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(1945-2022) Poet. Bernadette Mayer was born in Queens, New York, and died in East Nassau, New York.

Full Name

Bernadette Mayer

Locations

Rensselaer

Author's Timeline


Unknown

OTHER

Ms. Mayer attended, for a time, the College of New Rochelle.

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RESIDENCE

Ms. Mayer lived in East Nassau, New York.

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RESIDENCE

Ms. Mayer lived as a child in Brooklyn, New York.

1945

BIRTH

Bernadette Francis Catherine Mayer was born in the Ridgewood neighborhood of Queens, New York, on May 12, 1945.

1967

OTHER

Ms. Mayer graduated from the New School for Social Research in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York, in 1967.

1980

OTHER

Ms. Mayer taught workshops at the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in Manhattan, New York.

1982

LITWORK

Midwinter Day
New Directions; First Edition (May 1, 1999)
0811214060 / 978-0811214063
Book-length poem.

1992

LITWORK

A Bernadette Mayer Reader
New Directions; Reprint edition (May 17, 1992)
0811212033 / 978-0811212038
Collection of poetry.

1998

LITWORK

Another Smashed Pinecone
United Artists Books (June 1, 1998)
0935992200 / 978-0935992205
Collection of poetry.

2005

LITWORK

Scarlet Tanager
New York: New Directions

Collection of poetry.

2008

LITWORK

Poetry State Forest
New York: New Directions

Collection of poetry.

2011

LITWORK

Studying Hunger Journals
Station Hill Press of Barrytown; First edition (June 15, 2011)
1581771207 / 978-1581771206
Collection of poetry.

2013

LITWORK

At Maureen's
New York: Crony Books; 1st edition (March 7, 2013)

Collection of poetry with Greg Masters.

2013

LITWORK

The Helens of Troy, NY
New York: New Directions

Collection of poetry.

2020

LITWORK

Memory
Siglio Press (June 9, 2020)
1938221257 / 978-1938221255
Poetry.

2022

DEATH

Bernadette Mayer died at her home in East Nassau, New York, on November 22, 2022.

2022

LITWORK

Milkweed Smithereens
New Directions
081122922X / 978-0811229227
Collection of poetry.

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