April Bernard

April Bernard (born 1956)^[1] is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from Harvard University. She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Manhattan, inc. In the early 1990s, she taught at Amherst College.^[2] In Fall 2003, she was Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College.^[2] She currently teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares,^[3] Parnassus, and The New York Review of Books.^[4]

Honors and awards[edit]

• 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship^[5]
• 2006 Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry

Published works[edit]

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• The World Behind the World: Poems. W.W. Norton & Co. March 14, 2023. ISBN 978-1324036203.
• Brawl & Jag: Poems. W.W. Norton & Co. March 28, 2016. ISBN 978-0393351736.
• Romanticism: Poems. W.W. Norton & Co. June 1, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06807-8.
• Swan Electric. W. W. Norton. 2002. ISBN 978-0-393-05114-8.
• Psalms. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. 1995. ISBN 978-0-393-31304-8.
• Blackbird Bye Bye. Random House. 1989. ISBN 9780394575360.

Novels

• Pirate Jenny. W. W. Norton & Company. 1990. ISBN 978-0-393-33430-2.
• Miss Fuller. Steerforth Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-58642-195-3.

Anthology Publications

• Phillis Levin, ed. (November 2001). The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-058929-0.
• Molly McQuade (2000). By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-297-4. April Bernard poet.

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• "Interview: April Bernard", Reb Livingston, Post Road Magazine, Issue 7 Archived 2009-06-30 at the Wayback Machine
• Audio: April Bernard reads "Beagle or Something" Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine from Romanticism: Poems (2009)
• Audio: April Bernard reads "Heimatlos" Archived 2010-05-20 at the Wayback Machine from Romanticism: Poems (2009)
• "Beagle or Something". The New Yorker. April 30, 2007.
• "Song of Yes and No", Baruch College
• "That's What I Said". AGNI. 47. 1998. Archived from the original on 2009-07-01. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
• "Not Rome". Boston Review. Summer 2002. Archived from the original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2009-06-17.
• "Notes on the First Person". Poems Out Loud. Aug 21, 2009. Archived from the original on July 21, 2011. Retrieved August 21, 2009.
• "Escape from the Ivory Tower". Lapham's Quarterly. Fall 2008.
• "Famous Last Words: Harold Brodkey's deathbed memoir". slate. Oct 22, 1996.