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Anita Skeen
September 10, 1999
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Anita
Skeen is the author of four volumes of poetry: The Resurrection
of the Animals; Each Hand a Map; Outside the Fold, Outside
the Frame; and Portraits. Her poetry, short fiction, and essays
have appeared in numerous literary magazines and anthologies.
She is currently completing a new volume of poetry, a collection
of short stories, and a first novel, Minor Chords. |
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Skeen
was born in 1946 and grew up in West Virginia. She graduated
from Concord College
in Athens, West Virginia, and received her graduate degrees from
Bowling Green State University. She is a Professor of English,
as well as the Director of the Residential Option in Arts and
Letters Program at Michigan State University; and teaches Creative
Writing, Women's Studies, and Canadian Studies. Prior to coming
to MSU, she was on the faculty of the English Department and
M.F.A. Program at Wichita State University. While at WSU, Skeen
co-founded the Kay Closson Women Writing Series. The series,
presented annually by the WSU Center for Women’s Studies
since 1981, is now known as the Words By Women Series. She is
also Director of the Creative Arts Festival and the Fall Writing
Series at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
"In Anita Skeen's world, the past rolls in like fog,
unpredictably, to trouble and reconfigure the present. It is
a world well worth visiting despite its hazards. Moreover,
she has the uncanny ability to make me feel that I have already
seen part of it, but not enough; so that I linger until I become
part of her pemanent audience. In the landscape of American
poetry Anita Skeen matters." George Ellenbogen
To view Special Collections' holdings of Anita Skeen's work,
please click here.
To hear Skeen read from her own work, please visit the Vincent
Voice Library, here.
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