Biography
Valentine has contributed poetry to American literature for over fifty years. Her debut collection, Dream Barker and Other Poems, received the Yale Younger Poets Prize in 1965. Her work Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 won the National Book Award in 2004, while Break the Glass was a 2011 Pulitzer Prize finalist. She has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, and Guggenheim Foundation. Additional honors include the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America and the Wallace Stevens Award from the American Academy of Poets.
Sample Works
- Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003 (2004) Book
- Dream Barker (1965) Book
- Break the Glass (2010) Book
- Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine (2024) Book
Roundtable Appearances
June 14, 2014
Responses: Poetry with Jean Valentine and Patrick Rosal
The "Responses" series involves poets reading aloud each other's work and offering commentary. This inaugural event featured two accomplished poets as participants.
Patrick Rosal, Jean Valentine
March 16, 2013 · ▶ Video
Elizabeth Bishop: A Conversation about Her Poetry
The event features "one of the great masters of American poetry of the 20th Century" (Elizabeth Bishop, 1911-1979). The roundtable highlights her "skill at recounting the results...
Bonnie Costello, Alice Quinn, Lloyd Schwartz, Jean Valentine