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The critical attention of Marjorie Welish’s previous book and the recent symposium on her career will help us secure media attention and sales for this new collection***An extensive profile and interview with Marjorie Welish appears in the 2003 anthology What Is Poetry: Conversations with the American Avant-Garde***Famed sculptor and architect, Siah Armajani, recently commissioned a poem from Marjorie Welish to be incorporated into his design for a plaza at the Department of History, Ohio State University (in progress).
Recipient of the Judith E. Wilson Fellowship, Howard Foundation Fellowship, and other prestigious poetry awards, Marjorie Welish is the author of seven collections, including The Annotated "Here" and Selected Poems, an Academy of American Poets Lenore Marshall Prize finalist and Village Voice Best Book of the Year. She lives in New York and teaches at Columbia University and Pratt Institute.
