Pamela Alexander

Pamela Alexander (born 1948) is an American poet.

Life

She graduated from Bates College in 1970 and from the Iowa Writers' Workshop with a Master of Fine Arts in 1973.^[1] She teaches at Oberlin College.^[2]

Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Book Review, Orion, TriQuarterly, Poetry, The Journal, New Republic, American Scholar.

Her papers are held at Bates College.^[3]

Awards

• 1996 Iowa Poetry Prize
• 1985 Yale Younger Poet award
• Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
• Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College Fellowship
• Ohio Arts Council grant

Works

• "Dingle Way", Perihelion
• Slow Fire. Ausable Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-931337-34-2.
• Inland. University of Iowa Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-87745-582-0.
• Commonwealth of Wings. Wesleyan University Press. 1991. ISBN 978-0-8195-1193-5.
• Navigable Waterways. Yale University Press. 1985. ISBN 978-0-300-03331-1.

Anthologies

• David Walker, ed. (2006). American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets. Oberlin College Press. ISBN 978-0-932440-28-0.
• Dove, Rita; Lehman, David, eds. (2000). "Semiotics". Best American Poetry 2000. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-0-7432-0033-2.
• The Extraordinary Tide
• American Voices
• Poetry for a Small Planet
• Cape Discovery
• Melissa Tuckey, ed. (2018). Ghost Fishing: An Eco-Justice Poetry Anthology. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 978-0820353159.

References

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