Cynthia Huntington. Courtesy Vox of Dartmouth.
Cynthia Huntington (born 1951) is an American poet and memoirist.
Life[]
Huntington was born in 1951 in Meadville, Pennsylvania.[1] She received her M.A. from The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She is a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.[2]
She has published several books of poetry, including The Radiant (Four Way Books, 2003). She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including TriQuarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Cimarron Review AGNI,[3] Ploughshares,[4] and Massachusetts Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present (Sribner, 2008) and Contemporary Poetry of New England (Middlebury College Press, 2002).
Recognition[]
Huntington has received grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Other awards include: the Robert Frost Prize from The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, the Jane Kenyon Award in Poetry, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize.[5]
In March 2004 she was appointed Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.[6]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Fish-Wife: Poems. Honolulu, HI: University of Hawaii Press, 1986.
- We Have Gone to the Beach: Poems. Farmington, ME: Alice James Books, 1996.
- The Radiant. New York: Four Way Books, 2003.
- Heavenly Bodies. Carbondale, IL: Southern Illinois University Press, 2012.
Non-fiction[]
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- The Salt House: A summer on the dunes of Cape Cod. Hanover, NH: University Press of New England, 1999.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[7]
See also[]
| Preceded by Marie Harris |
New Hampshire Poet Laureate 2004-2005 |
Succeeded by Patricia Fargnoli |
References[]
- ↑ Cynthia Huntington, Upper Hudson Library System, UHLS.org, Web, Jan. 22, 2012.
- ↑ Cynthia Huntington, Dartmouth College English Department, Web, Jan. 22, 2012.
- ↑ Agni Online > Cynthia Huntington
- ↑ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Table of Contents
- ↑ Alice James Books Author Page, Cynthia Huntington
- ↑ Library of Congress > New Hampshire - State Poet Laureate
- ↑ [http://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3ACynthia+Huntington&qt=advanced&dblist=638 Search results = au:Cynthia Huntington}, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 4, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Our Father," "Bride of the Barbituate," New Hampshire Review I:1 (Summer 2005).
- "All Wet and Shine" at Orion Magazine
- Three Poems by Cynthia Huntington at Terrain.org
- Cynthia Huntington at Anti-Poetry
- Books
- Cynthia Huntington at Amazon.com
- About
- Four Way Books Website > Cynthia Huntington > Author Page
- Graywolf Press > Real Sofistikashun by Tony Hoagland > Excerpt discussing Huntington's work
- Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Cynthia Huntington
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