Grace Schulman

Schulman studied at Bard College, and graduated from American University in 1955, and from New York University with a Ph.D. in 1971. From 1972 to 2006 Schulman served as Poetry Editor of The Nation and from 1973 to 1985 as director of the Poetry Center, 92nd Street Y, where she founded a contest then called "Discovery—The Nation." She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY), and has taught poetry writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, Wesleyan University, Bennington College, and Warren Wilson College. ==Awards==

• Induction as Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2019 • Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, 2016 • Guggenheim Fellowship for Poetry, 2004–2005 • Aiken Taylor Award for Poetry, 2003 • Five Pushcart Prizes (Poetry), 21, 23, 27, 32, 46. • Distinguished Alumni Award, New York University Graduate Arts and Sciences, 2003 • Finalist, Phi Beta Kappa Awards, 2002. • Delmore Schwartz Award for Poetry, 1996. • Poetry Fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts, 1995. • "Best Poem of 2004," American Scholar. ==Works==

Poetry • • • • • • For That Day Only Sheep Meadow Press (Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY), 1994. • Hemispheres Sheep Meadow Press (New York, NY), 1984. • Burn Down the Icons. Princeton University Press (Princeton, NJ), 1976. Memoir • Editor • • Grace Schulman, ed. Mourning Songs: Poems of Sorrow and Beauty. New Directions 2019, Criticism • • • Translator • T. Carmi, At the Stone of Losses (poems), University of California Press (Berkeley, CA), 1983. • Anthologies • The Best American Poetry 1995, edited by David Lehman and Richard Howard. • The Best of the Best American Poetry 1988–1998, edited by David Lehman and Harold Bloom. • Pushcart Prizes 21, 23, 27, and 32. • American Religious Poems, edited by Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba. • I Speak of the city, edited by Stephen Wolf. • The Poetry Anthology,1912–2002, edited by Jospeph Parisi and Stephen Young. • Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary Poets, edited by Ellen Bryant Voigt and Heather McHugh. ==References==