Eleanor Wilner's latest book, Before Our Eyes: New and Selected Poems, 1975-2017 (Princeton University Press, 2019). She received the 2019 Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement from the Poetry Society of America; other awards include the Juniper Prize, Pushcart Prizes, and a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. She has taught for 30 years in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College.

Other poems by Eleanor Wilner in Verse Daily:
October 10, 2005:   "Larger to Those Who Stay" " After the blight, the year..."

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Other poems on the web by Eleanor Wilner:
Twenty-eight poems
"Moon Gathering"
Ten poems
Nineteen poems
"Emanations, Off-Planet"

Eleanor Wilner According to Wikipedia.

About Before Our Eyes:

"Before books, the ancients had their memory theaters to treasure and keep in reach all they knew. Eleanor Wilner's memory theater is a vast and glorious gathering of years of poems that question, deepen, rage, inspire, and connect. Working from myth and history, through grief and edgy expanse, Wilner is our oracle, the generous troubling overvoice of our age, our light, our dark, and our best."
—Marianne Boruch

"Eleanor Wilner's poems, old and new, are political in the best sense--her deep commitment to justice enhances her commitment to making good poems, which she achieves by wit, astonishing lyric skill, and compassionate intelligence. This is a gorgeously important selection of the work of one of our best poets."
—Daisy Fried

"There are poems in this book that I have carried in my head for decades now. They have helped me love, grieve, praise, and, at the appropriate moments, curse. It steels my spirit to know that Eleanor Wilner is still out there so avidly and lovingly attending to this hurt world of ours."
—Christian Wiman