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Molly Peacock
Molly Peacock was born in Buffalo, New York, on June 30, 1947. She attended the State University of New York (SUNY) at Binghamton and Johns Hopkins University, where she received an MA in 1977.
Peacock’s is the author of eight poetry collections: The Widow’s Crayon Box (W. W. Norton, 2024); The Analyst (W. W. Norton, 2017); The Second Blush: Poems (W. W. Norton, 2008); Cornucopia: New and Selected Poems (W. W. Norton, 2002); Original Love (W. W. Norton, 1995); Take Heart (Random House, 1989); Raw Heaven (Random House, 1984); and And Live Apart (University of Missouri Press, 1980).
Peacock is also the author of numerous prose works, including A Friend Sails in on a Poem: Essays on Friendship, Freedom and Poetic Form (Palimpsest Press, 2022); Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door (ECW Press, 2021); Alphabetique, 26 Characteristic Fictions (McClelland & Stewart, 2014); The Paper Garden: An Artist B American poet Molly Peacock (born Buffalo, New York 1947) is an American-Canadianpoet, essayist, biographer and speaker, whose multi-genre work includes memoir, short fiction, and a one-woman show. Peacock's latest book is Flower Diary: Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door, a layered memoir and biography that examines the balancing act of female creativity and domesticity in the life of Mary Hiester Reid, a painter who produced over three hundred floral still lifes and landscapes. Critics noted that the biography is written with the "lingering observations and lyrical touch of an established poet, yet with an easygoing, conversational tone often lacking in didactic art biographies."[1] As with The Paper Garden, this "lush and beautifully produced" [2] treatise also tracks Peacock's own marriage with the Joyce scholar Michael Groden. Peacock's works include The Paper Garden, a biography of Mary Delany, an 18th-century gentlewoman and a meditation on late-life creativity. The Paper Garden was Biography Molly Peacock was born June 30, 1947, in Buffalo, New York, and grew up there. After obtaining her B.A. (magna cum laude) from the State University of New York at Binghamton in 1969, and her M.A. (with honors) at Johns Hopkins University, she worked in academic administration at Johns Hopkins for seven years before turning full-time to the writing of poetry. She was poet-in-residence for the Delaware State Arts Council in Wilmington from 1978 to 1981, at Bucknell University from 1993 to 1994, and the University of Western Ontario from 1995 to 1996, and she now has this position at the Poets' Corner at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York City. Between her first volume of poems in 1980 and sixth volume, The Second Blush, in 2008, Molly Peacock has been, to use the title of one of her most moving poems, the "Good Girl" of modern American poetry. She has an inexhaustible capacity for nourishing the public life of the spirit through the love of poetry. From 1975 to 1989, her poetry took roots in eight years' creative study at two of
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