Claudia Emerson in 2013. Photo by Slowking. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
| Claudia Emerson | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Claudia Emerson January 13, 1957 Chatham, Virginia |
| Died |
December 4, 2014 (aged 57) Richmond, Virginia |
| Cause of death | Colon cancer |
| Nationality |
 American |
| Occupation | Poet, professor |
Claudia Emerson (January 13, 1957 – December 4, 2014) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning American poet and academic.
Life[]
Youth[]
Emerson was born in Chatham, Virginia. She attended Chatham Hall and the University of Virginia (English, 1979) and then earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1991.
Career[]
Emerson taught at several colleges including Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia and Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia. She spent over a decade at the University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg, Virginia, as an English professor and the Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry.[1]
Emerson's work has been included in such anthologies as Yellow Shoe Poets,[2][3] The Made Thing, [4][5] Strongly Spent: 50 Years of Shenandoah Poetry (Shenandoah, 2003), [6] and Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia, (University of Virginia Press, 2003).[7]
Emerson served as poetry editor for the Greensboro Review and a contributing editor for the literary magazine Shenandoah.[8] In 2002, Emerson was Guest Editor of Visions International (published by Black Buzzard Press).(Citation needed) In 2008, she returned to Chatham Hall to serve as The Siragusa Foundation's poet in residence.[9]
CLAUDIA EMERSON - Poets in Person - Episode 5
In 2013, Emerson joined the creative writing faculty at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia, where she taught until her death in 2014.[10][11]
Private life[]
Emerson married musician Kent Ippolito in 2000. The couple lived in Richmond, Virginia, and performed and wrote songs together.[12]
After missing most of the Fall 2014 semester while seeking cancer treatments, Claudia Emerson died on December 4, 2014, in Richmond at the age of 57 from complications associated with colon cancer.[13][11]
Recognition[]
Poets Laureate of Virginia Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (2006-2008), Claudia Emerson (2008-2010), & Kelly Cherry (2010-2012) in 2011. Photo by Ijil RHG. Licensed under Creative Commons, courtesy Wikimedia Commons.
Emerson won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for her poetry collection Late Wife.[14][15]
On August 26, 2008, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia, by then Governor Timothy M. Kaine,[16] and served until 2010.[17] Other awards she has won include:
Awards[]
- The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Award, 1991[1]
- Academy of American Poets Prize, 1991[1]
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1994 (As Claudia Emerson Andrews)[18]
- Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, 1995 and 2002[1]
- University of Mary Washington Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 2003[1]
- Witter Bynner Fellowship from Library of Congress, 2005[19]
- Library of Virginia Virginia Women in History, 2009
- Guggenheim Fellowship, 2011
Publications[]
Claudia Emerson Poetry Reading Sewanee Writers' Conference
Poetry[]
- Pharaoh, Pharaoh: Poems (as "Claudia Emerson Andrews"). Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-8071-2159-7
- Pinion: An elegy. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-8071-2766-7
- Late Wife: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8071-3083-4
- Figure Studies: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8071-3361-3}}
Elliston Shorts Claudia Emerson, "Cold Room"
- Secure the Shadow: Poems. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2012. ISBN 978-0-8071-4303-2
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[20]
See also[]
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| Preceded by Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda |
Poet Laureate of Virginia 2008–2010 |
Succeeded by Kelly Cherry |
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 University of Mary Washington (April 17, 2006). "UMW's Claudia Emerson wins Pulitzer in Poetry". Press release. http://www.umw.edu/universityrelations/news/archives/umws_claudia_emerson_wins_.php. Retrieved 2006-04-27.
- ↑ Yellow Shoe Poets. LSU Press. 1999. ISBN 978-0-8071-2451-2. http://books.google.com/books?id=2D6aqhb651oC&pg=PA8&dq=Claudia+Emerson&hl=en&ei=gzLMTc3RKant0gGzs4jRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Claudia%20Emerson&f=false.
- ↑ Garrett, George (1999) (Cloth). The Yellow Shoe Poets (1st. Edition ed.). Baton Rouge: LSU Press. p. 264 pp.. ISBN 0-8071-2450-8. http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/Books/fall99/99fall_book/garrett.html.
