http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/jennifer-reeser

Jen­nifer Reeser is the author of four books of poet­ry. For­mer edi­tor of The Paris Review, X.J. Kennedy, wrote that her debut col­lec­tion “ought to have been a can­di­date for a Pulitzer.” Her third, Son­nets from the Dark Lady and Oth­er Poems, was a final­ist for the Don­ald Jus­tice Prize. Her most recent title, The Lalau­rie Hor­ror, debuted as an Ama­zon best­seller in the cat­e­go­ry of epic poet­ry.  Her poems, essays and trans­la­tions of French and Russ­ian lit­er­a­ture have appeared in “Lev­ure Lit­teraire,” (France)  “POETRY”(United States), “The Hud­son Review,” (Unit­ed States) , “SALT,” (Aus­tralia),  “Life and Leg­ends” (India), and “The Dark Horse” (Scot­land), among oth­ers.  Her writ­ing has appeared in many antholo­gies, includ­ing Long­man’s col­lege text­book, “An Intro­duc­tion to Poet­ry,” edit­ed by Dana Gioia and X.J. Kennedy, “Phoenix Ris­ing: The Next Gen­er­a­tion of Amer­i­can For­mal Poets,” and “Poets Trans­late Poets: A Hud­son Review Anthol­o­gy.” Her work has been trans­lat­ed into Per­sian, Czech and Hin­di, pub­lished on the sub-con­ti­nent of India. It has been fea­tured on the POETRY Foun­da­tion web­site, on the Verse Dai­ly site, Goodreads and E‑Verse Radio online. Classical/ art song com­pos­er, Lori Lait­man, has set her poet­ry to music for the song cycle trib­ute to Amer­i­can poet Edna St. Vin­cent Mil­lay. Her work is anthol­o­gized online at Famous Poets and Poems, The Hyper­texts, Poet­ry Soup and oth­ers, and is required read­ing in schools, writ­ing pro­grams and uni­ver­si­ties across Amer­i­ca. Her trans­la­tions of the Russ­ian poet, Anna Akhma­to­va, are autho­rized by FTM Agency, Moscow.  She has received awards from the Pulitzer Prize win­ner, Robert Olen But­ler, from for­mer vice-pres­i­dent of The Poet­ry Soci­ety of Amer­i­ca, Dr. Alfred Dorn, and from The Lyric mag­a­zine. She is the for­mer assis­tant edi­tor of “Iambs and Trochees,” and cur­rent­ly a men­tor with the West Chester Poet­ry Con­fer­ence, the largest poet­ry con­ven­tion in the Unit­ed States.  She lives in the bay­ous of south­ern Louisiana with her hus­band and chil­dren. Her web­site is found at www.jenniferreeser.com

 

 

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