Education:

BA, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Columbia University

Professional experience includes:

David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature; co-chair, writing, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College; visiting core critic, Yale School of the Arts

Books, anthologies and catalogs include:

The Given & The Chosen; Or to Begin Again; The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience; Hum; If In Time: Selected Poems 1975 – 2000; On A Stair; And For Example; Clamor; Before Recollection; Many Times, but Then; Richter 858; American Women Poets in the 21st Century; A Convergence of Birds: Original Fiction and Poetry Inspired by the Work of Joseph Cornell; How Things Bear Their Telling; Before Recollection; Edward Hopper and the American Imagination; David Smith: Ink Drawing from 1957; Ann Hamilton: whitecloth

Awards and honors include:

John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship; Jerome J. Shestack Prize, American Poetry Review; CAPS. Artist residencies include: Atlantic Center for the Arts, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Yaddo