{{short description|American poet}}
'''Eva Salzman''' (born 1960) is a contemporary American poet.
Eva Salzman was born in 1960 in New York City to musicologist/composer Eric Salzman and activist/writer Lorna Salzman. She grew up in Brooklyn, where, from the age of 10 until 22, she was a dancer and later a choreographer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Eva+Salzman |title=Bloodaxe Books: Author Page > Eva Salzman<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2008-05-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071231180423/http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/personpage.asp?author=Eva+Salzman |archive-date=2007-12-31 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was educated at Bennington College and Columbia University, then moved to Great Britain in 1985.
Salzman's eclectic background has led to work in cross-arts projects with artists, dancers, and singers. Her teaching for children, teenagers and adults has included projects in London’s East End and a residency at Springhill Prison, as well as continuing work for the Poetry Society’s Poet in the City and Poetryclass projects and co-devising a Start Writing Poetry course for the Open University. She is co-editor, with Amy Wack, of the 2008 anthology ''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3328353-women-s-work Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English]''.
Salzman's first collection of poetry, ''The English Earthquake'', was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and her second volume, ''Bargain With The Watchman'', won a Special Commendation.<ref>[http://www.opendemocracy.net/author/Eva_Salzman.jsp openDemocracy Author -Eva Salzman<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Her poem "To the Enemy" was set for soprano and percussion ensemble by Australian composer Katia Tiutiunnik; the composition received its world premiere performance on August 26, 2010 at the opening "Visionaries" concert of the Soundstream Festival, Adelaide, South Australia.<ref>[http://www.australianstage.com.au/201008273804/reviews/adelaide/the-visionaries-%7C-soundstream-adelaide-new-music-festival.html The Visionaries, Soundstream Festival, Adelaide]</ref> The premiere was broadcast live by ABC Classic FM.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.abc.net.au/classic/australianmusic/stories/s2965344.htm|title=Classic FM|website=www.abc.net.au|language=en|access-date=2018-07-03}}</ref>
She lives in Harringay, London. As of 2020, Salzman teaches literature at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
==Bibliography== * ''The English Earthquake '' * ''Bargain With The Watchman'' * ''Double Crossing: New and Selected Poems'' * ''Women's Work: Modern Women Poets Writing in English'' (co-editor)
==External links== *[http://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ Bloodaxe Books] *[http://www.wreckingballpress.com/ Wrecking Ball Press]
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