Elizabeth Powell (poet)


Elizabeth A. I. Powell is an American poet and professor. She is the author of two books of poetry, Willy Loman's Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances and The Republic of Self.

Life

She earned degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is an associate professor at Northern Vermont University, where she is Editor-in-Chief of Green Mountains Review, and is also a member of the MFA faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts and the University of Nebraska, Omaha.
Literary journals that have published her work include The Harvard Review, Missouri Review, New Ohio Review, Ploughshares, and Post Road, and has received critical attention in The San Francisco Chronicle, The Washington Independent Review of Books, Best American Poetry Blog, The Florida Review, Poetry Northwest, and on Vermont Public Radio, among others. Willy Loman's Reckless Daughter: Living Truthfully Under Imaginary Circumstances, which is built on the premise of Willy Loman having an illegitimate daughter, was listed under "Books We Loved" in 2016 in The New Yorker, with critic Major Jackson calling it "a daring hybrid collection that deftly melds lineated verse, agile prose, and striking monologues". Another reviewer called it "fearlessly confessional" and noted that her poetry "pushes form in unexpected ways"; Grace Cavalieri wrote in the Washington Independent Review of Books that every piece was "a delight in style".
Her work has been anthologized in The Pushcart Prize XXXVII and The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation.

Honors and awards

Her honors include the Pushcart Prize, the New Issues First Book Prize for Republic of Self, and the Robert Dana Prize for Willy Loman's Reckless Daughter.

Poetry collections