Deborah Warren
Encyclopedia
Deborah Warren is an American poet
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She graduated from Harvard University
, with a BA in English.
She worked as a teacher of Latin and English, and a software engineer.
She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, and nine children, and raises heifers on a farm in Vermont.
Her work has appeared in America, The Atlanta Review, Commonweal, Cumberland Poetry Review, Edge City Review, The Formalist, Hudson Review, the New Criterion, Orbis, The Paris Review, Sparrow, the Yale Review.
She is a member of the Powow River Poets.
She read at the Newburyport Literary Festival.
Poet
A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
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She graduated from Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
, with a BA in English.
She worked as a teacher of Latin and English, and a software engineer.
She lives in Massachusetts with her husband, and nine children, and raises heifers on a farm in Vermont.
Her work has appeared in America, The Atlanta Review, Commonweal, Cumberland Poetry Review, Edge City Review, The Formalist, Hudson Review, the New Criterion, Orbis, The Paris Review, Sparrow, the Yale Review.
She is a member of the Powow River Poets.
She read at the Newburyport Literary Festival.
Poetry collections
- The size of happiness, Waywiser Press, 2003, ISBN 9781904130048
- Zero meridian: poems, Ivan R. Dee, 2004, ISBN 9781566635967
- Dream with flowers and bowl of fruit, University of Evansville Press, 2008, ISBN 9780930982669
Anthologies
- Sonnets: 150 contemporary sonnets, Editor William Baer, University of Evansville Press, 2005, ISBN 9780930982591
Awards
- 2000 Robert Penn Warren Prize
- 2000 T. S. Eliot PrizeT. S. Eliot Prize (Truman State University)The T. S. Eliot Prize for Poetry is awarded annually by Truman State University, which is a United States university located in Missouri. It is given "for the best unpublished book-length collection of poetry in English, in honor of native Missourian T. S. Eliot’s considerable intellectual and...
of Truman State University (finalist) - 2001 Howard Nemerov Sonnet AwardHoward Nemerov Sonnet AwardThe Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award was established in 1994 by The Formalist, a poetry magazine founded by William Baer. The award honors the poet Howard Nemerov, who died in 1991. It is an open competition for sonnets in English that draws about 3000 entries annually. The award itself is $1000...
- 2002 Robert Frost Award
- 2008 Richard Wilbur AwardRichard Wilbur AwardThe Richard Wilbur Award is named in honor of the distinguished American poet Richard Wilbur and was established at the University of Evansville under the direction of William Baer. The competition welcomes submissions of unpublished, original poetry collections, and public domain or...
for publication of Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit
External links
- "Airplane", Paris Review, Macmillan, 2004, ISBN 9780312422400
- "Dream with Flowers and Bowl of Fruit", The New Yorker, October 1, 2007
- "Deborah Warren", poemtree