Kaplan, Janet, 1958-

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Name (Latin)
Kaplan, Janet, 1958-
Other forms of name
Kaplan, Janet
Date of birth
1958
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 11614948
Wikidata: Q16202702
Library of congress: n 98002125
Sources of Information
  • Kaplan, Janet. Dreamlife of a philanthropist, 2011:ECIP t.p. (Janet Kaplan) data view (Janet Kaplan is the author of two previous poetry collections, The groundnote and The glazier's country; recipient of the Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University Press, the Alice James Books New England and New York prize; teaches at Hofstra Univ. and Fordham Univ., where she is currently Poet-in-Residence)
  • The groundnote, 1998:CIP t.p. (Janet Kaplan) data sheet (Kaplan, Janet Ellen; b. 08-31-1958)
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Wikipedia description:

Janet Kaplan (born 1958) is an American poet and professor. She is the author of four full-length books: The Groundnote (Alice James Books, 1997), "The Glazier’s County," winner of the 2003 Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University Press, Dreamlife of the Philanthropist: Prose Poems & Prose Sonnets, winner of the 2011 Ernest Sandeen Prize (University of Notre Dame Press), and "Ecotones" (Eyewear Ltd., forthcoming 2021). Her honors include fellowships at Yaddo, The Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Ragdale Foundation in Illinois. She has received the Bronx Council on the Arts’ BRIO award for Excellence in Poetry and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. In 2011, her limited edition chapbook, Ascending Descending (BroBroo Books), was adapted to the opera in a soprano song cycle by Martin Hennessy.

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