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Elizabeth Spires

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born

January 01, 1952 in Lancaster, Ohio, The United States

gender

female

genre

Poetry, Children's Books

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Elizabeth Spires is the author of five collections of poetry as well as several books for children. She has been the recipient a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Amy Lowell Travelling Poetry Scholarship, and two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts. In 1998 she received the Witter Bynner Prize for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association. Her poems have been featured on National Public Radio and have appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Review, The New Criterion, and in many anthologies, including Contemporary American Poetry (7th edition) and The New Bread Loaf Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry. She lives in Baltimore...more

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Books by Elizabeth Spires

Average rating: 3.66 · 173 ratings · 44 reviews · 19 distinct works

	The Mouse of Amherst 3.70 avg rating — 61 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	My rating:
	I Heard God Talking to Me: William Edmondson and His Stone Carvings 3.44 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2009	My rating:
	The Wave-Maker: Poems 3.26 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	My rating:
	The Big Meow 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings	My rating:
	Now the Green Blade Rises: Poems 4.45 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Worldling 3.55 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	I Am Arachne: Fifteen Greek and Roman Myths 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Globe 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1981 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Swan's Island 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1985 — 2 editions	My rating:
	With One White Wing: Puzzles In Poems And Pictures 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	My rating: