{{short description|American poet}} {{Infobox writer | name = Linda Bierds | image = | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Linda Louise Bierds | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1945}} | birth_place = Delaware | occupation = {{Cslist|Poet|College professor}} | language = English | alma_mater = University of Washington | genre = <!-- or: | genres = --> | subject = <!-- or: | subjects = --> | awards = {{Plainlist| * {{Awards|NEA Literature Fellowship|year=1988}} * {{Awards|Guggenheim Fellowship|year=1995}} * {{Awards|MacArthur Fellowship|year=1998}} }} }} '''Linda Louise Bierds''' (born 1945 in Delaware) is an American poet and professor of English and creative writing at the University of Washington, where she also received her B.A. in 1969.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/linda-bierds |title=Linda Bierds |publisher=Poetry Foundation |access-date=29 August 2022}}</ref>

Her books include ''Flights of the Harvest-Mare''; ''The Stillness, the Dancing''; ''Heart and Perimeter''; and ''The Ghost Trio'' (1994). Since 1984, her work has appeared regularly in ''The New Yorker''. Her poems are featured in ''American Alphabets: 25 Contemporary Poets'' (2006) and many other anthologies. She lives on Bainbridge Island.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Linda Bierds |url=https://poets.org/poet/linda-bierds |publisher=Academy of American Poets |access-date=29 August 2022}}</ref>

==Awards== She has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1988,<ref>{{cite web |title=Literature Fellowships |url=https://www.arts.gov/grants/recent-grants/literature-fellowships?field_year_value=1988&field_lit_fellows_type_value=All&title=Bierds |publisher=National Endowment for the Arts |access-date=29 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref> the Ingram Merrill Foundation, Artist Trust and the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1995.<ref>{{cite web |title=Linda Bierds |url=https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/linda-bierds/ |publisher=John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |access-date=29 August 2022 |archive-date=29 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220829110304/https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/linda-bierds/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1998, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship.<ref>{{cite web |title=Linda Bierds |url=https://www.macfound.org//fellows/class-of-1998/linda-bierds |publisher=MacArthur Foundation |access-date=29 August 2022 |language=en}}</ref> She received an honorary degree in Doctor of Letters from Oglethorpe University in 2011.<ref>{{cite web|title=Honorary Degrees Awarded by Oglethorpe University |publisher=Oglethorpe University |url=http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/history/honorary_degrees.asp |access-date=2015-03-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150319104000/http://www.oglethorpe.edu/about_us/history/honorary_degrees.asp |archive-date=2015-03-19 }}</ref>

==Bibliography== {{Incomplete list|date=July 2015}}

===Collections=== * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=Beasts: Three Short Stories | year=1971 | publisher=University of Washington}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=Snaring the Flightless Birds: The Legends of Maui | year=1982 | publisher=Allegany Mountain Press | ISBN=9780091588137}} * {{cite book |first=Linda |last=Bierds |author-mask=2 |title=Off the Aleutian Chain: Poetry |year=1985 |publisher=L'Epervier Press |ISBN=9780934332446}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=Flights of the Harvest-Mare | year=1985 | publisher=Ahsahta Press | ISBN=9780916272272}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=The Stillness, the Dancing: Poems | year=1988 | publisher=Henry Holt | ISBN=9780805007664}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=Heart and Perimeter: Poems | year=1991 | publisher=Henry Holt | ISBN=9780805017656}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=The Ghost Trio: Poems | year=1994 | publisher=Henry Holt | ISBN=9780805034868}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=The Profile Makers: Poems | year=1997 | publisher=Henry Holt | ISBN=9780805055368}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=The Seconds: Poems | year=2001 | publisher=G.P. Putnam's Sons | ISBN=9780399147869}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=There | year=2002 | publisher=Suzzallo Library, University of Washington}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=First Hand: Poems | year=2005 | publisher=Penguin Group | ISBN=9780399152610}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=Flight: New and Selected Poems | year=2008 | publisher=Penguin}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=Roget's Illusion: Poems | year=2014 | publisher=G. P. Putnam's Sons}} * {{cite book | first=Linda | last=Bierds | author-mask=2 | title=The Hardy Tree: Poems | year=2019 | publisher=Copper Canyon Press}}

=== List of poems === {|class='wikitable sortable' width='90%' |- !|Year ! width="25%" |Title !|First published !|Reprinted/collected |- !1996 |"The Weathervanes" |{{cite journal <!--|author=Bierds, Linda --> |date=August 1996 |title=The Weathervanes |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/poetry/antholog/bierds/weather.htm |journal=The Atlantic Monthly |volume=278 |issue=2 |pages=74}} | |- !2005 |"Meriwether and the Magpie" |{{cite journal <!--|author=Bierds, Linda -->|date=Fall 2005 |title=Meriwether and the Magpie |journal=Blackbird |volume=4 |issue=2 |url=http://www.blackbird.vcu.edu/v4n2/poetry/bierds_l/index.htm <!--accessdate=2015-07-10-->}} | |- ! |"Vespertilio" | |{{cite book |editor=Susan Aizenberg |editor2=Erin Belieu |editor3=Jeremy Countryman |title=The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women |location=New York |publisher=Columbia UP |date=2001 }} |- ! |"Burning the Fields" | |{{cite book |editor=Roger Weingarten |editor2=Richard Higgerson |title=Poets of the New Century: An Anthology |location=Jaffrey, NH |publisher=David R. Godine |date=2003 |edition=2nd |pages=15–17 }} |- ! |"The Lacemaker's Condenser" | |{{cite book |editor=Roger Weingarten |editor2=Richard Higgerson |title=Poets of the New Century: An Anthology |location=Jaffrey, NH |publisher=David R. Godine |date=2003 |edition=2nd |pages=17–18 }} |- ! |"The Suicide of Clover Adams: 1885" | |{{cite book |editor=Roger Weingarten |editor2=Richard Higgerson |title=Poets of the New Century: An Anthology |location=Jaffrey, NH |publisher=David R. Godine |date=2003 |edition=2nd |pages=18–19 }} |- !2013 |"On Reflection: Michael Faraday" |{{cite journal <!--|author=Bierds, Linda -->|date=June 2013 |title=On Reflection: Michael Faraday |journal=The Atlantic |volume=311 |issue=5 |pages=65 |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2013/06/on-reflection/309302/ <!--|access-date=2015-07-10-->}} | |}

==See also==

* List of American poets

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== *[https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2009/01/lyric-and-narrative/7236/ "Lyric and Narrative"], ''The Atlantic'', Sarah Cohen *[http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue04/html/features/essays/on_linda_bierds.htm "On Linda Bierds"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071009020827/http://www.octopusmagazine.com/issue04/html/features/essays/on_linda_bierds.htm |date=2007-10-09 }} ''Octopus Magazine'', Jeff Encke

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