- ↑ The Made Thing. The University of Arkansas Press. 1999. ISBN 978-1-55728-579-9. http://books.google.com/books?id=m1e7kg3uM7EC&pg=PA13&dq=Claudia+Emerson&hl=en&ei=gzLMTc3RKant0gGzs4jRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Claudia%20Emerson&f=false.
- ↑ Stokesbury, Leon (1999) (Cloth). The Made Thing (2nd Edition ed.). Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. p. 352 pp.. ISBN 1-55728-578-0. http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/uaprinfo/public_html/titles/fa99/stokesbury_made.html.
- ↑ Strongly Spent: 50 Years of Shenandoah Poetry
- ↑ Kennedy, Sarah (September 2003) (Cloth). Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia (lrst Edition ed.). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. p. 200 pp.. ISBN 0-8139-2222-4. http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/kennedy_smith.html.
- ↑ "Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Literary Review staff". Website. Washington and Lee University. http://shenandoah.wlu.edu/staff.html. Retrieved 2006-04-07.
- ↑ Emerson profile, ChathamHall.org; accessed December 4, 2014.
- ↑ Virginia Commonwealth University (June 20, 2013). "VCU Adds Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poet to English Faculty". Press release. http://www.news.vcu.edu/article/VCU_Adds_Pulitzer_PrizeWinning_Poet_to_English_Faculty. Retrieved 2014-07-06.
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 Reid, Zachary (2014), "Claudia Emerson, Pulitzer-winning poet, dies at 57", Richmond Times-Dispatch, http://www.timesdispatch.com/entertainment-life/arts-literature/claudia-emerson-pulitzer-winning-poet-dies-at/article_9c7c9e08-3d99-59d1-9e23-13e3b66e1c3c.html, retrieved December 4, 2014
- ↑ "Fredericksburg Songwriters' Showcase". Website. Webliminal.com. http://webliminal.com/songwrite/emerson.html. Retrieved 2006-12-19.
- ↑ Estes, Lindley (2014), "Distinguished poet, Pulitzer Prize-winner Claudia Emerson dies", The Free Lance-Star, http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/education/distinguished-poet-pulitzer-prize-winner-claudia-emerson-dies/article_85277ea8-7bd4-11e4-9f9f-735245c842d8.html, retrieved December 4, 2014
- ↑ Poetry Foundation profile
- ↑ PBS
- ↑ "Virginia". loc.gov. http://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/virginia.html.
- ↑ "Poets Laureate of Virginia". http://poetrysocietyofvirginia.org/poetry-people/poet-laureate/., Poetry Society of Virginia; accessed December 6, 2014
- ↑ Stolls, Amy; , David Kipen, Jon Peede, Paulette Beete, Campbell Irving, Pamela Kirkpatrick, and Garrick Davis. NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers. Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Arts. p. 12. http://www.nea.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf. Retrieved 2006-04-27.
- ↑ "Witter Bynner Fellowships". Website. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/prize-fellow.html#bynner. Retrieved 2006-04-07.
- ↑ Search results = Claudia Emerson, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 22, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- 5 new poems in text and audio, The Cortland Review - Spring 2012 Feature, April 8, 2012.
- Claudia Emerson b. 1957 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio / video
- Emerson, Claudia, "Insistent Traces", Southern Spaces, 26 October 2009.
- Claudia Emerson at YouTube
- Library of Congress reading (mp3 format file) Interview and poems
- "Poets in Person: Claudia Emerson", HD Video in Fredericksburg, VA with Claudia and husband musician Kent Ippolito, The Cortland Review - Spring 2012 Feature, April 8, 2012.
- "Shot Her Dead", an original song performed by Claudia Emerson and Kent Ippolito, The Cortland Review - Spring 2012 Feature, April 8, 2012.
- Books
- Claudia Emerson at Amazon.com
- About
- Pulitzer Prize website, Emerson profile
- Williams, Susan Settlemyre, "An Interview with Claudia Emerson at Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 1, No 2 December 16, 2002 transcript and audio file about Pinion, An Elegy.
- Williams, Susan Settlemyre, "Review of Pinion: An Elegy, by Claudia Emerson" in Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 1, No. 2, December 16, 2002.
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