Mary Kinzie

Mary Kinzie (born 1944) is a United States poet.

Life

She received her B.A. from Northwestern University in 1967, and returned there to teach in 1975. She won Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships to do graduate work at the Free University of Berlin and Johns Hopkins University.

Most recently, Kinzie won the Folger Shakespeare Library's 2008 O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, the only major American prize to recognize a poet for teaching as well as writing.^[1]

Bibliography

Poetry

• California Sorrow. Alfred A. Knopf. 2007. ISBN 9780307266804. 
• Drift. Alfred A. Knopf. 2005. ISBN 9780375414633. 
• The Ghost Ship. Alfred A. Knopf. 1996. ISBN 9780679446453. 
• Autumn Eros and Other Poems. Alfred A. Knopf. 1991. ISBN 9780394589923. 
• Summers of Vietnam and Other Poems. The Sheep Meadow Press. 1990. ISBN 9780935296839. 
• Masked Women (1990)
• The Threshold of the Year. University of Missouri Press. 1982. ISBN 9780826203618. 

Essays

• The Cure of Poetry in an Age of Prose: Moral Essays on the Poet's Calling. University of Chicago Press. 1993. ISBN 9780226437361. http://books.google.com/books?id=Qa3FZafhLi8C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Mary+Kinzie%22+cure&lr=&as_brr=0#PPP1,M1.  (which includes the influential and controversial essay "The Rhapsodic Fallacy").

Theory

• A Poet's Guide to Poetry. University of Chicago Press. 1999. ISBN 9780226437392. 

References

1. ^ "About the 2008 O.B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize Winner". The Folger Shakepeare Library. http://www.folger.edu/Content/Whats-On/Folger-Poetry/OB-Hardison-Jr-Poetry-Prize/About-the-2008-OB-Hardison-Jr-Poetry-Prize-Winner.cfm. 

External links

• An interview with Mary Kinzie and audio clips of her reading three of her poems at the National Humanities Center
• Mary Kinzie's homepage at Northwestern University

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