2003 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

The 2003 Literature Fellowships recognize the following writers in poetry, encouraging the production of new work by affording these writers the time and means to write.

Each grantee will receive $20,000

Ralph Adamo
New Orleans, LA

Daniel Anderson
Sewanee, TN

Quan Barry
Madison, WI

Kevin Bowen
Dorchester, MA

Geoffrey Brock
Dallas, TX

Nan Cohen
Sherman Oaks, CA

Theodore Deppe
Bloomington, IN

Camille Dungy
Lynchburg, VA

Jill Alexander Essbaum
Austin, TX

Beth Ann Fennelly
Galesburg, IL

Ted Genoways
Minneapolis, MN

Diane Glancy
St. Paul, MN

Joanna Goodman
New York, NY

David Gravender
Seattle, WA

Lola Haskins
LaCrosse, FL

David Keplinger
Harleysville, PA

Jacqueline Lyons
Salt Lake City, UT

Carl Marcum
Chicago, IL

Corey Marks
Denton, TX

Cleopatra Mathis
Hanover, NH

Davis McCombs
Fayetteville, AR

Jeffrey McDaniel
Los Angeles, CA

Kat Meads
Santa Cruz, CA

Joseph Millar
Eugene, OR

D. A. Powell
Somerville, MA

Paisley Rekdal
Laramie, WY

Thomas Reiter
Neptune, NJ

Angela Shaw
Arlington, MA

Peter Shippy
Jamaica Plain, MA

Ron Silliman
Paoli, PA

Larissa Szporluk
Bowling Green, OH

Brian Teare
East Palo Alto, CA

Robert Thomas
S. San Fransisco, CA

Ann Townsend
Granville, OH

Chris Tysh
Ferndale, MI

Marlys Mitchell West
Austin, TX

Eliot Wilson
Tuscaloosa, AL

Gary Young
Santa Cruz, CA

TRANSLATION PROJECTS IN POETRY

The 2003 Literature Fellowship recognizes the following writers in translating literature and providing insights into other countriesÍ cultures, politics, and values.

Roger Greenwald
Toronto, Canada
$20,000
To support the translation from Danish of selected poems by Henrik Nordbrandt. Winner of the 2000 Nordic Council Literature Prize, Nordbrandt is one of the most significant poets to have emerged in Scandinavia since the end of World War Two.

Jerzy Gregorek
Santa Monica, CA
$10,000
To support the translation from Polish of selected poems by Mauryey Szymel. Gregorek will collaborate with his wife, Aniela Gregorek.

Henry Israeli
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Albanian of selected poems by Luljeta Lleshanaku. Israeli will collaborate with Shpresa Qatipi.

Shirley Kaufman
Jerusalem, Israel
$20,000
To support the translation from Hebrew of selected poems by Meir Wieseltier. Born in Moscow in 1941, Wieseltier lived in Siberia and throughout Europe before he settled in Israel.

Alexis Levitin
Morrisonville, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Portuguese of two collections of selected poems by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen and Herberto Helder. Both distinguished, award-winning poets, Andresen (b. 1919) and Helder (b. 1930) represent two extremes among the diversity of voices in contemporary Portuguese poetry.

Mike O'Connor
Port Townsend, WA
$20,000
To support the translation from Classical Chinese of Another Path: Poems on Chinese Reclusion. The collection will feature 15 poets from the mid- and late Tang Dynasty.

Daniel Shapiro
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Spanish of Cipango by Chilean poet Tomas Harris. Little known in the U.S., Harris received numerous awards in Latin America, including the Pablo Neruda Priza, the Altazor Award, and the Casa de las Amercas Prize.

Carol Ueland
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the translation from Russian of selected poems by Aleksandr Kushner. Ueland will collaborate with Robert Carnevale.

Keith Waldrop
Providence, RI
$20,000
To support the translation from French of Jean Grosjean's book of poems, Terre du temps. Born in 1912, Grosjean has published more than a dozen books of poetry. His first book of poems, Terre du temps was published in 1946 and was awarded the Prix de la Pleiade.

Elizabeth Wright
Waltham, MA
$10,000
To support the translation from German of Zafer Senocak's sixth book of poems, Fernwehanstalten. Raised in Turkey and Germany, Senocak has published seven books of poetry.

FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED: 48
TOTAL DOLLARS AWARDED: $900,000

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