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Mary Jo Salter
Professor
Director of Graduate Studies
Telephone: (410) 516-6286
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 presently serving as co-chair of the department. 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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