Erin Belieu (born September 25, 1965) is an American poet.[1]
Erin Belieu | |
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| Born | September 25, 1965 |
| Organization | cofounded VIDA: Women in Literary Arts |
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| Discipline | Poetry |
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| Language | English |
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Early life
editBelieu was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, graduating from Central High School. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Nebraska-Omaha, where she learned how to construct poetry.[2] Belieu then attended Boston University, and Ohio State University receiving advanced degrees in the area of poetry.
Career
editBelieu previously taught at Washington University in St. Louis, Boston University, Kenyon College, Ohio University, and Florida State University. She is presently on faculty at the University of Houston MFA/Ph.D. Creative Writing Program.[3]
Her work has appeared in places such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate,[4] Nerve, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Tin House, and The Virginia Quarterly Review.[5] Her poetry collections include Infanta, One Above & One Below, Black Box and Slant Six. She has served as managing editor of AGNI.
In September 2006, Belieu was invited to join the Wave Press Poetry Bus Tour, along with notable poets such as Matthew Zapruder, Joshua Beckman, Eileen Myles and Arthur Sze.
In August 2009, Belieu cofounded the national feminist organization VIDA: Women In Literary Arts, notable for its influential annual survey of the rates of publication between male and female authors. This VIDA survey, known as The Count, has been highly influential in addressing sweeping gender bias in contemporary American literary publishing. Belieu formerly served as VIDA's co director, along with notable American poet Cate Marvin.
In August 2015, Belieu was one of 20 authors of Poets for Corbyn, an anthology of poems endorsing Jeremy Corbyn's the campaign in Labour Party leadership election.[6][7]
Awards and honors
edit- 1994 National Poetry Series, for Infanta, selected by Hayden Carruth
- 1995 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers' Award
- Ohioana Award
- Society of Midland Authors Award
- invited to read at the Library of Congress by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky
- 2007 finalist for the Los Angeles Times book award in poetry for Black Box
Bibliography
editCollections
edit- Infanta. Copper Canyon Press. 1995. ISBN 9781556591013.
- One Above and One Below. Copper Canyon Press. 2000. ISBN 978-1-55659-144-0.
- Black Box. Copper Canyon Press. 2006. ISBN 978-1-55659-251-5.
- Slant Six. Copper Canyon Press. 2014. ISBN 978-1-55659-471-7.
List of poems
edit- "For Catherine: Juana, Infanta of Navarre", AGNI 56, 2002
- "The Last Of The Gentlemen Heartbreakers"; "In Ecstasy"; "Of The Poet’s Youth", Reading Between A&B, Fall 2007
- "Two Weeks On The Island", electronic poetry review
- "The Birthmark", Ploughshares, Spring 2003
| Title | Year | First published | Reprinted/collected |
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| Après moi | 2013 | Belieu, Erin (June 10–17, 2013). "Après moi". The New Yorker. Vol. 89, no. 17. p. 99. |
Anthologies
edit- The Best American Poetry, 2011 editors Kevin Young, David Lehman
- Rita Dove; David Lehman, eds. (2000). The Best American poetry, 2000. Scribner. ISBN 978-0-684-84281-3.
- Michael Collier, ed. (2000). "Radio Nebraska". The new American poets. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-964-8.
- Glennis Byron; Andrew J. Sneddon, eds. (2008). "Tick". The body and the book: writings on poetry and sexuality. Rodopi. ISBN 978-90-420-2422-9.
- William J. Walsh, ed. (2006). Under the rock umbrella: contemporary American poets, 1951-1977. Mercer University Press. ISBN 978-0-88146-047-6.
As editor
edit- Susan Aizenberg; Erin Belieu; Jeremy Countryman, eds. (2001). The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-11963-4.
References
edit- ^ "Erin Belieu". Erin Belieu. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
- ^ "Saw Palm interview with Erin Belieu". Saw Palm: florida literature and art. Retrieved 2019-02-13.
- ^ "Erin Belieu: Professor". University of Houston. August 16, 2022. Retrieved August 29, 2022.
- ^ "Poems 1997 - A weekly poem, read by the author. - Slate Magazine". www.fray.slate.com. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16.
- ^ "VQR » the Last of the Gentlemen Heartbreakers". www.vqronline.org. Archived from the original on July 3, 2009.
- ^ Bennetts, Russell (2015). Poets for Corbyn (PDF). Pendant Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9928034-5-2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2017-07-15.
- ^ Bennetts, Russell (25 August 2015). "Yes we scan: Poets line up for Jeremy Corbyn". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 July 2017.