Public poetry project 2010 eleanor wilner knowing the enemy
Life
She obtained her BA from Goucher College and her Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University. Her graduate dissertation concerned the topic of imagination and was later published as Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society (1975).
Shekhinah (poems), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984. ISBN 978-0-226-90025-4
Sarah's Choice (poems). University of Chicago Press. 1989. ISBN 978-0-226-90028-5.
Otherwise (poems). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN 978-0-226-90029-2.
Reversing the Spell: New and Selected Poems. Port Townsend, WA: Copper Canyon Press. 1998. ISBN 978-1-55659-082-5.
The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) ISBN 978-1-55659-203-4
Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-226-90032-2
Anthologies
Jorie Graham, David Lehman, eds. (1990). Best American Poetry. Charles Scribner's Sons. ISBN 978-0-684-19187-4.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Margaret Ferguson; Mary Jo Salter; Jon Stallworthy, eds. (August 1996). The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0-393-96820-0.
Hilda Raz, ed. (2001). "Facing Into It". Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry. University of Nebraska Press. ISBN 978-0-8032-8972-7.
Bill Henderson, ed. (1996). The 1997 Pushcart prize XXI: best of the small presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-0-916366-96-4.
Bill Henderson, ed. (2003). The Pushcart Prize Xxviii 2004: Best of the Small Presses. Pushcart Press. ISBN 978-1-888889-37-6.
Translations
David R. Slavitt, Smith Palmer Bovie, eds. (1998). "Medea". Euripides: Medea. Hecuba. Andromache. The Bacchae. University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 978-0-8122-1626-4.CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
Non-fiction
"Poetry and the Pentagon: Unholy Alliance?", Poetry Foundation, 3.2.06
Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1975.