Lynne McMahon is an American poet

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 University of Utah

University of Utah

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 with a PhD in 1982. She teaches at University of Missouri

University of Missouri

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Her work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, New Virginia Review, American Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, Partisan Review, Poetry, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, The Yale Review, The New England Review and The Paris Review.

Awards

• Award for Literary Excellence from the American Academy of Arts and Letters,
• 1995 Guggenheim Fellowship
  Guggenheim Fellowship
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• Ingram Merrill Foundation fellowship
• Missouri Arts Council grant

Works

• "On Deciding To Fire My Chiropractor", Slate, Jan. 28, 2003
• "Birthday Poem", The Nation
• "Convalescence", The American Poetry Review Vol. 18 No. 3
• Faith (Wesleyan University Press, 1988) ISBN 9780819521330
• Devolution of the Nude (David R. Godine, 1993) ISBN 9780879239558
• The House of Entertaining Science (David R. Godine, 1999) ISBN 9781567921069
• Sentimental Standards (David R. Godine, 2004) ISBN 9781567922578

Anthologies

• "We Take Our Children to Ireland", Poets of the New Century, Editors Roger Weingarten, Richard Higgerson, David R. Godine Publisher, 2001, ISBN 9781567921779
• "We Take Our Children to Ireland", The Best American Poetry 2000, Editors Rita Dove, David Lehman, Simon and Schuster, 2000, ISBN 9780743200332
• "Barbie's Ferrari", Poetry 180: a turning back to poetry, Editor Billy Collins, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2003, ISBN 9780812968873
• "Wedding Ring", 180 more: extraordinary poems for every day, Editor Billy Collins, Random House, Inc., 2005, ISBN 9780812972962
• "Not Falling", The extraordinary tide: new poetry by American women, Editors Susan Aizenberg, Erin Belieu, Jeremy Countryman, Columbia University Press, 2001, ISBN 9780231119634

External links

• "Poetry in Motion: Lynne McMahon takes flight at The Side Project", New City Stage