Anne Pierson Wiese
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Life
She grew up in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of Amherst CollegeAmherst College
Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States. Amherst is an exclusively undergraduate four-year institution and enrolled 1,744 students in the fall of 2009...
and New York University
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
. She works, and lives in Manhattan
Manhattan
Manhattan is the oldest and the most densely populated of the five boroughs of New York City. Located primarily on the island of Manhattan at the mouth of the Hudson River, the boundaries of the borough are identical to those of New York County, an original county of the state of New York...
with her husband.
Wiese's work has appeared in: The Nation, Prairie Schooner, Porcupine, Raritan, Atlanta Review, Southwest Review, Alaska Quarterly Review, Quarterly West, Rattapallax, Hudson Review, Literary Imagination, Carolina Quarterly, South Carolina Review, West Branch, and Hawai'i Pacific Review.
Awards
- 2006 Walt Whitman Award
- 2005 Fellowship in Poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts
- 2004 Second Prize in the Arvon International Poetry Competition sponsored by the Arvon FoundationArvon FoundationThe Arvon Foundation is a charitable organisation in the United Kingdom which promotes creative writing. It is based in the Free Word Centre for literature, literacy and free expression in London.-History:...
in Great Britain - 2004 "Discovery"/The Nation Poetry Contest
- 2002 First Place Poetry Prize in the Writers@Work Fellowship Competition.
Reviews
New York still has authors and publishers; there are still a few used booksellers who haven’t been knocked down by the rising overhead the swan-diving dollar made. If you are reading this having visited New York lately, go have a look at Paris and Venice when you get the chance; the goal is to create an ahistoric wonderland: eternal youth, permanent fashion. These places too are reminders that money finds reasons to do something else. In her closing sonnet, “The Distance,” Wiese declares her “conviction that poetry / was the highest object of humanity.” There’s something to that, and enough in Floating City to suggest that Wiese will be serving that object for some time to come. As for the city that produced her and its regard for poetry, the outlook is bleaker.