Mary Jo Salter

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Mary Jo Salter
Born	(1954-08-15) August 15, 1954 (age 70) Grand Rapids, Michigan
Occupation	Poet, editor
Alma mater	Harvard University Cambridge University
Genre	Poetry

Mary Jo Salter (born August 15, 1954) is an American poet, a co-editor of The Norton Anthology of Poetry^[1] and a professor in the Writing Seminars program at Johns Hopkins University.

Salter was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and was raised in Detroit and Baltimore, Maryland. She received her B.A. from Harvard University in 1976 and her M.A. from Cambridge University in 1978. In 1976, she participated in the Glascock Prize contest.

While at Harvard, she studied with the noted poet Elizabeth Bishop. She has been an editor at the Atlantic Monthly and at The New Republic.

From 1984 to 2007, she taught at Mount Holyoke College and was, from 1995 to 2007, a vice-president of the Poetry Society of America.

She has two daughters, Emily and Hilary Leithauser.

She is on the editorial board of the literary magazine The Common, based at Amherst College.^[2]

• Henry Purcell in Japan, Knopf, 1985, ISBN 978-0-394-53657-6
• Unfinished Painting, Knopf, 1989, ISBN 978-0-394-57417-2, Lamont Selection for that year's most distinguished second volume of poetry
• Sunday Skaters, A.A. Knopf, 1994, ISBN 978-0-679-43109-1, nominated in 1994 for the National Book Critics Circle Award (Knopf)
• A Kiss in Space, Knopf, 1999, ISBN 978-0-375-40531-0
• Open Shutters, Alfred A. Knopf, 2003, ISBN 978-1-4000-4008-7, named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
• A Phone Call to the Future: New and Selected Poems^[3]
• Nothing by Design, Knopf, 2013, ISBN 978-0-385-34979-6
• The Surveyors, Knopf, 2017, ISBN 978-1-524-73266-0

• The Norton Anthology of Poetry, W. W. Norton, 1996, ISBN 978-0-393-96820-0 (co-editor)

• The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (W. W. Norton & Company, 2010)

• Falling Bodies (2004)

• The Moon Comes Home (1989)

• The Achiever: Helen Keller by Mary Jo Salter^[4]

• 1981: The Frost Place poet in residence
• 1995–1996: Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
• 1989: Lamont Poetry Prize for the year’s most distinguished second volume of poetry - Unfinished Painting
• 2003: Open Shutters named a "notable book of the year" by The New York Times
• 2004: Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship

• Johns Hopkins biography of Salter
• Married Poets Craft Love Poems by the Clock
• Library of Congress National Book Festival biography of Salter
• Blue Flower Arts biography of Salter
• Mount Holyoke College biography of Salter
• Smith College biography of Salter
• Borzoi interview

• "Tromp l'Oeil", Blue Flower Arts
• "A Kiss in Space and A Rainbow Over the Seine"