Idra Novey
Encyclopedia
Idra Novey is an American
poet, professor, and translator. She is the author of Exit, Civilian, a 2011 National Poetry Series Winner, and The Next Country (Alice James Books
, 2008), which received the 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award and a starred review in Publishers Weekly,. She is also the translator of The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector New Directions, 2012, On Elegance While Sleeping by Viscount Lascano Tegui Dalkey Archive, 2010, and The Clean Shirt of It, which won a PEN Translation Fund Award. She has published poems, translations and reviews in literary journals and magazines including Slate, The Paris Review, AGNI Online, Ploughshares, BOMB, Mid-American Review, and The Believer. Her honors include the 2008 Amy Award from Poets & Writers, and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America
Chapbook Series and the National Endowment of the Arts.
Novey teaches in the creative writing program at Columbia University
, and is the executive director of the Columbia Center for Literary Translation. She also teaches in the Bard College Prison Initiative. She is a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board, an editor for Rattapallax, and lives in New York.
The Next Country (Alice James Books, 2008)
Short Story
Chapbooks
Translations
United States
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poet, professor, and translator. She is the author of Exit, Civilian, a 2011 National Poetry Series Winner, and The Next Country (Alice James Books
Alice James Books
Alice James Books is an American non-profit poetry press located in Farmington, Maine and affiliated with the University of Maine at Farmington.- History and mission :...
, 2008), which received the 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award and a starred review in Publishers Weekly,. She is also the translator of The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector New Directions, 2012, On Elegance While Sleeping by Viscount Lascano Tegui Dalkey Archive, 2010, and The Clean Shirt of It, which won a PEN Translation Fund Award. She has published poems, translations and reviews in literary journals and magazines including Slate, The Paris Review, AGNI Online, Ploughshares, BOMB, Mid-American Review, and The Believer. Her honors include the 2008 Amy Award from Poets & Writers, and fellowships from the Poetry Society of America
Poetry Society of America
The Poetry Society of America is a literary organization founded in 1910 by poets, editors, and artists including Witter Bynner. It is the oldest poetry organization in the United States. Past members of the have included such renowned writers as Robert Frost, Langston Hughes, Edna St. Vincent...
Chapbook Series and the National Endowment of the Arts.
Novey teaches in the creative writing program at Columbia University
Columbia University
Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...
, and is the executive director of the Columbia Center for Literary Translation. She also teaches in the Bard College Prison Initiative. She is a member of the Alice James Books Cooperative Board, an editor for Rattapallax, and lives in New York.
Published works
Full-length Poetry Collections- Exit, Civilian (University of Georgia Press, National Poetry Series, 2012)
The Next Country (Alice James Books, 2008)
Short Story
- "The Man from the Ad," (Guernica Magazine, 2011 http://www.guernicamag.com/fiction/3014/idra_novey_the_man_from_the_ad_9_1_11/)
Chapbooks
- The Next Country (Poetry Society of America, 2005)
Translations
- On Elegance While Sleeping, by Viscount Lazcano Tegui (Dalkey Archive, 2010)
- Birds for a Demolition, by Manoel de Barros (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2010)
- The Clean Shirt of It, by Paulo Henriques Britto, (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2007)
Honors and awards
- 2009 NEA Literature Fellowship for Translation
- 2007 Kinereth Gensler Award
- 2007 PEN American Center Translation Fund Grant
- 2005 Poetry Society of America Chapbook Series Fellowship
External links
- Author Page > Idra Novey > Alice James Books
- Author Page > Idra Novey > BOA Editions, Ltd.
- Poems: PEN American Center > Idra Novey on Public Lives/Private Lives
- Audio: Slate Magazine > A Weekly Poem, Read by the Author > Idra Novey, Definition of a Stranger
- Video: Idra Novey Reading for Alice James Books at AWP Conference
- Interview: How a Poem Happens > September 11, 2009 > Idra Novey
- Reviews by Idra Novey: The Believer > Contributors > Two Reviews by Idra Novey
- Faculty Bio: Columbia University > School of the Arts > Creative Writing