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I am an American feminist, poet, writer, and teacher. Over the years Ive taught at various colleges, including: Swarthmore, Columbia, Brandeis, RUTGERS, Cornell, San Jose State and Stanford University. I was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1929. I am the author of nearly twenty volumes of poetry, including The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 (W.W. Norton & Co., 2004), which won the Book Critics Circle Award; Fox: Poems 1998-2000 (2001), Midnight Salvage: Poems 1995-1998 (1999); Dark Fields of the Republic: Poems 1991-1995 (1995); Collected Early Poems: 1950-1970 (1993); An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 (1991); Time's Power: Poems 1985-1988 (1989); The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New 1950-1984 (1984); The Dream of a Common Language (1978); and Diving into the Wreck (1973). I am also the author of several books of nonfiction prose, including Arts of the Possible: Essays and Conversations (W. W. Norton, 2001), What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (1993) and Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1986). I have received the Bollingen Prize, the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Academy of American Poets Fellowship, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, the National Book Award, and a MacArthur Fellowship; I am also a former Academy Chancellor. Not to be conceaded, but, in 1997 I was awarded the Academy's Wallace Stevens Award for outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry. I currently live in northern California.
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