Alice Notley
Alice Notley (born November 8, 1945 in Bisbee , USA ) is an American poet .
Life
Notley grew up in Needles , California before moving to New York City to study . There she graduated from Barnard College with a bachelor's degree in 1967 . In 1969 she earned the title MFA , Master of Fine Arts in the Iowa Writer's Workshop at the University of Iowa . In 1972 she married the poet Ted Berrigan . The couple had two sons and settled in Chicago , Illinois . There they were part of the city's poet scene before they were accepted into the local poet scene on the Lower East Side of Manhattan . She stayed in Manhattan with her two sons after her husband passed away in 1983 and continued to publish her poems.
With her second husband, the British poet Douglas Oliver , she moved to Paris in 1992, from where she travels to the USA several times a year to hold poetry readings or writing courses. She lives in Paris.
Prizes and awards
- 1997: Foundation for Contemporary Arts grant .
- 1998: Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry, for Mysteries of Small Houses .
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Award .
- Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America .
- 2002: Griffin Poetry Prize in the International category for Disobedience .
- 2007: Leonore Marshall Poetry Prize for Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005 .
Publications
- Meeting House Lane . 1971.
- Waltzing Matilda . Kulchur Foundation, New York City 1981, ISBN 0-93653804X .
- Mysteries of Small Houses . 1998.
- Disobedience . 2001.
- Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005 . 2006.
- Songs and Stories of Ghouls . 2012.
- Others
- 2000: Introduction to Ted Berrigan: The Sonnets , Penguin.
- 2005: together with her sons Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan : The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan . University of California Press, 2005.
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- Biography (en.)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Notley, Alice |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 8, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bisbee , USA |