Jean Valentine (1934 - present)

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Jean Valentine was born in Chicago, earned her B.A. from Radcliffe College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. She won the Yale Younger Poets Award for her first book, Dream Barker, in 1965. Her most recent collection, Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems 1965 - 2003, is the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Poetry. Author of eight other books (listed below), Jean has received a Guggenheim Fellowship and awards from the NEA, The Bunting Institute, The Rockefell.. Continue..

Some of Jean Valentine Poems

Elegy For Jane Kenyon

Dream Barker

Late

To Plath, To Sexton

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