Grace Schulman. Courtesy Poetry Society of America.
Grace Schulman (born 1935) is an American poet and academic.
Life[]
Youth and education[]
Schulman was born in New York City.
At age 14 she sent a poem to poet Marianne Moore, sparking a long and influential friendship. She would later write her Ph.D. dissertation on Moore.[1]
She studied at Bard College, then graduated from American University in 1955, and from New York University with a Ph.D.[2]
Career[]
She is distinguished professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York. She has taught poetry writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, Wesleyan University, Bennington College, and Warren Wilson College.[3]
Her work has appeared in the New Yorker,[4] New Republic, Paris Review,[5] Antaeus, Grand Street, Yale Review, Hudson Review, and Kenyon Review.
She served as poetry editor of the The Nation, 1972-2006,[6] and director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, 1973-1985.[7]
She lives in New York with her husband, Dr. Jerome L. Schulman, a scientist..
Recognition[]
Schulman won the 2016 Frost Medal for lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America.[8]
Her work has been anthologized in The Best American Poetry 1995 (edited by Richard Howard and David Lehman), The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997 (edited by Harold Bloom and Lehman), and 2 Pushcart Prize anthologies (21 and 23).
Awards[]
Her other awards include:
- Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts, 1995.
- Delmore Schwartz Award for Poetry, 1996.
- Distinguished Alumni Award, New York University Graduate Arts and Sciences, 2003
- Aiken Taylor Award for Poetry, 2003
- Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry, 2004-2005
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Burn down the Icons. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1976.
- Hemispheres. New York: Sheep Meadow Press, 1984.
- For That Day Only. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press, 1994.
- The Paintings of Our Lives. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001.
- Days of Wonder: New and selected poems. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
- The Broken String. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007.
Non-fiction[]
- Marianne Moore: The poetry of engagement. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1986.
- First Loves and Other Adventures. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2010.
Translated[]
- Pablo Antonio Cuadra, Cifar and the Sweet Sea: Selections from the Songs of Cifar,' 1967-1977 (translated with Ann M. De Zavala. New York: Columbia University Press, 1979. ISBN 978-0-231-04772-2 [9]
- T. Carmi, At the Stone of Losses (poems). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983.
Edited[]
- Ezra Pound: A collection of criticism. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1974.
- The Poems of Marianne Moore. New York: Viking, 2004.
Grace Schulman "Without a Claim"
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy the Poetry Foundation[10]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Grace Schulman, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Dec. 7, 2018.
- ↑ http://www1.cuny.edu/forum/?p=2696
- ↑ http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/academics/english/gschulman.htm
- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=grace+schulman&queryType=nonparsed&submitbtn.x=0&submitbtn.y=0&submitbtn=Submit
- ↑ http://www.parisreview.com/results.php?prmKeyword=grace%20schulman
- ↑ http://www.thenation.com/directory/bios/grace_schulman
- ↑ http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poet.html?id=6092
- ↑ Announcing the 2016 Frost Medalist, Grace Schulman, Poetry Society of America. Web, Dec. 7, 2018.
- ↑ "Grace Schulman," Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Web, Nov. 27, 2012.
- ↑ Grace Schulman b. 1935, Poetry Foundation, Web, Nov. 27, 2012.
External links[]
- Poems
- First Nights - Poet's Choice: Washington Post, July 8, 2007
- Grace Schulman profile & 2 poems ("Steps," "Apples") at the Academy of American Poets
- "Waves", Verse Daily
- Grace Schulman b. 1935 at the Poetry Foundation
- Grace Schulman at Amazon.com
- About
- "Announcing the 2016 Frost Medalist, Grace Schulman," Poetry Society of America
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