Susan Stewart. Courtesy American Academy.
Susan Stewart (born 1952) is an American poet, academic, and literary critic.
Life[]
Stewart earned a B.A. in English and anthropology from Dickinson College, an M.F.A. in poetics from Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania.
She teaches the history of poetry, aesthetics, and the philosophy of literature, most recently at Princeton University.[1]
Her poems have appeared in many journals including: American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Poetry, Tri-Quarterly, Gettysburg Review, Harper's, Georgia Review, Ploughshares, and Beloit Poetry Journal.
In the late 2000s she collaborated with composer James Primosch on a song cycle commissioned by the Chicago Symphony that premiered in the fall of 2009.
She has served on the judging panel of the Wallace Stevens Award on 6 occasions.
Recognition[]
In 2005 Stewart was elected a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.[2]
Awards[]
- Lila Wallace Individual Writer's Award, a Readers' Digest Writer's Award
- 2 National Endowment for the Arts grants
- 1986 Guggenheim Fellowship [3]
- 1995 Pew Fellowships in the Arts [4]
- 1997 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship
- 2003 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism from Phi Beta Kappa, for Poetry and the Fate of the Senses
- 2003 National Book Critics Circle Award, for Columbarium
- 2004 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism for Poetry and the Fate of the Senses [5]
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Yellow Stars and Ice. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.
- The Hive: Poems. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987.
- The Forest. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995.
- Columbarium. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
- Red Rover. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Non-fiction[]
- Nonsense: Aspects of intertextuality in folklore and literature. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
- Crimes of Writing: Problems in the containment of repression. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
- On Longing: Narratives of the miniature, the gigantic, the souvenir, and the collection. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1993.
- Poetry and the Fate of the Senses. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
- The Open Studio: Essays on art and aesthetics. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- The Poet's Freedom: A notebook on making. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Translated[]
- Euripides, Andromache (translated with Wesley Smith). Oxford, UK, & New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Scipione, Poesie e prose = Poetry and Prose Milan: Charla, 2001.
Susan Stewart - Poetry and Perception
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[6]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ Susan Stewart, Poets.org, Academy of American Poets. Web, Mar. 9, 2015.
- ↑ http://english.princeton.edu/poetry/faculty/susan-stewart/
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/14206-susan-a-stewart
- ↑ http://www.pcah.us/fellowships/artist-profile/1995-susan-stewart/
- ↑ http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S07/36/94C60/index.xml?section=
- ↑ Search results = au:Susan Stewart, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Mar. 9, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Wings"
- Susan Stewart at The Poetry Center (profile & 3 poems)
- Susan Stewart profile & 5 poems at the Academy of American Poets.
- Susan Stewart b. 1952 at the Poetry Foundation.
- Audio / video
- Books
- Susan Stewart at Amazon.com
- About
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