Wendy Battin

Wendy Battin (May 27, 1953 – December 21, 2015) was an American poet.

Wendy Battin
Born	(1953-05-27)May 27, 1953 Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.
Died	December 21, 2015(2015-12-21) (aged 62)
Occupation	Poet
Alma mater	Cornell University University of Washington

Life

Wendy Battin was born in Wilmington, Delaware and graduated from Cornell University and the University of Washington. She taught at MIT, Smith College, Syracuse University, Boston University, Connecticut College.

Her work has appeared in Field, Georgia Review, Gettysburg Review, Poetry, The Nation, Mississippi Review, Threepenny Review, and Yale Review.

She was the director of CAPA, the Contemporary American Poetry Archive Archived 2011-07-19 at the Wayback Machine.^[1]

She taught yoga, and lived in Mystic, Connecticut.^[2]

Awards

• Fine Arts Work Center Fellowship
• Ingram Merrill Foundation Fellowship
• National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
• 1982 Discovery / The Nation Award
• 1983 National Poetry Series, for Solar Wind
• Richard Snyder Memorial Prize, for Little Apocalypse

Works

• "One Man Watches a Horse Race"; "Coelacanth", Eclectica
• "The Women on the Ward", Eclectica
• "THE NEWS FROM MARS", The Blue Moon Review Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
• "News and Sundries", Blue Penny Quarterly, Fall 1995 Archived 2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
• "Seven", fieralingue Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
• "And the Two Give Birth to the Myriad of Things", fieralingue Archived 2011-07-16 at the Wayback Machine
• "Mercy 1"; "Mir, the World, or is it Peace", Hamilton Stone Review
• "Eve, Before"; "Drosophila"; "The Two of Cups"; "Triptych", Kimera: A Journal of Fine Writing Archived 2011-08-30 at the Wayback Machine
• "On a Line by Su Tung-p'o"; "Another Line from Su Tung-p'o"; "A Contract"; "Aubade: How Truth Will Out", Mississippi Review Archived 2010-08-23 at the Wayback Machine
• "Liberty", Salt River Review
• "Kali Yuga", Tattoo Highway
• "Silver"; "Aubade, The Truth Will Out"; "One Man Watches a Racehouse"; "Seven"; "How Nothing Happens"; "The Telling", Pares, University of Chile Archived 2007-07-10 at the Wayback Machine
• In the Solar Wind. Doubleday Books. October 1984. ISBN 978-0-385-19384-9.
• Little Apocalypse. Ashland Poetry Press. 1997. ISBN 978-0-912592-40-4.

Anthologies

• Lorrie Goldensohn, ed. (2006). "Mondrian's Forest". American War Poetry. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13310-4.
• John Matthias; William O'Rourke, eds. (January 15, 2009). Notre Dame Review: The First Ten Years. University of Notre Dame Press. ISBN 978-0-268-03512-9.
• Sam Hamill; Sally Anderson, eds. (2003). Poets against the War. Thunder's Mouth Press. ISBN 978-1-56025-539-0.
• W. Scott Olsen; Scott Cairns, eds. (September 1996). The Sacred Place: Witnessing the Holy in the Physical World. University of Utah Press. ISBN 978-0-87480-523-9.