Joyce Sutphen

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Sutphen speaking after her appointment as the Poet Laureate of Minnesota (2011)

Joyce Sutphen (born August 10, 1949) is an American

Poet Laureate from 2011 to 2021. She was the state's second laureate, appointed by Governor Mark Dayton in August, 2011 to succeed Robert Bly. Sutphen is professor emerita of English at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.[1]

Life

Sutphen was raised in

Ph.D.
in Renaissance Drama.

Her first book of poetry, Straight Out of View (Beacon Press, 1995), won the Barnard New Women's Poets Prize. Her second, Coming Back to the Body (

Minnesota Book Award
, and her third, Naming the Stars (2004), also from Holy Cow! Press, won the Minnesota Book Award in Poetry.

In 2005, Red Dragonfly Press published a fine press edition of Fourteen Sonnets. Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review,[2] Poetry, The Gettysburg Review, Water~Stone, Hayden's Ferry, Shenandoah, Luna.[3]

Prizes

Bibliography

Poetry

Chapbooks

  • Fourteen Sonnets (Red Dragonfly Press 2005)

Anthologies

References

  1. ^ "Joyce Sutphen - Faculty". Gustavus Adolphus College.
  2. ^ Sutphen, Joyce (1997). "Red Rooster". The American Poetry Review.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ "Joyce Sutphen Biography". famouspoetsandpoems.com.

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