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Clampitt, Amy

LC control no.n 82079094
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationPS3553.L23
Personal name headingClampitt, Amy
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Variant(s)Clampitt, Amy Kathleen
See alsoGraduate of: Grinnell College
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Associated countryUnited States
Associated placeGrinnell (Iowa) New York (N.Y.) Williamsburg (Va.) Amherst (Mass.) Saint Louis (Mo.)
LocatedNew Providence (Iowa) New York (N.Y.)
Birth date1920-06-15
Death date1994-09-10
Place of birthNew Providence (Iowa)
Place of deathLenox (Mass.)
Field of activityPoetry
AffiliationGrinnell College Columbia University New School for Social Research (New York, N.Y. : 1919-1997) Academy of American Poets National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.) College of William and Mary Amherst College Washington University (Saint Louis, Mo.)
Profession or occupationPoets
Found inHer Multitudes, multitudes, 1973.
Her Predecessors, et cetera, c1991: CIP t.p. (Amy Clampitt) data sheet (b. 1920)
Collected poems, 1997: CIP t.p. (Amy Clampitt) publr. description (63 yrs. old in 1985) auth. info. (died Sept. 1994)
Westward, 1990: title page (Amy Clampitt) a note about the author (born and brought up in New Providence, Iowa; graduated from Grinnell College and has since lived mainly in New York City; poet; member od the Academy of American Poets and the National Institute of Arts and Letters; has been writer in residence at the College of William and Mary, visiting writer at Amherst College, and visiting Hurst Professor at Washington University)
Poetry Foundation website, September 30, 2016 (Amy Clampitt, 1920-1994; one of the most highly regarded poets in America; born in Iowa; she studied first at Grinnell College in Grinnell, Iowa, and later at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research in New York City)
Contemporary authors online, September 30, 2016 (Amy Clampitt; born June 15, 1920, New Providence, Iowa; died September 10, 1994, Lenox, Massachusetts; full name: Amy Kathleen Clampitt; poet)
Associated languageeng