Jane Cooper (October 9, 1924 – October 26, 2007) was an American poet.Jane Cooper, 83, Poet of Women's Lives, Dies, MARGALIT FOX, The New York Times, November 9, 2007Jane Cooper, 83; poet wrote about her life and the challenges of being a female writer, Mary Rourke, The Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2007
Awards 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 The Blue Anchor; The Earthquake; Ordinary Detail; In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman; Rent; The Winter Road (Part 4); The Flashboat, Norton Poets online
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)
Memories Memories of Jane Cooper, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 12, 2008 Memories of Jane Cooper part 2, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 14, 2008
References
External links Jane Cooper (1924 – 2007), The Poetry Foundation Jane Cooper, Poets.org Jane Cooper, Norton Poets