Jane Mead
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters".Template:Wikidata image Jane Mead (August 13, 1958 – September 8, 2019) was an American poet and the author of five poetry collections. Her last volume was To the Wren: Collected & New Poems 1991-2019 (Alice James Books, 2019). Her honors included fellowships from the Lannan and Guggenheim foundations and a Whiting Award. Her poems appeared in literary journals and magazines including Ploughshares,[1] Electronic Poetry Review, The American Poetry Review, The New York Times, the Virginia Quarterly Review, and The Antioch Review and in anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1990.[2]
Born in Baltimore, Mead lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, until she was twelve. Her father taught ichthyology at Harvard University. After Cambridge, she moved around a great deal with her mother and stepfather, who was a journalist, living in New Mexico, London, and Cambridge, England. She graduated from Vassar College and from Syracuse University and the University of Iowa. She taught and was Poet-in-Residence at Wake Forest University.
After her father died in 2003, Mead managed the family ranch in Napa County, Northern California. She taught at New England College[3] and co-owned Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa.
Mead died September 8, 2019, in Napa, from cancer.[4]
Honors and awards
- 2017 World of Made and Unmade shortlisted for 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize
- 2004 Ploughshares Cohen Award
- 2002 Guggenheim Fellowship[5]
- 1992 Whiting Award
- Lannan Foundation Completion Grant[6]
Bibliography
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Poetry
- Collections
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- List of poems
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References
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External links
- "An Interview with Jane Mead" > Poetry Daily
- Profile at The Whiting Foundation
- Poem: "The Origin", poets.org
- Poem: "Alleged Speculation", Electronic Poetry Review
- Poem: "The Specter and His World are One ", Electronic Poetry Review
- Poem: "The High Hither, The Embrace", Electronic Poetry Review
- Poem: "The Part—and the Whole of It", Electronic Poetry Review
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- 1958 births
- 2019 deaths
- 21st-century American women
- American women academics
- American women poets
- Deaths from cancer in California
- New England College faculty
- The New Yorker people
- Poets from California
- Syracuse University alumni
- University of Iowa alumni
- Vassar College alumni
- Wake Forest University faculty
- Poets from Baltimore