Bruce Snider

Bruce Snider is an American poet originally from rural Indiana, who is an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins University. Previously, he taught at the University of San Francisco, Stanford University, George Washington University, the University of Texas at Austin, and Connecticut College. His poems and essays have appeared in American Poetry Review, Harvard Review, Iowa Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Virginia Quarterly Review, Threepenny Review, Utne Reader, Zyzzyva, and Best American Poetry 2012{{Cite web|url=http://bestamericanpoetry.com/archive/?id=26|title=The Best American Poetry 2012, Guest Edited by Mark Doty|website=bestamericanpoetry.com|access-date=27 November 2018}}. With the poet Shara Lessley, Snider co-edited The Poem's Country: Place & Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press), an anthology of essays.

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Awards

[https://uweccwd.wordpress.com/2015/10/26/george-washington-university-jenny-mckean-moore-writer/ Jenny McKean Writer-in-Washington], George Washington University
Robert Frost Fellow, Bread Loaf Writer's Conference
[http://pleiadespress.org/about/guidelines/poetry-contest-guidelines/ Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize],{{Cite news|url=https://sycamorereview.com/2011/06/27/bruce-snider-wins-2011-lena-miles-wever-todd-poetry-prize/|title=Bruce Snider Wins 2011 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize|date=June 27, 2011|work=SYCAMORE REVIEW|access-date=27 November 2018}} Pleaides Press{{Cite web|url=http://pleiadespress.org/interview-with-bruce-snider/|title=Pleiades Press {{!}} Interview with Bruce Snider|website=pleiadespress.org|access-date=27 November 2018}}
[https://www.amyclampitt.com/the-residency-main/ Amy Clampitt House Residency]
[http://jamesmerrillhouse.org/ James Merrill House Residency]{{Cite web|url=http://jamesmerrillhouse.org/residency/writer-in-residence-program/merrill-house-writers/bruce-snider/|title=Bruce Snider|website=jamesmerrillhouse.org|access-date=27 November 2018}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20181128040447/http://jamesmerrillhouse.org/residency/writer-in-residence-program/merrill-house-writers/bruce-snider/ Archived version]
Wallace Stegner Fellowship,{{Cite web|url=https://creativewriting.stanford.edu/stegner-fellowship/current-fellows/former-stegner-fellows|title=Former Stegner Fellows {{!}} Creative Writing Program|website=creativewriting.stanford.edu|access-date=27 November 2018}} Stanford University
[https://uwpress.wisc.edu/poetryguide.html Felix Pollack Prize in Poetry],{{Cite book|title=UW Press – : The Year We Studied Women, Bruce Snider|isbn=9780299193843 |url=https://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/2774.htm|last1=Snider |first1=Bruce |year=2003|publisher=Univ of Wisconsin Press }} University of Wisconsin Press
James A. Michener Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin

Bibliography

= Poetry =

;Collections

The Year We Studied Women (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003)
Paradise, Indiana (Pleiades Press, 2013)
The Poem’s Country: Place and Poetic Practice (Pleiades Press, 2018) co-editor
Fruit (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020)

;List of poems

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|{{cite journal |author=Snider, Bruce |date=Winter 2025 |title='The silence is unusually loud tonight,' |journal=32 Poems |volume=44 |pages=1}}