Connie Wanek. Courtesy American Poems.
Connie Wanek (born 1952) is an American poet.
Life[]
Wanek was born in Madison, Wisconsin, and grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In 1989 she moved with her family to Duluth, Minnesota. She divides her time between Minnesota and New Mexico.[1][2]
Her work has appeared in Poetry, Atlantic Monthly, Virginia Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Poetry East, Prairie Schooner,[3] Missouri Review,[4]
She has published 4 books of poetry and a book of short prose, and served as co-editor (with Joyce Sutphen and Thom Tammaro) of the comprehensive historical anthology of Minnesota women poets, To Sing Along the Way (New Rivers Press, 2006).
Ted Kooser, Poet Laureate of the United States 2004-2006, named her a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress for 2006.[5]
Recognition[]
- Willow Poetry Prize
- Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize.
- 2006 Witter Bynner Fellowship of the Library of Congress by United States Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.
- 2009 George Morrison Artist of the Year
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Bonfire: Poems. Minneapolis, MN: New Rivers Press, 1997. ISBN 978-0-89823-178-6
- Hartley Field: Poems. Duluth, MN: Holy Cow! Press, 2002.ISBN 978-0-930100-99-5
- On Speaking Terms. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press, 2010.ISBN 978-1-55659-294-2
- Rival Gardens: New and selected poems. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2016.
Edited[]
- To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota women poets from pre-territorial days to the present (edited with Joyce Sutphen & Thom Tammaro). Moorhead, MN: New Rivers Press, 2006.
Escept where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
Connie Wanek; Monopoly
Audio / video[]
- The Poet and the Poem (CD). Washington, DC: Library of Congress, 2006.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ "Connie Wanek". http://www.conniewanek.com/.
- ↑ "Connie Wanek Poems, Biography and Quotes - by American Poems". http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Connie-Wanek.
- ↑ (in en) The Prairie Schooner. 1979-01-01. https://books.google.com/books?id=tDexAAAAIAAJ.
- ↑ (in en) The Missouri Review. Department of English of University of Missouri--Columbia. 2000-01-01. https://books.google.com/books?id=sTSxAAAAIAAJ.
- ↑ http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/catalog/index.cfm?action=displayAuthor&Book_ID=1417
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Connie Wanek, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Sep. 13, 2016.
External links[]
- Poems
- "After Us" at Poetry 180
- ""Leftovers", Narrative magazine, Winter 2008
- "Lipstick," The Atlantic, November 2004
- Connie Wanek b. 1952 at the Poetry Foundation
- Connie Wanek at American Poems (6 poems)
- Connie Wanek at PoemHunter (11 poems)
- Audio / video
- Connie Wanek at YouTube
- Connie Wanek at Amazon.com
- About
- Connie Wanek Official website.
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