Lee Upton

Lee Upton (born June 2, 1953 St. Johns, Michigan) is an American poet, fiction writer, literary critic, and a graduate of the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Life

She is the author of several books of poetry, fiction, and literary criticism, including The Muse of Abandonment (1998, Bucknell University Press), Civilian Histories (2000, University of Georgia Press), Undid in the Land of Undone (2007, New Issues/Western Michigan University Press), and The Guide to the Flying Island (2009, Miami University Press). She is a professor of English and writer in residence at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania. In 1990 Upton collaborated with artist Ed Kerns and fellow poet Charles Molesworth on a collaborative exhibition of poetry and images at the Williams Center in Easton.

Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, the New Republic, American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, DoubleTake.

Awards

• 2008 Miami University Press Novella Prize
• Lyric Poetry Award
• Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award at the group’s 95th annual awards ceremony April 28, 2005 at The New School in New York City.
• 1988 National Poetry Series, for No Mercy,

Her poems

• "Undid in the Land of Undone", Poetry Daily
• "The Stacks"; "Body Doubles", Caffeine Destiny
• Apology To Keats
• Destruction Of Daughters
• Hog Roast
• Indispensable Sign
• Interrupting An Addict
• The Broom
• The Crying Room
• The Fish House
• The How And Why Of Rocks And Minerals
• The Table

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections

• Undid in the Land of Undone. New Issues/Western Michigan University. 2007. ISBN 978-1-930974-72-2.
• Approximate Darling: Poems. University of Georgia Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8203-1811-0.
• Civilian Histories: Poems. University of Georgia Press. 2000. ISBN 978-0-8203-2185-1.
• No Mercy. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-87113-339-7.
• Interior Transformations
• Invention of Kindness. University of Alabama Press. 1984. ISBN 978-0-8173-0197-2.
• On Stage Tonight. Troll Communications Llc. 1991. ISBN 978-0-89375-791-5.
• Small Locks. Fallen Angel Press. 1979. ISBN 0-931598-08-7.

List of poems

Title	Year	First published	Reprinted/collected
The apology	2015	Upton, Lee (March 16, 2015). "The apology". The New Yorker. 91 (4): 38.

Novels

• The Guide to the Flying Island. Miami University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-1-60743-571-6.

Short fiction

Collections

• The Tao of Humiliation. BOA Editions. 2014. ISBN 978-1-938160-32-5.

Nonfiction

• Swallowing the Sea: On Writing & Ambition, Boredom, Purity & Secrecy. Tupelo Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-936797-13-4.
• The Muse of Abandonment. Bucknell University Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8387-5396-5.
• Jean Garrigue: A Poetics of Plenitude. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8386-3397-7.
• Obsession and release: rereading the poetry of Louise Bogan. Bucknell University Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8387-5321-7.
• Defensive Measures: The Poetry Of Niedecker, Bishop, Gluck, And Carson. Bucknell University Press. 2005. ISBN 978-0-8387-5607-2.

Anthologies

• Kevin Young; David Lehman, eds. (2011). The Best American Poetry 2011. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4391-8150-8.
• Charles Wright; David Lehman, eds. (2008). The Best American Poetry 2008. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-9975-6.
• David Walker, ed. (2006). American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets. Oberlin College Press. ISBN 978-0-932440-28-0.
• Susan Burmeister-Brown, ed. (2001). Glimmer Train Stories, #36. Glimmer Train Press. ISBN 978-1-880966-36-5.

External links

• "Award-Winning Poet", Oberlin College
• "Lee Upton Biography", American Poetry
• "Lee Upton at the New School [reviewed by Angela Patrinos]"
• "Lee Upton", Here Comes Everybody, January 25, 2005
• "Interview with Lee Upton", Adirondack Review