Erica Funkhouser
Encyclopedia
Erica Funkhouser is an American poet
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She graduated from Vassar College
with a BA and from Stanford University
with a MA. She teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Her work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts
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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 Vassar College
Vassar College
Vassar College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in the town of Poughkeepsie, New York, in the United States. The Vassar campus comprises over and more than 100 buildings, including four National Historic Landmarks, ranging in style from Collegiate Gothic to International,...
with a BA and from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
with a MA. She teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific and technological education and research.Founded in 1861 in...
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Her work appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, and Poetry. She lives in Essex, Massachusetts
Essex, Massachusetts
Essex is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, north of Boston. The population was 3,504 at the 2010 census.Part of the town comprises the census-designated place of Essex.- History :...
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Works
- "Imaginary Friends", AGNI 66, 2006
- "Day Work", Beatrice, 15 March 2008
- "Love Poem with Harbor View", Poetry Foundation
- Earthly, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2008, ISBN 9780618933426
- Pursuit, Houghton Mifflin, 2002, ISBN 9780618171521
- The actual world, Houghton Mifflin, 1997, ISBN 9780395877074
- Sure Shot and Other Poems, Houghton Mifflin, 1992
- Natural Affinities, A. James Books, 1983, ISBN 9780914086420
Anthologies
- "My Father's Lunch", Good Poems for Hard Times, Editor Garrison Keillor, Penguin Group, 2006, ISBN 9780143037675
- "The Women Who Clean Fish", Working classics: poems on industrial life, Editors Peter Oresick, Nicholas Coles, University of Illinois Press, 1990, ISBN 9780252061332
- "Lilies", Poetry from Sojourner: a feminist anthology, Editors Ruth Lepson, Lynne Yamaguchi Fletcher University of Illinois Press, 2004, ISBN 9780252071546
Non-fiction
- Lewis & Clark: the journey of the Corps of Discovery, an illustrated history, Authors Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns, William Least Heat Moon, Stephen E. Ambrose, Erica Funkhouser, Knopf, 1997, ISBN 9780679454502