Cole Swensen

Cole Swensen is the author of seventeen collections of poetry including Greensward (UDP), and most recently On Walking On (Nightboat), and Landscapes on a Train (Nightboat), as well as a volume of critical essays, Noise That Stays Noise (U. of Michigan). Her collections turn around specific research projects, including ones on public parks, visual art, illuminated manuscripts, and ghosts. Her work has won the Iowa Poetry Prize, the San Francisco State Poetry Center Book Award, and the PEN USA Award in Literary Translation. A former Guggenheim Fellow, she is the co-editor of the 2009 Norton anthology American Hybrid and the founding editor of La Presse Poetry. She was the writer-in-residence at Yale’s Beinecke Library in 2007-2008, where Greensward (UDP), was conceived and written. She currently teaches at Brown University.rn