Steven Cramer
Massachusetts, United States
Member Since: 09/02/2008
Steven Cramer is the author of seven poetry collections: Departures from Rilke (Arrowsmith Press, 2023); Listen (MadHat Press, 2020), long-listed as a “must read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book; Clangings (Sarabande Books, 2012); Goodbye to the Orchard (Sarabande Books, 2004), winner of the 2005 Sheila Motton Prize from the New England Poetry Club and named a 2005 Honor Book in Poetry by the Massachusetts Center for the Book; Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand (Lumen Editions/Brookline Books,1997); The World Book (Copper Beech Press, 1992); and The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (Galileo Press, 1987). His poems and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, Field, Kenyon Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, Ploughshares, Poetry and other journals. His work is represented in anthologies such as The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (Autumn House Press, 2005 and 2011), The Book of Villanelles (Knopf Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets Series, 2012), and The POETRY Anthology, 1912-2002 (Ivan R. Dee, 2002). He has also written essays for Simply Lasting: Writers on Jane Kenyon (Graywolf Press, 2005); Touchstones: American Poets on a Favorite Poem (Middlebury College Press, 1996); and Until Everything Is Continuous Again: American Poets on the Recent Work of W.S. Merwin (WordFarm, 2012). Recipient of two grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, he has taught literature and writing at Bennington College, Boston University, M.I.T., and Tufts University; and he founded and now teaches in the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Website: http://www.stevencramer.com
Twitter Username: @StevenC07808764
Publications
- Departures from Rilke , Arrowsmith Press (November 2, 2023)
- Listen: Poems , MadHat Press (October 1, 2020)
- Clangings: Poems , Sarabande Books (November 15, 2012)
- Goodbye to the Orchard , Sarabande Books (November 15, 2004)
Awards
- Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Fellowship(2014)
Employment
- Program Director, MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University (January 2003 - May 2015)
- Associate Professor, MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University (September 2015 - August 2020)
- Professor, MFA Program in Creative Writing at Lesley University (September 2020 - )
Degrees
- Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from University of Iowa (June 1978)
Genres of Interest
Poetry