Suzanne Gardinier

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Suzanne Gardinier
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Gardinier with poet Marie Howe during a rally at Washington Square, New York, in December 2014
Born1961 (age 6263)
New Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican
Education University of Massachusetts Amherst (BA)
Columbia University (MFA)

Suzanne Gardinier (born 1961 in New Bedford, Massachusetts) is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry.

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Life

Gardinier grew up in Scituate, Massachusetts. She completed her B.A. at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 1981, and her MFA at Columbia University, in 1986. She is the author of a long poem called The New World. She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College, [1] is a member of PEN, [2] and lives in Manhattan.

Her work appears in The Kenyon Review, The Paris Review, [3] Ploughshares, [4] and AGNI. [5]

Awards

The New World won the Associated Writing Program's Award Series in poetry in 1992. Suzanne has also received awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Lannan Foundation, and the Kenyon Review Award for Excellence in the Essay.

Work

Poetry

Iridium and Selected Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2010)

Essays

Anthologies

Reviews

SOMETIMES it seems sweetness exists in a voice. A child who sang, for whom life had no business being sweet. "I had the fortune to sing well, and to sing in the church choir from the age of 5 until I was 16," said the young poet Suzanne Gardinier, whose new book of poems was awarded the yearly Pitt Poetry Prize by the University of Pittsburgh Press, who in it has taken on the choral voices of both city and land, as she circles the 50-mile radius from the foot of the statue of Columbus in Columbus Circle, and then out through New Jersey, New York and Long Island, calling back the ghosts of harvests past and trades untenable, and the souls of new immigrants just coming. It is a book that does not look flinchingly at violence, whether between schoolchildren for whom nobody "turned a face to them judged/ their dispute wiped their cheeks sent them back to their lessons," or the men who cruelly, sensuously fight one another outside bars, the soldiers who forget even the old Greek sensuality of why they are fighting. [6]

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References

  1. "Sarah Lawrence College: Writing Faculty". www.slc.edu. Archived from the original on 30 October 2007. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  2. "PEN American Center - PEN Member Profile". www.pen.org. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. "The Paris Review - Spring 1990". Archived from the original on 2004-12-23.
  4. "Read By Author | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved Jan 7, 2020.
  5. "AGNI Online: Author Suzanne Gardinier".
  6. ERIKA DUNCAN (April 10, 1994). "ENCOUNTERS; A Poet Reacts to Violence, but the Sweetness Shines Through". The New York Times.