Cynthia Huntington
{{short description|American poet}}
Cynthia Huntington is an American poet, memoirist and a professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.[http://www.dartmouth.edu/~english/faculty/huntington.html Dartmouth College > English Department Faculty] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080921085745/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~english/faculty/huntington.html |date=2008-09-21 }} In 2004 she was named Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.[https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/newhampshire.html Library of Congress > New Hampshire - State Poet Laureate]
Life and career
Huntington has published numerous books of poetry, including Heavenly Bodies (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012), a finalist for the National Book Award. She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including TriQuarterly, The Michigan Quarterly Review, Harvard Review, Cimarron Review, AGNI,{{Cite web |url=http://web.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2001/53-huntington.html |title=Agni Online > Cynthia Huntington |access-date=2009-05-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060914213525/http://web.bu.edu/agni/poetry/print/2001/53-huntington.html |archive-date=2006-09-14 |url-status=dead }} Ploughshares,[http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=1403 Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Table of Contents] and Massachusetts Review, and in anthologies including The Best American Erotic Poems: From 1800 to the Present (Sribner, 2008) and Contemporary Poetry of New England (Middlebury College Press, 2002).
She was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania, and received her M.A. from The Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College.
Awards and honors
- 2004 Poet Laureate of New Hampshire.[https://www.loc.gov/rr/main/poets/newhampshire.html Library of Congress > New Hampshire - State Poet Laureate]
- 2012 National Book Award (Poetry), finalist, Heavenly Bodies{{cite web |url=http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today/ |title=National Book Award Finalists Announced Today |work=Library Journal |date=October 10, 2012 |accessdate=November 15, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121206014159/http://reviews.libraryjournal.com/2012/10/in-the-bookroom/national-book-award-finalists-announced-today/ |archive-date=December 6, 2012 |url-status=dead }}
Huntington has received grants from the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, as well as two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. Other awards include: the Robert Frost Prize from The Frost Place in Franconia, New Hampshire, the Jane Kenyon Award in Poetry, and the Emily Clark Balch Prize.[http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/we_beach.html Alice James Books Author Page, Cynthia Huntington] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926015727/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/we_beach.html |date=2009-09-26 }}
Works
;Poetry
- Terra Nova (Southern Illinois University Press, 2017)
- Fire Muse: Poems from the Salt House (Dartmouth College Press, 2016)
- Heavenly Bodies (Southern Illinois University Press, 2012){{Cite web |url=http://www.siupress.com/product/Heavenly-Bodies,5721.aspx |title=Southern Illinois University Press > Book Page > Heavenly Bodies |access-date=2011-08-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120815030152/http://www.siupress.com/(S(sjs21tzwujq3h3zqnigsvw45))/product/Heavenly-Bodies,5721.aspx |archive-date=2012-08-15 |url-status=dead }}
- The Radiant (Four Way Books, 2003, winner of the Levis Poetry Prize)
- We Have Gone to the Beach (Alice James Books, 1996, winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award)
- The Fish-Wife (University of Hawaii Press, 1986, Pacific Poetry Series Comp Winner)
;Prose
- The Salt House: A Summer on the Dunes of Cape Cod (University Press of New England, 1999)
References
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External links
- [http://www.fourwaybooks.com/books/huntington/huntington_about.php Four Way Books Website > Cynthia Huntington > Author Page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090926015727/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/we_beach.html Alice James Books Website > Cynthia Huntington > Author Page]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090529151554/http://www.graywolfpress.org/Related_Content/Book_Excerpts/Excerpt_from_Real_Sofistikashun Graywolf Press > Real Sofistikashun by Tony Hoagland > Excerpt discussing Huntington's work]
- [http://www.orionmagazine.org/index.php/articles/poem/5250/ Poem: Orion Magazine > January/February 2010 Issue > All Wet and Shine by Cynthia Huntington]
- [http://www.terrain.org/poetry/26/huntington.htm Poems: terrain.org: A Journal of the Built & Natural Environments > No. 26 Fall/Winter 2010 > Three Poems by Cynthia Huntington]
- [http://www.pshares.org/read/author-detail.cfm?intAuthorID=738 Ploughshares > Authors & Articles > Cynthia Huntington]
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