April Bernard

April Bernard (born 1956)[1] is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from Harvard University. She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Manhattan, inc. In the early 1990s, she taught at Amherst College.[2] In Fall 2003, she was Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College.[2] She currently teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares,[3] Parnassus, and The New York Review of Books.[4]

Honors and awards

• 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship [5]
• 2006 Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• Brawl & Jag: Poems. W.W. Norton & Co. March 28, 2016. ISBN 978-0393351736.
• Romanticism: Poems. W.W. Norton & Co. June 1, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06807-8.
• Swan Electric. W. W. Norton. 2002. ISBN 978-0-393-05114-8.
• Psalms. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. 1995. ISBN 978-0-393-31304-8.
• Blackbird Bye Bye. Random House. 1989.

Novels

• Pirate Jenny. W. W. Norton & Company. 1990. ISBN 978-0-393-33430-2.
• Miss Fuller. Steerforth Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-58642-195-3.

Anthology Publications

• Phillis Levin, ed. (November 2001). The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-058929-0.
• Molly McQuade (2000). By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-297-4. April Bernard poet.

References

1. "Miss Fuller A novel written by April Bernard Steerforth Press Publishing". www.steerforth.com. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
2. "April Bernard - Harman Writer-In-Residence Program - Weissman School of Arts and Sciences - Baruch College". www.baruch.cuny.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
3. "Read By Author | Ploughshares". www.pshares.org. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
4. "April Bernard". The New York Review of Books. Retrieved 2018-03-21.
5. http://es.gf.org/fellows/1168-april-bernard%5B%5D

External links

• "Interview: April Bernard", Reb Livingston, Post Road Magazine, Issue 7
• Audio: April Bernard reads "Beagle or Something" from Romanticism: Poems (2009)
• Audio: April Bernard reads "Heimatlos" from Romanticism: Poems (2009)
• "Beagle or Something". The New Yorker. April 30, 2007.
• "Song of Yes and No", Baruch College
• "That's What I Said". AGNI. 47. 1998. Archived from the original on 2009-07-01. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
• "Not Rome". Boston Review. Summer 2002. Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
• "Notes on the First Person". Poems Out Loud. Aug 21, 2009.
• "Escape from the Ivory Tower". Lapham's Quarterly. Fall 2008.
• "Famous Last Words: Harold Brodkey's deathbed memoir". slate. Oct 22, 1996.