Arda Collins
Arda Collins is an American poet, and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
Life
Collins worked on public television documentaries, from 1997-2003. Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.[1]
She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry.[2][3]
She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New York University, and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.[4][5] She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College.[6]
Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker,[7] The American Poetry Review,[8] A Public Space,[9] and Gutcult.
Awards
- 2008 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition.
- 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences' (AAAS) Poetry Prize
- 2008 May Sarton Prize [10]
References
- ↑ "It Is Daylight - Collins, Arda; Glück, Louise - Yale University Press". Retrieved 2009-05-02.
- ↑ It Is Daylight, Arda Collins, Yale University Press, Mar 23, 2009
- ↑ "Award-winning UI poets Collins and Thirkield read April 14". Retrieved 2009-05-02.
- ↑ Archives Calendar, Reading Between A&B
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- ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Arda%20Collins%22
- ↑ Collins, Arda (2004). "Spring". The American Poetry Review.
- ↑ http://www.apublicspace.org/back_issues/issue_7/it_is_daylight.html
- ↑ http://www.amacad.org/about/sarton.aspx