Joyce Sutphen (born August 10, 1949) is an American

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who served as

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's Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2021. She was the state's second laureate, appointed by

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in August, 2011 to succeed

Robert Bly Robert Elwood Bly (December 23, 1926 – November 21, 2021) was an American poet, essayist, activist and leader of the mythopoetic men's movement. His best-known prose book is '' Iron John: A Book About Men'' (1990), which spent 62 weeks on ...

. Sutphen is professor emerita of English at

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in St. Peter, Minnesota.

Life

Sutphen was raised in Saint Joseph, Minnesota, and currently resides in the city of Chaska. She holds degrees from the

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, including her

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in Renaissance Drama. Her first book of poetry, ''Straight Out of View'' (Beacon Press, 1995), won the Barnard New Women's Poets Prize. Her second, ''Coming Back to the Body'' (

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, 2000), was a finalist for a

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, and her third, ''Naming the Stars'' (2004), also from Holy Cow! Press, won the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry. In 2005, Red Dragonfly Press published a fine press edition of ''Fourteen Sonnets''. Her poems have appeared in ''American Poetry Review'', ''Poetry'', ''The Gettysburg Review'', ''Water~Stone'', ''Hayden's Ferry'', ''Shenandoah'', ''Luna''.

Prizes

* 1994

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* 2005 Minnesota Book Award for Poetry

Bibliography

Poetry

* ''Straight Out of View'' (

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1995) * ''Coming Back to the Body'' (

2000) * ''Naming the Stars'' (Holy Cow! Press 2004) * ''First Words'' (Red Dragonfly Press 2010) * ''After Words'' (Red Dragonfly Press 2013) * ''Modern Love & Other Myths'' (Red Dragonfly Press 2015) * "The Green House" (Salmon Poetry 2017) * "Carrying Water to the Field. New and Selected Poems" (University of Nebraska Press 2019)

Chapbooks

* ''Fourteen Sonnets'' (Red Dragonfly Press 2005)

Anthologies

* ''To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present'', Joyce Sutphen, Connie Wanek, Thom Tammaro, eds. (New Rivers Press 2006) * ''180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day'',

Billy Collins William James Collins (born March 22, 1941) is an American poet who served as the Poet Laureate of the United States from 2001 to 2003. He was a Distinguished Professor at Lehman College of the City University of New York, retiring in 2016. Co ...

, ed. (

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2005) * ''Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation'',

Pamela Gemin Pamela Gemin (born April 20, 1954) is an author and editor. She is also Professor Emerita of English at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh. Works Pamela Gemin is the author of Vendettas, Charms, and Prayers (1999, New Rivers Press), which was ...

and Paula Sergi, eds. (

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1999)

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sutphen, Joyce 1949 births Living people Gustavus Adolphus College faculty People from St. Joseph, Minnesota Poets laureate of Minnesota Poets from Minnesota American women poets People from Chaska, Minnesota University of Minnesota alumni 20th-century American poets 20th-century American women writers 21st-century American poets 21st-century American women writers