Jean Valentine in 2008.
Jean Valentine (born April 27, 1934) is an American poet.
Life[]
Valentine was born in Chicago, Illinois.
She earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Radcliffe College.
She has lived most of her life in New York City. She has taught with the Graduate Writing Program at New York University, at Columbia University, at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, and at Sarah Lawrence College. She is a faculty member at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.[1][2]
She was married to the late American historian James Chace from 1957 to 1968, and they have 2 daughters, Sarah and Rebecca.
She has published poems widely in literary journals and magazines, including The New Yorker,[3] and Harper's Magazine,[4] and The American Poetry Review. Valentine was one of five poets including Charles Wright, Russell Edson, James Tate and Louise Gluck, whose work Lee Upton considered critically in The Muse of Abandonment: Origin, Identity, Mastery in Five American Poets (Bucknell University Press, 1998).[5] She has held residencies from Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony,[6] Ucross, and the Lannan foundation,[7] among others.
Recognition[]
Her debut collection, Dream Barker, won the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition in 1965.
Her 2004 collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003, was awarded the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry.
In 2008 she was appointed New York State Poet for a 2-year term.[8]
Her 2010 collection, Break the Glass , was a finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry.[9]
Awards[]
- 2004 National Book Award for Poetry (for Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003)
- 1999 Shelley Memorial Award
- 1991 Maurice English Poetry Award
- 1988 Beatrice Hawley Award (for Home Deep Blue: New and Selected Poems)
- 1976 Guggenheim Fellowship
- 1972 National Endowment for the Arts - Literature Fellowship in Poetry [10]
- 1965 Yale Series of Younger Poets
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Dream Barker, and other poems. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1965.
- Pilgrims. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1969.
- Ordinary Things. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1974.
- Turn: Poems. Oberlin, OH: Pocket Pal Press, 1977.
- The Messenger. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1979.
- Home Deep Blue: New and selected poems. Cambridge, MA: Alice James Books, 1989.
- The River at Wolf. Cambridge, MA: Alice James Books, 1992.
- The Under Voice: Selected poems. Galway, Ireland: Salmon Publishing, 1995.
- Growing Darkness, Growing Light. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1997.
- The Cradle of the Real Life. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press / Nanover, NH: University Press of New England, 2000.
- Door in the Mountain: New and collected poems, 1965–2003. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2004.
- Little Boat. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2007.
- Lucy (chapbook). Louisville, KY: Sarabande Books, 2009.
- Break the Glass. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2010.
Edited[]
- The Lighthouse Keeper: Essays on the poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor. Hobart & William Smith Colleges Press, 2001.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[11]
See also[]
| Preceded by Billy Collins |
New York State Poet 2008-2010 |
Succeeded by Marie Howe |
References[]
Jean Valentine reads "Poem for Reginald Shepherd"
- Publishers Weekly Review of Door in the Mountain by Reed Business Information (Accessed via the Seattle Public Library and Syndetic Solutions, Inc.)
- Weiner, Tim. "James Chace, Foreign Policy Thinker, Is Dead at 72". The New York Times (Late East Coast edition), October 11, 2004, p. B.7. (Accessed via ProQuest, Document ID 710384891)
- Novel Guide
Fonds[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Vermont College of Fine Arts — Faculty
- ↑ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > About Jean Valentine > by Amy Newman > Winter 2008 - 2009
- ↑ The New Yorker > Poetry > Hawkins Stable > by Jean Valentine > March 9, 2009
- ↑ Harper's Magazine Poem: Forces > by Jean Valentine
- ↑ Library of Congress Online Catalog: Jean Valentine
- ↑ The MacDowell Colony > Index of Fellows
- ↑ Lannan Foundation > Past Residents
- ↑ Sarah Lawrence College > News & Events: Jean Valentine, Poetry Faculty Member Since 1974, Named New York State Poet for 2008-2010 > March 13, 2008
- ↑ http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Poetry
- ↑ NEA Literature Fellowships - Creative Writing Fellows
- ↑ Search results = au:Jean Valentine, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 9, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Night Lake" at the American Poetry Review
- Jean Valentine at Poetry Out Loud (3 poems)
- Jean Valentine b. 1934 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Jean Valentine profile and 16 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Jean Valentine at PoemHunter (18 poems)
- Poems read & listen
- Audio / video
- Jean Valentine (b. 1934) at The Poetry Archive
- Jean Valentine at YouTube
- Audio: Jean Valentine Reading for WNYC Radio
- Books
- Jean Valentine at Amazon.com
- About
- The American Poetry Review > Jan/Feb 2005 Vol. 34/No. 1 > Jean Valentine
- The New York Times > A Poet in Yonkers by Hershenson, Roberta > Nov. 28, 2004, section 14WC, p. 13.
- Jean Valentine Official website.
- Poetry Society of America: Crossroads > 'A Conversation with Jean Valentine' by Eve Grubin.
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