Nancy Eimers
Nancy Eimers (born 1954 Chicago) is an American poet.
Life[]
She graduated from Indiana University with an M.A., from the University of Arizona with an M.F.A., and from the University of Houston with a Ph.D. She teaches at Western Michigan University.[1] She is also a contributing editor at The Alaska Quarterly Review.
Her work has appeared in Paris Review,[2] TriQuarterly, Field, The Nation, Antioch Review, North American Review, Poetry Northwest, Dunes Review.[3]
She lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.[4]
Awards[]
- 1987 Nation “Discovery” Award[5]
- 1989, 1996 Two National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowships
- 1997 Verna Emery Prize, for No Moon
- 1998 Whiting Award
Works[]
- "AFTERLIVES"; "SEPTEMBER RAIN", Bucknell
- A Grammar to Waking. Carnegie Mellon University Press. 2006. ISBN 978-0-88748-447-6.
- No Moon. Purdue University Press. 1997. ISBN 978-1-55753-099-8.
- Destroying Angel. Wesleyan/University Press of New England. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8195-2194-1.
Nancy Eimers.
- Stars too small to receive us: poems. University of Houston. 1988.
- Woman with a mango. Indiana University. 1979.
Anthologies[]
- William J. Walsh, ed. (2006). "A Grammar of Waking". Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-047-6.
- Susan Aizenberg; Erin Belieu; Jeremy Countryman, eds. (2001). "Morbid". The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry By American Women. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11963-4.
- Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2001). Poets of the New Century. David R. Godine Publisher. ISBN 978-1-56792-177-9.
- Michael Collier; Stanley Plumly, eds. (1999). "Arlington Street". The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-950-1.
- Adrienne Rich; David Lehman, eds. (1996). Best American Poetry 1996. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-81455-1.
References[]
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-06-21. Retrieved 2009-09-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-09-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ The Dunes Review. Volume 16 Issue 2. Summer, 2012.
- ^ "Nancy Eimers". pw.org. Archived from the original on 2010-06-26.
- ^ http://www.since1865.com/archive/detail/14197730[dead link]
External links[]
Categories:
- 1954 births
- Living people
- Vermont College of Fine Arts faculty
- American women poets
- American women academics
- American poet, 1950s birth stubs