Nancy Vieira Couto

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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.

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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,[ citation needed ]Shenandoah, Southern Review.

She lives in Ithaca, New York. [5]

Awards

Works

Anthology

Translation

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References

  1. ↑ "Cornell Writers | Entire List". www.writers.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  2. ↑ Epoch. Cornell University. 2004-01-01.
  3. ↑ Couto, Nancy Vieira (December 2002). "The Skate". The Iowa Review. 32 (3): 148–149. doi:10.17077/0021-065X.5621.[ non-primary source needed ]
  4. ↑ Couto, Nancy Vieira (2009). "Just When She Thought It Was Safe". Prairie Schooner. 83 (1): 61–63. doi:10.1353/psg.0.0182. S2CID   72788859. Project MUSE   262270.[ non-primary source needed ]
  5. ↑ "Nancy Vieira Couto | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. 28 May 1981. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
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