Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle
Born1952 (age 71–72)
EducationBennington College (BA)
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsNational Book Award

Mary Ruefle (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published many collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry and a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.[1] Ruefle's debut collection of prose, The Most Of It, appeared in 2008 and her collected lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, in 2012, both published by Wave Books.[2] She has also published a book of erasures, A Little White Shadow (2006).[3]

She has been widely published in magazines and journals including The American Poetry Review,[4] Verse Daily,[5] The Believer,[6] Harper's Magazine,[7] and The Kenyon Review,[8] and in such anthologies as Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems (2003), American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006), and The Next American Essay (2002).[9]

The daughter of a military officer, Ruefle was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, in 1952,[10] but spent her early years traveling around the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College[9] in 1974 with a degree in literature. She teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.[9] In 2011, she served as the Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor[11] at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. In 2019, she was named poet laureate of the state of Vermont.[12]

Awards and honors

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

  • Dunce (Wave Books, 2019)
  • From Here to Eternity. Horton Tank Graphics. 2015.
  • An Incarnation of the Now. See Double Press. 2015.
  • Happy Birthday!. Wave Books. 2013.
  • Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013)
  • Selected Poems, 2010 (William Carlos Williams Award, 2011)
  • Go home and go to bed! : a comic. Pilot Books. 2007.
  • Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007)
  • A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006)
  • Tristimania (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004)
  • Apparition Hill (CavanKerry Press, 2002)
  • Among the Musk Ox People (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002)
  • Post Meridian (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999)
  • Cold Pluto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996; Classic Contemporary version 2001)
  • The Adamant (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989)
  • Life Without Speaking (University of Alabama Press, 1987)
  • Memling's Veil (University of Alabama Press, 1982)

Prose collections

Non-fiction

  • Madness, Rack, and Honey Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012)

Essays

  • "Pause". Granta (131: The Map is Not the Territory). Spring 2015. (Online Edition Only)

Erasure

References

  1. ^ "2020 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2020 The Pulitzer Prizes. May 4, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2020.
  2. ^ Mary Ruefle official website, featuring erasure work, maryruefle.com; accessed December 15, 2015.
  3. ^ "Mary Ruefle". Poetry Foundation. February 26, 2019. Retrieved February 27, 2019.
  4. ^ The American Poetry Review>July/Aug 2002 Vol. 31/No. 4 Archived July 4, 2008, at the Wayback Machine, aprweb.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
  5. ^ Daily, Verse. "Verse Daily Archives". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  6. ^ "The Believer - Contributors: Mary Ruefle". The Believer. Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  7. ^ "Mary Ruefle | Harper's Magazine". Retrieved March 11, 2017.
  8. ^ Mary Ruefle: A Custom of Mourning (Spring 2009 • Vol. XXXI • No 2)[permanent dead link‍], kenyonreview.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
  9. ^ a b c d e f "Mary Ruefle". Contemporary Authors Online. 2014 – via Gale Literature Resource Center.
  10. ^ Lehman, David (2013). The Best American Poetry 2013. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4767-0814-0.
  11. ^ "University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Receives $500,000 Donation to Build Program Endowment | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa". College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa. March 26, 2017. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  12. ^ "Mary Ruefle appointed Vermont's poet laureate". AP NEWS. October 30, 2019. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
  13. ^ Profile, The Whiting Foundation website; accessed December 15, 2015.
  14. ^ "Dartmouth Poet in Residence". The Frost Place. February 8, 2013. Archived from the original on March 21, 2018. Retrieved March 22, 2018.
  15. ^ "Mary Ruefle" (Press release). Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved April 25, 2020.
  16. ^ Lannan Foundation: Past Residents Archived June 7, 2011, at the Wayback Machine, lannan.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
  17. ^ John Williams (January 14, 2012). "National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists". New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  18. ^ "Robert Creeley Foundation". robertcreeleyfoundation.org. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
  19. ^ "2020 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2020 The Pulitzer Prizes. May 4, 2020. Retrieved May 4, 2020.