Whiting Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 11 (1995) Winner
Mary Ruefle
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Mary Ruefle
Profile
- Gender
- Female
- Born
- 1952-01-01 （McKeesport, Pennsylvania）
- Nationality
- United States
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Traveled around the U.S. and Europe during early years → Resident of Vermont (appointed state poet laureate)
Career
- Occupations
- poet, essayist, professor
- Active Years
- 1974-
- Affiliations
- Vermont College of Fine Arts (faculty), University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program (visiting professor)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bennington College | — | Literature | BA | 1970–1974 | United States |
Bennington College
Literature
Degree:
BA
Period:
1970–1974
Year of Graduation:
1974
Country:
United States
Bachelor's degree in literature
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | National Endowment for the Arts fellowship | — | — | National Endowment for the Arts | fellowship |
| 1995 | Whiting Award | — | — | Whiting Foundation | recipient |
| 1998 | Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | recipient |
| 1999 | Frost Place residency | — | residency | The Frost Place | recipient |
| 2002 | Guggenheim Fellowship (poetry) | — | — | John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation | fellowship |
| 2007 | Lannan Foundation residency | — | residency | Lannan Foundation | recipient |
| 2011 | William Carlos Williams Award | Selected Poems | — | Poetry Society (award administered) | winner |
| 2012 | National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) finalist | Madness, Rack, and Honey | Criticism | National Book Critics Circle | finalist |
| 2014 | Robert Creeley Award | — | — | Robert Creeley Foundation | recipient |
| 2020 | Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) finalist | Dunce | Poetry | Pulitzer Prize | finalist |
| 2019 | National Book Award (Poetry) longlist | Dunce | Poetry | National Book Foundation | longlisted |
National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
1984
Organization:
National Endowment for the Arts
Result:
fellowship
Whiting Award
1995
Organization:
Whiting Foundation
Result:
recipient
Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1998
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
recipient
Frost Place residency
1999
Category:
residency
Organization:
The Frost Place
Result:
recipient
Guggenheim Fellowship (poetry)
2002
Organization:
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Result:
fellowship
Lannan Foundation residency
2007
Category:
residency
Organization:
Lannan Foundation
Result:
recipient
William Carlos Williams Award
2011
Work:
Selected Poems
Organization:
Poetry Society (award administered)
Result:
winner
National Book Critics Circle Award (Criticism) finalist
2012
Work:
Madness, Rack, and Honey
Category:
Criticism
Organization:
National Book Critics Circle
Result:
finalist
Robert Creeley Award
2014
Organization:
Robert Creeley Foundation
Result:
recipient
Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) finalist
2020
Work:
Dunce
Category:
Poetry
Organization:
Pulitzer Prize
Result:
finalist
National Book Award (Poetry) longlist
2019
Work:
Dunce
Category:
Poetry
Organization:
National Book Foundation
Result:
longlisted
Awards & Nominations
Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry
1 appearances
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Edition 30 (2017) Winner
Arthur Rense Prize
1 appearances
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Edition 8 (2020) Winner
Works
Major Works
Dunce
2019 PoetryA recent poetry collection combining linguistic strangeness with personal and philosophical reflections.
memorylanguagepersonal reflection
The Most of It
2008 ProseRuefle's debut prose collection, containing short pieces and prose fragments.
everyday wonderobservation
Madness, Rack, and Honey
2012 Collected lectures / criticismCollected lectures on writing and poetry discussing poetic practice and the mind.
craft of writingmind and poetry
A Little White Shadow
2006 Erasure poetryA collection of erasure works created by redacting existing texts to form new poems.
absencereconstruction
Selected Poems
2010 PoetryA selection of poems from her career; winner of the William Carlos Williams Award.
recollectionlinguistic experimentation
Tristimania
2004 PoetryA poetry collection exploring states of mind and emotional oscillations.
madnessemotional fluctuation
Bibliography
- Memling's Veil (1982)
- Life Without Speaking (1987)
- The Adamant (1989)
- Cold Pluto (1996)
- Post Meridian (1999)
- Apparition Hill (2002)
- Among the Musk Ox People (2002)
- A Little White Shadow (2006)
- Indeed I Was Pleased with the World (2007)
- The Most of It (2008)
- Selected Poems (2010)
- Madness, Rack, and Honey (2012)
- Happy Birthday! (2013)
- From Here to Eternity (2015)
- An Incarnation of the Now (2015)
- My Private Property (2016)
- Dunce (2019)
- The Book (2023)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- fragmentary, aphoristicfigurative and associativeconcise with strange diction
- Recurring Motifs
- memory and lossuncertainty of languagemadness and mental boundaries
Legacy
Regarded as a leading contemporary American poet, recipient of multiple fellowships and awards; named Vermont Poet Laureate in 2019, reflecting significant public recognition.
Academic Societies
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (award recipient)
Archives
- Information archived at the Poetry Foundation
- Held in the Library of Congress online catalog
Trivia
- Born in McKeesport, Pennsylvania to a military officer and traveled around the U.S. and Europe during early years.
- Earned a BA in literature from Bennington College in 1974.
- The collection Dunce was longlisted for the National Book Award and was a 2020 Pulitzer Prize (Poetry) finalist.
- Appointed Vermont Poet Laureate in 2019.