Erika Meitner (born 1975 in New York) is an American poet.
Life She graduated from Dartmouth College with an A.B. in 1996, and from the University of Virginia with an MFA in creative writing, and an MA in religious studies.
She taught at University of Virginia, University of California, Santa Cruz., and Virginia Tech She was a Fulbright Scholar in Creative Writing, at Queen's University Belfast. She teaches at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Her work has appeared in The Southern Review, The American Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review.
Bibliography
Poetry Collections Inventory at the All-Night Drugstore, Anhinga Press, 2003. Ideal Cities, HarperCollins, 2010. Makeshift Instructions for Vigilant Girls, Anhinga Press, 2011. Copia, BOA Editions, 2014. Holy Moly Carry Me, BOA Editions, 2018. Useful Junk, BOA Editions, 2022. ISBN 978-1-950774-53-1
List of poems TitleYearFirst publishedReprinted/collectedTo gather together2021
"The Book of Dissolution", AGNI online "Big Box Encounter", Slate, April 20, 2010 "January Towns"; "With/out", Anti- "Quisiera Declarar", From the Fishouse "Elegy with Construction Sounds, Water, Fish", Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 2010, pp. 202–203
Essays "On Rita Dove", Women Poets on Mentorship: Efforts and Affections, Editors Arielle Greenberg, Rachel Zucker, University of Iowa Press, 2008, "On Rita Dove", Best African American Essays 2010, Editors Gerald Early, Randall Kennedy, Random House, Inc., 2009,
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Awards
2009 National Poetry Series, for Ideal Cities 2018 National Jewish Book Award: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me 2018 Finalist: National Book Critics Circle Award: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me 2019 Finalist: Library of Virginia: Poetry, for Holy Moly Carry Me
References
External links
Author's website "Erika Meitner Discusses Peeps, Virginia and Yi-Fu Tuan: An Interview by Serena Agusto-Cox", 32poems, May 5, 2009 "Erika Meitner", From the Fishouse "Five Questions With . . .Erika Meitner, poet", Sentinel, Rebecca Swain Vadnie http://www.writersdigest.com/editor-blogs/poetic-asides/poetry-craft-tips/interview-with-poet-erika-meitner