Anna Rabinowitz is an American poet, librettist and editor. She has published five volumes of poetry: Words on the Street (Tupelo Press) winner of the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize 2017; Present Tense (Omindawn) selected by The Huffington Post as one of the best poetry books of 2010; [1] The Wanton Sublime: A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders (Tupelo Press); Darkling: A Poem (Tupelo Press); and At the Site of Inside Out (University of Massachusetts Press) winner of the Juniper Prize 1997.
Rabinowitz has collaborated with composers and theatrical artists to create libretti for operatic music theatre performances that bring her poetry to the stage. Words on the Street, collaboratively conceived and developed by poet Rabinowitz, composer Matt Marks, director Kristin Marting, and video artist Lianne Arnold, premiered in New York City in 2018. Due to Marks' untimely death halfway through the production, a group of fellow composers — Lainie Fefferman, John Glover, Mary Kouyoumdjian, David T. Little, Kamala Sankaram, Caroline Shaw, and Randall Woolf — helped complete the score. Rabinowitz has written libretti for The Wanton Sublime, music by Tarik O'Regan, and Darkling, music by Stefan Weisman, both commissioned, developed, and produced by American Opera Projects. Darkling, the opera, was released internationally as a CD by Albany Records in 2011.
Rabinowitz is currently editor emerita of American Letters & Commentary, where she was editor and publisher from 1990 to 2007. She has served on the Board of Governors for the Poetry Society of America, and on the Board of Directors of American Opera Projects. She was a faculty member at The New School from 1994 to 1997. She has been a fellow at Yaddo and at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She has published in literary journals including Atlantic Monthly, Boston Review, The Paris Review, Colorado Review, Southwest Review, Denver Quarterly, Sulfur, LIT, VOLT, and Verse.
Born in Brooklyn, NY, she earned her B.A. from Brooklyn College, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and her M.F.A. from Columbia University, School of the Arts. [2]
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