Erin Belieu

Erin Belieu (born 1967 Omaha, Nebraska) is an American poet.

Life

Belieu was born and raised in Omaha, Nebraska, graduating from Central High School. She attended Boston University, and Ohio State University receiving advanced degrees in the area of poetry. She previously taught at Washington University, Boston University, Kenyon College, and Ohio University. She now teaches in the highly ranked MFA/Ph.D. Creative Writing Program at Florida State University.

Her work has appeared in places such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Slate, Nerve, The Yale Review, TriQuarterly, Ploughshares, The New York Times, Tin House, and The Virginia Quarterly Review. Her poetry collections include Infanta, One Above & One Below, Black Box and Slant Six. She has served as managing editor of AGNI.

In September 2006, Belieu was invited to join the Wave Press Poetry Bus Tour, along with notable poets such as Matthew Zapruder, Joshua Beckman, Eileen Myles and Arthur Sze.

In August 2009, Belieu cofounded the national feminist organization VIDA: Women In Literary Arts, notable for its influential annual survey of the rates of publication between male and female authors. This survey is known as The Count. VIDA's much publicized Count has been highly influential in addressing sweeping gender bias in contemporary American literary publishing. Belieu now serves as VIDA's co director, along with notable American poet Cate Marvin.

Awards and honors

• 1994 National Poetry Series, for Infanta, selected by Hayden Carruth
• chosen for the Rona Jaffe Fellowship
• Ohioana Award
• Society of Midland Authors Award
• invited to read at the Library of Congress by former Poet Laureate Robert Pinksy
• 2007 finalist for the Los Angeles Times book award in poetry for Black Box

Works

• "For Catherine: Juana, Infanta of Navarre", AGNI 56, 2002
• "The Last Of The Gentlemen Heartbreakers"; "In Ecstasy"; "Of The Poet’s Youth", Reading Between A&B, Fall 2007
• "Two Weeks On The Island", electronic poetry review
• "The Birthmark", Ploughshares, Spring 2003

Anthologies

Selected anthology publications include:

• The Best American Poetry, 2011 editors Kevin Young, David Lehman

External links

• "Erin Belieu", Web Del Sol
• "Erin Belieu Does the Poetry Bus and Other Associated Necrophilia", eclectica, Gilbert Wesley Purdy
• "Erin Belieu", How a Poem Happens, July 13, 2009