Colette Inez

Lecturer

Colette Inez B.A., Hunter College, 1961.  Awards: Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, twice from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Foundation for the Arts, two Pushcart Prizes, Kreymbourg, Consuelo Ford and Reedy Awards (Poetry Society of America), CAPS, and the Great Lakes Colleges Association National First Book Award.  Taught at Bucknell University, Ohio University, Denison University, State University of New York (Stony Brook), Hunter College, University of Tennessee (Knoxville), and at The New School.  Visiting professor at Cornell University, 1998, and Colgate University, 2000.  Author of The Woman Who Loved Worms, Alive and Taking Names, Eight Minutes from the Sun, Family Life, Getting Under Way: New and Selected Poetry, Naming the Moons, For Reasons of Music, Clemency, Spinoza Doesn’t Come Here Anymore, and The Secret of M. Dulong (memoir ‘05).  A song cycle, Miz Inez Sez, composed to her lyrics by Pulitzer Prize winning David Del Tredici, was debuted at Columbia’s Miller Theater in 2000.  Her poetry, short stories, interviews and essays have been widely anthologized, and she has appeared on public radio and TV.