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The May Swenson Poetry Award, sponsored by Utah State University Press, is a competitive prize granted annually to an outstanding collection of poetry in English. Open to published and unpublished writers, with no limitation on subject, the competition honors May Swenson as one of America's most vital and provocative poets of the twentieth century.
2007 Barnard Women Poets Prize, for Woman Reading to the Sea, selected by Joyce Carol Oates; May Swenson Poetry Award, for The Hammered Dulcimer; 2004 Rome Prize in Literature by the American Academy of Arts and Letters
May Swenson (1913–1989), American poet and playwright; Magda Szabó (1917–2007), Hungarian novelist, poet and playwright; Maria Luise Thurmair (1912–2005), Austrian/German hymnist and writer; Joan Ure (1918–1978), Scottish poet and playwright; Margaret Walker (1915–1998), American poet and novelist
She won the 2016 May Swenson Poetry Award judged by Stephen Dunn, and her poetry collection Hemming Flames was published by University Press of Colorado in summer 2016. [3] Hemming Flames went on to win the 2017 Milt Kessler Award for Poetry .
Historically, literature has been a male-dominated sphere, and any poetry written by a woman could be seen as feminist. Often, feminist poetry refers to that which was composed after the 1960s and the second wave of the feminist movement. [1] [2] This list focuses on poets who take explicitly feminist approaches to their poetry.
Editor of The Poems of Marianne Moore (Viking Penguin 2003), from 1972 to 2006 Schulman served as Poetry Editor of The Nation, where she published poems by Octavio Paz, W. S. Merwin, and May Swenson, [5] and from 1973 to 1985 as director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, where she founded a contest then called "Discovery—The Nation." [6]
May Swenson: Another Animal: William Carlos Williams: The Desert Music and Other Poems: Marya Zaturenska: Selected Poems: 1956 [12] W. H. Auden: The Shield of Achilles: Winner Elizabeth Bishop: Poems, North and South† Finalist John Ciardi: As If: Isabella Gardener Birthdays from the Ocean: Donald Hall: Exiles and Marriages: Randall Jarrell ...
They include Writing Like a Woman (1983), which explores the poems of Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, H.D., May Swenson and Adrienne Rich, and The Nakedness of the Fathers: Biblical Visions and Revisions (1994), which approaches the Torah with a midrashic sensibility. [10]