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词条 Ellery Akers
释义

  1. Awards

  2. Works

  3. Anthologies

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Orphan|date=August 2015}}Ellery Akers (born 1946) is an American writer and artist living on the Northern California Coast.[1] She is the author of two poetry collections, Practicing the Truth and Knocking on the Earth,[2] as well as a children’s novel, Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse.[3] She received a B.A. from Harvard University and an M.A. from San Francisco State University.[4]

Akers has won thirteen national writing awards, including the 2014 Autumn House Poetry Prize,[5] the John Masefield Award, the Poetry International Prize,[6] and Sierra magazine’s Nature Writing Award. Her poetry has been featured on National Public Radio and American Life in Poetry and has appeared in such journals as The American Poetry Review,[7] New York Times Magazine and The Sun.[8]

She has taught writing at Cabrillo College and at conferences[9] and currently teaches private poetry workshops. Among her honors are fellowships from The MacDowell Colony,[10] Ucross Foundation,[11] and Headlands Center for the Arts.[12]

Awards

  • 2015 Independent Publisher Book Award, Silver Medal in Poetry
  • 2015 San Francisco Book Festival Poetry Award
  • 2014 Autumn House Poetry Prize
  • 2011 Poetry International Prize
  • 2010 Mom’s Choice (Gold) Award
  • 2010 NAPPA Award
  • 2009 Skipping Stones Magazine Award
  • 1996 Paumanok Poetry Award
  • 1992 Marin Arts Council Grant for Poetry
  • 1990 Sierra Magazine Nature Writing Award
  • 1985 Gordon Barber Award, Poetry Society of America
  • 1984 & 1980 John Masefield Award, Poetry Society of America
  • 1974 Academy of American Poets Award

Works

  • Practicing the Truth, Autumn House Press, 2015 ISBN number
  • Sarah’s Waterfall: A Healing Story About Sexual Abuse,Safer Society Press, 2009 ISBN number
  • Knocking on the Earth, Wesleyan University Press, 1989, ISBN number

Anthologies

  • The Place That Inhabits Us,Sixteen Rivers Press, 2010
  • Short Takes: Model Essays for Composition, Elizabeth Penfield, Longman, 2006
  • Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies, Sandra M. Gilbert, Norton, 2001
  • Stories From Where We Live: The California Coast, Sara St. Antoine, Milkweed,2001
  • Intimate Nature: The Bond Between Women and Animals, Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson, Ballantine, 1998.

References

1. ^{{cite web|title=Ah, Wilderness Is Paradise Enow|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1989/5/8/ah-wilderness-is-paradise-enow-pellery/|website=Harvard Crimson|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=1 July 2015}}
2. ^{{cite web|title=Knocking On Earth (Wesleyan New Poets)|url=https://www.amazon.com/Knocking-Earth-Wesleyan-New-Poets/dp/0819511625|website=Amazon|publisher=Wesleyan University Press|accessdate=1 July 2015}}
3. ^{{cite web|title=Sarah's Waterfall |url=http://www.safersociety.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=WP135 |website=Safer Society Press Bookstore |publisher=Safer Society Press |accessdate=1 July 2015 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151011062332/https://www.safersociety.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=WP135 |archivedate=11 October 2015 |df= }}
4. ^{{cite web|title=Ah, Wilderness Is Paradise Enow|url=http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1989/5/8/ah-wilderness-is-paradise-enow-pellery/|website=Harvard Crimson|publisher=Harvard University|accessdate=1 July 2015}}
5. ^{{cite web|title=Poetry|url=http://www.autumnhouse.org/contest-submissions/poetry/|website=Autumn House Press|publisher=Autumn House Press|accessdate=1 July 2015}}
6. ^{{cite web|title=Poetry International Prize |url=http://poetryinternational.sdsu.edu/contests_pi.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212182038/http://poetryinternational.sdsu.edu/contests_pi.html |dead-url=yes |archive-date=12 February 2013 |website=Poetry International |publisher=Poetry International |accessdate=1 July 2015 }}
7. ^{{cite web|title=On Writing: Feeding The Lake|url=http://aprweb.org/poems/on-writing-feeding-the-lake8|website=The American Poetry Review|publisher=The American Poetry Review|accessdate=1 July 2015}}
8. ^{{cite web|last1=Akers|first1=Ellery|title=Long Distance: England|url=http://thesunmagazine.org/issues/385/long_distance_england|website=The Sun|publisher=The Sun|accessdate=1 July 2015}}
9. ^{{cite web|last1=Turkovich|first1=Marilyn|title=Ellery Akers|url=http://voiceseducation.org/content/ellery-akers|website=Voices Education|publisher=Voices Education|accessdate=1 July 2015}}
10. ^{{cite web|title=Index of MacDowell Fellows|url=http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php|website=MacDowell|publisher=The MacDowell Colony|accessdate=1 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090526052307/http://www.macdowellcolony.org/artists-indexfellows.php|archive-date=2009-05-26|dead-url=yes|df=}}
11. ^{{cite web|title=Literature|url=http://www.ucrossfoundation.org/residency-program/alumni-list/literature/|website=Ucross Foundation|publisher=Ucross Foundation|accessdate=1 July 2015}}
12. ^{{cite web|title=Alumni Search|url=http://www.headlands.org/artist/ellery-akers/|website=Headlands Center for the Arts|publisher=Headlands Center for the Arts|accessdate=1 July 2015}}

External links

  • www.elleryakers.com
  • www.elleryakersartist.com
  • www.poetryfoundation.org
  • www.voiceseducation.org
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