Ann Lauterbach

Ann Lauterbach (born 1942) is an American poet, essayist, and professor.

Lauterbach was born and raised in New York City. She earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. She lived in London for eight years, working in publishing and for art institutions. On her return to the U.S., she worked in art galleries in New York before she began teaching. She has taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, Princeton University, and at the City College of New York and Graduate Center of CUNY. Since 1991 she has taught at Bard College, and is currently a David and Ruth Schwab II Professor of Language and Literature there, where she teaches and co-directs the Writing Division of the M.F.A. program, and lives in Germantown, New York.

Her most recent poetry collection is Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books, 2009), a 2009 National Book Award finalist. Her other honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts. Her poems have been published in literary journals and magazines including Conjunctions, and in anthologies including American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2009) and American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Wesleyan University Press, 2002).

Poetry

 * Many Times, but Then (University of Texas Press, 1979)
 * Before Recollection (Princeton University Press, 1987)
 * Clamor (Viking, 1991)
 * And for Example (Penguin Books, 1994)
 * On a Stair (Penguin Books, 1997)
 * If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 (Penguin Books, 2001)
 * Hum (Penguin Books, 2005)
 * Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books, 2009)

Essays

 * The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (Viking, 2005)