Louise Gluck
United States Poet Laureate (2003–2004)
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Louise Glück is the author of numerous books of poetry, including The Seven Ages (Ecco Press, 2001); Vita Nova (1999), winner of The New Yorker Magazine’s Book Award in Poetry; Meadowlands (1996); The Wild Iris (1992), which received the Pulitzer Prize and the Poetry Society of America's William Carlos Williams Award; Ararat (1990), for which she received the Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry; and The Triumph of Achilles (1985), which received the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Boston Globe Literary Press Award, and the Poetry Society of America's Melville Kane Award. She has also published a collection of essays, Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994), which won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for Nonfiction. A chapbook, October, was published by Saraband Books in 2003. Glück’s tenth book of poetry is Averno (FSG), which was nominated for the National Book Award in 2006 and was listed by The New York Times Book Review as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year. Her new collection of poems is entitled A Village Life, (September 2009, FSG).
Glück’s honors also include the Bollingen Prize in Poetry, the Lannan Literary Award for Poetry, Sara Teasdale Memorial Prize (Wellesley, 1986), M.I.T. Anniversary Medal (2000), the L.L. Winship/PEN New England Award (2007), and fellowships from the Guggenheim and Rockefeller foundations, and from the National Endowment for the Arts. Glück received the 2008 Wallace Stevens Award for “outstanding and proven mastery in the art of poetry.”
Louise Glück taught at Williams College for 20 years and is currently Rosenkranz writer-in-residence at Yale University. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and has been a Chancellor of The Academy of American Poets. In 2007, Louise Glück was reappointed for a 5-year term as the judge for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. In September 2003, Louise Glück was appointed United States Poet Laureate (2003-2004)