Elizabeth Spires

Elizabeth Spires (born May 1952 Lancaster, Ohio) is an American poet and university professor.

Early life and education

Spires is a professor of English at Goucher College, where she holds a Chair for Distinguished Achievement. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Paris Review and many other literary magazines and anthologies.

She has been the recipient of the Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship, a Whiting Award, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Witter Bynner Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Ohioana Book Awards, and the Maryland Author Award from the Maryland Library Association.

. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan. March 1, 1981. ISBN 978-0-8195-1101-0.
. New York: Puffin. July 1, 1989. ISBN 978-0-14-058638-1.
Worldlings. W. W. Norton & Company. May 1, 1992. ISBN 978-0-393-31628-5.
Swan's Island. New York: Carnegie-Mellon University Press. February 1997. ISBN 978-0-88748-249-6.
Now the Green Blade Rises. W. W. Norton. 2004. ISBN 978-0-393-32485-3.
. W. W. Norton. 2008. ISBN 978-0-393-06659-3.
. The Atlantic. June 2009.
A Memory of the Future. W. W. Norton. 2018. ISBN 978-0-393-65105-8.

. Illustrator Claire A. Nivola. Scholastic. 2001. ISBN 978-0-439-20088-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
. Frances Foster Books. 2009. ISBN 978-0-374-33528-1.
With one white wing: puzzles in poems and pictures. Illustrator Erik Blegvad. M.K. McElderry Books. 1995. ISBN 978-0-689-50622-2.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)

The Instant of Knowing: Lectures, Criticism and Occasional Prose by Josephine Jacobsen.

A. R. Ammons; David Lehman, eds. (1994). The Best American Poetry 1994. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0-671-89948-6.