Mark Strand

Mark Strand, former United States Poet Laureate, was born on Canada's Prince Edward Island in 1934, and was raised and educated in the United States and South America. Among his many books of poems are New Selected Poems; Man and Camel; Blizzard of One, which won the Pulitzer Prize; Dark Harbor; The Continuous Life; The Story of Our Lives; and Reasons for Moving. He has also published two books of prose, several volumes of translation (of works by Rafael Alberti and Carlos Drummond de Andrade, among others), several monographs on contemporary artists, and three books for children. He has edited a number of volumes, including The Golden Ecco Anthology, The Best American Poetry 1991, and Another Republic: 17 European and South American Writers (with Charles Simic). His honors include the Bollingen Prize, three grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, a National Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Edgar Allen Poe Prize, and a Rockefeller Foundation award, as well as fellowships from The Academy of American Poets, the MacArthur Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation. He is a former Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. He teaches at Columbia University.

Online Resources:

Library of Congress Online Resources
Poetry Foundation profile
Interview with Jenni Russel on MiPoesias
Interview with Grace Cavalieri

Selected Bibliography:

New Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf 2007)

Man and Camel ( 2006)

Blizzard of One (Alfred A. Knopf 1998)

Dark Harbor: A Poem (Alfred A. Knopf 1993)

The Monument (Ecco Press 1991)

The Continuous Life (Alfred A. Knopf 1990)

Elegy for My Father (Windhover 1978)

The Sargeantville Notebook (Burning Deck 1974)

The Story of Our Lives (Atheneum 1973)

Reasons for Moving (Atheneum 1968)

Sleeping with One Eye Open (Stone Wall Press 1964)