WENDY BATTIN Vita & Publications

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Fellowships and Awards

• 2001---Connecticut Commission on the Arts Senior Fellowship
• 1997---Richard Snyder Prize, Little Apocalypse, Ashland Poetry Press
• 1992 ---Hohenberg Award
  1990 ---Ingram Merrill Foundation Grant
  1988 ---National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
  1986 ---Vogelstein Foundation Grant
  1984 ---National Poetry Series selection: In the Solar Wind
  1982 ---Discovery/The Nation Award
  ---------Witter Bynner/MacDowell Fellowship
  1980, 1981 --Academy of American Poets Prizes, U. of Washington
  1976-78-- Poetry Fellow, Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown
  1982-94--- Residencies at Yaddo, MacDowell Colony, Millay Colony

Teaching Experience

 

• 2002 Fall--Visiting Poet, College Year in Athens, Greece
• 1996 Spring-- Visiting Poet in Residence, MIT
  1995 Fall-- Visiting Poet, Connecticut College
  1992-95-- Lecturer/Visiting Poet, Smith College
  1986-87-- Assistant Professor & Poet in Residence, Syracuse University
  1984-86-- Lecturer in English, Boston University
  1984 ------Lecturer in English, Suffolk University

Related Experience

Founder and Director, CAPA, the Contemporary American Poetry Archive,
an internet site designed to make out-of-print books of poetry available
to readers and researchers.

Associate of the Center for Arts & Technology, Connecticut College

Panelist, AWP Conference in Atlanta, April 26, 1996: Electronic Ink: Poetry,
Prose, and Publishing in the Digital Age.

Education

1981 M.A., Creative Writing, University of Washington
1975 A.B., English, Cornell University

Publications

Books

In the Solar Wind, Doubleday, 1984 (National Poetry Series)
Lucid Dreaming chapbook, 1996)
Little Apocalypse, Ashland Poetry Press, 1997

Anthologies

Poets Against the War, ed. Sam Hamill, The Nation Press 2003

The Sacred Place, eds. Scott Cairns and Scott Olsen,: U. of Utah 1996

Cape Discovery, eds. Gammon & Smith: Sheepmeadow, 1994.

Where We Stand: Women Poets on Literary Tradition, "Subterranean Maps: A Poet's Cartography" (essay), ed., Sharon Bryan, W.W. Norton,1993.

New Voices 1979-1983, ed. May Swenson: The Academy of American Poets, 1984.

Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary WomenWriters, ed. Jane Cooper et al: Macmillan, 1982.

Poetry in Periodicals

New Poems in Field, Hamilton Stone Review, Salt River Review, Mississippi Review, and others.

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