April Bernard

April Bernard (born 1956) is an American poet. She was born and raised in New England, and graduated from Harvard University. She has worked as a senior editor at Vanity Fair, Premiere, and Manhattan, inc. In the early 1990s, she taught at Amherst College.^[1] In Fall 2003, she was Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence at Baruch College.^[1] She currently teaches at Skidmore College in Saratoga Springs, New York. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, the Boston Review, AGNI, Ploughshares,^[2] Parnassus, and The New York Review of Books.^[3]

Honors and awards

• 2003 Guggenheim Fellowship ^[4]
• 2006 Stover Memorial Prize in Poetry

Published works

Full-Length Poetry Collections

• Romanticism: Poems. W.W. Norton & Co. June 1, 2009. ISBN 978-0-393-06807-8. 
• Swan Electric. W. W. Norton. 2002. ISBN 978-0-393-05114-8. 
• Psalms. W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated. 1995. ISBN 978-0-393-31304-8. 
• Blackbird Bye Bye. Random House. 1989. 

Novels

• Pirate Jenny. W. W. Norton & Company. 1990. ISBN 978-0-393-33430-2. 
• Miss Fuller. Steerforth Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-58642-195-3. 

Anthology Publications

• Phillis Levin, ed. (November 2001). The Penguin Book of the Sonnet: 500 Years of a Classic Tradition in English. Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-058929-0. 
• Molly McQuade (2000). By Herself: Women Reclaim Poetry. Graywolf Press. ISBN 978-1-55597-297-4. 

References

External links

• "Interview: April Bernard", Reb Livingston, Post Road Magazine, Issue 7
• Audio: April Bernard reads "Beagle or Something" from Romanticism: Poems (2009)
• Audio: April Bernard reads "Heimatlos" from Romanticism: Poems (2009)
• "Beagle or Something". The New Yorker. April 30, 2007. 
• "Song of Yes and No", Baruch College
• "That's What I Said". AGNI. 47. 1998. 
• "Not Rome". Boston Review. Summer 2002. 
• "Notes on the First Person". Poems Out Loud. Aug 21, 2009. 
• "Escape from the Ivory Tower". Lapham's Quarterly. Fall 2008. 
• "Famous Last Words: Harold Brodkey's deathbed memoir". slate. Oct 22, 1996.