Mary Jo Bang | |
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Born | Waynesville, Missouri, USA | October 22, 1946
Occupation | Poet |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Northwestern University Polytechnic of Central London Columbia University |
Mary Jo Bang (born October 22, 1946, in Waynesville, Missouri) is an American poet. [1]
Bang grew up in Ferguson, Missouri. She graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's and Master's in sociology, from the Polytechnic of Central London with a Bachelor's in Photography, and from Columbia University, with an M.F.A. in Creative Writing (Poetry). Previously, she has taught at Columbia College, Yale University, The New School for Social Research, University of Montana, Columbia University and at Iowa's Writing Workshop. Bang is currently a professor at Washington University in St. Louis. [2]
Her work has appeared in New American Writing , Paris Review , The New Yorker , [3] A Public Space, The New Republic , Denver Quarterly, The New York Times, The New Yorker and Harvard Review .
Bang was the poetry co-editor of the Boston Review from 1995 to 2005. She was a judge for the 2004 James Laughlin Award.
She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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The diary of a lost girl | 2001 | Bang, Mary Jo (2001). "The diary of a lost girl". Louise in Love. Grove Press. | |
The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice | 2005 | Bang, Mary Jo (Winter 2005). "The Cruel Wheel Turns Twice". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on July 3, 2008. Retrieved June 20, 2022. | |
So, So it Begins Means it Begins | 2009 | Bang, Mary Jo (March 30, 2009). "So, So it Begins Means it Begins". The New Yorker. | |
All Through the Night | 2013 | Bang, Mary Jo, Mary Jo (December 2, 2013). "All Through the Night". The New Yorker. 89 (39): 42–43. | |
The head of a dancer | 2017 | Bang, Mary Jo (January 30, 2017). "The head of a dancer". The New Yorker. 92 (47): 53. |