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Mary Jo Salter (August 15, 1954 - ) is an American poet, a coeditor
of The Norton Anthology of Poetry [1] and a professor
in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.
Life
Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was
raised in Detroit, Michigan 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. She has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New
Republic.
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 is married to Brad Leithauser, a writer, who also
teaches at Johns Hopkins University. They have two daughters, Emily
and Hilary Leithauser.
Works
Books of
poetry
- Henry Purcell in Japan (Knopf: 1985)
- Unfinished Painting (Knopf: 1989) Lamont Selection for that year's
most distinguished second volume of poetry
- Sunday Skaters, nominated in 1994 for the National Book Critics
Circle Award (Knopf)
- A Kiss in Space (Knopf: 1999)
- Open Shutters (Knopf: 2003), named a "notable book of the
year" by The New York Times
- A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected
Poems
Edited
- The Norton Anthology of Poetry (coeditor)
Play
Children's literature
- The Moon Comes Home (1989)
Articles
Awards
External
links
Poems
online
- [2] "Tromp
l'Oeil"
- [3] "A Kiss in Space
and A Rainbow Over the Seine"
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