Averill Curdy

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Averill Ann Curdy is an American poet and academic.

Life[edit]

She received her MFA from the University of Houston and her PhD from the University of Missouri.

Curdy worked as an arts administrator and as a marketing manager and technical editor.

Her work has appeared in Poetry,[1] The Paris Review,[2] Raritan and the Kenyon Review.[3]

She lives in Chicago and is a professor at Northwestern University.[4]

Awards[edit]

Works[edit]

  • "Anatomical Angel", Poetry, (June 2006)
  • "To the voice of the retired warden of Huntsville Prison (Texas death chamber)", Poetry, (June 2009)
  • "Hardware", Poetry, (June 2009)
  • "Probation", Poetry, (April 2005)
  • "Femme Fatale", Slate, June 1, 2004
  • First and last things: poems. University of Houston. 1999.
  • From the lost correspondence: poems. University of Missouri-Columbia. 2004.
  • Winged. New Michigan Press. 2005.
  • Song & Error. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2013.

Editor[edit]

  • Lynne McMahon; Averill Curdy, eds. (2006). he Longman anthology of poetry. Pearson/Longman. ISBN 978-0-321-11725-0.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Averill Curdy | Poetry Foundation". 5 May 2023.
  2. ^ "The Paris Review - Fall 2002". Archived from the original on 2009-07-08. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
  3. ^ "The Kenyon Review". Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2009-08-29.
  4. ^ "People: Faculty, English Department, WCAS, Northwestern University". www.english.northwestern.edu. Archived from the original on 2003-12-14.
  5. ^ "Lannan Foundation - Averill Curdy". Archived from the original on 2008-07-20. Retrieved 2009-08-29.

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