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Judith Emlyn Johnson

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Judith Emlyn Johnson (formerly Judith Johnson Sherwin) (born 1936) is an American poet.

Life

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She graduated from Barnard College cum laude. She studied at Columbia University, Radcliffe College, and the Juilliard School of Music.

She teaches at State University of New York at Albany.[1] She was President of the Board of Association of Writers & Writing Programs, and President of the Poetry Society of America.[2] She edited 13th Moon,[3] and published The Little Magazine.[4]

Her work appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Chelsea, Harper's,[5] Ms., New York Times, Nimrod, Playboy. Her intermedia installation / performance piece, "Friedrich Liebermann, American Artist," has been widely exhibited, and is now being developed as a multi-media cd-rom novel. Her play manuscript "Belisa's Love" is in the Princeton University archives.[6]

She lives in New York City.[7]

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Works

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  • "The Prospector's Complaint: Happy Jack's Rock" Beloit Poetry Journal, Winter 1967–68, p. 34-35
  • "Sorry, Sweetheart, Here's" Beloit Poetry Journal, Spring 1972
  • "The House Guest"; "Time for Ripeness", Mother Jones, July 1977
  • "Before the Recovery", Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1979
  • "Under the Lights", Ploughshares, Winter 1989
  • Cities of Mathematics and Desire: Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 2005)
  • The Ice Lizard: Poems (Sheep Meadow Press, 1992) ISBN 978-1-878818-17-1
  • Dead 's Good Company (Waste Trilogy III) (Countryman Press, 1979)
  • How the Dead Count: Poems (Norton, 1978) ISBN 978-0-393-04491-1
  • Transparencies: Poems (Waste Trilogy II) (Countryman Press, 1978)
  • The Town Scold: Poems (Waste Trilogy I) (Countryman Press, 1977)
  • Impossible Buildings: Poems (Doubleday, 1972)
  • The Life of Riot: Short Stories (Atheneum, 1970)
  • Uranium Poems (Yale University Press, 1969)

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