J Allyn Rosser

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Name J. Rosser		Role Poet

Education Middlebury College, University of Pennsylvania Awards New Criterion Poetry Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada Books Mimi's Trapeze, Foiled Again, Misery prefigured, Bright Moves: The 1990 Mor

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Jill Allyn Rosser (born 1957 Bethlehem, Pennsylvania), who published under J. Allyn Rosser, is a contemporary American poet.

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Life

She grew up in Sparta Township, New Jersey. She graduated from Middlebury College with a B.A. in French and English in 1980, from University of Pennsylvania with a M.A. in English Literature and Writing in 1988, University of Pennsylvania with a Ph.D., in English Literature in 1991.

She lives in Athens, Ohio, teaching at Ohio University. She is editor of New Ohio Review. She is married to poet Mark Halliday.

Her poems have appeared recently in several anthologies, and journals including The Atlantic Monthly, Ninth Letter and Poetry.

Awards

Samuel French Morse Prize, for Bright Moves

Crab Orchard Award, for Misery Prefigured

2007 The New Criterion Poetry Prize for Foiled Again

2010 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works

"Unthought", Slate, Nov. 30, 2004

"Coming Your Way", Poetry (February 1994)

Bright Moves (Boston, Massachusetts: Northeastern University Press, 1990) ISBN 1-55553-083-4

Misery Prefigured, Southern Illinois University Press, 2001, ISBN 978-0-8093-2383-8

Foiled Again, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2007, ISBN 978-1-56663-763-3

Mimi's Trapeze, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0822963158

Anthologies

"Lover Release Agreement"; "Resurfaced", Poets of the new century, editor Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, David R. Godine Publisher, 2003, ISBN 978-1-56792-178-6

References

J. Allyn Rosser Wikipedia

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