Ruth L Schwartz

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Name Ruth Schwartz Role Poet		Awards National Poetry Series

Education University of Michigan, Wesleyan University Books Dear Good Naked Morning, Death in reverse, Accordion breathing and danci, Soul on Earth: a Guide to, Singular Bodies

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Ruth L. Schwartz (born 1962 Geneva, New York) is an American poet. Her most recent poetry collection is Dear Good Naked Morning (Autumn House Press, 2005). She graduated from Wesleyan University, with a B.A., from the University of Michigan, with an M.F.A., from the University of Integrative Learning with a Ph.D. in Transpersonal Psychology. The San Francisco Bay Area has been Ruth's chosen home since 1985; she has also traveled extensively in Latin America, and speaks fluent Spanish.

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She has taught at Cleveland State University, Goddard College, Mills College, California State University-Fresno, California College of the Arts. She teaches at Ashland University, and offers workshops and one-on-one mentoring on the theme of The Writer As Shaman nationwide. She lives in Oakland, California.

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Awards

NEA Fellowship

Ohio Arts Council Fellowship

Astraea Foundation Fellowship

two Nimrod/Neruda awards

2000 Chelsea Magazine Editor's awards

a Reader's Choice award from Prairie Schooner

New Letters Literary Award

Randall Jarrell Award from the North Carolina Writer's Network

Sue Saniel Elkin award from Kalliope Magazine

AWP award

2000 Anhinga Prize for Poetry

2001 National Poetry Series, for Edgewater

2005 Autumn House Press Prize for Dear Good Naked Morning

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

Dear Good Naked Morning. Autumn House Press. 2005. ISBN 978-1-932870-03-9.

Death in Reverse: A Love Story. Michigan State University Press. 2004. ISBN 978-0-87013-706-8.

Edgewater. Harper Collins. 2002. ISBN 978-0-06-008253-6.

Singular Bodies. Anhinga Press. 2001. ISBN 978-0-938078-69-2.

Accordion Breathing and Dancing. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1996. ISBN 978-0-8229-3898-9.

Anthology Publications

Billy Collins, ed. (2003). Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry. Random House Trade Paperbacks. ISBN 978-0-8129-6887-3.

Kevin Prufer, ed. (2000). The new young American poets: an anthology. SIU Press. ISBN 978-0-8093-2309-8.

Patrice Vecchione, ed. (2002). "Possible". The body eclectic: an anthology of poems. Macmillan. ISBN 978-0-8050-6935-8.

Reviews

Ruth L. Schwartz' third collection, Edgewater, a 2001 National Poetry Series winner, continues Schwartz's impassioned dialogue with the body and embodiments of human fallibility. Edgewater builds from Schwartz's two previous collections, Accordion Breathing and Dancing (a 1994 Associated Writing Program winner) and Singular Bodies (the 2000 Anhinga winner for poetry) in its focus on the implicit tenacity of the terms of "true love"; Schwartz's eros of engagement is a fierce wager against the plagues of our times.

References

Ruth L. Schwartz Wikipedia

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