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Wendy Battin (1953-2015). Courtesy Wendy Battin.
Wendy Battin (May 27, 1953 - December 21, 2015) was an American poet.
Life[]
Battin was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She graduated from Cornell University and the University of Washington.
She taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Smith College, Syracuse University, Boston University, Connecticut College.
Her work has appeared in Field, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, The Nation, Mississippi Review, Threepenny Review, and Yale Review.
She was the director of CAPA, the Contemporary American Poetry Archive.[1]
She taught yoga, and lived, in Mystic, Connecticut.[2]
Recognition[]
- Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
- Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
- National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
- 1982 Discovery / The Nation Award
- 1983 National Poetry Series, for Solar Wind
- Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, for Little Apocalypse
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- In the Solar Wind. Doubleday Books, 1984. ISBN 978-0-385-19384-9
- Little Apocalypse. Ashland Poetry Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-912592-40-4.
Anthologized[]
- Lorrie Goldensohn, ed (2006). "Mondrian's Forest". American War Poetry. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13310-4.
- John Matthias and William O’Rourke, ed (January 15, 2009). Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-03512-9.
- Sam Hamill, Sally Anderson, ed (2003). Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-539-0.
- W. Scott Olsen, Scott Cairns, ed (September 1996). The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World. University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-0-87480-523-9.
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Contemporary American Poetry Archive, Connecticut College. Web, Nov. 6, 2012.
- ↑ http://www.upwardcat.com/wendy_battin
External links[]
- Poems
- "One Man Watches a Horse Race"; "Coelacanth", Electica
- "The Women on the Ward", Electica
- "THE NEWS FROM MARS", The Blue Moon Review
- "Seven", fieralingue
- "And the Two Give Birth to the Myriad of Things", fieralingue
- "Mercy 1"; "Mir, the World, or is it Peace", Hamilton Stone Review
- "Liberty", Salt River Review
- "Kali Yuga", Tattoo Highway
- Books
- Wendy Battin at Amazon.com
- About
- In Memoriam Wendy Battin, Fine Arts Work Center
- Wendy Battin Official website.
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