Nancy Vieira Couto

Nancy Vieira Couto (born 1942) is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry award.

Life[]

She received her BS in Education from Bridgewater State College in 1964, and her MFA in English from Cornell University, in 1980.^[1] She has been poetry editor at Epoch magazine for the past ten years.^[2]

Her work has appeared in American Voice, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Iowa Review,^[3] Kalliope, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner,^[4] Salamander,^[5] Shenandoah, Southern Review.^[6]

She lives in Ithaca, New York.^[7]

Awards[]

• 1989 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize
• National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry 1987 and 1999

Works[]

• "THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT"; "THE COMMON ACCIDENT"; "BEYOND MODERNITY, WE ARE WARNED"; "THE ACCIDENTALS", Poems x 4
• The Face in the Water. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8229-3652-7.

Anthology[]

• William H. Roetzheim, ed. (2006). "Living in the La Brea Tar Pits". The Giant Book of Poetry. Level4Press Inc. ISBN 978-0-9768001-2-5.
• Ed Ochester, Peter Oresick, ed. (1993). The Pittsburgh book of contemporary American poetry. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-3752-4.

Translation[]

• Joao Cruz E Sousa (1996). "Antiphony". In Stephen Tapscott (ed.). Twentieth-century Latin American poetry: a bilingual anthology. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78140-5.

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