Jean Valentine

Jean Valentine (b. 1934) is an American poet. She was born in Chicago, received a bachelor of arts degree at Radcliffe College, and has lived most of her life in New York City. Her early poem "Dream Barker" received the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1965, and the 2004 collection of her poetry, Door in the Mountain, received the National Book Award for poetry. She has taught with the Graduate Writing Program at New York University, at Columbia University, at the 92nd Street Y in Manhattan, and at Sarah Lawrence College.

She was once married to the late American historian James Chace.

[edit] Published works

Dream Barker, and Other Poems (1965, Yale University Press, Yale Series of Younger Poets, Vol. 61)
Pilgrims (1969, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Ordinary Things (1974, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
The Messenger (1979, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Home Deep Blue: New and selected poems (1989, Alice James Books) ISBN 0-914086-80-4
The River at Wolf (1992, Alice James Books)
"3 a.m. in New York" in Leaving New York: Writers look back, Kathleen Norris (ed.) (1995, Hungry Man Press) ISBN 1-886913-00-5
The Under Voice: Selected Poems (1995, Salmon Publishing)
Growing Darkness, Growing Light (1997, Carnegie Mellon University Press) ISBN 0-88748-241-4
The Cradle of the Real Life (2000, Wesleyan University Press) ISBN 0-8195-6405-2
The Lighthouse Keeper: Essays on the Poetry of Eleanor Ross Taylor, editor (2001, Seneca Review)
Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965–2003 (2004, Wesleyan University Press) ISBN 0-8195-6712-4

1965 Yale Younger Poets Award (for "Dream Barker")
1976 Guggenheim Fellowship
1988 Beatrice Hawley Award (for "Home Deep Blue: New and Selected Poems").
2004 National Book Award for Poetry (for Door in the Mountain: New and Collected Poems, 1965-2003).

"bio/books", jeanvalentine.com, (Retrieved October 16, 2006).
Hershenson, Roberta. "A Poet in Yonkers." The New York Times, Nov. 28, 2004, section 14WC, p. 13.
"Jean Valentine", poets.org, Academy of American Poets (Retrieved October 17, 2006).
Publisher Weekly Review of Door in the Mountain by Reed Business Information (Accessed via the Seattle Public Library and Syndetic Solutions, Inc.)
Weiner, Tim. "James Chace, Foreign Policy Thinker, Is Dead at 72". The New York Times (Late East Coast edition), October 11, 2004, p. B.7. (Accessed via ProQuest, Document ID 710384891)