Anne Pierson Wiese

Anne Pierson Wiese (born 1964 Minneapolis, Minnesota ), is an American poet.

Life
Wiese grew up in Brooklyn, New York City. She is a graduate of Amherst College and New York University. She works, and lives, in Manhattan, New York City, with her husband.

Wiese's work has appeared in: The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Porcupine, Raritan, Atlanta Review, Southwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Rattapallax, Hudson Review, Literary Imagination, Carolina Quarterly, South Carolina Review, West Branch, and Hawai'i Pacific Review.

Writing
The Constant Critic: "New York still has authors and publishers; there are still a few used booksellers who haven’t been knocked down by the rising overhead the swan-diving dollar made. If you are reading this having visited New York lately, go have a look at Paris and Venice when you get the chance; the goal is to create an ahistoric wonderland: eternal youth, permanent fashion. These places too are reminders that money finds reasons to do something else. In her closing sonnet, “The Distance,” Wiese declares her “conviction that poetry / was the highest object of humanity.” There’s something to that, and enough in Floating City to suggest that Wiese will be serving that object for some time to come. As for the city that produced her and its regard for poetry, the outlook is bleaker."

Recognition

 * 2006 Walt Whitman Award
 * 2005 Fellowship in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts
 * 2004 Second Prize in the Arvon International Poetry Competition sponsored by the Arvon Foundation in Great Britain
 * 2004 "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Contest
 * 2002 First Place Poetry Prize in the Writers@Work Fellowship Competition.

Plays

 * (produced 1982)