Книга: Molly Peacock «The Second Blush Poems»

The Second Blush Poems

Производитель: "Неизвестный"

The Second Blush Poems ISBN:9780393337679

Издательство: "Неизвестный" (2010)

ISBN: 9780393337679

Molly Peacock


Molly Peacock (born 1947) is an American-Canadian poet, essayist and creative nonfiction writer. She is an alumna of Binghamton University.

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Career

Her latest work of nonfiction is The Paper Garden, at once a biography of Mary Delany, an extraordinary 18th century gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life creativity. Her latest book of poems is The Second Blush, love poems from a midlife marriage. She is a Faculty Mentor at the Spalding University Brief Residency MFA Program.

Molly Peacock is also the author/performer of a one-woman show in poems, “The Shimmering Verge” produced by Louise Fagan Productions.

She has published six collections of poetry, including Cornucopia: New & Selected Poems. Widely anthologized, her work is included in The Best of the Best American Poetry and The Oxford Book of American Poetry, as well as in leading literary journals such as the Times Literary Supplement, The New Yorker, and The Paris Review.

Ms. Peacock is the author of a memoir, Paradise, Piece By Piece. Her essay on Mrs. Delany, “Passion Flowers in Winter”, appeared in The Best American Essays. Other pieces appear in O: The Oprah Magazine, Elle, House & Garden, and New York Magazine. Molly Peacock is also the editor of a collection of creative non-fiction, Private I: Privacy in a Public World.

As President of the Poetry Society of America, Molly Peacock was one of the creators of the Poetry in Motion program; coediting Poetry In Motion: One Hundred Poems From the Subways and Buses. She is also the Series Editor of The Best Canadian Poetry in English (Tightrope Books), as well as a Contributing Editor of the Literary Review of Canada.

Currently, Ms. Peacock lives in downtown Toronto with her husband, Michael Groden. She keeps in touch with New York City, her former home, by teaching at the 92nd Street Y every February and March.

Writings

Poetry

Non-fiction

Honours

Ms. Peacock has received recognition from the Leon Levy Center for Biography (CUNY), Danforth Foundation, Ingram Merrill Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts. She was President of the Poetry Society of America from 1989 to 1995, and again from 1999 to 2001. She served as Poet in Residence at the American Poets' Corner, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine from 2000 to 2005. Ms. Peacock was also Regents' Fellow at University of California, Riverside and Poet in Residence at Bucknell University and the University of Western Ontario.

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