Susan Wood (poet)

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Susan Wood
Born1946 (age 7677)
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Susan Wood (born 1946, Commerce, Texas) is an American poet and the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University. [1] [2] [3]

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Life

Wood received her B.A. from East Texas State University and her M.A. from University of Texas at Arlington before continuing her graduate studies at Rice University.

She taught high school and worked as an editor and writer for The Washington Post [4] and magazines.

Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Antioch Review , Callaloo , [5] the Greensboro Review , [6] Indiana Review , The Kenyon Review , [7] The Missouri Review , [8] the New England Review , [9] The Paris Review , [10] and Poetry . [11]

Awards

Works

Poetry books

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References

  1. Academy of American Poets
  2. Faculty Information System: Susan Wood
  3. Rice Department of English: Susan Wood
  4. "Issues | Ploughshares".
  5. Wood, Susan (2009). "After His Retirement, LBJ Visits Greenville". Callaloo. 32 (1): 138–139. doi:10.1353/cal.0.0395. S2CID   162021675. Project MUSE   260374.
  6. "GR Contributors: Spring 2003". www.greensbororeview.org. Archived from the original on 2008-04-08.
  7. "Contributors | Journal".
  8. "TMR: Search Results". www.missourireview.org. Archived from the original on 2011-07-19.
  9. "Contributors' Notes, Volume 27, #4". New England Review. Archived from the original on 2011-07-14. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  10. "Spring 1997". The Paris Review. Archived from the original on 2009-07-24. Retrieved 2009-05-28.
  11. "Distances By Susan Wood". Archived from the original on 2011-07-27. Retrieved 2023-09-25.
  12. "Susan Wood". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved June 14, 2021.