Susan Mitchell

Poet

Boca Raton, FL
Florida US
Email: 
smitch21@fau.edu

Author's Bio

Author of three books of poems: Rapture, The Watwr Inside The Water, Erotikon. The Eros in Erotikon readers to my passion for bringing together words from many languages and mixing different levels of diction. Some of my poems are mainstream, others very experimental.

Publications & Prizes

Books:
Erotikon (Harper Collins, 2000)
,
Rapture (Harper Collins, 1992)
Journals:
American Poetry Review
,
Atlantic Monthly
,
The New Yorker
,
Yale Review
Prizes won: 

Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, Fellowships from the Lannan Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, National endowment for the Arts, Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Personal Favorites

What I'm reading now: 
From Flies to Whatless Boys by Robert Antoni, From The Mouth Of The Whale by Sjon, The House That Jack Built: Collected Lectures of Jack Spicer by Ed. Peter Gizzi, Like A Straw Bird It Follows Me by Ghassan Zaqtan, A Thousand Plateaus by Deleuze & Guattari

More Information

Gives readings: 
Yes
Travels for readings: 
Yes
Identifies as: 
White
Prefers to work with: 
Adults, Any, Naturalists/Environmentalists, Teachers, Teenagers, Veterans
Fluent in: 
English, Italian
Born in: 
Brooklyn
Raised in: 
Brooklyn & Manhattan, NY
New York
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Last update: Oct 07, 2013