April Bernard

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Name April Bernard Role Poet		Education Harvard University

Awards Walt Whitman Award, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Miss Fuller: A Novel, Swan Electric, Romanticism: Poems, Psalms, Pirate Jenny

John berryman at 100 a celebration panel 2 with april bernard henri cole and a van jordan

April Bernard (born 1956) is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from Harvard University. She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Manhattan, inc. In the early 1990s, she taught at Amherst College. In Fall 2003, she was Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College. She currently teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares, Parnassus, and The New York Review of Books.

2003 Guggenheim Fellowship

2006 Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry

Full-Length Poetry Collections

Romanticism: Poems. W.W. Norton & Co. June 1, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06807-8.

Swan Electric. W. W. Norton. 2002. ISBN 978-0-393-05114-8.

Psalms. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. 1995. ISBN 978-0-393-31304-8.

Blackbird Bye Bye. Random House. 1989.

Novels

Pirate Jenny. W. W. Norton & Company. 1990. ISBN 978-0-393-33430-2.

Miss Fuller. Steerforth Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-58642-195-3.

Anthology Publications

Phillis Levin, ed. (November 2001). The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-058929-0.

Molly McQuade (2000). By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-297-4.

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