Liz Waldner
{{short description|American poet}}
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Liz Waldner is an American poet.
Life
Waldner was raised in small town Mississippi. At 28, she received a B.A. in philosophy and mathematics from St. John's College; she later studied at the Summer Language School in French Middlebury College, and received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Waldner was a Regents Fellow in the Communication Department at the University of California, San Diego.{{cite web |url=https://poets.org/poet/liz-waldner |title=About Liz Waldner |website=poets.org |access-date=May 21, 2021}}
She is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Play (Lightful Press) and Trust (winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center Open Competition). Her collection, Dark Would (the missing person) (University of Georgia Press), was the winner of the 2002 Contemporary Poetry Series; her collection, Self and Simulacra (2001), won the Beatrice Hawley Award; and her collection, A Point Is That Which Has No Part (2000), received the 1999 Iowa Poetry Prize and the 2000 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
Other honors include grants from the Washington State Professional Development Grant for Artists, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, the Boomerang Foundation, the Gertrude Stein Award for Innovative Poetry and the Barbara Deming Money for Women Grant.{{cite web |url=http://www.lib.odu.edu/litfest/20th/waldner.html |title=Liz Waldner |website=20th Annual Literary Festival - Old Dominion University |access-date=May 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303183424/http://www.lib.odu.edu/litfest/20th/waldner.html |archive-date=March 3, 2016}} She received fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Djerassi Foundation, Centrum, Hedgebrook, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Villa Montalvo, Fundación Valparaiso and the MacDowell Colony.{{Cite web |url=http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php |title=Index of MacDowell Fellows |access-date=2009-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526052307/http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php |archive-date=2009-05-26 |url-status=dead }}
Waldner's poem "The Ballad of Barding Gaol", along with a selection of others, won the Poetry Society of America's Robert M. Winner Memorial Award, and her poetry has appeared in literary journals and magazines such as Ploughshares, Poetry, The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, The Journal, Parnassus West, The Cortland Review, Electronic Poetry Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, New American Writing,{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=--1ZAAAAMAAJ |journal=New American Writing |title=Whim, On the Way |year=1993 |publisher=Oink! Press |access-date=May 21, 2021}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.newamericanwriting.com/current.htm |title=New American writing 29 |access-date=May 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107230023/http://newamericanwriting.com/current.htm |archive-date=January 7, 2012}} Indiana Review,{{Cite journal |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gFWxAAAAIAAJ |journal=Indiana Review |title=Whim, On the Way |last1=Company |first1=Proquest Information and Learning |year=1996}} Abacus,http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/8864040076/abacus-no-76-liz-waldner.aspx{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} and VOLT.
She was an adjunct at Millsaps College in Jackson MS (1988–90) where she used the "Eyes On The Prize" PBS series as a text in her freshman comp course, inviting the college community to regard it as an all-college text; sponsored and served as panelist on the first Environmental Symposium; began with her students a campus recycling program; was advisor for the Rape Awareness office; co-led an NIH symposium on Suffering and Tragedy, gave a paper at the Philosophy Department's Colloquium, and attempted to live on $1000 a course.
Her other teaching positions included Lecturer at Tufts University, the Institute for Language and Thinking at Bard College, Cornell College, Hugo House (Seattle), and the College of Wooster.{{cite web| title=University of Iowa Press| url=http://uipress.uiowa.edu/books/pre-2002/walpoiis.htm| year=2000}}{{cite web |title=The Sky is a Beautiful Wound: Liz Waldner's Trust Reviewed |last=Cheever-Gessaman |first=Lisbeth |url=http://www.commonlinejournal.com/2009/09/sky-is-beautiful-wound-liz-waldners.html |year=2009 |access-date=May 21, 2021 |website=The Commonline Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160128050008/http://www.commonlinejournal.com/2009/09/sky-is-beautiful-wound-liz-waldners.html |archive-date=January 28, 2016}}{{cite journal| url=http://www.asu.edu/pipercwcenter/how2journal/archive/online_archive/v1_8_2002/current/alerts/greenberg.htm| journal=How2| author=Arielle Greenberg | volume=1 |issue=8 | title=Three Recent Books from Omnidawn | publisher=Arizona State University }}
{{cite web| url=http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA222484.html |title=Poetry Notes |date=June 17, 2002}}{{cite journal |url=http://www.forewordmagazine.com/reviews/viewreviews.aspx?reviewID=963 |title=Book Review: Dark Would (the missing person) |journal=ForeWord Magazine |author=Camille-Yvette Welsch |date=July–August 2002 |access-date=May 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071010104405/http://www.forewordmagazine.com/reviews/viewreviews.aspx?reviewID=963 |archive-date=October 10, 2007}}{{cite web| url=http://www.slope.org/archive/issue21/21%20burt%20on%20waldner.html |title="How I Got From Dictionary to Here": Stephen Burt on Liz Waldner |date=Winter 2004–2005}}
Other Awards
- 2017: Foundation for Contemporary Arts Dorothea Tanning Award{{Cite web|url=https://www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org/recipients/liz-waldner|title=Liz Waldner :: Foundation for Contemporary Arts|website=www.foundationforcontemporaryarts.org|access-date=2018-04-19}}
- 2004: Northern California Book Awards{{cite web |url=http://www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.05Poetry.html |title=24th Annual Northern California Book Awards |access-date=May 21, 2021 |website=Poetry Flash |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706124900/http://www.poetryflash.org/NCBA.05Poetry.html |archive-date=July 6, 2008}}
