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Colette Inez
Inez reading her poetry at Juilliard
Born
Colette Inez

1931
Alma materHunter College
Occupation(s)poet, academic
EmployerColumbia University (1983-present)

Colette Inez (born 1931) is an American poet and a faculty member at Columbia University’s Undergraduate Writing Program. She has published ten poetry collections and has won the Guggenheim Fellowship, Rockefeller Fellowship, and two National Endowment for the Arts (NEA Fellowships) and two Prizes and many other awards. Her memoir, The Secret of M. Dulong, was released in 2008 by The University of Wisconsin Press.[1]

Early life and education

Born as the love child of a French scholar and a French-American priest in Brussels, Colette Inez spent her early years in a Belgian Catholic orphanage, arriving in America as a pretended orphan at age eight at the start of World War II. Her adolescence was spent the foster care of an alcoholic and abusive family in Long Island, New York.[2][3]

She graduated from Hunter College.

Career

Sidelights, angels, fifes and harps
Aha, aha
it's no ordinary morning
Brother Love has gone for logs...
("Gospels in the Drifts")

Colette Inez [4]

Her first book, The Woman Who Loved Worms (1972), was adapted into a dance performance by the Saeko Ichinohe Dance Company. Five of her poems were used as the lyrics of a song cycle, Miz Inez Sez, featured on Pulitzer Prize winning composer David Del Tredici’s album Secret Music (2002):[2] "Alive and Taking Names," "The Happy Child," "Good News! Nilda is Back," and "Chateauneuf du Pape, the Pope's Valet Speaks" (all from her 1993 collection Getting Under Way: New and Selected Poems), as well as "The Beckoning" (first published in the New Orleans Review in 1999).

She has taught at Bucknell University, Ohio University, Denison University, State University of New York (Stony Brook), Hunter College, University of Tennessee (Knoxville), The New School and started teaching at Columbia University in 1983 starting the Columbia University School of General Studies and subsequently as a lecturer in the university's Undergraduate Writing Program.

Works

  • The Woman Who Loved Worms, Doubleday, 1972.
  • Alive and Taking Names. Ohio University Press, 1977.
  • Eight Minutes from the Sun. Saturday Press, 1983.
  • Family Life, Story Line Press, 1992
  • Getting Underway: New & Selected Poetry, Story Line Press, 1993.
  • Naming the Moons. Press of Appletree Alley, 1994.
  • Clemency', Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1998.
  • Spinoza Doesn't Come Here Anymore, Melville House Publishing, 2004. ISBN 978-0-9749609-1-3.
  • The Secret of M. Dulong, University of Wisconsin Press, 2005. ISBN 0-299-21420-6.Excerpts
  • For Reasons of Music [5]

Awards

References