Judith Baumel (born October 9, 1956 in
Bronx, New York) is an American
poet.
Life
She grew up in
New York City, attending the
Bronx High School of Science. She graduated from
Radcliffe College, magna cum laude, studying with
Robert Lowell,
Robert Fitzgerald,
Elizabeth Bishop,
Robert B. Shaw,
James Richardson, and
Jane Shore. She graduated from
Johns Hopkins University, where she studied with
Richard Howard,
Cynthia Macdonald, and
David St. John. She taught at
Boston University, and
Harvard University
Harvard University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1636 and named for its first benefactor, the History of the Puritans in North America, Puritan clergyma ...
.
In 1985, she married the poet and journalist
David Ghitelman, an early editor of ''AGNI'' magazine. They divorced in 1999. Her current partner is Philip Alcabes, professor of Public Health at Hunter College, City University of New York, and author of ''Dread: How Fear and Fantasy Have Fueled Epidemics from The Black Death to Avian Flu'' (Public Affairs 2009).
She was director of the Poetry Society of America from 1985 to 1988.
Her work has appeared in ''The Nation'', ''The Paris Review'', ''Ploughshares'', ''Poetry'', ''The Yale Review'', ''AGNI'', ''The New York Times'', and ''The New Yorker''.
She lives in New York City and teaches at
Adelphi University
Adelphi University is a private university in Garden City, New York, United States. Adelphi also has centers in Downtown Brooklyn, Hudson Valley, and Suffolk County in addition to a virtual, online campus for remote students. As of 2019, it had ...
,
and
City College of New York
The City College of the City University of New York (also known as the City College of New York, or simply City College or CCNY) is a Public university, public research university within the City University of New York (CUNY) system in New York ...
. Her blog is at http://www.judithbaumel.com
Awards
* 1987
Walt Whitman Award
The Walt Whitman Award is a poetry award administered by the Academy of American Poets. Named after poet Walt Whitman, the award is based on a competition of book-length poetry manuscripts by American poets who have not yet published a book. It ...
Work
Books
* ''Thorny'', Arrowsmith Press, 2022. ISBN 978-1737615668
* ''Passeggiate'', Arrowmith Press, 2019
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Periodicals
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Memoir
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Anthologies
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References
External links
''Author's website''
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1956 births
Living people
Poets from New York (state)
Radcliffe College alumni
Harvard Advocate alumni
Johns Hopkins University alumni
Boston University faculty
Harvard University faculty
Adelphi University faculty
City College of New York faculty
American women poets
20th-century American poets
20th-century American women writers
21st-century American poets
21st-century American women writers
The Bronx High School of Science alumni
Writers from the Bronx
American women academics