Discipline: Literature – poetry

Dorothy Gilbert

Discipline: Literature – poetry
Region: Berkeley, CA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1966, 1967, 1968

Dorothy Gilbert‘s poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, the Iowa Review, Southern Lights:PEN South Anthology, the online journals Tattoo Highway and Persimmon Tree, and elsewhere. Her verse translation of the first known Arthurian romance, Erec and Enide, by the twelfth-century French writer Chretien de Troyes, won a Columbia University Translation Center Award. Parts of her book, Marie de France: Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition, have appeared in The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.

Studios

Monday Music

Dorothy Gilbert worked in the Monday Music studio.

Given to the residency by the Monday Music Club of Orange, NJ, Monday Music Studio is sited next to an enormous boulder deposited by glaciers thousands of years ago. A small dormer once pierced the east slope of the roof, but after damage suffered in the 1938 hurricane, the roof was rebuilt without the dormer. The interior…

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