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 Bronx native Janet Kaplan is the author two poetry collections. The Glazier’s Country won the 2003 Poets Out Loud Prize from Fordham University Press and The Groundnote won the 1998 Alice James Books’ New England and New York competition. Of The Glazier’s Country, Adrienne Rich writes, “It is a beautiful work, a creation of emotional intelligence,” and Richard Howard writes of The Groundnote that it contains “a voice sustained in all extremes high and low, recognizable and admirable throughout.” Her most recent work, “Dreamlife of a Philanthropist,” a collection of prose poems and prose sonnets, is currently a finalist for the National Poetry Series. Poems from “Dreamlife” have appeared in such journals as American Letters & Commentary, Crazyhorse, CUE: A Journal of Prose Poetry, Denver Quarterly, Hotel Amerika, Open City,and Sentence. Among her many honors is a fellowship in poetry from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Godot Prize in Poetry from Rattapallax Press, and a grant from the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation. She is now at work on a collection of short prose and experimental fiction.
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