Susan Mitchell
Susan Mitchell has won many awards for her poetry, including fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the Lannan Foundation. She is the author of three books of poems—The Water Inside The Water, Erotikon, and Rapture, which won the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award and was a National Book Award Finalist. Mitchell is also recognized as an essayist and translator. She holds the Mary Blossom Lee Chair at Â̲èÖ±²¥ Atlantic University.
Interview
Rick Barot, poetry editor at New England Review, .
Sample Poems:
in New England Review
in New England Review
in New England Review
in Boston Review
in American Poetry Review
Prose Statement:
Please see James Allen Hall’s for a description of Susan Mitchell’s work as “brave…unafraid to take on taboo subjects, unafraid to to expand the lyric at the service of intellect and emotion.â€