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Biography
Director of the Poetry Center at Smith College, Ellen Doré Watson is the author of We Live in Bodies and Ladder Music (Alice James, 2001 and 2002), as well as Broken Railings (Green Lake Chapbook Prize, Owl Creek Press, 1996). She is also the translator of twelve books from Brazilian Portuguese, including The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Prado (Wesleyan University Press, 1990), and serves as Poetry Editor of The Massachusetts Review. In 2011, she was appointed an Elector of the Poets' Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Watson's poems have appeared widely in journals, including The American Poetry Review and The New Yorker. Among her awards and honors are the Bullis-Kizer Prize from Poetry Northwest, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers Award, a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, and a 1990 Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Grant. Library Journal named her one of "24 Poets for the 21st Century."
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Reviews of Ellen Doré Watson's This SharpeningReviews of Ellen Doré Watson's Dogged Hearts