Lyn Emanuel. Courtesy Blackbird.
Lynn Collins Emanuel (born March 14, 1949) is an American poet.
Life[]
Emanuel was born in Mt. Kisco, New York, and has lived, worked, and traveled in North Africa, Europe, and the Near East. She received a B.A. from Bennington College in 1972, and an M.A. from City College of New York in 1975, and an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Iowa in 1983.[1]
Some of her poetry collections include Then, Suddenly— and Noose and Hook (University of Pittsburgh Press). Her poems have been published in literary magazines and journals including Parnassus,[2] The American Poetry Review, Poetry, Boston Review, Harvard Review, The Hudson Review, Slate[3] and Ploughshares,[4] and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry anthologies in 1994, l995, l998, 1999, and 2000,[5] and the Oxford Book of American Poetry (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Emanuel is Director of the Writing Program, and Director of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series, and a professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh. She has also taught at the Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Iowa Writers’ Workshop.[6] She is married to the paleontologist, Jeffrey H. Schwartz, and they reside in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Recognition[]
She has received two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Eric Matthieu King Award from the Academy of American Poets.[6] She also won the 1992 National Poetry Series Open Competition for The Dig,[7][8] and has been awarded a Pushcart Prize.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Oblique Light. Pittsburgh: Slow Loris Press, 1979.
- Hotel Fiesta: Poems. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1984.
- The Technology of Love: Fourteen poems. Omaha, NE: Abbatoir Editions, 1988.
- The Dig: Poems. Urbana, IL:: University of Illinois Press, 1992.
- The Dig and Hotel Fiesta. Urbana, IL:: University of Illinois Press, 1995.
- Then, Suddenly. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press , 1999.
- Self Portrait with Words. New York: Center for Book Arts, 2002.
- Noose and Hook, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010.
Edited[]
- Pushcart Prize Anthology (with David St. John). 1994-95.[6]
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[9]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ University of Pittsburgh > English Department Faculty
- ↑ Parnassus Back Issues, Index to Volumes 1 - 29.2
- ↑ Night Run By Lynn Emanuel > Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006
- ↑ Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Lynn Emanuel
- ↑ Blackbird Archive: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts > Lyn Emanuel > Poems and Biography
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Lynn Emanuel b. 1949, Poetry Foundation, Web, Sep. 9, 2012.
- ↑ Academy of American Poets > Lynn Emanuel Biography
- ↑ University of Pittsburgh > English Department Faculty
- ↑ Search results = au:Lynn Emanuel, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, July 26, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- Lynn Emanuel profile & 4 poems at Blackbird.
- Lynn Emanuel profile & 7 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Lynn Emanuel b. 1949 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio
- Lynn Emanuel at YouTube
- AUDIO: CUNY Radio Podcasts > Poet Lynn Emanuel Reads > December 21, 2007
- AUDIO: Night Run By Lynn Emanuel > Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006
- AUDIO: The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor > Blond Bombshell > by Lynn Emanuel, Sunday, 1 June 2003
- About
- INTERVIEW: Ordinary Objects: An Interview with Lynn Emanuel > by Camille Domangue (excerpts from the AWP Chronicle, Sept. 1997)
- REVIEW: Poetry Flash Number 286, September/October 2000 > New & Noted > By Richard Silberg > Review of Then, Suddenly-- By Lynn Emanuel
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