Mary Jo Salter

Mary Jo Salter

Born	(1954-08-15) August 15, 1954 Grand Rapids, Michigan
Occupation	poet, editor
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Harvard University Cambridge University
Genre	Poetry

Mary Jo Salter (born August 15, 1954) is an American poet, a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry^[1] and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.

Life

Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit and Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1976 and her M.A. from Cambridge University in 1978. In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest.

While at Harvard, she studied with the noted poet Elizabeth Bishop. She has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New Republic.

From 1984 to 2007, she taught at Mount Holyoke College and was, from 1995 to 2007, a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America.

She has two daughters, Emily and Hilary Leithauser.

She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.^[2]

Henry Purcell in Japan, Knopf, 1985, ISBN 978-0-394-53657-6
Unfinished Painting, Knopf, 1989, ISBN 978-0-394-57417-2, Lamont Selection for that year's most distinguished second volume of poetry
Sunday Skaters, A.A. Knopf, 1994, ISBN 978-0-679-43109-1, nominated in 1994 for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Knopf)
A Kiss in Space, Knopf, 1999, ISBN 978-0-375-40531-0
Open Shutters, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4000-4008-7, named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems^[3]
Nothing by Design, Knopf, 2013, ISBN 978-0-385-34979-6

The Norton Anthology of Poetry, W. W. Norton, 1996, ISBN 978-0-393-96820-0 (co-editor)

The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010)

1981: The Frost Place poet in residence
1995–1996: Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
1989: Lamont Poetry Prize for the year’s most distinguished second volume of poetry - Unfinished Painting
2003: Open Shutters named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
2004: Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship

↑ "Welcome to The Norton Anthology Of Poetry". Wwnorton.com. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
↑ "About | The Common". Thecommononline.org. 2012-05-01. Retrieved 2012-07-31.
↑ A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems. Random House Digital, Inc. 2009. ISBN 978-0-375-71156-5.
↑ "The Achiever". The New York Times.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 27236457 LCCN: n84017807 ISNI: 0000 0001 1469 5745 SUDOC: 050700189 BNF: cb13593408w (data)

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