- 2001: Beatrice Hawley Award
- 2000: James Laughlin Award
Published works
= Full-length poetry collections =
- {{cite book| title=Her Faithfulness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0P8PQAACAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Miami University Press| year=2016 | first=Liz | last=Waldner|isbn = 978-1-881163-58-9}}
- {{cite book| title=Little House, Big House (Now How I Am An American)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0P8PQAACAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Noemi Press| year=2016 | first=Liz | last=Waldner|isbn = 978-1-934819-56-2}}
- {{cite book| title=Play |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a1hAAQAAIAAJ| publisher=Lightful Press| year=2009 | first=Liz | last=Waldner|isbn = 978-0-9822471-0-5}}
- {{cite book| title=Trust| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QMs3TCamrUEC&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Cleveland State University| date=March 2, 2009| isbn=978-1-880834-84-8 | first1=Liz | last1=Waldner}}
- {{cite book| title=Saving the Appearances|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jjPVAQAACAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Ahsahta Press| year=2004| isbn=978-0-916272-79-1 | first=Liz | last=Waldner}}
- {{cite book| title=Self and Simulacra|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dopbAAAAMAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Alice James Books| year=2001| isbn=978-1-882295-32-6 | first=Liz | last=Waldner}}
- {{cite book| title=Dark Would (the missing person)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iOg1wXob1bUC&q=liz+waldner| publisher=University of Georgia Press| year=2002| isbn=978-0-8203-2391-6 | first=Liz | last=Waldner}}
- {{cite book| title=Etym(bi)ology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=44lbAAAAMAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Omnidawn Press| year=2002| isbn=978-1-890650-10-0 | first=Liz | last=Waldner}}
- {{cite book| title=A Point Is That Which Has No Part| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AlgsVhQf9v4C&q=Liz+Waldner| publisher=University of Iowa Press| year=2000| isbn=978-0-87745-702-2 | first=Liz | last=Waldner}}
- {{cite book| title=Homing Devices| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ciyHAQAACAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=O Books| year=1997| isbn=978-1-882022-31-1 | first=Liz | last=Waldner}}
=Chapbooks=
- {{cite book| title=Call|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-0P8PQAACAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Meow Press| year=2000 | first=Liz | last=Waldner}}
- {{cite book| title=With the Tongues of Angels|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uPlhPQAACAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Owl Creek Press| year=2000 | first=Liz | last=Waldner | isbn=978-0-937669-64-8}}
- {{cite book| title=Representation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h9faAQAACAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Quale Press| year=2002 | first=Liz | last=Waldner | isbn=978-0-9700663-4-3}}
- {{cite book| title=Read Only Memory|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2k4DGwAACAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Seeing Eye Press | first=Liz | last=Waldner| year=2000}}
- {{cite book| title=Memo (la)mento|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qlHHAAACAAJ&q=liz+waldner| publisher=Texture Press| year=1996 | first=Liz | last=Waldner}}
=Works published in periodicals=
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=237468| title=semblance, screens| date=Sep 2009| journal=Poetry}}
- {{cite journal| title=inchant, penchant| year=2009| journal=Parnassus West}}
- {{cite web| url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15890| title=A Calculus of Readiness| work=poets.org}}
- {{cite web| url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16860| title=Es/chew| work=poets.org}}
- {{cite web| url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15891| title=Where, Broken (the darkness| work=poets.org}}
- {{cite web| url=http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15997| title=Witness | work=poets.org}}
- {{cite magazine| url=http://www.newyorker.com/fiction/poetry/2009/01/05/090105po_poem_waldner| title=The Sovereignty and the Goodness of God, Together with the Faithfulness of His Promises Displayed| date=January 5, 2009| magazine=The New Yorker}}
- {{cite journal| title=Adjunct| year=2008| journal=The Journal}}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=181491| title=Photo (Op/tative) Synthesis| date=May 2008| journal=Poetry }}
- {{cite journal| url=http://bostonreview.net/BR28.2/waldner.html| title=Seattle, Third and Pike | date=April–May 2003| journal=Boston Review }}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.cortlandreview.com/issue/17/waldner17.html| title=Can the Regime of Meaning Be An Extension of the Regime of Truth?| volume=17| date=August 2001| journal=The Cortland Review }}
- {{cite journal |url=http://www.antennae-journal.com/downloads/antennae1.pdf| title=Projector: A lover's Lament; Twin Hymns |journal=Antennae | year=2001| access-date=2009-05-27| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081123050612/http://www.antennae-journal.com/downloads/antennae1.pdf| archive-date=2008-11-23| url-status=dead}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/351 Academy of American Poets > Poets > Liz Waldner]
- [http://www.lib.odu.edu/litfest/20th/waldner1video.html Video: Liz Waldner Poetry Reading - Part 1 > 20th Annual Literary Festival > October 15, 1997 > Old Dominion University]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20090926013205/http://www.alicejamesbooks.org/self_simulacra.html Alice James Books > Author Page > Liz Waldner]
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Category:Writers from Mississippi
Category:Writers from Cleveland
Category:Iowa Writers' Workshop alumni
Category:St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe) alumni
Category:Middlebury College alumni
Category:Poets from Mississippi