Kathleen Spivack's newest book, the memoir "With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz and Others" is just out from the University Press of New England. Kathleen came to Boston in 1959 to study with Robert Lowell in that ”famous class.” He introduced her to the poets of his time who took her under their wing. The memoir looks at personal friendships and work. It gives unique insights into the poets and the poetry. Kathleen is available for readings and presentations. For further information and to order the book, please visit http://www.upne.com. Kathleen Spivack's chapbook, “A History of Yearning,”(2010) won the Sows Ear International Poetry Chapbook Prize, and she is a recipient of this year’s Allen Ginsberg, Erika Mumford, and Paumanok awards. Her book won the New England Book Festival and London Book Festival Prizes. Earlier books are Moments of Past Happiness, Earthwinds/Grolier; The Break-Up Variations; The Beds We Lie In (Scarecrow 1986), nominated for a Pulitzer Prize; The Honeymoon: a Collection of Short Stories (Graywolf 1986); Swimmer in the Spreading Dawn (Applewood 1981); The Jane Poems (Doubleday 1973); Flying Inland (Doubleday 1971). Published in over 400 magazines and anthologies, Kathleen’s work has been translated into French. Kathleen Spivack has taught in France full or half time for the past twenty-one years (1990-present). A Fulbright Professor in Creative Writing in France (1993-94), Ms. Spivack has been Visiting Professor at the University of Paris VII-VIII, the University of Tours, the University of Versailles, and the Ecole Superieure (Polytechnique). She also teaches in the U.S. and has been Visiting Writer at American Universities. She has held grants from the National Endowment for the Arts; Massachusetts Artists Foundation; Bunting Institute; Howard Foundation; Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities; is a Discovery winner and has been at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ragdale, Karolyi, and the American Academy in Rome. She has won international awards for her essays, Best Travel Writing: Solas awards. & Grand Prix. In Boston and Paris she directs the Advanced Writing Workshop, an intensive training program for professional writers. She has read her work widely in both the United States and Europe. Ms. Spivack has been Writer-in-Residence throughout the U.S. She gives theater performances and master classes. She has taught at conferences in Paris, Aspen, Santa Fe, Burgundy, Skidmore, and on the high seas, (Holland American Line).

With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz & Others (University Press of New England, 2012), Moments of Past Happiness (Earthwinds Editions, 2007), The Beds We Lie In (Scarecrow Press, 1986), The Honeymoon (Graywolf Press, 1986), Swimmer in the Spreading Dawn (Apple-Wood Books, 1981), The Jane Poems (Doubleday, 1974), Flying Inland (Doubleday, 1973)

A History of Yearning. Chapbook Prize (The Sow's Ear Poetry Review, 2010)

Poetry from Sojourner (University of Illinois Press, 2004), The Poetry Antholgy 1912-2002 (Ivan R. Dee, 2002), Book Of Women Poets: From Antiquity To Now (Schocken Press, 1992), The New Yorker Book of Poems (Viking, 1969)

Agni, Carpe Articulum Literary Review, Harvard Review, Hawaii Pacific Review, Kenyon Review, Massachusetts Review, New Letters, Nimrod, North American Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Southern California Anthology, Spoon River Poetry Review, The New Yorker, Virginia Quarterly Review

Paris, Fr. Shakespeare & Co. & Village Voice, Red Wheelbarrow, French university & theatre settings 1995-present (2010), throughout the US, France 1969-present (2010), Concert Halls, Boston, NY, L.A., elsewhere (2005), Theatre venues, New York, Boston (1986)