Arda Collins
Arda Collins is an American poet and winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition.
Arda Collins
- Name
- Arda Collins
- Birth Name
- New York, U.S.
- Born
- 1974
- Nationality
- United States
- Occupation
- poet · writer
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• Name — Arda Collins • Birth Name — New York, U.S. • Alma Mater — Iowa Writers' Workshop, University of Denver • Genre — Poetry
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Arda Collins, born on 17 December 1974, is documented in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. The birth is recorded by the Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Life
Life
Collins was born in New York. She is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she was a Glenn Schaeffer Fellow, and the University of Denver, where she received a Ph.D. in poetry. Her book It Is Daylight was selected by Louise Glück for the Yale Series of Younger Poets. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, New York University, and at Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. She is currently the Grace Hazard Conkling Writer in Residence at Smith College. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. Her poems have been published in journals and magazines including The New Yorker, jubilat, The American Poetry Review, A Public Space and Gutcult.
Works
Works
• Star Lake, New York: The Song Cave, 2022. • It is daylight, New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009.,
Awards
• 2008 winner of the Yale Series of Younger Poets competition. • 2008 American Academy of Arts and Sciences' (AAAS) Poetry Prize • 2008 May Sarton Prize
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- 1.It Is Daylight, Arda Collins, Yale University Press, Mar 23, 2009
- 2.Award-winning UI poets Collins and Thirkield read April 14.
- 3.It Is Daylight - Collins, Arda; Glück, Louise - Yale University Press.
- 4.Archives Calendar, Reading Between A&B
- 5.Q & A with Arda Collins.
- 6.2019 Juniper Literary Festival : MFA for Poets & Writers : UMass Amherst.
- 7.Search. The New Yorker.
- 8.Number 30 - jubilat.
- 9.Collins, Arda. Spring. The American Poetry Review. 2004.
- 10.It is Daylight : Magazine : A Public Space.
- 11.Recipients of the May Sarton Prize. www.amacad.org.
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