Ann Stanford

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|name=Ann Stanford

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|birth_place=La Habra, California, U.S.

|death_date={{death date and age|1987|7|12|1916|11|25}}

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Poet
academic

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|education=Stanford University
University of California, Los Angeles (MA, PhD)

|awards=Shelley Memorial Award (1969)

|spouse={{marriage|Roland Arthur White|1942}}

|children=4

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Ann Stanford (November 25, 1916 – July 12, 1987) was an American poet.

Early life and education

Ann Stanford was born in La Habra, California, and attended Stanford University, where she graduated in 1938 Phi Beta Kappa, and the University of California, Los Angeles, with an M.A. in journalism in 1958, an M.A. in English in 1961, and a Ph.D. in English and American literature in 1962.{{cite web |url=https://library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in-the-Stacks/ann-stanford |title=Dr. Ann Stanford |author= |date=November 30, 2021 |website=Peek in the Stacks |publisher=California State University, Northridge |access-date=December 3, 2021 |quote=}}

Personal life

Stanford married Roland Arthur White, an architect, in 1942, and they had three daughters and one son. Her oldest daughter was Academy Award nominated costume designer Rosanna Norton.

Career

When she died in 1987, at the age of seventy, Ann Stanford was at the apex of a long and distinguished career as a poet, translator, editor, scholar and teacher. Over a period of forty years, she had written eight volumes of poetry, two verse plays, and a book-length study of the Puritan poet Anne Bradstreet. She had also translated the classic Sanskrit text The Bhagavad Gita and edited The Women Poets in English, an anthology that gathered, for the first time, hundreds of years of poetry by women. Her poems had appeared regularly in the most prestigious journals and magazines—the New Yorker, The Atlantic, Poetry, The New Republic, The Southern Review—and had been widely honored.

From 1962 to 1987, she taught at California State University, Northridge.{{Cite book|url=https://www.bookrags.com/biography/ann-stanford-dlb/|title=Ann Stanford Summary|via=www.bookrags.com}}{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tx1I5Z3U5DIC&pg=PA102 | title=California poetry|author1=Dana Gioia |author2=Chryss Yost |author3=Jack Hicks | isbn=978-1-890771-72-0 | year=2004 | publisher=Heyday Books}}

She was a founding member of the Associated Writing Programs.{{cite web|url=http://www.lib.odu.edu/litfest/5th/stanford.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304065712/http://www.lib.odu.edu/litfest/5th/stanford.html|archive-date=2016-03-04|title=Ann Stanford}}

Since 1988, a poetry prize has been awarded in her name.[http://www.pw.org/content/ann_stanford_poetry_prize_0 Unknown Title]{{dead link|date=October 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://jpicforum.info/recycle-bin/20th-annual-ann-stanford-poetry-prize-dec-31-2007-deadline-4951.html |title=20th Annual Ann Stanford Poetry Prize (Dec. 31, 2007 Deadline) - Poetry in Color Forum |accessdate=2009-07-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201174707/http://jpicforum.info/recycle-bin/20th-annual-ann-stanford-poetry-prize-dec-31-2007-deadline-4951.html |archivedate=2008-12-01 }}

Awards

Two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships in Poetry
Pushcart Prize
National Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Literature
DiCastagnola Award for Poetry
1968/1969 Shelley Memorial Award

Works

Twelve Poets of the Pacific (edited by Yvor Winters; New Directions, 1937)
In Narrow Bound (Alan Swallow, 1943)
The White Bird (Alan Swallow, 1949)
The Weathercock (The Viking Press, 1966)
The Descent (The Viking Press, 1970)
Climbing Up to Light (The Magpie Press, 1973)
In Mediterranean Air (The Viking Press, 1977)
Dreaming the Garden (Cahuenga Press, 2000)
Holding Our Own: The Selected Poems of Ann Stanford (edited by Maxine Scates and David Trinidad; Copper Canyon Press, 2001)