Mary Jo Salter

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

Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit, Michigan 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.

She has taught at Mount Holyoke College since 1984 and has been vice president of the Poetry Society of America since 1995.

Salter is married to the writer, Brad Leithauser, who also teaches at both Mount Holyoke College and the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In 2007, she and her husband joined the faculty of Johns Hopkins University. They have two daughters, Emily and Hilary Leithauser.

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[edit] Works

[edit] Books of poetry

  • Henry Purcell in Japan (Knopf: 1985)
  • Unfinished Painting (Knopf: 1989) Lamont Selection for that year's most distinguished second volume of poetry
  • Sunday Skaters, nominated in 1994 for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Knopf)
  • A Kiss in Space (Knopf: 1999)
  • Open Shutters (Knopf: 2003), named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
  • A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems

[edit] Edited

  • The Norton Anthology of Poetry (coeditor)

[edit] Play

  • Falling Bodies (2004)

[edit] Children's literature

  • The Moon Comes Home (1989)

[edit] Articles

[edit] Awards

[edit] External links

[edit] Poems online

  • [2] "Tromp l'Oeil"
  • [3] "A Kiss in Space and A Rainbow Over the Seine"