Linda Bierds
American poet
Linda Louise Bierds (born 1945 in Delaware ) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington , where she also received her B.A. in 1969.[ 1]
Her books include Flights of the Harvest Mare ; The Stillness, the Dancing ; Heart and Perimeter ; and The Ghost Trio (Henry Holt 1994).
Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in The New Yorker . Her poems are featured in American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006) and many other anthologies. She lives on Bainbridge Island .[ 2]
Awards
She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988,[ 3] the Ingram Merrill Foundation , Artist Trust and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995.[ 4]
In 1998, she was awarded a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship "genius" grant.[ 5] She received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University in 2011.[ 6]
Bibliography
Collections
Beasts : Three Short Stories University of Washington, 1971
Snaring the flightless birds : the legends of Maui Allegany Mountain Press, 1982, ISBN 978-0-09-158813-7
Off the Aleutian chain : poetry , L'Epervier Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-934332-44-6
Flights of the harvest-mare , Ahsahta Press, 1985, ISBN 978-0-916272-27-2
The stillness, the dancing : poems , H. Holt, 1988, ISBN 978-0-8050-0766-4
Heart and perimeter : poems H. Holt, 1991, ISBN 978-0-8050-1765-6
The ghost trio : poems H. Holt, 1994, ISBN 9780805034868
The profile makers : poems Henry Holt, 1997, ISBN 978-0-8050-5536-8
The seconds : poems G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2001, ISBN 9780399147869
There : Suzzallo Library, University of Washington, November 2002 (2002)
First Hand: Poems , Penguin Group, 2005, ISBN 978-0-399-15261-0
Flight: New and Selected Poems Penguin, 2008
Roget's Illusion : poems G. P. Putnams's Sons, 2014
The Hardy Tree : poems Copper Canyon Press, 2019
List of poems
Title
Year
First published
Reprinted/collected
The weathervanes
1996
"The weathervanes". The Atlantic Monthly . 278 (2): 74. August 1996.
Meriwether and the magpie
2005
"Meriwether and the magpie" . Blackbird . 4 (2). Fall 2005.
Vespertilio
Susan Aizenberg; Erin Belieu; Jeremy Countryman, eds. (2001). The extraordinary tide : new poetry by American women . New York: Columbia UP.
Burning the fields
Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2003). Poets of the new century : an anthology (2nd ed.). Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine. pp. 15โ17.
The lacemaker's condenser
Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2003). Poets of the new century : an anthology (2nd ed.). Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine. pp. 17โ18.
The suicide of Clover Adams: 1885
Roger Weingarten; Richard Higgerson, eds. (2003). Poets of the new century : an anthology (2nd ed.). Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine. pp. 18โ19.
On reflection : Michael Faraday
2013
"On reflection : Michael Faraday" . The Atlantic . 311 (5): 65. June 2013.
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