Nancy Vieira Couto

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Name Nancy Couto Role Poet		Education Cornell University

Books The face in the water, Leavings of the Evening

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Nancy Vieira Couto (born 1942 ) is an American poet.

Nancy Vieira Couto at AWP 2013

Life

She received her BS in Ed. from Bridgewater State College in 1964 and her MFA in English from Cornell University, in 1980. She has been poetry editor at Epoch magazine for the past ten years.

Her work has appeared in American Voice, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Iowa Review, Kalliope, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner, Salamander, Shenandoah, Southern Review.

She lives in Ithaca, New York.

Awards

1989 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize

National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry 1987 and 1999

Works

"THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT"; "THE COMMON ACCIDENT"; "BEYOND MODERNITY, WE ARE WARNED"; "THE ACCIDENTALS", Poems x 4

The Face in the Water. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8229-3652-7.

Anthology

William H. Roetzheim, ed. (2006). "Living in the La Brea Tar Pits". The Giant Book of Poetry. Level4Press Inc. ISBN 978-0-9768001-2-5.

Ed Ochester, Peter Oresick, ed. (1993). The Pittsburgh book of contemporary American poetry. University of Pittsburgh Press. ISBN 978-0-8229-3752-4.

Translation

Joao Cruz E Sousa (1996). "Antiphony". In Stephen Tapscott. Twentieth-century Latin American poetry: a bilingual anthology. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78140-5.

References

Nancy Vieira Couto Wikipedia

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