Eavan Boland

Eavan Boland is Irish. She has taught at Trinity College and University College Dublin. She was poet in residence at the National Maternity Hospital during its 1994 Centenary. She has also been the Hurst Professor at Washington University and Regent's Lecturer at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She has published ten volumes of poetry, the most recent being A Woman Without A Country (2014) as well as New Collected Poems (2008) and Domestic Violence (2007) and An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems 1967-87 (1996) with W.W. Norton. She has received the Lannan Award for Poetry and an American Ireland Fund Literary Award. She has published two volumes of prose: Object Lessons: The Life of the Woman and the Poet in Our Time and A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet which won a 2012 PEN Award for creative nonfiction. She has co-edited the Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms with Mark Strand and the Norton Anthology of the Sonnet with Edward Hirsch.
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