by George J. Dance
Susanna Lang is an American poet.
Suzanna Lang. Courtesy Cider Press Review.
Life[]
Born in New York City, Lang was raised in college towns where her father taught in Kansas, Michigan and Connecticut.[1]
She lives with her husband and son in Chicago, where she is a literacy coach in the Chicago Public Schools. She teaches public school teachers and early adolescents, and offers poetry workshops in public libraries throughout the metropolitan area.[1]
She has published original poems and essays, and translations from the French, in such journals as Little Star, New Letters, The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, The Green Mountains Review, The Baltimore Review, Kalliope, Southern Poetry Review, World Literature Today, Chicago Review, New Directions, and Jubilat.[2]
Recognition[]
Lang won a 1999 Illinois Arts Council Award for a poem published in The Spoon River Poetry Review. In 2009 she won the Inkwell Poetry Competition, and “My Mother’s Names for Me” was nominated for the Pushcart competition and Best of the Net. She was a 2010 Hambidge Fellow and received an 2011 Emerging Writer Fellowship from The Writer’s Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Her collection, Tracing the Lines, was a finalist for the 2011 Brick Road Poetry Award.[2]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Even Now. Omaha, NE: Backwaters Press, 2008.
- Two by Two (chapbook). Finishing Line Press, 2011.[2]
- Tracing the Lines. Columbus, GA: Brick Road Poetry Press, 2013.
Translated[]
- Yves Bonnefoy, Pierre ecrite = Words in Stone. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1976.
- Yves Bonnefoy, The Origin of Language. George Narna, 1979.[2]
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 About Susanna Lang, Brick Road Poetry Press. Web, May 11, 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Biography, Susanna Lang, Web, May 11, 2013.
- ↑ Search results = au:Susanna Lang, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Oct. 17, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- Two poems by Susanna Lang at the Museum of Americana
- Susanna Lang: Poems
- About
- Susanna Lang at the Cider Press Review
- Susanna Lang Official website.
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