Erin Belieu

Erin Belieu. Courtesy She Writes.

Erin Belieu (born September 25, 1967) is an American poet and academic.

Life

Belieu was born in Omaha, Nebraska. She graduated from Boston University with a B.F.A., and from Ohio State University with an M.F.A.

She has taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Boston University, Kenyon College, and Ohio University. She teaches at Florida State University.

Her work has appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Esquire, Slate, Nerve, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Tin House, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. She has served as managing editor of AGNI.

In September 2006, Belieu went on the Wave Press Poetry Bus Tour, along with poets such as Matthew Zapruder, Joshua Beckman, Eileen Myles and Arthur Sze.

Recognition

• 1994 National Poetry Series, for Infanta, selected by Hayden Carruth
• Ohioana Award
• Society of Midland Authors Award.

Publications

• Infanta. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1995. ISBN 978-1-55659-101-3
• One Above and One Below: New poem. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2000. ISBN 978-1-55659-144-0
• Black Box. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2006. ISBN 978-1-55659-251-5
• Slant Six. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2014.

Edited

• The Extraordinary Tide: New poetry by American women (edite with Susan Aizenberg & Jeremy Countryman). New York: Columbia University Press, 2001. ISBN 978-0-231-11963-4

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.

WHEN AT A CERTAIN PARTY IN NYC a poem by Erin Belieu

Audio / video

• Erin Belieu and Fanny Howe reading their poems in the Mumford Room, Library of Congress, Mar. 26, 1998 (cassette). Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 1998.

See also

• List of U.S. poets

External links

Poems

• "For Catherine: Juana, Infanta of Navarre", AGNI 56, 2002
• "On Being Fired Again" at Poetry 180
• Erin Belieu b. 1967 at the Poetry Foundation
• Erin Belieu profile & 3 poems at the Academy of American Poets
• "The Last Of The Gentlemen Heartbreakers"; "In Ecstasy"; "Of The Poet’s Youth", Reading Between A&B, Fall 2007
• "Two Weeks On The Island", electronic poetry review
• "Erin Belieu at How a Poem Happens, 2009
• Erin Belieu at PoemHunter (8 poems)

Audio / video

• Erin Belieu at YouTube
• Erin Belieu at Amazon.com

About

• "Erin Belieu", Web Del Sol
• "Erin Belieu Does the Poetry Bus and Other Associated Necrophilia", electica, Gilbert Wesley Purdy