Eleanor Wilner

Eleanor Rand Wilner (born 1937 Ohio) is an American poet and editor.

Life

She graduated from Goucher College and from Johns Hopkins University with a Ph.D.

She was editor of The American Poetry Review and she is Advisory Editor of Calyx. She has taught at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University, and Smith College. She is on the faculty of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and lives in Philadelphia.

She has been active in civil rights and peace movements.

Awards

• 1991 MacArthur Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts fellowship
• Juniper Prize
• two Pushcart Prizes.

Works

• "Without Regret", Poetry Foundation
• "What loves, takes away", Poetry (September 2008)
• "The Messenger", Poetry Foundation
• "The Last Man", Poetry Foundation
• "The Girl with Bees in Her Hair", Poetry Foundation
• "Reading the Bible Backwards", Poetry Foundation
• "Magnificat", Poetry (August 2004)
• "Wreck" and "rise above", Poetry (January 2007)
• "Bailing Out-A Poem for the 1970s", Poetry Foundation
• "Last Self-Portrait, as Rembrandt, for Instance"; "Musical Chairs"; "Unstitch the Universe"; "Guardian"; "Lyrics for a Virtual Folk Song "; "Multiple Image, Retro-Girlhood '40s Style"; "No High Ground"; "Attic Light"; "Winter Conception"; "Daphne Planet as Urn"; "Like Warmed, Vague Stars", The Drunken Boat

• Maya (poems), University of Massachusetts Press (Amherst, MA), 1979.
• Shekhinah (poems), University of Chicago Press (Chicago, IL), 1984. ISBN 978-0-226-90025-4
• The Girl with Bees in Her Hair (Copper Canyon Press, 2004) ISBN 978-1-55659-203-4
• Tourist in Hell (University of Chicago Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0-226-90032-2

Non-fiction

• "Poetry and the Pentagon: Unholy Alliance?", Poetry Foundation, 3.2.06

• Gathering the Winds: Visionary Imagination and Radical Transformation of Self and Society, Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore, MD), 1975.

External links

• "An E-view with Eleanor Wilner", The Drunken Boat", Rebecca Seiferle, 2000