Alice Notley

Alice Notley (1945-) is an American poet. She was born in 1945 in Bisbee, Arizona and grew up in Needles, California. She received a B.A from Barnard College in 1967, and an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1969. She married the poet Ted Berrigan in 1972, with whom she had two sons. In the early 70s she became rooted in New York's Lower East Side, where she was an important force from 1976 through 1992. After Berrigan's death in 1983, she married the British poet Douglas Oliver.

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1945 - Poet - Bisbee, Arizona - Needles, California - Barnard College - University of Iowa - Ted Berrigan - New York - Lower East Side - Douglas Oliver

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Though she is often identified as a prominent member of the eclectic second generation of the New York School, her poetry also demonstrates a continuing fascination with the desert and with the people she lived among there. She has said that her speech is the voice of "the new wife, and the new mother" in her own time, but that her first aim is to make a poem, rather than present a platform of social reform.

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Alice Notley was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for Poetry. In the spring of 2001 she received an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the Poetry Society of America's Shelly Memorial Award. She edited and wrote a new introduction to her late husband Ted Berrigan's The Sonnets (Penguin, 2000).

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Pulitzer Prize - Los Angeles Times - American Academy of Arts and Letters - Poetry Society of America - Shelly Memorial Award

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