Grace Schulman

Grace Schulman (born Grace Jan Waldman, 1935 New York City) is an American poet.

Schulman studied at Bard College, and graduated from American University in 1955, and from New York University with a Ph.D.in 1971.

She is Distinguished Professor of English at Baruch College, CUNY, and has taught poetry writing at Princeton University, Columbia University, Wesleyan University, Bennington College, and Warren Wilson College Schulman’s seventh collection of poems is "Without a Claim "(Mariner, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). Her recent collection of essays is First Loves and Other Adventures" (University of Michigan Press, 2010). She is the author of "Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems," which was selected by Library Journal as one of the “best poetry books of 2002," and was a finalist for the Phi Beta Kappa Award of that year. Wallace Shawn wrote of her poems, "When I read her, she makes me want to live to be four hundred years old, because she makes me feel there is so much out there, and it's unbearable to miss any of it," and Harold Bloom wrote of The Paintings of Our Lives: "These elegiac lyrics are reveries upon art, street scenes, and the beloved dead. Many of them are so exquisite in their sensibility, so intricate in their texture, that they are likely to endure as long as we have discerning readers. The American Scholar selected her poem, Headstones, as Best Poem of 2004.Among her honors are the 2016 Frost Medal for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in American Poetry, the highest award of the Poetry Society of America; the Aiken Taylor Award for poetry; the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Award; a Guggenheim Fellowship; four Pushcart Prizes; New York University's Distinguished Alumni Award; and a Fellowship from the New York Council on the Arts. Her poems have appeared in anthologies such as Best American Poetry (1995), Best of the Best American Poetry 1989-99 (1999), and American Religious Poems (2006). Her poetry is described by Mary Ann Caws in "Grace Schulman's Seeing," from" In the Frame: Women's Ekphrastic Poetry," edited by Jane Hedley (University of Delaware Press); and by David Mason, in "Grace Schulman's Songs of Praise<" Sewanee Review.

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