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Claudia Emerson (b. 1957, Chatham, Virginia) is winner of the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for her collection Late Wife. She is an associate professor of English at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia.^[1] Image File history File links Padlock. ... Chatham is a town located in Pittsylvania County, Virginia. ... The gold medal awarded for Public Service in Journalism The Pulitzer Prize is an American award regarded as the highest honor in print journalism, literary achievements, and musical compositions. ... The University of Mary Washington is a coeducational, state-funded, four-year liberal arts university in Fredericksburg, Virginia about 55 miles (88 km) north of Richmond and 45 miles (80 km) south of Washington, DC. U.S. Route 1 borders the western side of the campus. ... Fredericksburg is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia, 50 miles south of Washington, D.C., and 55 miles north of Richmond, Virginia. ...

Education

• Chatham Hall, a girls' boarding school in Chatham, Virginia.
• University of Virginia (English, 1979)
• University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Masters in Creative Writing)

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Books of poetry

• Pharaoh, Pharaoh (LSU Press, 1997--as Claudia Emerson Andrews)^[2]
• Pinion, An Elegy (LSU Press, 2002))^[3]
• The Late Wife, (LSU Press, 2005)^[4]

External sites

• Pulitzer Prize site
• Martz, Michael, "Pulitzer-winning poet from Chatham Virginia: Professor latest with ties to town to bask in literary glory," Richmond Times Dispatch April 20, 2006
• Williams, Susan Settlemyre, "An Interview with Claudia Emerson, Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 1, No 2December 16, 2002 transcript and audio file about Pinion, An Elegy.
• Williams, Susan Settlemyre, "Review | Pinion: An Elegy, by Claudia Emerson", Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 1, No. 2December 16, 2002
• Emerson, "The Bat" (poem), Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 2, No. 1, (Spring, 2003)
• Emerson, "Pitching Horsehoes" (poem), Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 2, No. 1, (Spring, 2003)
• Emerson, "Possessions" Horsehoes" (poem), Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 2, No. 1, (Spring, 2003)
• Emerson, "Surface Hunting" (poem), Blackbird: An Online Journal of Literature and the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Volume 2, No. 1, (Spring, 2003)
• Emerson, "Second Bearing,1919" (poem), Smartish Pace, 2004
• Emerson, "Bone" (poem), American Academy of Poets website from Pinion: an elegy
• Emerson, "Artifact" (poem), LSU Press site for The Late Wife
• Emerson reading from The Late Wife on September 27, 2005 at MWU--mp3 download
• Kooser, Ted, American Life in Poetry: Column 26--Claudia Emerson's poem "Stable'

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References

1. ↑ Mary Washington University (April 17, 2006). "UMW'S Claudia Emerson Wins 2006 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry". Press release.
2. ↑ Andrews, Claudia Emerson (1997). Pharaoh, Pharaoh (Paper), 1st. Edition (in English), 72 pp., Baton Rouge: LSU Press. ISBN: 0-8071-2765-5.
3. ↑ Emerson, Claudia (2002). Pinion: An Elegy (Cloth), 1st. Edition (in English), 55 pp., Baton Rouge: LSU Press. ISBN: 0-8071-2765-5.
4. ↑ Emerson, Claudia (September 30, 2005). The Late Wife (Cloth), 1st. Edition (in English), 54 pp., Baton Rouge: LSU Press. ISBN: 0807130834.