Elizabeth Spires

Not to be confused with Elizabeth Spiers, an American editor and journalist.

Elizabeth Spires
Occupation	Poet and university professor
Language	English
Nationality	America
Alma mater	Vassar College, Johns Hopkins University

Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.

Early life and education

Spires was raised in Circleville, Ohio. ^[1] She graduated from Vassar College and Johns Hopkins University. ^[2]

Career

Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement. ^[3] Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker , Poetry , American Poetry Review , The Paris Review and many other literary magazines and anthologies. ^[2]

Awards and honors

She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association. ^[2]

Selected works

Poetry

• Globe . Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan. March 1, 1981. ISBN   978-0-8195-1101-0.
• Annonciade. New York: Puffin. July 1, 1989. ISBN   978-0-14-058638-1.
• Worldlings. W. W. Norton & Company. May 1, 1992. ISBN   978-0-393-31628-5.
• Swan's Island. New York: Carnegie-Mellon University Press. February 1997. ISBN   978-0-88748-249-6.
• Now the Green Blade Rises. W. W. Norton. 2004. ISBN   978-0-393-32485-3.
• The Wave-Maker . W. W. Norton. 2008. ISBN   978-0-393-06659-3.
• "Riddle". The Atlantic. June 2009.
• A Memory of the Future. W. W. Norton. 2018. ISBN   978-0-393-65105-8.

Children's books

• The Mouse of Amherst. Illustrator Claire A. Nivola. Scholastic. 2001. ISBN   978-0-439-20088-2.
• I heard God talking to me: William Edmonton and his Stone Carvings. Frances Foster Books. 2009. ISBN   978-0-374-33528-1.
• With one white wing: puzzles in poems and pictures. Illustrator Erik Blegvad. M.K. McElderry Books. 1995. ISBN   978-0-689-50622-2.

Edited

• The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen.

Anthologies

• A. R. Ammons; David Lehman, eds. (1994). The Best American Poetry 1994. Simon & Schuster. ISBN   978-0-671-89948-6.

References

1. McCabe, Bret (September 4, 2018). "Speaking with Elizabeth Spires about poetry, poets, and time travel". Johns Hopkins University. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
2. "Elizabeth Spires". Goucher College. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
3. Catherine Cucinella, ed. (2002). "Elizabeth Spires". Contemporary American women poets: an A-to-Z guide. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN   978-0-313-31783-5.

External links

• Audio: Elizabeth Spires reads You Have Flown to the Dangerous Country from The Wave-Maker (2008)
• Audio: Elizabeth Spires reads S n a i l from The Wave-Maker (2008)
• Interview: Elizabeth Spires Interview (2010) Archived 2017-05-11 at the Wayback Machine from KeepWriting.org
• Profile and Publication Info: The Whiting Foundation