Cynthia Macdonald
Cynthia Lee Macdonald (February 2, 1928 – August 3, 2015) was an American poet.[1] She is the mother of American artist Jennifer Macdonald.
Life
She was a member of the board of directors of the Association of Writers & Writing Programs.[2]
She wrote the libretto for The Rehearsal (1978), an opera by Thomas Benjamin.[3]
She co-founded, with Stanley Plumly, the Creative Writing Program at the University of Houston in 1979. She was a member of the English Department until her retirement in the mid-2000s, receiving the Esther Farfel Award for faculty excellence along the way.
Awards
- Three NEA grants (two for poetry and one for a libretto)[citation needed][4][5]
- Guggenheim Fellowship [6]
- National Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters award[which?]
- O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize[7]
Works
- "Discomfiting the Absolute Splendor", Poetry Foundation
- "The Impossible May Be Possible", Ploughshares (Spring 1999)
Books
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References
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- "Cynthia Macdonald." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2009. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 18 Nov. 2009
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- ↑ http://www3.wooster.edu/ArtfulDodge/interviews/macdonald.htm Archived May 30, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://www.nea.gov/pub/nea_lit.pdf Nothing at website for "Cynthia MacDonald" per search there. Archived July 10, 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://www.gf.org/fellows/9167-cynthia-macdonald org Archived June 3, 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ http://www.folger.edu/template.cfm?cid=968 Archived May 27, 2010 at the Wayback Machine
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- 1928 births
- 2015 deaths
- 20th-century American poets
- American academics
- Baylor College of Medicine alumni
- Bennington College alumni
- Johns Hopkins University faculty
- Mannes College The New School for Music alumni
- Sarah Lawrence College alumni
- Sarah Lawrence College faculty
- University of Houston faculty
- American women poets
- 20th-century women writers
- Writers from New York City
