Maurya Simon. Photo by Robert Falk. Courtesy Lane Literary Guild.
Maurya Simon (born 1950) is an American poet and academic.[1]
Life[]
Born in New York City, Simon has lived most of her life in California. She studied at the University of California, Berkeley, then earned a B.A. from Pitzer College and an M.F.A. in English and creative writing from the University of California, Irvine.[1]
She is a Professor Emerita of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.[2]
She is the author of 10 collections of poetry. She also wrote the libretto for French composer Eliane Aberdam's opera, Tamar, which premiered at the University of Rhode Island in March 2007.[3]
Recognition[]
Simon received a 1999 National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in poetry, and has been awarded a University Award from The Academy of American Poets, the Celia B. Wagner and Lucille Medwick Memorial Awards from the Poetry Society of America, and a Fulbright/Indo-American Fellowship. She has thrice been a Visiting Artist at the American Academy in Rome, as well as a Visiting Poet at Hawthornden Castle in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators in Visby, Sweden.[2] Her tenth volume, The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems (2018), was awarded the 2019 Gold Medal in Poetry from the Benjamin Franklin Independent Booksellers Association.
Publications[]
- Manalmedu (broadside). Santa Rosa, CA: Clamshell Press, 1985.
- The Enchanted Room: Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1986.
- Days of Awe: Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 1989.
- Speaking in Tongues. Salt Lake City, UT: Peregrine Smith Books, 1990.
- The Golden Labyrinth: Poems. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1995.
- The Rapture (broadside). La Crosse, WI: Sutton Hoo Press, 1998.
- A Brief History of Punctuation (chapbook). Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000.
- A Brief History of Punctuation. Winona, MN: Sutton Hoo Press, 2002.
- Ghost Orchid. Los Angeles: Red Hen Press, 2004.
- Weavers. Blackbird Press, 2005.
- Cartographies: Uncollected poems, 1980–2005. Granada Hills, CA: Red Hen Press, 2007.
- Questions My Daughters Asked Me, Answers I Never Gave Them (chapbook). Upland, CA: Black Bird Press, 2010.
- The Wilderness: New and Selected Poems, 1982-2016, Red Hen Press, Pasadena, 2018
- Evening Lament (broadside). Berkeley, CA: hit & run press, 2020
Novel-in-Verse[]
- The Raindrop's Gospel: The trials of St. Jerome And St. Paula: A novel in verse. Denver, CO: Elixir Press, 2010.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[4]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Maurya Simon b. 1950", Poetry Foundation, Web, Feb. 5, 2012.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Maurya Simon," Academy of American Poets, Poets.org, Web, Feb. 5, 2012.
- ↑ Maurya Simon, Department of Creative Writing, University of California Riverside. Web, Feb. 16, 2015.
- ↑ "Search results: Maurya Simon, WorlCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Feb. 16, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Transubstantiation"
- Maurya Simon profile & 2 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Maurya Simon b. 1950 at the Poetry Foundation
- Maurya Simon 4 poems at Poemeleon
- Books
- Maurya Simon at Amazon.com
- About
- Maurya Simon at Verse Daily
- Maurya Simon at the University of California, Riverside
- Interview with Maurya Simon, Riverside Public Library
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