Grace Schulman

Grace Schulman (born Grace Jan Waldman; 1935 in New York City) is an American poet.

Her work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New Republic, Paris Review, Antaeus, Grand Street, the Yale Review, the Hudson Review, Atlantic Monthly, and the Kenyon Review.

Biography 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.