Pamela Alexander

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Pamela Alexander
Born1948 (age 7576) [1]
Natick, Massachusetts, USA
OccupationPoet, writer, editor
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater Iowa Writers Workshop


Pamela Alexander (born 1948) is an American poet and editor.

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Life

She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with a Master of Fine Arts in 1973. [2] She has taught at MIT [3] and Oberlin College. [4]

Career

Alexander is the author of four books of poetry. [5] Her first book, Navigable Waterways, won the 1984 Yale Younger Poets Series.

Her work has appeared in journals including The New Yorker , [6] Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.

Her papers are held at Bates College. [7]

She was an associate editor of FIELD: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics. [8]

Awards

Books

Poetry

Anthologies

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References

  1. Firsts: 100 Years of Yale Younger Poets. Yale University Press. 2019. pp. 243–249. doi:10.12987/9780300249644-078 . Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  2. "Collection: Pamela Alexander papers | Welcome to Bates College Archives".
  3. "Pamela Alexander- Copper Canyon Press". Copper Canyon Press. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  4. "The Oberlin Creative Writing Department". Archived from the original on 2009-09-19. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
  5. "The Oberlin Creative Writing Department". Archived from the original on 2009-09-19. Retrieved 2009-12-13.
  6. Alexander, Pamela (7 December 1986). "Howard Hughes Leaves Managua: Peacetime, 1972". The New Yorker. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  7. "Guide to the Pamela Alexander papers, 1970-1997, n.d." Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library. Archived from the original on 4 January 2015. Retrieved 29 May 2019.
  8. "Field". Oberlin College Press. Retrieved 18 June 2024.
  9. "About Pamela Alexander". Academy of American Poets. Retrieved 18 June 2024.