Mary Ruefle

Mary Ruefle (born 1952) is an American poet, essayist, and professor. She has published many collections of poetry, the most recent of which, Dunce (Wave Books, 2019), was longlisted for the National Book Award in Poetry and was a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize.[1] Ruefle's debut collection of prose, The Most Of It, appeared in 2008 and her collected lectures, Madness, Rack, and Honey, was published in August 2012, both published by Wave Books.[2] She has also published a book of erasures, A Little White Shadow (2006).[3]

Mary Ruefle
LanguageEnglish
NationalityAmerican
GenrePoetry
Notable awardsNational Book Award
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She has been widely published in magazines and journals including The American Poetry Review,[4] Verse Daily,[5] The Believer,[6] Harper's Magazine,[7] and The Kenyon Review,[8] and in such anthologies as Best American Poetry, Great American Prose Poems (2003), American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets (2006), and The Next American Essay (2002).[9]

The daughter of a military officer, Ruefle was born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania in 1952,[10] but spent her early years traveling around the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from Bennington College[9] in 1974 with a degree in Literature. She currently teaches at the Vermont College of Fine Arts.[9] In 2011, she served as the prestigious Bedell Distinguished Visiting Professor[11] at the University of Iowa's Nonfiction Writing Program. In 2019, she was named poet laureate of the state of Vermont.[12]

Awards and honors

Published works

Full-length poetry collections

  • Dunce (Wave Books, 2019)
  • From Here to Eternity. Horton Tank Graphics. 2015.
  • An Incarnation of the Now. See Double Press. 2015.
  • Happy Birthday!. Wave Books. 2013.
  • Trances of the Blast (Wave Books, 2013)
  • Selected Poems, 2010 (William Carlos Williams Award, 2011)
  • Go home and go to bed! : a comic. Pilot Books. 2007.
  • Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2007)
  • A Little White Shadow (Wave Books, 2006)
  • Tristimania (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2004)
  • Apparition Hill (CavanKerry Press, 2002)
  • Among the Musk Ox People (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002)
  • Post Meridian (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1999)
  • Cold Pluto (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1996; Classic Contemporary version 2001)
  • The Adamant (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 1989)
  • Life Without Speaking (University of Alabama Press, 1987)
  • Memling's Veil (University of Alabama Press, 1982)

Prose collections

Non-fiction

  • Madness, Rack, and Honey Collected Lectures (Wave Books, 2012)

Essays

  • "Pause". Granta (131: The Map is Not the Territory). Spring 2015. (Online Edition Only)

Erasure

  • An Incarnation of the Now (See Double Press, 2015)
gollark: I would totally live in that, assuming no horribleness.
gollark: Just add a "NOT ABANDONED" sign.
gollark: And you can probably shove insulation in.
gollark: They MAY be in one of the many places without tornadoes.
gollark: Exactly. They're obviously trying to allay our suspicions so they can do federal agent things more easily.

References
  1. "2020 Pulitzer Prizes". The Pulitzer Prizes. 2020 The Pulitzer Prizes. 2020-05-04. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
  2. Mary Ruefle official website, featuring erasure work, maryruefle.com; accessed December 15, 2015.
  3. Foundation, Poetry (2019-02-26). "Mary Ruefle". Poetry Foundation. Retrieved 2019-02-27.
  4. The American Poetry Review>July/Aug 2002 Vol. 31/No. 4 Archived 2008-07-04 at the Wayback Machine, aprweb.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
  5. Daily, Verse. "Verse Daily Archives". www.versedaily.org. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  6. "The Believer - Contributors: Mary Ruefle". The Believer. Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  7. "Mary Ruefle | Harper's Magazine". Retrieved 2017-03-11.
  8. Mary Ruefle: A Custom of Mourning (Spring 2009 • Vol. XXXI • No 2), kenyonreview.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
  9. "Mary Ruefle". Contemporary Authors Online. 2014 – via Gale Literature Resource Center.
  10. Lehman, David (2013). The Best American Poetry 2013. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9781476708140.
  11. "University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program Receives $500,000 Donation to Build Program Endowment | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa". College of Liberal Arts and Sciences | The University of Iowa. 2017-03-26. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  12. "Mary Ruefle appointed Vermont's poet laureate". AP NEWS. 2019-10-30. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  13. Profile, The Whiting Foundation website; accessed December 15, 2015.
  14. "Dartmouth Poet in Residence". The Frost Place. 2013-02-08. Retrieved 2018-03-22.
  15. "Mary Ruefle" (Press release). Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  16. Lannan Foundation: Past Residents Archived 2011-06-07 at the Wayback Machine, lannan.org; accessed December 15, 2015.
  17. John Williams (January 14, 2012). "National Book Critics Circle Names 2012 Award Finalists". New York Times. Retrieved January 15, 2013.
  18. "Robert Creeley Foundation". robertcreeleyfoundation.org. Retrieved March 19, 2015.
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