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Ann Lauterbach (born 1942)Library of Congress Online Catalog
/ref> is an American poet, essayist, art critic, and professor.


Selected bibliography

Full-length poetry collections * ''Spell'' (
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) * ''On a Stair'' (Penguin Books,
1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...
) * ''And for Example'' (Penguin Books,
1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which sank in the Baltic Sea; Nels ...
) * ''Clamor'' (
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1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...
) * ''Before Recollection'' (
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1987 File:1987 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes after leaving the Port of Zeebrugge in Belgium, killing 193; Northwest Airlines Flight 255 crashes after takeoff from Detroit Metropolitan Airport, ...
) * ''Many Times, but Then'' (
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,
1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the '' International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the '' Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the so ...
) Essay collections * ''The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience'' (Viking, 2005)


Early life

Lauterbach was born and raised in New York City, and earned her B.A. from the
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. She lived in London for eight years, working in publishing and for art institutions, including London's Thames and Hudson art publishing house. On her return to the U.S., she worked in art galleries in New York before she began teaching.


Poetry

Her most recent poetry collection is ''Spell'' (
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, 2009) and ''American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language'' (
Wesleyan University Press Wesleyan University Press is a university press that is part of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. The press is currently directed by Suzanna Tamminen, a published poet and essayist. History and overview Founded (in its present form ...
, 2002).


Teaching

She has taught at
Brooklyn College , mottoeng = Nothing without great effort , established = , parent = CUNY , type = Public university , endowment = $98.0 million (2019) , budget = $123.96 m ...
,
Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...
, the
Iowa Writers Workshop The Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, is a celebrated graduate-level creative writing program in the United States. The writer Lan Samantha Chang is its director. Graduates earn a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in Creative ...
,
Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...
, and at the City College of New York and Graduate Center of CUNY. Since 1991 she has taught at
Bard College Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic District—a National Historic Landmark. Founded in 1860, ...
, and is currently a David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature there, where she teaches and co-directs the Writing Division of the M.F.A. program, and lives in Germantown, New York. As an art critic, she has educated at the Yale School of Art, Yale University.


Honors

Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the
Ingram Merrill Foundation The Ingram Merrill Foundation was a private foundation established in the mid-1950s by poet James Merrill (1926-1995), using funds from his substantial family inheritance.J. D. McClatchyBraving the Elements ''The New Yorker'', 27 March 1995. Retrie ...
, the
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation is a private foundation that makes grants and impact investments to support non-profit organizations in approximately 50 countries around the world. It has an endowment of $7.0 billion and ...
, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts.New York Foundation for the Arts > Artists Fellowship 1998 Poetry


References


External links

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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20091015161058/http://www.raintaxi.com/online/2009summer/lauterbach.shtml Review: ''Rain Taxi'' > Winter 2009/2010 > A Review by Michael D. Snediker of ''Or to Begin Again'' by Ann Lauterbach]
Interview: ''Mappemunde'' > April 17, 2004 > An Interview with Ann Lauterbach by Tim Peterson

''Guide to the Ann Lauterbach Papers''
* Ann Lauterbach Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. {{DEFAULTSORT:Lauterbach, Ann 1942 births 20th-century American poets 21st-century American poets Bard College faculty Columbia University faculty Iowa Writers' Workshop faculty Living people MacArthur Fellows University of Wisconsin–Madison alumni Writers from New York (state) American women poets American women essayists 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American women writers 20th-century American essayists 21st-century American essayists Brooklyn College alumni American women academics