Erika Meitner
Encyclopedia
Erika Meitner is an American poet
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She graduated from Dartmouth College
with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia
with an MFA, and where she is studying for a doctorate in religious studies. She taught at University of Virginia
, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California, Santa Cruz
. She teaches at Virginia Tech.
Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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She graduated from Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
with an MFA, and where she is studying for a doctorate in religious studies. She taught at University of Virginia
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and the University of California, Santa Cruz
University of California, Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz, also known as UC Santa Cruz or UCSC, is a public, collegiate university; one of ten campuses in the University of California...
. She teaches at Virginia Tech.
Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, and Alaska Quarterly Review.
Works
- "The Book of Dissolution", AGNI online
- "Big Box Encounter", Slate, April 20, 2010
- "January Towns"; "With/out", Anti-
- "Quisiera Declarar", From the Fishouse
- "Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2010, pp. 202–203
- Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore Anhinga Press, 2003, ISBN 9780938078746
- Ideal Cities, HarperCollins, 2010, ISBN 9780061995187
Essays
- "On Rita Dove", Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, Editors Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008, ISBN 9781587296390
- "On Rita Dove", Best African American Essays 2010, Editors Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Random House, Inc., 2009, ISBN 9780553385373
External links
- Author's website
- "Erika Meitner Discusses Peeps, Virginia and Yi-Fu Tuan: An Interview by Serena Agusto-Cox", 32poems, May 5, 2009
- "Erika Meitner", From the Fishouse
- "Five Questions With . . .Erika Meitner, poet", Sentinel, Rebecca Swain Vadnie