Steven Cramer

Steven Cramer (born July 24, 1953 Orange, New Jersey) is an American poet.

See also: Stephen Cramer

Steven Cramer
Born	(1953-07-24) July 24, 1953 Orange, New Jersey
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Antioch College; University of Iowa
Genre	Poetry

Life

He graduated from Antioch College, and University of Iowa.[1]

He taught at Bennington College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University. He teaches at Lesley University.[2][3]

His work appeared in Antioch Review,[4] The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review,[5] Partisan Review, Poetry, Triquarterly, and New England Review.

Family

He lives with his wife, Hilary, and their two children, Charlotte and Ethan, in Lexington, Massachusetts.[6]

Awards

• 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship
• 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club, for Goodbye to the Orchard
• 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
• Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Works

• "Maurice" Tarpaulin Sky Poetry
• The Eye that Desires to Look Upward. Galileo Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-913123-11-9.
• The World Book. Copper Beech Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-914278-59-7.
• Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand. Lumen Editions. 1997. ISBN 978-1-57129-033-5.
• Goodbye to the Orchard. Sarabande Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-932511-05-5. Steven Cramer poet.
• Clangings. Sarabande Books, Incorporated. 23 October 2012. ISBN 978-1-936747-46-7.[7]

Reviews

• "Cramer’s poems fight sentiment with our only available weapons: knowledge and integrity."—H.L. Hix, Ploughshares
• "Steven Cramer's fourth book of poems, Goodbye to the Orchard, provides page after page of graceful inquisition and controlled musicality."—Shrode Hargis, Harvard Review

Anthologies

• Sue Ellen Thompson, ed. (2005). The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Autumn House Press. ISBN 978-1-932870-06-0.
• Joseph Parisi; Stephen Young, eds. (2002). The Poetry anthology, 1912-2002: ninety years of America's most distinguished verse magazine. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-468-7.

References

1. McIntire, Dennis; Centre, International Biographical (2001-01-01). International Who's who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia. International Biographical Centre. ISBN 9780948875595.
2. "Steven Cramer | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
3. "Steven Cramer - Lesley University". www.lesley.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
4. Antioch review. 1977-01-01.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-08-13.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
6. "TARPAULIN SKY POETRY: Steven Cramer, "Maurice"". www.tarpaulinsky.com. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
7. Lisa C. Krueger (October 10, 2013). "Clangings by Steven Cramer". Poets’ Quarterly. In the madness is method. Immersion in the loose, musical associations and musings of this book renders a lightness, a sense that one could emerge from life’s craziness intact, even whole.

External links

• "Author's website"
• "An Interview With Steven Cramer", E. Christopher Clark
• "Interview with Poet Steve Cramer Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University", Doug Holder