Mary Jo Salter

Mary Jo Salter (born August 15, 1954) is an American poet, a co-editor of he Norton Anthology of Poetry,^[1] and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.

Life[]

Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit and in Baltimore, Maryland.

She earned a B.A. from Harvard University in 1976 and an M.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1978. While at Harvard, she studied with noted poet Elizabeth Bishop.

In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest.

She has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New Republic.

From 1984 to 2007, she taught at Mount Holyoke College. From 1995 to 2007, she was a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America.

She is on the editorial board of literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.^[2]

She is married to poet Brad Leithauser. The couple has 2 daughters, Emily and Hilary Leithauser.

1981: The Frost Place poet in residence
1995–1996: Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
1989: Lamont Poetry Prize for the year’s most distinguished second volume of poetry - Unfinished Painting
2003: Open Shutters named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
2004: Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship

Henry Purcell in Japan: Poems. New York: Knopf, 1985. ISBN 978-0-394-53657-6
Unfinished Painting: Poems. New York: Knopf, 1989. ISBN 978-0-394-57417-2
Sunday Skaters: Poems. New York: Knopf, 1994. ISBN 978-0-679-43109-1
Wreckage (chapbook). West Chester, PA: Aralia Press, 1999.
A Kiss in Space: Poems. New York: Knopf, 1999. ISBN 978-0-375-40531-0
Open Shutters. New York: Knopf, 2003. ISBN 978-1-4000-4008-7
A Phone Call to the Future: New and selected poems. New York: Knopf, 2008. ISBN 978-0-375-71156-5
Lost Originals. Chestertown, MD: Literary House Press, Washington College, 2013.
Nothing by Design: Poems. New York: Knopf, 2013.

The Norton Anthology of Poetry (edited with Margaret W Ferguson & Jon Stallworthy). New York: Norton, 1996. ISBN 978-0-393-96820-0

Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.^[3]