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TITLE: Interview with Claudia Emerson
SPEAKER: Claudia Emerson
EVENT DATE: 04/19/2005
RUNNING TIME: 58 minutes
DESCRIPTION:
Grace Cavalieri interviews Claudia Emerson for the Library's Poet and the Poem Series.
Speaker Biography: Claudia Emerson is the winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for poetry for her third collection, "Late Wife." This prize-winning book is a series of poems telling of the journey from a failed marriage to a solitary life, finally bridging to a new marriage. Her previous books are "Pinion, An Elegy" (2002,) and "Pharaoh, Pharaoh" (1997).All three are from Southern Messenger Poets, Louisiana State University Press. She has published dozens of poems in literary journals and anthologies and has authored essays as well as short fiction. Emerson received her undergraduate degree from the University of Virginia and a master's degree (summa cum laude) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. She taught at Washington and Lee University and is presently associate professor of English, University of Mary Washington, in Fredericksburg, Va. Emerson was appointed a Witter Bynner Fellow at the Library of Congress in 2005 by Poet Laureate Ted Kooser.
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SERIES: Poet and the Poem