Claudia Emerson

Claudia Emerson (born January 13, 1957 Chatham, Virginia) is an American poet who won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife.^[1][2]

Background

Emerson attended Chatham Hall, the University of Virginia (English, 1979) and completed a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing, 1991 at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Virginia Poets Laureate at University of Mary Washington Reunion Day, June 3, 2011. Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda (2006-2008), Claudia Emerson (2008-2010), and Kelly Cherry (2010-2012)

Emerson is a professor of English, and Arrington Distinguished Chair in Poetry at the University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg, Virginia.^[3] She is a contributing editor of the literary magazine Shenandoah.^[4] On August 26, 2008, she was appointed Poet Laureate of Virginia^[5], 2008 - 2010, by Governor Timothy M. Kaine.

Emerson's work has been included in such anthologies as Yellow Shoe Poets,^[6][7] The Made Thing, ^[8][9] Strongly Spent: 50 Years of Shenandoah Poetry (Shenandoah, 2003), ^[10] and Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia, (University of Virginia Press, 2003).^[11]

Emerson lives in Fredericksburg, Virginia with her husband, Kent Ippolito, a musician who plays with various types of bands, including bluegrass, rock, folk, jazz, blues and ragtime. The couple were married in 2000 and together write songs and perform.^[12] Emerson was Guest Editor of Visions-International (published by Black Buzzard Press) in 2002.

Honors

• The Association of Writers and Writing Programs Intro Award, 1991^[3]
• Academy of American Poets Prize, 1991^[3]
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1994 (As Claudia Emerson Andrews)^[13]
• Virginia Commission for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowship, 1995 and 2002^[3]
• University of Mary Washington Alumni Association Outstanding Young Faculty Award, 2003^[3]
• Witter Bynner Fellowship from Library of Congress, 2005^[14]
• Poet Laureate of Virginia^[15] 2008 - 2010^[16]
• Library of Virginia Virginia Women in History, 2009
• Guggenheim Fellowship, 2011

Books of poetry

• Pharaoh, Pharaoh, LSU Press, 1997, ISBN 9780807121597 (as Claudia Emerson Andrews)^[17]
• Pinion, An Elegy. LSU Press. 2002. ISBN 9780807127667. http://books.google.com/books?id=xLQiDhsLe5IC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Claudia+Emerson&hl=en&ei=gzLMTc3RKant0gGzs4jRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDwQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false. ^[18]
• Late Wife: Poems. LSU Press. 2005. ISBN 9780807130834. http://books.google.com/books?id=JBz1QlvGPf0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Claudia+Emerson&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=gzLMTc3RKant0gGzs4jRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false. ^[19]
• Figure Studies: Poems. LSU Press. 2008. ISBN 9780807133613. http://books.google.com/books?id=XPc3_iV2duwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=Claudia+Emerson&hl=en&ei=gzLMTc3RKant0gGzs4jRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false. ^[20]

References

1. ^ Poetry Foundation profile
2. ^ PBS
3. ^ ^{a b c d e} "UMW's Claudia Emerson wins Pulitzer in Poetry" (Press release). University of Mary Washington. April 17, 2006. http://www.umw.edu/universityrelations/news/archives/umws_claudia_emerson_wins_.php. Retrieved 2006-04-27. 
4. ^ "Shenandoah: The Washington and Lee Literary Review staff". Website. Washington and Lee University. http://shenandoah.wlu.edu/staff.html. Retrieved 2006-04-07. 
5. ^ Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
6. ^ Yellow Shoe Poets. LSU Press. 1999. ISBN 9780807124512. http://books.google.com/books?id=2D6aqhb651oC&pg=PA8&dq=Claudia+Emerson&hl=en&ei=gzLMTc3RKant0gGzs4jRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=Claudia%20Emerson&f=false. 
7. ^ Garrett, George (1999) (Cloth). The Yellow Shoe Poets (1st. Edition ed.). Baton Rouge: LSU Press. p. 264 pp.. ISBN 0-8071-2450-8. http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/Books/fall99/99fall_book/garrett.html. 
8. ^ The Made Thing. The University of Arkansas Press. 1999. ISBN 9781557285799. http://books.google.com/books?id=m1e7kg3uM7EC&pg=PA13&dq=Claudia+Emerson&hl=en&ei=gzLMTc3RKant0gGzs4jRBg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CEYQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=Claudia%20Emerson&f=false. 
9. ^ Stokesbury, Leon (1999) (Cloth). The Made Thing (2nd Edition ed.). Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press. p. 352 pp.. ISBN 1-55728-578-0. http://www.uark.edu/campus-resources/uaprinfo/public_html/titles/fa99/stokesbury_made.html. 
10. ^ Strongly Spent: 50 Years of Shenandoah Poetry
11. ^ Kennedy, Sarah (September 2003) (Cloth). Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia (lrst Edition ed.). Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. p. 200 pp.. ISBN 0-8139-2222-4. http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/kennedy_smith.html. 
12. ^ "Fredericksburg Songwriters' Showcase". Website. Webliminal.com. http://webliminal.com/songwrite/emerson.html. Retrieved 2006-12-19. 
13. ^ Stolls, Amy; , David Kipen, Jon Peede, Paulette Beete, Campbell Irving, Pamela Kirkpatrick, and Garrick Davis. NEA Literature Fellowships: 40 Years of Supporting American Writers. Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Arts. p. 12. http://www.nea.gov/pub/NEA_lit.pdf. Retrieved 2006-04-27. 
14. ^ "Witter Bynner Fellowships". Website. Library of Congress. http://www.loc.gov/poetry/prize-fellow.html#bynner. Retrieved 2006-04-07. 
15. ^ Virginia Law and Library of Congress List of Poets Laureate of Virginia
16. ^ The Poetry Society of Virginia official website
17. ^ Andrews, Claudia Emerson (1997) (Paper). Pharaoh, Pharaoh (1st. Edition ed.). Baton Rouge: LSU Press. p. 72 pp.. ISBN 0-8071-2765-5. http://s50780.sites40.storefront-hosting.com/detail.aspx?ID=947. 
18. ^ Emerson, Claudia (2002) (Cloth). Pinion: An Elegy (1st. Edition ed.). Baton Rouge: LSU Press. p. 55 pp.. ISBN 0-8071-2765-5. http://s50780.sites40.storefront-hosting.com/detail.aspx?ID=531. 
19. ^ Emerson, Claudia (September 30, 2005) (Cloth). The Late Wife (1st. Edition ed.). Baton Rouge: LSU Press. p. 54 pp.. ISBN 0-8071-3083-4. http://s50780.sites40.storefront-hosting.com/detail.aspx?ID=158. 
20. ^ Emerson, Claudia (September 2008) (Cloth). Figure Studies (1st. Edition ed.). Baton Rouge: LSU Press. ISBN 978-0-8071-3361-3. 

External links

• Pulitzer Prize website, Emerson profile
• Library of Congress reading (mp3 format file) Interview and poems
• Kooser, Ted, American Life in Poetry: Column 26--Claudia Emerson's poem "Stable' Emerson's poems "Migrane, Aura and Aftermath" and "What They Want" in Visions International (issue #67)
• Williams, Susan Settlemyre, "Review | Pinion: An Elegy, by Claudia Emerson", Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 1, No. 2 December 16, 2002
• Emerson, Claudia, "Insistent Traces", Southern Spaces, 26 October 2009.
• Williams, Susan Settlemyre, "An Interview with Claudia Emerson, Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 1, No 2 December 16, 2002 transcript and audio file about Pinion, An Elegy.

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Name	Emerson, Claudia
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Short description	Poet
Date of birth	January 13, 1957
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