Career Highlights

Radcliffe College, B.A., 1946; M.A. 1948

Distinguished Poet in Residence, New England College Low-Residency MFA in Poetry, Henniker NH 2003 -2008
Doenges Professor, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton VA 2002
Visiting Professor, Florida International University, Miami FL, spring 1998-2000
McGee Professor of Writing, Davidson College, Davisdon NC spring 1995
Visiting Professor, Pitzer College, Claremont CA, winter, 1996
Chancellor, The Academy of American Poets, 1995-9; resigned in protest
Visiting Professor, University of Miami (Florida) spring, 1995
Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow, 1991-4, 1979-84
Staff Member, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, 1993-94.
Elector, Poets’ Corner, Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, 1990-1999
Poet Laureate, State of New Hampshire, 1989-94
Master Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL 1984
Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA 1984
Visiting Professor, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 1981-2; 1978-79
Poet-in-Residence, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA 1983
Consultant in Poetry, Library of Congress, 1981-2 (renamed US Poet Laureate)
Hurst Professor of Literature, Brandeis University, Waltham MA 1975
Hurst Professsor of Literature,Washington University, St. Louis, MO 1978
Adjunct Professor of Writing, Columbia University,NYC, NY 1975
Visiting Professor, Centre College, Danville, KY 1973
Staff Member, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, 1969-71; 1973, 75, 77.
Instructor in English, Tufts University, 1958-1968

2019 New Hampshire Literary Hall of Fame
2011 Los Angeles Times poetry award for Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010
2008 Paterson Prize for Distinguished Literary Achievement
2007 Paterson Poetry Prize for Still To Mow
2006 Robert Frost Medal, Poetry Society of America
2005 Harvard University Arts Medal
2001 Robert Frost Award, Plymouth State College
2000 Charity Randall Award
1999 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
1998 New Hampshire Writers Project Lifetime Achievement Award
1997 New York Times Notable Book for Selected Poems 1960-1990
1996 Centennial Award, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
1995 Aiken Taylor Poetry Prize for Looking for Luck
1994 Poets’ Prize for Looking for Luck
1992 Sarah Josepha Hale Award, Richards Library, Newport, NH
1986 Levinson Prize, Poetry Magazine
1985 Fellowship, Academy of American Poets
1983 Arts America tour, US Information Agency
1980 American Academy and Institute of Arts & Letters Award
1978 Radcliffe College Alumnae Recognition Award
1973 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Up Country
1972 Eunice Tietjens Memorial Prize, Poetry Magazine
1967-8 National Council on the Arts Fellowship
1961-3 Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study

And Short the Season, W.W. Norton Co., 2014
Where I Live: New & Selected Poems 1990-2010, W.W. Norton Co, 2010
Still to Mow, W.W. Norton Co., 2007
Jack and Other New Poems, W.W. Norton Co., 2005
Bringing Together: Uncollected Early Poems 1958-1988, W.W. Norton Co., 2003
The Long Marriage, W.W.Norton Co., 2001; finalist for the Lenore Marshall Award of the Academy of American Poets, 2002
Selected Poems 1960-1990, W.W. Norton Co., 1997; New York Times Notable Book of the Year
Connecting the Dots, W.W. Norton Co.,1996
Looking for Luck, W.W. Norton Co., 1992
Nurture, Viking/ Penguin 1989
The Long Approach, Viking /Penguin, 1985-6
Our Ground Time Here Will Be Brief, New and Selected Poems, Viking/Penguin, 1982
The Retrieval System, Viking/Penguin, 1978
House, Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Viking/ Penguin, 1975
Up Country, Harper & Row, 1972
The Nightmare Factory, Harper & Row, 1970
The Privilege, Harper & Row, 1965
Halfway, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1961

The Pawnbroker’s Daughter, W.W. Norton, 2015

Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery, W.W. Norton, 1999

Lizzie!, Seven Stories Press, 2014 (Young Adult novel)
Quit Monks Or Die, Story Line Press, 1999 (animal rights mystery)
The Designated Heir, Viking, 1974; Andre Deutsch (England)
The Abduction, Harper & Row, 1971
The Passions of Uxport, Harper & Row, 1968, Dell paper, 1969
Through Dooms of Love, Harper & Row, 1965; Hamish Hamilton & Gollancz (England), Panther

The Roots of Things: Essays, Northwestern University Press, 2010
Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry, Copper Canyon Press, 2000
Inside the Halo and Beyond: Anatomy of a Recovery, W. W. Norton Co., 1999
Women, Animals, and Vegetables: Essays and Stories, Norton, 1994; Ontario Review Press, 1996
In Deep: Country Essays, Viking 1987; Beacon Press 1988
To Make a Prairie: Essays on Poets, Poetry and Country Living, University of Michigan Press, 1980

MAXINE KUMIN Poet and Author