Ann Lauterbach has been, since 1990, cochair of writing in the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and, since 1997, David and Ruth Schwab Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College.
Lauterbach has published eight collections of poetry:
Many Times, But Then (1979),
Before Recollection (1987),
Clamor (1991),
And for Example (1994),
On a Stair (1997),
If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000 (2001),
Hum (2005), and
Or to Begin Again (2009). She has also published several chapbooks and collaborations with visual artists, including
How Things Bear Their Telling with Lucio Pozzi and
A Clown, Some Colors, a Doll, Her Stories, a Song, a Moonlit Cove with Ellen Phelan for the Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum, New York. She has written on art and poetics in relation to cultural value, notably in a book of essays,
The Night Sky: Writings on the poetics of experience (Penguin 2005, 2008). She collaborated with artist Ann Hamilton for the “Whitecloth” catalogue at the Aldrich Museum, and wrote the introductory essay to Joe Brainard’s “Nancy” drawings for
The Nancy Book, published by Siglio Press (2008). Lauterbach’s essay “The Thing Seen: Reimagining Arts Education for Now” is included in
Art School (Propositions for the 21st Century), edited by Steven Madoff (MIT Press 2009). She is a Visiting Core Critic (Sculpture) at Yale. She has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The New York State Foundation for the Arts, Ingram Merrill, and The John D. and Catherine C. MacArthur Foundation.
Photo: Ann Lauterbach Credit: Pete Mauney
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