Joan Vincent Murray

Joan Vincent Murray (February 12, 1917 London – January 4, 1942 Saranac Lake, New York) was a Canadian American poet.[1]

This article is about the Canadian-British-American poet. For other uses, see Joan Murray (disambiguation).

Joan Murray
Born	(1917-02-12)February 12, 1917 London
Died	January 4, 1942(1942-01-04) (aged 24) Saranac Lake, New York
Education	The New School
Genre	poetry
Notable awards	Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition

She studied at The New School, with W. H. Auden.[2]

Her papers are at Smith College.[3]

Awards

• 1947 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition, selected by W. H. Auden

Works

• Poems (PDF). Yale University Press. 1947. Archived from the original on 2006-08-21.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
• Poems : 1917 - 1942 / Joan Murray. Ed. by Grant Code; with a foreword by W.H. Auden, New York : AMS Pr., 1971, ISBN 978-0-404-53845-3
• Drafts, fragments, and poems : the complete poetry, Farnoosh Fathi (Ed.), John Ashbery (Foreword) New York : New York Review Books 2017, ISBN 978-1-68137-182-5

References

1. John Ashbery (2005). "On the Poetry of Joan Murray". In Eugene Richie (ed.). Selected Prose. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-03139-9.
2. http://www.arras.net/weblog/000820.html
3. http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/sophiasmith/mnsss277.html

External links

• W. H. Auden (2002). "Foreword to Poems, by Joan Murray". In Edward Mendelson (ed.). The Complete Works of W.H. Auden: Prose: Volume II. 1939-1948, Volume 3. Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-08935-5.