Bernadette Mayer

Bernadette Mayer is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry including Works and Days (2016), Helens of Troy, NY (2013), Ethics of Sleep (2011), Poetry State Forest (2008), Scarlet Tanager (2005), Two Haloed Mourners (1998), ANOTHER SMASHED PINECONE (1998), Proper Name and Other Stories (1996), THE DESIRES OF MOTHERS TO PLEASE OTHERS IN LETTERS (1994), The Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992), The Formal Field of Kissing (1990), SONNETS (1989), and Midwinter Day (1982). She was the...See more

Bernadette Mayer is the author of more than two dozen volumes of poetry including Works and Days (2016), Helens of Troy, NY (2013), Ethics of Sleep (2011), Poetry State Forest (2008), Scarlet Tanager (2005), Two Haloed Mourners (1998), ANOTHER SMASHED PINECONE (1998), Proper Name and Other Stories (1996), THE DESIRES OF MOTHERS TO PLEASE OTHERS IN LETTERS (1994), The Bernadette Mayer Reader (1992), The Formal Field of Kissing (1990), SONNETS (1989), and Midwinter Day (1982). She was the Director of St. Mark's Poetry Project from 1980 to 1984. Mayer has taught at Naropa Poetics Institute, New School for Social Research, College of Staten Island, and New England College. She has received grants and awards from: PEN American Center, Foundation for Contemporary Performing Art, The NEA, the Academy for American Poets, and American Academy of Arts and Letters. See less