Mary Jo Salter

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Occupation poet, editor Role Poet Name Mary Salter		Genre Poetry Nationality American

Born August 15, 1954Grand Rapids, Michigan ( 1954-08-15 ) Alma mater Harvard University Cambridge University Education University of Cambridge (1978), Harvard University (1976) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Arts, US & Canada, James Laughlin Award Nominations National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry People also search for Margaret W. Ferguson, Jon Stallworthy, Amy Clampitt, Margaret Ferguson, Arthur Eastman Books Nothing by Design, A Phone Call to the Future, Open Shutters, A Kiss in Space, Sunday skaters

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Mary Jo Salter (born August 15, 1954) is an American poet, a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.

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Life

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Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit and Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1976 and her M.A. from Cambridge University in 1978. In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest.

While at Harvard, she studied with the noted poet Elizabeth Bishop. She has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New Republic.

From 1984 to 2007, she taught at Mount Holyoke College and was, from 1995 to 2007, a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America.

She has two daughters, Emily and Hilary Leithauser.

She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.

Books of poetry

Henry Purcell in Japan, Knopf, 1985, ISBN 978-0-394-53657-6

Unfinished Painting, Knopf, 1989, ISBN 978-0-394-57417-2, Lamont Selection for that year's most distinguished second volume of poetry

Sunday Skaters, A.A. Knopf, 1994, ISBN 978-0-679-43109-1, nominated in 1994 for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Knopf)

A Kiss in Space, Knopf, 1999, ISBN 978-0-375-40531-0

Open Shutters, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4000-4008-7, named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times

A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems

Nothing by Design, Knopf, 2013, ISBN 978-0-385-34979-6

Edited

The Norton Anthology of Poetry, W. W. Norton, 1996, ISBN 978-0-393-96820-0 (co-editor)

Selected translations

The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010)

Play

Falling Bodies (2004)

Children's literature

The Moon Comes Home (1989)

Articles

The Achiever: Helen Keller by Mary Jo Salter

Awards

1981: The Frost Place poet in residence

1995–1996: Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship

1989: Lamont Poetry Prize for the year’s most distinguished second volume of poetry - Unfinished Painting

2003: Open Shutters named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times

2004: Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship

References

Mary Jo Salter Wikipedia

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