Steven Cramer



Steven Cramer (born July 24, 1953) is an American poet.

Life
Cramer was born in Orange, New Jersey. He graduated from Antioch College, and University of Iowa.

He taught at Bennington College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University. He teaches at Lesley University.

His work appeared in Antioch Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, and Triquarterly.

He lives with his wife, Hilary, and their two children, Charlotte and Ethan, in Lexington, Massachusetts.

Writing

 * "Cramer’s poems fight sentiment with our only available weapons: knowledge and integrity."--H.L. Hix, Ploughshares
 * "Steven Cramer's fourth book of poems, Goodbye to the Orchard, provides page after page of graceful inquisition and controlled musicality."--Shrode Hargis, Harvard Review

Recognition

 * 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club, for Goodbye to the Orchard
 * 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book.
 * Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowships
 * National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Publications

 * The Eye that Desires to Look Upward. Galileo Press, 1987. ISBN 978-0-913123-11-9
 * The World Book. Copper Beech Press, 1992. ISBN 978-0-914278-59-7
 * Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand. Lumen Editions, 1997. ISBN 978-1-57129-033-5
 * Goodbye to the Orchard. Sarabande Books, 2004. ISBN 978-1-932511-05-5

Anthologized

 * The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (edited by Sue Ellen Thompson). Autumn House Press, 2005. ISBN 978-1-932870-06-0
 * The Poetry'' Anthology, 1912-2002: ninety years of America's most distinguished verse magazine (edited by Joseph Parisi, Stephen Young). Ivan R. Dee, 2002. ISBN 978-1-56663-468-7