Mona Van Duyn

Mona Jane Van Duyn (May 9, 1921 – December 2, 2004) was an American poet.

Van Duyn was born in Waterloo, Iowa. She earned a BA from Iowa State Teachers College and an MA from the University of Iowa.  

Her book, To See, To Take won the National Book Award in 1971. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1991 for Near Changes. From 1992 to 1993, she the first woman to serve as United States Poet Laureate. 

Books
Valentines to the Wide World (1959)
A Time of Bees (1964)
To See, To Take: Poems (1970) 
Bedtime Stories  (1972.)
Merciful Disguises:: Poems Published and Unpublished (1973)
Letters From a Father, and Other Poems (1982)
Near Changes (1990) 
Firefall (1992)
If It Be Not I: Collected Poems, 1959-1982 (1994)
Selected Poems (2003)

 Related pages 
List of poets from North America

References

Category:American poets
Category:1921 births
Category:2004 deaths