Susan Wood (poet)
{{Short description|American poet}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Susan Wood
| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1946}}
| birth_place = Commerce, Texas
| occupation = {{hlist|Poet|professor}}
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| education = {{Unbulleted list|East Texas State University {{Small|(B.A.)}} |University of Texas at Arlington {{Small|(M.A.)}} |Rice University}}
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Susan Wood (born 1946, Commerce, Texas) is an American poet and the Gladys Louise Fox Professor of English at Rice University.[https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/susan-wood/ Academy of American Poets][http://report.rice.edu/sir/faculty.detail?p=89FB48B3858C0D0D Faculty Information System: Susan Wood][http://english.rice.edu/Content.aspx?id=286 Rice Department of English: Susan Wood]
Life
Wood received her B.A. from East Texas State University and her M.A. from University of Texas at Arlington before continuing her graduate studies at Rice University.
She taught high school and worked as an editor and writer for The Washington Post{{cite web | url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1147 | title=Issues | Ploughshares }} and magazines.
Her poems have appeared in such journals as The Antioch Review, Callaloo,{{cite journal |last1=Wood |first1=Susan |title=After His Retirement, LBJ Visits Greenville |journal=Callaloo |date=2009 |volume=32 |issue=1 |pages=138–139 |doi=10.1353/cal.0.0395 |s2cid=162021675 |id={{Project MUSE|260374}} }} the Greensboro Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.greensbororeview.org/spring-2003/contributors.html |title=GR Contributors: Spring 2003 |website=www.greensbororeview.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080408202919/http://www.greensbororeview.org/spring-2003/contributors.html |archive-date=2008-04-08}} Indiana Review, The Kenyon Review,{{cite web | url=https://www.kenyonreview.org/issues/spring06/authors.php | title=Contributors | Journal }} The Missouri Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/search_results.php?search=bel&table=texts |title=TMR: Search Results |website=www.missourireview.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110719205951/http://www.missourireview.org/content/dynamic/search_results.php?search=bel&table=texts |archive-date=2011-07-19}} the New England Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.nereview.com/27-4/27-4contributors.html |title=Contributors' Notes, Volume 27, #4 |access-date=2009-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110714163659/http://www.nereview.com/27-4/27-4contributors.html |archive-date=2011-07-14 |website=New England Review}} The Paris Review,{{cite web |url=http://www.theparisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/142 |title=Spring 1997 |access-date=2009-05-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090724061701/http://www.theparisreview.com/viewissue.php/prmIID/142 |archive-date=2009-07-24 |website=The Paris Review}} and Poetry.{{cite web|url=http://preview.poetryfoundation.org/archive/poem.html?id=25748 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110727182144/http://preview.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/25748 | archive-date=2011-07-27| title=Distances By Susan Wood | access-date=2023-09-25}}
Awards
- 1991 Lamont Poetry Prize for Campo Santo
- Pushcart Prize for her poem "Diary"
- 1998 Guggenheim Fellowship for poetry{{cite web |title=Susan Wood |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/susan-wood/ |website=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=June 14, 2021}}
Works
- {{cite journal| url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?contentId=36537| title=Eggs| date=September 1986 | journal=Poetry}}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/summer/wood-in-america/| title=In America| journal=Virginia Quarterly Review| date=Summer 2006| pages=133–134| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090528051731/http://www.vqronline.org/articles/2006/summer/wood-in-america/| archive-date=2009-05-28}}
- {{cite journal|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=4658 |title=Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair |date=Spring 1999 |journal=Ploughshares |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070821181637/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=4658 |archive-date=August 21, 2007 }}
- {{cite journal|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1102 |title=Pink Vista |date=Spring 1981 |journal=Ploughshares |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051106085804/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleid=1102 |archive-date=November 6, 2005 }}
- {{cite journal|url=http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmArticleID=1103 |title=Fourth of July, Texas, 1956 |date=Spring 1981 |journal=Ploughshares |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051101074053/http://www.pshares.org/issues/article.cfm?prmarticleID=1103 |archive-date=November 1, 2005 }}
- {{cite journal| url=http://www.smartishpace.com/issues/issue_4/tenderness/| title=Tenderness| journal=SmartishPace| issue=4}}
=Poetry books=
- {{cite book| title=the book of ten | publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press| year=2011| isbn=978-0-8229-6139-0 }}
- {{cite book| title=Asunder| publisher=Penguin| date=2001| isbn=978-0-14-042434-8| url-access=registration| url=https://archive.org/details/asunder00wood}}
- {{cite book| title=Campo Santo| url=https://archive.org/details/camposantopoems00wood| url-access=registration| year=1991| isbn=978-0-8071-1677-7| publisher=Louisiana State University Press}}
- {{cite book| title=Bazaar | url=https://archive.org/details/bazaar00wood | url-access=registration | publisher=Holt, Rinehart and Winston| year=1981| isbn=978-0-03-057856-4 }}
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