Nancy Vieira Couto (born 1942) is an American poet. She is a recipient of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize and the National Endowment for the Arts for Poetry award.

Life

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She received her BS in Education from Bridgewater State College in 1964, and her MFA in English from Cornell University, in 1980.[1] She has been poetry editor at Epoch magazine for the past ten years.[2]

Her work has appeared in American Voice, Black Warrior Review, Diagram, Iowa Review,[3] Kalliope, Mississippi Review, Nimrod, Prairie Schooner,[4] Salamander,[citation needed] Shenandoah, Southern Review.

She lives in Ithaca, New York.[5]

Awards

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Works

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  • "The Butterfly Effect"; "The Common Accident"; "Beyond Modernity, We Are Warned"; "The Accidentals", Poems x 4
  • The Face in the Water. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1990. ISBN 978-0-8229-3652-7.

Anthology

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Translation

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  • Joao Cruz E Sousa (1996). "Antiphony". In Stephen Tapscott (ed.). Twentieth-century Latin American poetry: a bilingual anthology. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-78140-5.

References

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  1. ^ "Cornell Writers | Entire List". www.writers.cornell.edu. Retrieved 2016-05-13.
  2. ^ Epoch. Cornell University. 2004-01-01.
  3. ^ Couto, Nancy Vieira (December 2002). "The Skate". The Iowa Review. 32 (3): 148–149. doi:10.17077/0021-065X.5621.[non-primary source needed]
  4. ^ Couto, Nancy Vieira (2009). "Just When She Thought It Was Safe". Prairie Schooner. 83 (1): 61–63. doi:10.1353/psg.0.0182. S2CID 72788859. Project MUSE 262270.[non-primary source needed]
  5. ^ "Nancy Vieira Couto | Directory of Writers | Poets & Writers". www.pw.org. 28 May 1981. Retrieved 2016-05-13.