Anne Winters

Anne Winters. Courtesy Library of Congress.

Anne Winters (born 1939) is an American poet and academic.

Life

Winters was born in 1939 in New York City.

Having received an early university education at both New York University and Columbia University in New York City, she went on to earn an Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. She has studied, in various schools, under well-known American poets Allen Tate, Randall Jarrell, and Robert Lowell.

A leftist, she is a professor of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She currently teaches British literature, the Bible (Winters is well-versed in classical Greek, Latin and Hebrew), and graduate courses in translation and poetry.

Writing

New York City is the primary subject of her poems.

Recognition

Winters has won several national awards, most recently the William Carlos Williams Award and Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for 'The Displaced of Capital.' She was the recipient of a 2006 Guggenheim Fellowship.

Publications

Poetry

• The Key to the City. Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
• The Displaced of Capital. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2004.

Translated

• Robert Marteau, Salamander: Selected poems. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1979.

Except where noted, bibliogrpahical information courtesy WorldCat.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

External links

Poems

• Anne Winters b. 1939 at the Poetry Foundation

About

• Faculty profile at UIC Department of English
• TheAnne Winters Challenge at Slate.