Alice B. Fogel

Alice Fogel is an American poet, writer, and professor, who served as the state poet laureate of New Hampshire from 2014 to 2019.[1]

Alice Fogel
Poet Laureate of New Hampshire
In office
2014–2019
Personal details
BornNew Orleans, Louisiana, United States
ResidenceWalpole, New Hampshire
EducationAntioch College (BA)
University of New Hampshire (MA)

Education

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in art and literature from Antioch College and her Master of Arts from the University of New Hampshire.

Career

She is author of five poetry collections, most recently, "A Doubtful House" (2017), and Interval: Poems based on Bach's "Goldberg Variations" (2015), which won the Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature and the 2016 New Hampshire Literary Award in Poetry. Be That Empty (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007) was a poetry bestseller. She is also author of Strange Terrain: A Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader (Hobblebush Books, 2009). Her work has appeared in numerous publications including Beloit Poetry Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Review, The Christian Science Monitor, Green Mountains Review, Iowa Review, JuxtaProse Literary Magazine, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily, Third Coast and The Washington Post. She has also contributed to several anthologies including The Best American Poetry 1993,[2][3][4] Robert Hass's Poet's Choice, and Claiming the Spirit Within.

Fogel's honors include nine Pushcart Prize nominations, Best of the Web, and a 1997 literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts[5] and the New England Poetry Club's Daniel Varoujan Award[6][7] among other awards. She works one-on-one with learning disabled students at Landmark College and teaches a variety of programs around the state of New Hampshire.

Personal life

She lives in Walpole, New Hampshire.[8][9]

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

  • A Doubtful House (Bauhan Publishing, 2017)
  • Interval: Poems Based on Bach's Goldberg Variations (Schaffner Press, 2015)
  • Be That Empty (Harbor Mountain Press, 2007)
  • I Love This Dark World (Zoland Books, 1996)
  • Elemental (Zoland Books, 1993)

Non-fiction

  • Strange Terrain: A Poetry Handbook for the Reluctant Reader (Hobblebush Books, 2009)

References

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