Judith Emlyn Johnson (formerly Judith Johnson Sherwin) (born 1936) is an American poet.
Life
[edit]She graduated from Barnard College cum laude. She studied at Columbia University, Radcliffe College, and the Juilliard School of Music.
She teaches at State University of New York at Albany.[1] She was President of the Board of Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and President of the Poetry Society of America.[2] She edited 13th Moon,[3] and published The Little Magazine.[4]
Her work appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Chelsea, Harper's,[5] Ms., New York Times, Nimrod, Playboy. Her intermedia installation / performance piece, "Friedrich Liebermann, American Artist," has been widely exhibited, and is now being developed as a multi-media cd-rom novel. Her play manuscript "Belisa's Love" is in the Princeton University archives.[6]
She lives in New York City.[7]
Awards
[edit]- 1969 Yale Series of Younger Poets Competition
- Playboy fiction award
- National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship
- Poetry Society of America Di Castagnola Prize.
Works
[edit]- "The Prospector's Complaint: Happy Jack's Rock" Beloit Poetry Journal, Winter 1967–68, p. 34-35
- "Sorry, Sweetheart, Here's" Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 1972
- "The House Guest"; "Time for Ripeness", Mother Jones, July 1977
- "Before the Recovery", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1979
- "Under the Lights", Ploughshares, Winter 1989
- Cities of Mathematics and Desire: Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005)
- The Ice Lizard: Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 1992) ISBN 978-1-878818-17-1
- Dead 's Good Company (Waste Trilogy III) (Countryman Press, 1979)
- How the Dead Count: Poems (Norton, 1978) ISBN 978-0-393-04491-1
- Transparencies: Poems (Waste Trilogy II) (Countryman Press, 1978)
- The Town Scold: Poems (Waste Trilogy I) (Countryman Press, 1977)
- Impossible Buildings: Poems (Doubleday, 1972)
- The Life of Riot: Short Stories (Atheneum, 1970)
- Uranium Poems (Yale University Press, 1969)
Editor
[edit]- Brenda S. Webster; Judith Emlyn Johnson, eds. (1993). Hungry for light: the journal of Ethel Schwabacher. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-36367-1.
References
[edit]- ^ "Issues | Ploughshares".
- ^ http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2008ConfArchive/bios/biojjohnson.htm
- ^ "13thmoon.net - 13thmoon Resources and Information".
- ^ "The Little Magazine". Archived from the original on 2009-07-03. Retrieved 2009-12-14.
- ^ http://www.harpers.org/subjects/JudithJohnsonSherwin [dead link]
- ^ "Error | Princeton University Library". diglib.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on 2010-07-11.
- ^ "Judith Emlyn Johnson (Formerly, Johnson Sherwin)".
External links
[edit]- "Author's website"
- Finding aid to Judith Emlyn Johnson papers at Columbia University. Rare Book & Manuscript Library.
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