into Perfect Spheres Such Holes Are Pierced, won the 2003 Beatrice Hawley Award and was published by Alice James Books in 2004. She received a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, the Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers, and a Pushcart prize. She works as a freelance editor and

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W. H. Auden

As published in the Foundation’s Report for 1941–42: (Profile photograph credit listed partially as "Louise Da… 58 West… New Yo") AUDEN, WYSTAN HUGH.  Appointed for creative writing in the field of poetry; tenure, twelve months from August 1, 1942 (postponed). Born February 21, 1907, in England. Educati

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Rae Armantrout

Appointed for poetry, Rae Armantrout has been teaching in the Department of Literature at the University of California, San Diego, for over twenty-five years; currently, she is a Professor of Writing, specializing in poetry and poetics, and was the long-time Director of the New Writers’ Series.  Since the publication of her first two books of avant-garde

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