Steven Cramer (born July 24, 1953 Orange, New Jersey) is an American poet.
He graduated from Antioch College, and University of Iowa.
He taught at Bennington College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University. He teaches at Lesley University.
His work appeared in Antioch Review, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Partisan Review, Poetry, Triquarterly, and New England Review.
He lives with his wife, Hilary, and their two children, Charlotte and Ethan, in Lexington, Massachusetts.
2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship
2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club, for Goodbye to the Orchard
2005 Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
"Maurice" Tarpaulin Sky Poetry
The Eye that Desires to Look Upward. Galileo Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-913123-11-9.
The World Book. Copper Beech Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-914278-59-7.
Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand. Lumen Editions. 1997. ISBN 978-1-57129-033-5.
Goodbye to the Orchard. Sarabande Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-932511-05-5.
Clangings. Sarabande Books, Incorporated. 23 October 2012. ISBN 978-1-936747-46-7.
"Cramer’s poems fight sentiment with our only available weapons: knowledge and integrity."—H.L. Hix, Ploughshares
"Steven Cramer's fourth book of poems, Goodbye to the Orchard, provides page after page of graceful inquisition and controlled musicality."—Shrode Hargis, Harvard Review
Sue Ellen Thompson, ed. (2005). The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Autumn House Press. ISBN 978-1-932870-06-0.
Joseph Parisi, Stephen Young, eds. (2002). The Poetry anthology, 1912-2002: ninety years of America's most distinguished verse magazine. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-468-7. CS1 maint: Uses editors parameter (link)
