Laure-Anne Bosselaar. Courtesy Salisbury University.
Laure-Anne Bosselaar is a Belgian-American poet, translator and academic.
Life[]
Boselaar grew up in Belgium, and moved to the United States in 1987. She earned an M.F.A. from the Warren Wilson College MFA Program for Writers.
She taught poetry workshops in Colorado and co-directed the Aspen Writers' Conference from 1989 to 1992. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, and also in the Low Residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College. She lives in New York City. She is the widow of poet and editor Kurt Brown.
She is fluent in 4 languages, and has written and published poems in English, French, and Flemish. She is the author of three collections of English poetry, most recently, A New Hunger (Ausable Press, 2007). She is also the author of Artémis, a collection of French poems, published in Belgium.[1]
Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including Ploughshares,[2] The Washington Post, AGNI,[3] Harvard Review, and in anthologies.
Bosselaar has edited many anthologies, including Never Before: Poems about First Experiences (Four Way Books, 2005), Outsiders, Poems About Rebels Exiles and Renegades, and Night Out: Poems about Hotels, Motels, Restaurants and Bars, co-edited with her husband, poet Kurt Brown. Her translations include The Plural of Happiness, Selected Poems by Herman de Coninck, co-translated with Kurt Brown (Oberlin College Press, 2006).[1]
Recognition[]
Her honors include a Pushcart Prize,[4] a Bread Loaf Writers' Conference fellowship, and a term as writer in residence at Hamilton College in New York, and at the Vermont Studio Center.[5]
Her 2001 collection, Small Gods of Grief (BOA Editions), won the 2001 Isabella Gardner Prize for Poetry.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: Poems. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 1997.
- Small Gods of Grief: Poems. Rochester, NY: BOA Editions, 2001.
- A New Hunger. Keene, NY: Ausable Press, 2007.
Translated[]
- Herman de Coninck, The Plural of Happiness: Selected poems (translated with Kurt Brown). Oberlin, OH: Oberlin College Press, 2006.
Edited[]
- Night Out: Poems about hotels, motels, restaurants, and bars (edited with Kurt Brown). Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1997.
- Outsiders: Poems about rebels, exiles, and renegades. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 1999.
- Urban Nature: Poems about wildllife in the city. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions, 2000.
- Never Before: Poems about first experiences. New York: Four Way Books, 2005.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
Laure-Anne Bosselaar reads her poem, Arroyo Burro Beach
Laure-Anne Bosselaar at Beyond Baroque
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Author Website Bio
- ↑ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Laure-Anne Bosselaar
- ↑ AGNI Online > AGNI 48 > Laure-Anne Bosselaar
- ↑ Reading Between A and B > Four Poems by Laure-Anne Bosselaar > Bio
- ↑ Academy of American Poets > Laure-Anne Bosselaar Biography
- ↑ Search results = au:Laure-Anne Bosselaar, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Aug. 30, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "How I Discovered Poetry"
- Laure-Anne Bosselaar at PoemHunter ("Stillbirth")
- Laure-Anne Bosselaar profile & 3 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Audio / video
- Audio: The Writer’s Almanac with Garrison Keillor > The Pleasures of Hating by Laure-Anne Bosselaar
- Laure-Anne Bosselaar at YouTube
- Books
- Laure-Anne Bosselaar at Amazon.com
- About
- Laure-Anne Bosselaar Official website.
- Interview with Laure-Anne Bosselaar at Pine Manor College, 2008
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