Jane Cooper
American poet
Jane Cooper
Born
(
1924-10-09
)
October 9, 1924
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Died
October 26, 2007
(2007-10-26)
(aged
83)
Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Occupation
Poet
Jane Cooper
(October 9, 1924 – October 26, 2007) was an American poet.
Awards
Award in Literature from the
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Maurice English Poetry Award
(1985)
Shelley Memorial Award
(1977)
Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College - Fellowship
Guggenheim Fellowship
- (1960)
Ingram Merrill Award
National Endowment for the Arts
- Fellowship
Lamont Poetry Prize
(1968) for
The Weather of Six Mornings
Works
The Blue Anchor
;
The Earthquake
;
Ordinary Detail
;
In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman
;
Rent
;
The Winter Road (Part 4)
;
The Flashboat
, Norton Poets online
Books
The Weather of Six Mornings
(1969), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets.
Maps and Windows
(1974)
Scaffolding: Selected Poems
(1993)
Green Notebook, Winter Road
(1994), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed
(W. W. Norton & Company, 1999)
Edited
Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Women Writers
(1982)
The Sanity of Earth and Grass: Complete Poems of Robert Winner
(1994)
Memories
Memories of Jane Cooper
, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 12, 2008
Memories of Jane Cooper part 2
, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 14, 2008
References
↑
Jane Cooper, 83, Poet of Women's Lives, Dies
, MARGALIT FOX, The New York Times, November 9, 2007
↑
Jane Cooper, 83; poet wrote about her life and the challenges of being a female writer
, Mary Rourke, The Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2007
External links
Jane Cooper (1924 – 2007)
, The Poetry Foundation
Jane Cooper
, Poets.org
Jane Cooper
, Norton Poets
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Poets laureate of New York
Stanley Kunitz
(1987–1989)
Robert Creeley
(1989–1991)
Audre Lorde
(1991–1993)
Richard Howard
(1993–1995)
Jane Cooper
(1995–1997)
Sharon Olds
(1998–2000)
John Ashbery
(2001–2003)
Billy Collins
(2004–2006)
Jean Valentine
(2008–2010)
Marie Howe
(2012–2014)
Yusef Komunyakaa
(2015–2017)
Alicia Ostriker
(2018–2021)
Willie Perdomo
(2020–present)
