Find your favorite... Print May Swenson - Poet Birth May Swenson was born in Utah in 1913 to a Mormon family. http://www.queertheory.com/histories/s/swenson_may.htm Education May Swenson was born in Logan, Utah, in 1919. She attended Utah State University, Logan, and received a bachelor's degree in 1939. http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/may_swenson Work Elinor Benedict won the May Swenson Poetry Award with her first collection, All That Divides Us (Utah State University, 2000). She has also published five chapbooks of poetry, several short stories, and numerous interviews, reviews, and newspaper features. Her poems have recently appeared in Poetry, Shenandoah, Indiana Review, The Florida Review, and Dogwood. She is currently working on a new collection called Late News from the Wilderness. She holds an MA from Wright State University and an MFA from Vermont College. She was the founding editor of Passages North literary magazine in the 1980âs. http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n2/poetry/benedict_e/index.htm In May Swenson: A Poet's Life in Photos, Knudson and Bigelow offer the first detailed look at Swenson's life through the letters, journals, and photos left by the poet herself and by those who knew her best. http://www.usu.edu/usupress/books/index.cfm?isbn=2189 | |
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