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Susan Wheeler. Courtesy Poetry Society of America.
Susan Wheeler (born July 16, 1955) is an educator and award-winning American poet.
Life[]
Wheeler was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and grew up throughout Minnesota and New England.
She earned a B.A. from Bennington College in 1977, and pursued graduate studies in art history at the University of Chicago between 1979 and 1981.[1]
Wheeler was the earliest example of an Elliptical Poet, described by Stephen Burt in his creation of the term in 1998,[2] and expanded upon in an eponymous essay in American Letters & Commentary.[3] Her work is also referred to in Jed Rasula's Syncopations: The Stress of Innovation in Contemporary American Poetry.[4]
She teaches creative writing at Princeton University.
Her poems have appeared in The Best American Poetry series in these editions: 1988, 1991, 1993, 1996, 1998, 2003, 2005, and The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988-1997. Wheeler has also been thanked in the acknowledgements sections of the 2001, 2003, and 2004 editions of the series.
Recognition[]
Wheeler's debut collection, Bag o' Diamonds, received two literary awards: the Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America, 1994, and the Pushcart Prize, 1994.
Wheeler has also received the following awards: Grolier Award for Poetry, 1987; Prize for Poetry, Roberts Foundation, 1988; Vermont Council of the Arts grantee, 1878-79; Fund for Poetry grantee, 1990; New York Foundation for the Arts fellow, 1993-95, 1997-99; and Guggenheim Foundation Fellow, 1999.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Bag o' Diamonds: Poems. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1993.
- Smokes. Marshfield, MA: Four Way Books, 1998.
- Source Codes. Cambridge, UK: Salt Publishing, 2001.
- Ledger. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2005.
- Assorted Poems. New York: Farrar, Straus, 2009.
- Meme: Poems. Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Press, 2012.
Novel[]
- Record Palace: A novel. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2005.
Poetry Reading by Susan Wheeler, 5.22.14
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[5]
See also[]
References[]
Notes[]
- ↑ International Who's Who in Poetry 2004. Taylor & Francis US. 9 December 2003. pp. 344–. ISBN 978-1-85743-178-0. http://books.google.com/books?id=xTG2qvxxYNsC&pg=PA344. Retrieved 11 October 2012.
- ↑ Burt, Stephen (September 1998). "Burt Reviews Wheeler's "Smokes"". Boston Review. http://bostonreview.net/BR23.3/burt.html
- ↑ "American Letters & Commentary: 11". American Letters & Commentary. http://www.amletters.org/Issues/issue11.html. Retrieved 2007-07-21..
- ↑ Rasula, Jed (2004). Syncopations. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0817350306.
- ↑ Search results = au:Susan Wheeler, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Apr. 20, 2015.
External links[]
- Poems
- "Poem"
- "A Filial Republic"
- Susan Wheeler at PoemHunter (3 poems)
- Susan Wheeler profile & 8 poems at the Academy of American Poets
- Susan Wheeler b. 1955 at the Poetry Foundation
- Audio / video
- Books
- Susan Wheeler at Amazon.com
- About
- Susan Wheeler Official website
- Susan Wheeler interviewed by Robert Polito, 2005
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