Rae Armantrout

Poet, Author

1947 –

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Who is Rae Armantrout?

Rae Armantrout is an American poet generally associated with the Language poets. Armantrout was born in Vallejo, California but grew up in San Diego. She has published ten books of poetry and has also been featured in a number of major anthologies. Armantrout currently teaches at the University of California, San Diego, where she is Professor of Poetry and Poetics.

On March 11, 2010, Armantrout was awarded the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award for her book of poetry Versed published by the Wesleyan University Press, which had also been nominated for the National Book Award. The book later earned the 2010 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Armantrout’s most recent collection, Just Saying, was published in February 2013. She is the recipient of numerous other awards for her poetry, including an award in poetry from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2008.

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Born
Apr 13, 1947
Vallejo
Ethnicity
  • White American
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • M.A., San Francisco State University
  • San Diego State University
  • University of California, Berkeley

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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