Jane Cooper

Jane Cooper
Born	(1924-10-09)October 9, 1924 Atlantic City, New Jersey
Died	October 26, 2007(2007-10-26) (aged 83) Newtown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Occupation	Poet

Jane Cooper (October 9, 1924 – October 26, 2007) was an American poet.

Awards

• Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• Maurice English Poetry Award (1985)
• Shelley Memorial Award (1977)
• Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College - Fellowship
• Guggenheim Fellowship - (1960)
• Ingram Merrill Award
• National Endowment for the Arts - Fellowship
• Lamont Poetry Prize (1968) for The Weather of Six Mornings

Works

• The Blue Anchor; The Earthquake; Ordinary Detail; In the Last Few Moments Came the Old German Cleaning Woman; Rent; The Winter Road (Part 4); The Flashboat, Norton Poets online

Books

• The Weather of Six Mornings (1969), which was the Lamont Poetry Selection of The Academy of American Poets.
• Maps and Windows (1974)
• Scaffolding: Selected Poems (1993)
• Green Notebook, Winter Road (1994), which was a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize
• Flashboat: Poems Collected and Reclaimed (W. W. Norton & Company, 1999)

Edited

• Extended Outlooks: The Iowa Review Collection of Contemporary Women Writers (1982)
• The Sanity of Earth and Grass: Complete Poems of Robert Winner (1994)

Memories

• Memories of Jane Cooper, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 12, 2008
• Memories of Jane Cooper part 2, Denise Duhamel, American Poetry Review, May 14, 2008

External links

• Jane Cooper (1924 – 2007), The Poetry Foundation
• Jane Cooper, Poets.org
• Jane Cooper, Norton Poets