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Mary Jo Salter

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Born: August 14 1945

Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.

Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit and Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1976 and her M.A. from Cambridge University in 1978. In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest. While at Harvard, she studied with the noted poet Elizabeth Bishop.

From 1984 to 2007, she taught at Mount Holyoke College and was, from 1995 to 2007, a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America.

Salter has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New Republic, and she is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College

Mary Jo Salter

4.2/5 ( ratings)

Born: August 14 1945

Mary Jo Salter is an American poet, a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.

Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit and Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1976 and her M.A. from Cambridge University in 1978. In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest. While at Harvard, she studied with the noted poet Elizabeth Bishop.

From 1984 to 2007, she taught at Mount Holyoke College and was, from 1995 to 2007, a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America.

Salter has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New Republic, and she is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College

Books from Mary Jo Salter

The Norton Anthology of Poetry

4.3/5 ( ratings)

Big-Eyed Afraid

4.2/5 ( ratings)

A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems

3.8/5 ( ratings)

Nothing by Design

A Kiss in Space: Poems

3.4/5 ( ratings)

Sunday Skaters

4.1/5 ( ratings)

Unfinished Painting

Zoom Rooms: Poems

2.8/5 ( ratings)

Henry Purcell in Japan

The Common: A Modern Sense of Place: Issue 01

3.6/5 ( ratings)

The Common No. 13

A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems

A Rainbow Over The Seine

Ploughshares Spring 1977

The Norton Anthology of Poetry

Open Shutters

Selected Poems

It's Hard to Say