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MBL Falmouth Forum Series
Herman T. Epstein Endowed Memorial Lecture
"Poetry Reading: Imagination, Language and the Life of the Mind"
March 16, 2012
Jean Nordhaus, Washington D.C. area poet, teacher, author and editor
Jean Nordhaus was born in Baltimore, Maryland, studied philosophy at Barnard College and received her doctorate in modern German literature from Yale University. Her newest book of poems, Innocence, won the Charles B. Wheeler prize from Ohio State University Press and was published in November, 2006. Her previous book, The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn was published by Milkweed Editions in November, 2002. Other books of poetry include My Life in Hiding, A Bracelet of Lies (Washington Writers' Publishing House, 1987) and a chapbook, A Language of Hands (SCOP, 1982.) A selection of her Moses Mendelssohn poems won the 1997 Edward Stanley Award from Prairie Schooner.
Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, the Hudson Review, the New Republic, Ploughshares, Poet Lore, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Yankee, Best American Poetry 2000, and were published in the 2007 Pushcart Prize Anthology; in addition, she has published numerous articles, essays, and reviews on dance and poetry in the Washington Post, the Washington Review, Poet Lore, and the PSA Bulletin.
From 1980 to 1983, and again in 1991-1992, she administered the poetry programs at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC. While at the Folger in 1982-83, she also administered the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. She has taught German at the University of Maryland, English at the University of the District of Columbia, and has conducted writing workshops at George Mason University, The Writer's Center, and St. Mary's College, as well as assisting in workshops at the Bread Loaf Writer's Conference, where she was a fellow in 1987 and a staff associate from 1992 through 1994. She currently serves as prose editor for the journal Poet Lore.
Admission to this MBL Falmouth Forum presentation is free and open to the public. For more information, contact the MBL Communications Office at: (508) 289-7423 or
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