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Kathleen Peirce

American poet (born 1956)

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Kathleen Peirce (born 1956, Moline, Illinois, United States) is an American poet.^[1] She graduated from the Iowa Writer's Workshop in 1988. She currently teaches at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas,^[2] for the Texas State University MFA.^[3] She has one son.

Awards[edit]

• 1990 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Award for Mercy ^[4]
• 1993 Whiting Award
• 1998 Iowa Poetry Prize for The Oval Hour
• 2000 William Carlos Williams Award for The Oval Hour
• 2005 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship ^[5]
• 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship

Works[edit]

• "Anima Forma Corporis"; "Confession 3.10.18"; "Apart", Reading Between A&B
• "Measure", Blackbird
• "Redbird", Nothing to Say and Saying It
• "Anima Forma Corporis", courtland Review

Bibliography[edit]

• Mercy, Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991, ISBN 978-0-8229-5457-6
• Divided Touch, Divided Color, Windhover, 1995
• The Oval Hour University of Iowa Press, 1999, ISBN 9780877456643
• The Ardors, Ausable Press, 2004, ISBN 978-1-931337-19-9
• Vault: A Poem New Michigan Press, 2017, ISBN 9781934832615
• Lion's Paw Miami University Press, 2021, ISBN 9781881163688

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Ausable Press^{[permanent dead link]}
• Texas State MFA
• Profile at The Whiting Foundation