Contact Information:
461 Bartlett Hall
UMass
Amherst, MA 0l003
p: 413-545-5513
f: 413-545-3880
daraw@hfa.umass.edu
Last Modified:
Nov. 2007 |
Professor and Director of MFA Program
Educated at Longwood College, B.S., 1971; Bowling Green University, M.F.A
Areas of specialty: Poetry; Contemporary poetry; American literature; form and theory of poetry.
Wier is the author of Hat on a Pond , nominated for a Phi Beta Kappa Award; Voyages in English ; Our Master Plan ; Blue for the Plough ; The Book of Knowledge ; All You Have in Common ; The 8-Step Grapevine ; and Blood, Hook & Eye . Recent work has appeared in the Best American Poetry and The Pushcart Prize Anthology . Her awards include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council. She is also a recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review .
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