Anne Marie Macari (born 1955) is an American

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Life and career

Macari was born in

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. She is a graduate of

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and holds an MFA in creative writing from

Sarah Lawrence College Sarah Lawrence College (SLC) is a Private university, private liberal arts college in Yonkers, New York, United States. Founded as a Women's colleges in the United States, women's college in 1926, Sarah Lawrence College has been coeducational ...

. Macari founded and taught in the

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MFA Program for Poetry & Poetry in Translation. She has also taught on the faculty of the Prague Summer Seminars. She is president of the Alice James Books Board of Directors. Macari has published five books of poetry, including ''Heaven Beneath'' (Persea, 2020). Her first book, ''Ivory Cradle'', won The APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry. Macari's poems have been published in many literary journals and magazines, including ''TriQuarterly'', ''Bloomsbury Review'', ''Shenandoah'', ''The American Poetry Review'', ''Five Points'' (as winner of the James Dickey Prize for Poetry), ''The Cortland Review'', and ''The Iowa Review''. Her work has appeared in anthologies, including ''From the Fishhouse'' (Persea Books, 2009) and ''Never Before: Poems About First Experiences'' (

Four Way Books Four Way Books is an American nonprofit literary press located in New York City, which publishes poetry and short fiction by emerging and established writers. It features the work of the winners of national poetry competitions, as well as collect ...

). Macari has read her poetry throughout the United States in many venues, including the Dodge Poetry Festival. She has also read her work at festivals in England, Austria, and in Prague. She lives in New York City and Miami Beach, Florida. Her partner was poet

Gerald Stern Gerald Daniel Stern (February 22, 1925 – October 27, 2022) was an American poet, essayist, and educator. The author of twenty collections of poetry and four books of essays, he taught literature and creative writing at Temple University, India ...

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Awards

* ''Ivory Cradle'', winner, The APR/Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry

Published works

* ''Heaven Beneath'' (Persea) 2020 * ''Red Deer'' (Persea) 2015 * ''She Heads into the Wilderness'' (Autumn House Press, 2008) * ''Gloryland'' (

Alice James Books Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in New Gloucester, Maine. History and mission "Alice James Books was founded as a co-operative press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Cambridge, MA in 1973 by five women and two men: ...

), 2005 * ''Ivory Cradle'' (

Copper Canyon Press Copper Canyon Press is an independent, non-profit small press, founded in 1972 by Sam Hamill, Tree Swenson, Bill O'Daly, and Jim Gautney, specializing exclusively in the publication of poetry. It is located in Port Townsend, Washington. Copper C ...

, 2000)

References

External links

Audio: Fishousepoems Website

Autumn House Press > Author Page > Anne Marie Macari

Audio: Reading and Interview on WYEP Radio on Prosody with Jan Beatty

Article on ''Gloryland'': Literature and Theology (OUP) September 2011, pp. 297-311
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