Mary Crow
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Mary Crow is an American poet, translator, professor, and the current poet laureate
of Colorado
. She is the author of two collections of poetry, three chapbooks and five translations.
She has been awarded many honors and prizes including poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts, a Creative Writing Award from the Fulbright Commission to read her poems in Yugoslavia, a Colorado Book Award, a Translation Award from Columbia University's Translation Center, Fulbright research awards to Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Venezuela. She has been awarded writers' residencies in the Czech Republic by Milkwood International, in Spain by Fundacion Valparaiso, and in Israel by Miskenot Sha’ananim as well as at Hedgebrook
, Ragdale, Djerassi, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation
Crow has published her work widely in magazines and journals, including FIELD, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Smartish Pace, and Ploughshares. Garrison Keillor read her poem, “Saturday Matinee,” on the NPR program The Writer's Almanac.
Raised in Loudonville, Ohio
, and educated at the College of Wooster, Indiana University, and the Iowa Writers Workshop, she is now Emeritus Professor of English at Colorado State University.
Chapbooks
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Poet Laureate
A poet laureate is a poet officially appointed by a government and is often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events...
of Colorado
Colorado
Colorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
. She is the author of two collections of poetry, three chapbooks and five translations.
She has been awarded many honors and prizes including poetry fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Colorado Council on the Arts, a Creative Writing Award from the Fulbright Commission to read her poems in Yugoslavia, a Colorado Book Award, a Translation Award from Columbia University's Translation Center, Fulbright research awards to Chile, Peru, Argentina, and Venezuela. She has been awarded writers' residencies in the Czech Republic by Milkwood International, in Spain by Fundacion Valparaiso, and in Israel by Miskenot Sha’ananim as well as at Hedgebrook
Hedgebrook
Hedgebrook is a rural retreat for women writers on Whidbey Island, Washington, founded in 1988. Hedgebrook's artist in residency program accepts 40 writers each year, who spend 2 to 6 weeks in residence working on their diverse writing projects. Each writer stays in her own hand-crafted cottage....
, Ragdale, Djerassi, the Wurlitzer Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation
Crow has published her work widely in magazines and journals, including FIELD, Michigan Quarterly Review, Prairie Schooner, Smartish Pace, and Ploughshares. Garrison Keillor read her poem, “Saturday Matinee,” on the NPR program The Writer's Almanac.
Raised in Loudonville, Ohio
Loudonville, Ohio
Loudonville is a village in Ashland and Holmes counties in the U.S. state of Ohio. The population was 2,906 at the 2000 census. Loudonville is nicknamed the "Canoe Capital of Ohio" for the many canoe liveries along the Mohican River...
, and educated at the College of Wooster, Indiana University, and the Iowa Writers Workshop, she is now Emeritus Professor of English at Colorado State University.
Published works
Full-length Poetry Collections- I Have Tasted the Apple (BOA Editions, 1996)
- Borders (BOA Editions, 1989)
Chapbooks
- The High Cost of Living (Pudding House, 2002)
- The Business of Literature (Four Zoas, 1981)
- Going Home (Lynx House, 1979)
Translations
- "Vertical Poetry: Last Poems by Roberto Juarroz" (2011)
- Engravings Torn From Insomnia: Poems by Olga Orozco (2002)
- Vertical Poetry: Recent Poems: Recent Poems by Roberto Juarroz (1992)
- From the Country of Nevermore: Selected Poems by Jorge Teillier (1990)
- Woman Who Has Sprouted Wings: Poems by Contemporary Latin American Women Poets (1987)
Sources
- Author Website
- BOA Editions > Mary Crow > Author Page
- PEN American Center > Translator Profile > Mary Crow