- Lee Upton
Lee Upton is an American
poet and a graduate of theMFA Program for Poets & Writers at theUniversity of Massachusetts, Amherst . [ [http://www.versedaily.org/2006/aboutleeuptonner.shtml Verse Daily: Lee Upton ] ] [ [http://www.collegenews.org/x4412.xml Poetry Society of America Honors Lafayette English Professor Lee Upton with Two Awards ] ] [ [http://adirondackreview.homestead.com/featuredupton.html The Adirondack Review: Lee Upton, Featured Poet Spring 2003 ] ] She is the author of several books ofpoetry andliterary criticism , including "Civilian Histories" (2000, University of Georgia Press) and "The Muse of Abandonment" (Bucknell University Press). [http://books.google.com/books?id=fOJHaWnOt08C&dq=lee+upton+poet&printsec=frontcover&source=web&ots=AbL4jpmDMy&sig=hyt5x2-M5S9eVf0XYLR_LLV6w3U#PPP1,M1] [ [http://www.poemhunter.com/lee-upton/ Poet: Lee Upton - All poems of Lee Upton ] ] Her work is featured in "American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets" (2006) and many other anthologies. Upton is currently a professor of English and writer in residence atLafayette College in Easton,Pennsylvania . She was honored with the Lyric Poetry Award and The Writer Magazine/Emily Dickinson Award at the group’s 95th annual awards ceremony April 28, 2005 atThe New School inNew York City . [ [http://lafayette.edu/news.php/view/7314/ Poetry Society of America Honors English Professor Lee Upton with Two Awards ] ]Her poems
"Apology To Keats" "Destruction Of Daughters" "Hog Roast" "Indispensable Sign" "Interrupting An Addict" "The Broom" "The Crying Room" "The Fish House" "The How And Why Of Rocks And Minerals" "The Table"
Her books
"Undid in the Land of Undone" "Glimmer Train Stories, #36"
"Approximate Darling: Poems"
"Civilian Histories: Poems"
"The Muse of Abandonment"
"Defensive Measures: The Poetry Of Niedecker, Bishop, Gluck, And Carson"
"No Mercy"
"Jean Garrigue: A Poetics of Plenitude"
"Interior Transformations"
"Invention of Kindness"
References
External links
* [http://www.oberlin.edu/news-info/00feb/upton_release.html Award-Winning Poet]
* [http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/Lee-Upton Lee Upton Biography]
* [http://www.versedaily.org/2006/landundone.shtml "Undid in the Land of Undone" by Lee Upton]
* [http://www.caffeinedestiny.com/poetry/upton.html "The Stacks" by Lee Upton]
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