Jane Cooper
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BornOctober 9, 1924
Atlantic City, New Jersey
Atlantic City, New Jersey
DiedOctober 26, 2007 (aged 83)
Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
OccupationPoet
Jane Cooper | |
|---|---|
| Born | October 9, 1924 Atlantic City, New Jersey |
| Died | October 26, 2007 (aged 83) Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania |
| Occupation | Poet |
Jane Cooper (October 9, 1924 – October 26, 2007) was an American poet.[1][2]
- Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
- Maurice English Poetry Award (1985)
- Shelley Memorial Award (1977)
- Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College - Fellowship
- Guggenheim Fellowship - (1960)
- Ingram Merrill Award
- National Endowment for the Arts - Fellowship
- Lamont Poetry Prize (1968) for The Weather of Six Mornings
Works
Books
- The Weather of Six Mornings (1969), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets.
- Maps and Windows (1974)
- Scaffolding: Selected Poems (1993)
- Green Notebook, Winter Road (1994), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
- Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed (W. W. Norton & Company, 1999)
Edited
- Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Women Writers (1982)
- The Sanity of Earth and Grass: Complete Poems of Robert Winner (1994)
