Steven Cramer

Steven Cramer
Born (1953-07-24) July 24, 1953
Orange, New Jersey
Nationality American
Alma mater Antioch College;
University of Iowa
Genre Poetry

Steven Cramer (born July 24, 1953 Orange, New Jersey) is an American poet.

Life

He graduated from Antioch College, and University of Iowa.[1]

He taught at Bennington College, Boston University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Tufts University. He teaches at Lesley University.[2][3]

His work appeared in Antioch Review,[4] The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review,[5] Partisan Review, Poetry, Triquarterly, and New England Review.

Family

He lives with his wife, Hilary, and their two children, Charlotte and Ethan, in Lexington, Massachusetts.[6]

Awards

  • 2014 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship
  • 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club, for Goodbye to the Orchard
  • 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book
  • Massachusetts Artists Foundation Fellowship
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Works

  • "Maurice" Tarpaulin Sky Poetry
  • The Eye that Desires to Look Upward. Galileo Press. 1987. ISBN 978-0-913123-11-9.
  • The World Book. Copper Beech Press. 1992. ISBN 978-0-914278-59-7.
  • Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand. Lumen Editions. 1997. ISBN 978-1-57129-033-5.
  • Goodbye to the Orchard. Sarabande Books. 2004. ISBN 978-1-932511-05-5.
  • Clangings. Sarabande Books, Incorporated. 23 October 2012. ISBN 978-1-936747-46-7. [7]

Reviews

  • "Cramer’s poems fight sentiment with our only available weapons: knowledge and integrity."—H.L. Hix, Ploughshares
  • "Steven Cramer's fourth book of poems, Goodbye to the Orchard, provides page after page of graceful inquisition and controlled musicality."—Shrode Hargis, Harvard Review

Anthologies

  • Sue Ellen Thompson, ed. (2005). The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. Autumn House Press. ISBN 978-1-932870-06-0.
  • Joseph Parisi, Stephen Young, eds. (2002). The Poetry anthology, 1912-2002: ninety years of America's most distinguished verse magazine. Ivan R. Dee. ISBN 978-1-56663-468-7.

References

  1. ↑ McIntire, Dennis; Centre, International Biographical (2001-01-01). International Who's who in Poetry and Poets' Encyclopaedia. International Biographical Centre. ISBN 9780948875595.
  2. ↑ "Steven Cramer | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  3. ↑ "Steven Cramer - Lesley University". www.lesley.edu. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  4. ↑ Antioch review. 1977-01-01.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-08-13.
  6. ↑ "TARPAULIN SKY POETRY: Steven Cramer, "Maurice"". www.tarpaulinsky.com. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  7. ↑ Lisa C. Krueger (October 10, 2013). "Clangings by Steven Cramer". Poets’ Quarterly. In the madness is method. Immersion in the loose, musical associations and musings of this book renders a lightness, a sense that one could emerge from life’s craziness intact, even whole.
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