Bernadette Mayer
Mayer is the author of over 27 collections, including most recently Works and Days (2016), Eating The Colors Of A Lineup Of Words: The Early Books of Bernadette Mayer (2015) and The Helens of Troy (2013), as well as countless chapbooks and artist-books. She has received grants from The Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital, National Endowment for the Arts and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. She is also the recipient of the 2014 Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and a 2017 Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. From 1980-1984, she served as the director of the St. Mark's Poetry Project, and has also edited and founded 0 to 9 journal and United Artists books and magazines. She has taught at the New School for Social Research, Naropa University, Long Island University, the College of Saint Rose, Miami University and at University of Pennsylvania as a Kelly Writers House Fellow. Her influence in the contemporary avant-garde is felt widely.
In 1989, Bernadette Mayer's influential Sonnets became Tender Buttons Number One.
Sonnets: Expanded 25th Anniversary Edition
Please Add To This List: Teaching Bernadette Mayer's Sonnets and Experiments
is also available as a teaching supplement for any of Bernadette Mayer's works
