Pamela Alexander
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Pamela Alexander (born 1948) is an American poet.
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[edit] Life
After attending the Lady Eleanor Holles School in Hampton, she graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with an M.F.A. in 1973.[1] She teaches at Oberlin College.[2]
Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.
Her papers are held at Bates College.[1]
[edit] Awards
- 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize
- 1985 Yale Younger Poet award
- Fine Arts Work Center Feellowship
- Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship
- Ohio Arts Council grant hi
[edit] Works
- Slow Fire. Ausable Press. 2007. ISBN 9781931337342.
- Inland. University of Iowa Press. 1997. ISBN 9780877455820. http://books.google.com/books?id=2GWQXZSLhb4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Pamela+Alexander&client=firefox-a&cd=3#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- Commonwealth of Wings. Wesleyan University Press. 1991. ISBN 9780819511935. http://books.google.com/books?id=7qiUO7BrpuQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Pamela+Alexander&lr=&client=firefox-a&cd=4#v=onepage&q=&f=false.
- Navigable Waterways. Yale University Press. 1985. ISBN 9780300033311.
[edit] Anthologies
- David Walker, ed. (2006). American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets. Oberlin College Press. ISBN 9780932440280.
- Rita Dove, David Lehman, ed. (2000). "Semiotics". Best American Poetry 2000. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743200332. http://books.google.com/books?id=CIlRNa78TJkC&pg=PT30&dq=Pamela+Alexander&client=firefox-a&cd=2#v=onepage&q=Pamela%20Alexander&f=false.
- The Extraordinary Tide
- American Voices
- Poetry for a Small Planet
- Cape Discovery
