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*[http://www.kwls.org/lit/podcasts/2010/01/mark_strand.cfm Mark Strand reading at the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar (audio / 33:53)] |
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*[http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/038386.html Footage of Strand reading poems at the Erotikon Symposium, University of Chicago] |
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*[http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n1/nonfiction/strand_m/index.htm "Poetry in the World," essay by Mark Strand] |
*[http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n1/nonfiction/strand_m/index.htm "Poetry in the World," essay by Mark Strand] |
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Mark Strand (born 11 April 1934) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet, essayist, and translator. He was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1990.[1] Since 2005, he has been a professor of English at Columbia University.
Biography
Strand was born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada. His early years were spent in North America, while much of his teenage years were spent in South and Central America. In 1957, he earned his B.A. from Antioch College in Ohio. Strand then studied painting under Josef Albers at Yale University where he earned a B.F.A in 1959. On a Fulbright Scholarship, Strand studied nineteenth-century Italian poetry in Italy during 1960-1961.
He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa the following year and earned a Master of Arts in 1962. In 1965 he spent a year in Brazil as a Fulbright Lecturer.[2] His academic career has taken him to numerous colleges and universities to teach. A partial list:
- Teaching positions
- University of Iowa, Iowa City, instructor in English, 1962-1965
- University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Fulbright lecturer, 1965-1966
- Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, assistant professor, 1967
- Columbia University, New York City, adjunct associate professor, 1969-1972
- Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, New York City, associate professor, 1970-1972
- Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Bain-Swiggett Lecturer, 1973
- Brandeis University, Hurst professor of poetry, 1974-1975
- University of Utah, Salt Lake City, professor of English, 1981-1993
- Johns Hopkins University, Elliot Coleman Professor of Poetry, 1994-c. 1998
- University of Chicago, Committee on Social Thought, 1998—
- Visiting professor at
- University of Washington, 1968, 1970
- Columbia University, 1980
- Yale University, 1969-1970
- University of Virginia, 1976, 1978
- California State University at Fresno, 1977
- University of California at Irvine, 1979
- Wesleyan University, 1979
- Harvard University, 1980
In 1997, he left Johns Hopkins University to accept the Andrew MacLeish Distinguished Service Professorship of Social Thought at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Since 2006, Strand has been teaching literature and creative writing at Columbia University, in New York City.
In 1981, Strand was elected a member of The American Academy of Arts and Letters. He served as Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress during the 1990-1991 term. Strand has received numerous awards including a MacArthur Fellowship in 1987 and the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1999 for Blizzard of One.
Awards
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article:
- 1960–1961: Fulbright Fellowship
- 1979: Fellowship of the Academy of American Poets
- 1987: MacArthur Fellowship
- 1990–1991: Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress
- 1992: Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry
- 1993: Bollingen Prize
- 1999: Pulitzer Prize, for A Blizzard of One
- 2004: Wallace Stevens Award
Bibliography
Each year links to its corresponding "[year] in poetry" article for works of poetry or "[year] in literature" article for other works:
Poetry
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Prose
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Poetry translations
- 1971: 18 Poems from the Quechua, Halty Ferguson[3]
- 1973: The Owl's Insomnia, poems by Rafael Alberti, Atheneum[3]
- 1976: Souvenir of the Ancient World, poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Antaeus Editions[4]
- 2002: Looking for Poetry: Poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Rafael Alberti, with Songs from the Quechua[4]
- 1993: Contributor: "Canto IV", Dante's Inferno: Translations by Twenty Contemporary PoetsCanto IV, edited by Daniel Halpern; The Ecco Press
- 1986, according to one source, or 1987, according to another source:[2] Traveling in the Family, poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, with Thomas Colchie; translator with Elizabeth Bishop, Colchie, and Gregory Rabassa) Random House[2]
Editor
- 1968: The Contemporary American Poets, New American Library[3]
- 1970: New Poetry of Mexico, Dutton[3]
- 1976: Another Republic: Seventeen European and South American Writers, with Charles Simic, Ecco[3]
- 1991: The Best American Poetry 1991, Macmillan[2]
- 1994: Golden Ecco Anthology, Ecco Press[2]
- 1994: The Golden Ecco Anthology[3]
- 2005: 100 Great Poems of the Twentieth Century, W. W. Norton[3]
References
- ^ "Poet Laureate Timeline: 1981-1990". Library of Congress. 2008. Retrieved 2009-01-01.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae Web page titled Mark Strand (1934 - ) "Mark Strand (1934 - )" at the Poetry Foundation website, retrieved July 12, 2009
- ^ a b c d e f g h Web page titled "Mark Strand" at the website of the Academy of American Poets, retrieved July 12, 2009
- ^ a b c Web page titled "Mark Strand, UI Graduate 62MA (Former UI Faculty)", at the Pulitzer Prize Winners With UI Ties website, retrieved July 12, 2009
External links
- Mark Strand reading at the 2010 Key West Literary Seminar (audio / 33:53)
- Footage of Strand reading poems at the Erotikon Symposium, University of Chicago
- "Poetry in the World," essay by Mark Strand
- Modern American Poetry Web site biographical page on Mark Strand
- Strand's Academy Of American Poets page
- Mark Strand reading and interview on Weekend America
- Watch Mark Strand read poems and give writing advice at Open-Door Poetry
- Writers from Prince Edward Island
- American Poets Laureate
- American poets
- Antioch College alumni
- Columbia University faculty
- Wesleyan University faculty
- MacArthur Fellows
- Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Pulitzer Prize for Poetry winners
- University of Chicago faculty
- University of Iowa alumni
- Writers from Utah
- Yale University alumni
- Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
- Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty
- 1934 births
- Living people