Susan Mitchell
Susan Mitchell is an American poet who wrote the poetry collections Rapture and Erotikon.
Susan Mitchell grew up in New York City and now lives in Boca Raton.
She holds the Mary Blossom Lee Endowed Chair in Creative Writing at Florida Atlantic University.
Susan Mitchell has won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation.
Rapture won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a National Book Award Finalist.
Books by Susan Mitchell
- The Water Inside the Water (1983) ISBN 0819521132
- Rapture (1992) ISBN 0060969067
- Erotikon (2001) ISBN 0060553537
External links
- Biography on HarperCollins webpage
- Diann Blakely's review of Rapture in Ploughshares Literary Journal at Emerson College
- Catherine Daly's review of Erotikon at Valparaiso Poetry Review
Online copies of Susan Mitchell's poetry
- "The Aviary" by Susan Mitchell in Ploughshares Literary Journal at Emerson College
- "Children's Ward: New York Hospital" by Susan Mitchell in Ploughshares Literary Journal at Emerson College
- "Havana Birth" by Susan Mitchell in Ploughshares Literary Journal at Emerson College
- "Night Music" by Susan Mitchell in Ploughshares Literary Journal at Emerson College
- "Pussy Willow (An Apology)" by Susan Mitchell in Ploughshares Literary Journal at Emerson College
- "Wind/Breath, Breath/Wind" by Susan Mitchell in Ploughshares Literary Journal at Emerson College
- "The Dead" by Susan Mitchell on Poetry 180 at the Library of Congress website