Pamela Alexander

Pamela Alexander
Born1948 (age 75–76)[1]
Natick, Massachusetts, USA
OccupationPoet, writer, editor
NationalityAmerican
Alma materIowa Writers Workshop


Pamela Alexander (born 1948) is an American poet and editor.

Life

She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with a Master of Fine Arts in 1973.[2] She has taught at MIT[3] and Oberlin College.[4]

Career

Alexander is the author of four books of poetry.[5] Her first book, Navigable Waterways, won the 1984 Yale Younger Poets Series.

Her work has appeared in journals including The New Yorker,[6] Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.

Her papers are held at Bates College.[7]

She was an associate editor of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics.[8]

Awards

Books

Poetry

  • Slow Fire. Ausable Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-931337-34-2.
  • Inland. University of Iowa Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-87745-582-0.
  • Commonwealth of Wings. Wesleyan University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8195-1193-5.
  • Navigable Waterways. Yale University Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-300-03331-1.

Anthologies

  • David Walker, ed. (2006). American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets. Oberlin College Press. ISBN 978-0-932440-28-0.
  • Dove, Rita; Lehman, David, eds. (2000). "Semiotics". Best American Poetry 2000. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0033-2.
  • The Extraordinary Tide
  • American Voices
  • Poetry for a Small Planet
  • Cape Discovery
  • Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820353159.

References

  1. ^ Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets. Yale University Press. 2019. pp. 243–249. doi:10.12987/9780300249644-078. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  2. ^ "Collection: Pamela Alexander papers | Welcome to Bates College Archives".
  3. ^ "Pamela Alexander- Copper Canyon Press". Copper Canyon Press. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  4. ^ "The Oberlin Creative Writing Department". Archived from the original on 2009-09-19. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
  5. ^ "The Oberlin Creative Writing Department". Archived from the original on 2009-09-19. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
  6. ^ Alexander, Pamela (7 December 1986). "Howard Hughes Leaves Managua: Peacetime, 1972". The New Yorker. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  7. ^ "Guide to the Pamela Alexander papers, 1970-1997, n.d." Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  8. ^ "Field". Oberlin College Press. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  9. ^ "About Pamela Alexander". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 18 June 2024.