Ann Lauterbach

American writer (born 1942)

Poet
essayist
art critic
professor

Ann Lauterbach (born 1942)^[1] is an American poet, essayist, art critic, and professor.

Early life

Lauterbach was born and raised in New York City, and earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. She lived in London for eight years, working in publishing and for art institutions, including London's Thames and Hudson art publishing house. On her return to the U.S., she worked in art galleries in New York before she began teaching.^[2]

Poetry

Lauterbach’s most recent poetry collections are Door (2023) and Spell (2018), both published by Penguin Books. Lauterbach’s poems have been published in numerous literary journals and magazines including Conjunctions, and in anthologies including American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry (W.W. Norton, 2009) and American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Wesleyan University Press, 2002).^[1]

Teaching

She has taught at Brooklyn College, Columbia University, the Iowa Writers Workshop, Princeton University, and at the City College of New York and Graduate Center of CUNY. Since 1991 she has taught at Bard College, and is currently David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature there, where she teaches and co-directs the Writing Division of the M.F.A. program, and lives in Germantown, New York.^[3]^[4] As an art critic, she has educated at the Yale School of Art, Yale University.^[5]

Honors

Her honors include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Ingram Merrill Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the New York State Foundation for the Arts.^[3]^[6]

Selected bibliography

Poetry

Door (Penguin Books, 2023)
Spell (Penguin Books, 2018)
Under the Sign (Penguin Books, 2013)
Or to Begin Again (Penguin Books, 2009)
Hum (Penguin Books, 2005)
If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 (Penguin Books, 2001)
On a Stair (Penguin Books, 1997)
And for Example (Penguin Books, 1994)
Clamor (Viking, 1991)
Before Recollection (Princeton University Press, 1987)
Many Times, but Then (University of Texas Press, 1979)

Prose

Saint Petersburg Notebook
The Given & The Chosen
The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience (Viking, 2005)

Books with artists

Thripsis (with Joe Brainard)
A Clown, Some Colors, A Doll, Her Stories, A Song, A Moonlit Cove (with Ellen Phelan)
How Things Bear Their Telling (with Lucio Pozzi)
Greeks (with Jan Groover and Bruce Boice)
Sacred Weather (with Louisa Chase)

References

^ ^a ^b Library of Congress Online Catalog
^ Academy of American Poets > Ann Lauterbach Biography
^ ^a ^b "The National Book Foundation > 2009 National Book Award Finalist > Ann Lauterbach". Archived from the original on 2010-01-04. Retrieved 2010-02-25.
^ "Academy of American Poets > Ann Lauterbach". Retrieved 2006-12-05.
^ "Readings at Max Protetch | zingmagazine". www.zingmagazine.com. Retrieved 2019-08-05.
^ New York Foundation for the Arts > Artists Fellowship 1998 Poetry Archived June 17, 2010, at the Wayback Machine

External links

Video Reading: The Holloway Series in Poetry > Ann Lauterbach on YouTube
Biography: The Poetry Foundation > Ann Lauterbach
Poem: Conjunctions > 17, Fall 1991 > Tangled Reliquary by Ann Lauterbach
Review: Rain Taxi > Winter 2009/2010 > A Review by Michael D. Snediker of Or to Begin Again by Ann Lauterbach
Interview: Mappemunde > April 17, 2004 > An Interview with Ann Lauterbach by Tim Peterson
Guide to the Ann Lauterbach Papers
Ann Lauterbach Papers. Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.