Margo Taft Stever is an American poet, whose poetry collections include The End of Horses (Broadstone Books, 2020),[1] winner of the Pinnacle Achievement Award in Poetry, 2022; Cracked Piano[2][3] (CavanKerry Press, 2019); Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019); The Lunatic Ball (Kattywompus Press, 2015); The Hudson Line (Main Street Rag, 2012); Frozen Spring (Mid-List Press First Series Award, 2002) and Reading the Night Sky (Riverstone Press Poetry Chapbook Competition, 1996).[4]
Biography
editStever is a graduate of Harvard University, and is a recipient of an Ed.M from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and an M.F.A. in Poetry from Sarah Lawrence College.[5][6]
Stever co-authored the book Looking East: William Howard Taft and the 1905 U.S. Diplomatic Mission to China (Zhejiang University Press, 2012).[7]
Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including Verse Daily; Prairie Schooner; Connecticut Review; “poem-a-day” on poets.org, Academy of American Poets; Cincinnati Review; upstreet; Plume; and Salamander.[8]
She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center[9][10][11] and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.[12] She lives in Sleepy Hollow, New York.[13]
References
edit- ^ "The End of Horses, poetry by Margo Taft Stever". Broadstone Books. Retrieved 2022-05-27.
- ^ "Sleepy Hollow Poet to Release Collection on a Longtime Family Secret". www.theexaminernews.com. 10 April 2019. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ "Cracked Piano". CavanKerry Press. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ "Margo Taft Stever". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae". MARGO TAFT STEVER. 2018-11-18. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ "News and Announcements from Alums - Sarah Lawrence College". alum.slc.edu. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ Looking East.
- ^ "Reviews". MARGO TAFT STEVER. 2018-11-27. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ Vizard, Mary McAleer (1994-04-24). "In the Region/Westchester; Transforming a Waterfront Eyesore Into an Asset". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ Hershenson, Roberta (1994-06-19). "Writers' Center Turning Philipse Manor Station Into Its Office". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ Hadad, Herbert (1989-07-30). "An Abandoned Station Inspires a Literary Quest". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-06-10.
- ^ lauramadelinewiseman (2013-08-05). "Margo Taft Stever on publishing and mentoring chapbook poets". The Chapbook Interview. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
- ^ "A Profile of Poet and Hudson Valley Writers' Center Founder Margo Taft Stever of Sleepy Hollow". www.westchestermagazine.com. 21 September 2012. Retrieved 2019-06-05.
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