Janet Kaplan
Janet Kaplan (born 1958) is an American poet and professor. Her honors include fellowships at Yaddo, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois. She has received the Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO award for Excellence in Poetry and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.
Janet Kaplan
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- Janet Kaplan
- Born
- 1958
- Occupation
- * Poet
- Education
- Lehman College Columbia University Sarah Lawrence College (MFA)
- Nationality
- United States
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Janet Kaplan (born 1958) is an American poet and professor. Her honors include fellowships at Yaddo, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois. She has received the Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO award for Excellence in Poetry and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.
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In 2011, her limited edition chapbook, Ascending Descending (BroBroo Books), was adapted to the opera in a soprano song cycle by Martin Hennessy.
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• Name — Janet Kaplan • Born — 1958 • Occupation — * Poet • professor • Education — Lehman College Columbia University Sarah Lawrence College (MFA)
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Education
Kaplan attended Lehman College and Columbia University. She earned her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College.
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Career
For several years, Kaplan worked as Poet in Residence at Fordham University. She currently teaches poetry and creative writing at Hofstra University, where she edits AMP, an international digital literary magazine. From 2011 to 2015 she edited, designed, and published Red Glass Books, a small press with titles from Kate Greenstreet, Edwin Torres, Margaret Diehl, and Patricia Spears Jones, among others.
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