Arda Collins

Arda Collins is an American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.

Life

Collins was born in New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry.[1][2]

Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets.[3]

She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New York University, and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand.[4][5] She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College. She lives in Western Massachusetts.[6]

Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker,[7] jubilat, [8]The American Poetry Review,[9] A Public Space[10] and Gutcult.

Awards

References

  1. ↑ It Is Daylight, Arda Collins, Yale University Press, Mar 23, 2009
  2. ↑ "Award-winning UI poets Collins and Thirkield read April 14". Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  3. ↑ "It Is Daylight - Collins, Arda; Glück, Louise - Yale University Press". Retrieved 2009-05-02.
  4. ↑ Archives Calendar, Reading Between A&B
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  7. ↑ http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=authorName:%22Arda%20Collins%22
  8. ↑ http://www.jubilat.org/jubilat/archive/issue-30/
  9. ↑ Collins, Arda (2004). "Spring". The American Poetry Review.
  10. ↑ http://www.apublicspace.org/back_issues/issue_7/it_is_daylight.html
  11. ↑ http://www.amacad.org/about/sarton.aspx


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