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Mary Jo Salter
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Telephone: (410) 516-7565
E-mail: mjsalter@jhu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
photo: Michael Malyszko
Mary Jo Salter is the author of six books of poetry, all published by Knopf, mostly recently A Phone Call to the Future (2008). A frequent reviewer and essayist, she is also a lyricist whose song cycle “Rooms of Light,” with music by Fred Hersch, premiered at Lincoln Center in 2007. Her children’s book The Moon Comes Home appeared in 1989; her play Falling Bodies premiered in 2004. She is also co-editor, with Margaret Ferguson and Jon Stallworthy, of The Norton Anthology of Poetry (4th edition, 1996; 5th edition, 2005). Salter became a permanent member of the Writing Seminars faculty in 2007, after 23 years of teaching at Mount Holyoke College. She is Director of Graduate Studies for the department and coordinator of its reading series. In addition to poetry workshops, in which she often concentrates on the uses of form, her recent undergraduate courses have included Four American Women Poets: Dickinson, Moore, Bishop, Clampitt as well as The Poetry of War. Recent and forthcoming graduate courses consider the work of W.H. Auden; the modern sonnet; and the parallel work of the poets Heaney, Walcott, and Brodsky.
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