We plan to continue offering excellent literary events which bring together students, the local community, and national and international poets. She has published individual poems widely in literary journals, including The American Poetry Review and The New Yorker. Her awards and honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artists Grant, the Rona Jaffee Writers Award, and a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship. In addition to directing the Poetry Center, she teaches writing workshops and serves as an editor of The Massachusetts Review. She lives with her daughter in Conway, where she is a volunteer Emergency Medical Technician.
Poetry is good food.
Ann Edwards Boutelle, Founder Born in Scotland, Ann Edwards Boutelle was educated at the University of St. Andrews and New York University. She has taught in the Smith English Department for the last 15 years. Founder of the Poetry Center at Smith, she has devoted the last four years of her life to writing and promoting poetry. Starting up the Poetry Center at Smith was not something I had planned to do, and yet when I look back, I can see that it fits perfectly with some of my earliest and strongest impulses. As a child, I loved poetry, and I wrote it passionately during my teenage years.