2001 Grant Awards: Literature Fellowships (Poetry)

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

Total Grants Awarded: 40
Total: $800,000

The 2001 Literature Fellowships recognize the following writers in poetry and help recipients to write, conduct research, and otherwise advance their art form.

Each grantee will receive $20,000.

Barot, Enrique P.
Oakland, CA

Ben-Tov Muir, Sharona
Perrysburg, OH

Bentley, Roy
Granville, OH

Berke, Judith A.
Miami Beach, FL

Bond, Bruce C.
Denton, TX

Brasfield, James E.
State College, PA

Brown, Stephanie C.
San Clemente, CA

Buckley, Christopher
Lompoc, CA

Burket, Cheryl
San Francisco, CA

Day, Jean T.
Berkeley, CA

Dubris, Maggie
New York, NY

Duehr, Gary
Somerville, MA

Duhamel, Denise L.
Woonsocket, RI

Finkelstein, Caroline
Westport Point, MA

Foo, Josephine
Philadelphia, PA

Foss, Phillip O.
San Juan Pueblo, NM

Gander, Forrest
Barrington, RI

Howell, Christopher
Spokane, WA

Kim, Susan K.
Milton, NY

Kocot, Noelle
Brooklyn, NY

Latta, John A.
Ann Arbor, MI

Laux, Dorianne L.
Eugene, OR

Linmark, Rinehardt Z.
Honolulu, HI

McLain, Paula
Madison, WI

Mitchell, Roger S.
Bloomington, IN

Moustaki, Nicole
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

North, Charles L.
New York, NY

Rabinowitz, Anna
New York, NY

Rickel, Boyer
Tucson, AZ

Ryan, Kay
Fairfax, CA

Smith, Charlie
New York, NY

Steinberg, Hugh
San Francisco, CA

Suarez, Virgil
Tallahassee, FL

Van Winckel, Nance
Cheney, WA

The 2000 Literature Fellowships also support the following translation projects. Each grantee will receive $20,000.

Gecewicz, Donald J.
Evanston, IL
To support the translation from Italian of Giovanni Raboni's 12th book of poems, Every Third Thought. The collection consists of a series of nine prose poems and two series of sonnets reflecting on illness, mortality, love and Raboni's native city of Milan.

Hinton, David
East Calais, VT
To support the translation of an anthology of shan-shui shih (wilderness poems) from ancient China. Begun in the 5th century C.E., this genre represents the earliest and most extensive literary engagement with wilderness in human history.

Kessler, Stephen J.
Gualala, CA
To support the translation from Spanish of Ocnos, a book of prose poems by Luis Cernuda. This 170-page volume of poetry is a lyrical autobiography exploring the author's childhood in Seville and his exile in the United States.

Lesser, Rika E.
Brooklyn, NY
To support the translation from Swedish of G&oulm;ran Sonnevi's 13th book of poems, Mozart's Right Brain. The 190-page title poem, composed from 1992-1996, is a meditation on life and death, history and politics, language and silence.

Metres III, Philip J.
Bloomington, IN
To support the translation from Russian of Lev Rubinshtein's selected poems, Regular Writing, in collaboration with Tanya Tulchinsky. This collection of avant-garde poems is arranged on separate note cards and will be presented both as a publishable manuscript and as hypertext.

Simon, John O.
Berkeley, CA
To support the translation from Spanish of selected poetry by Gonzalo Rojas, considered to be one of the most important living Chilean poets. The poems will be selected from Rojas's oeuvre of more than 20 volumes of poetry, of which little has appeared in English.

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