Linda Bierds

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Linda Bierds
BornLinda Louise Bierds
1945 (age 78–79)
Delaware
Occupation
  • Poet
  • College professor
LanguageEnglish
Alma mater University of Washington
Notable awards

Linda Louise Bierds (born 1945 in Delaware) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A. in 1969. [1]

Contents

Her books include Flights of the Harvest-Mare; The Stillness, the Dancing; Heart and Perimeter; and The Ghost Trio (1994). Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker . Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies. She lives on Bainbridge Island. [2]

Awards

She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988, [3] the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Artist Trust and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995. [4] In 1998, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship. [5] She received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University in 2011. [6]

Bibliography

Collections

List of poems

YearTitleFirst publishedReprinted/collected
1996"The Weathervanes" "The Weathervanes". The Atlantic Monthly. 278 (2): 74. August 1996.
2005"Meriwether and the Magpie" "Meriwether and the Magpie". Blackbird. 4 (2). Fall 2005.
"Vespertilio"Susan Aizenberg; Erin Belieu; Jeremy Countryman, eds. (2001). The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. New York: Columbia UP.
"Burning the Fields"Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2003). Poets of the New Century: An Anthology (2nd ed.). Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine. pp. 15–17.
"The Lacemaker's Condenser"Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2003). Poets of the New Century: An Anthology (2nd ed.). Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine. pp. 17–18.
"The Suicide of Clover Adams: 1885"Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2003). Poets of the New Century: An Anthology (2nd ed.). Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine. pp. 18–19.
2013"On Reflection: Michael Faraday" "On Reflection: Michael Faraday". The Atlantic. 311 (5): 65. June 2013.

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References

  1. ↑ "Linda Bierds". Poetry Foundation . Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  2. ↑ "About Linda Bierds". Academy of American Poets . Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  3. ↑ "Literature Fellowships". National Endowment for the Arts . Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "Linda Bierds". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation . Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  5. ↑ "Linda Bierds". MacArthur Foundation . Retrieved 29 August 2022.
  6. ↑ "Honorary Degrees Awarded by Oglethorpe University". Oglethorpe University. Archived from the original on 2015-03-19. Retrieved 2015-03-04.
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